The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-20

pended upon the aggregate popular vote OF
the Union, the black vote, in being declared
en- masse for Grant, would settle the question
at once.
But it is the popular majorities of the
several States in the election of their
electoral colleges that determine the issue.
Even here. however, it may be said
that while the colored vote is the popu-
lar majority in each of the States of South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, and is
very near it in Alabama, it is, properly
handled in connection with the white balance
of power, good at least for North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Arkansas. The unscru-
pulous carpet-baggers, with the Ku Klux
Klans, have made sad havoc among white and
black republicans South during the last two or
three years but now, as these colored Method
lists have told the President, law and order
prevail, and So under new leaders, there will
be good Southern report for Grant next No
vember. In the North we may set down the
black element as the balance of power-in
Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
and it may decide the issue in New York and
Indiana. Pronounced for Grant as it is, this
male-weight against them Of the colored vote
in a Presidential estimate will require for the
democracy all the republican boilers that can
be mustered, and for these boilers the entire
rank and file of the democracy, to give the pro-
posed coalition o chance of success.
The problem, then, is, How can we at Gin
cinnai get all these republican boilers or NAL
contents and all the democracy together against
Grant ? AS Brother Beecher says, no prophet
has been found who can tell. 1t appears to us
as the problem of perpetual motion, or of
squaring the circle, or the secret of navigating
q balloon against the wind, which is a thing, as
Lord Dundreary puts it, 'that no fellow can
understand" First of oil, at Cincinnati there
will be band of free traders from the West,
with posse of high tariff men from the East,
and it will require dexterous juggling to har-
monte them on glittering generality. In the
next place, the proposition, Shall we 60 over to
the democrats, or half way over, or shall we re-
quire them to come over to us? will be as per-
picking as the Schleswig- Holstein entangle-
ment A clean democratic ticket will drive all
these boilers, except perhaps two or three
implacables, back to Grant; hybrid ticket,
half-and-half ticket, will disgust your demo-
cratic old-liner, and clean, boiling republican
ticket set up for the democracy, even if accep-
table to Mr. Belmont and his committee, will
be avoided by the mass Of those sturdy demo-
Gratis who regarded even Chief Justice Chase as
an interloper in the Tammany National Con-
vention.
The Chief Justice now is evidently out of
the question. We hear nothing of him except
from Parkersburg. His associate Justice,
Davis, is too heavy, and Logan is too light;
Trumbull is too slow, and Gratz Brown is too
fast, for the purposes of the proposed coali-
ton. They talk Of Charles Francis Adams;
but he is too grand for your hard-fsted demo-
Gratis, and Greeley is too gloomy and pecu-
liar. Doolittle is mentioned; but Doolittle
can do nothing 1t is agreed that the
Cincinnati men cannot lead off with a
democrat; and what, then, will they do?
There may be fusion Of the opposi-
ton forces but division is just as likely,
which will give US labor reform ticket, q tenn
perance ticket, boiling republican free trade
ticket and regular democratic ticket, accept
ing the fifteenth amendment, but opposed to
its enforcement. In any event the prospect is
good for another Chattanooga victory to Grant
and another triumphant march of his armies
down to the sea- and along the coast, and around
the country to Washington.