The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-12


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There is a falling off of about LOCO in the
Republican ma iOrity of these three towns.
The cutting down Of the Republican malof1-
tics in the rural districts is smaller i'll proper
ton only because it fakes more time to dill
fuse information in the rural than in the
urban towns. In the Presidential election.
two months hence, the farmers Will have be-
come us enlightened aS the people OF the
cities are already.
II must not be forgotten that in 1868 An
drew johnson was President, and
TIE FEDERAL POWER COULD NOT THEN Be Used
AS A LOCAL ELECTloNEERlNG AGENCY
on the Republican sidc; whereas in M
General Grant is President, welding, the
whole vast patronage and influence of the
Federal Government to promote his re-
election. This would naturally make 4
difference of from 5000 to 5000 votes, ana
Il corresponding allowance must be nadc III
any correct estimate of the relative strength
of parties. The Grant party, for example,
made great gains yesterday in the town OF
kittcry, where there is navy-yaTd. IN
1865, when johnson was President, ana
Gideon Wells Secretary of the Navy, The
kittcry mlvy-yard was not colonlZcd, as Ii
has been now, with transient Workmen COM
PEELED 10 vote the Republican ticket. This
is merely Il specimen. Grant controls all the
postnr,Stcrs. all the assessors and collectors
OF revenue, and, what is still more important,
he has assessed the whole civil service in all
the States. But in 1865, with johnson prcsl-
dent, the Republicans possessed none OF
these advantages. And yet their majority
has fallen off so per cent. having been
II, 900 in 1868, but not likely to exceed
II 900 majority this year. Reckoning Fcdc-
raj influence. with Il Republican President
intent on his own election. ~ capable of
controlling 5000 votes, the Republican mat
iorliv would have been reduced from 10000
10 5000 if the Federal Government had
kept hands oil, as it did in 1865.
In the Presidential election all the States
will vote on the same day, prcc'uding that
concentration Of the whole Federal influence
on Il single State which has now taken pElcc
in Maine. If the Republican losses through
out the country i'll November shall equal
those in Maine in this September Mr.. Cree
ley will Lc triumplmntly elected.
The New York Trtt,G.e, speaking of the
Maine election, says:
We Judge that Maine has given the Grant
ticket Il majority of not quite 10000. In
1868. at the corresponding election. i gave
that ticket 20. lU3 majority on Il full vote Of
l3i DO. All the Grant nominees for Con-
nrcss appear TO be rCClcctcu--SpeIkcr Blaine
coming tolcrabIy near his old majority, and
Chambers Son-.l-law squeezing through over
Pike Neal Dow Is reported rs giving effect
i've aid to the Grant candidate on temperance
grounds and in some quarters 1t Is quite
evident that the voters sllhordnated national
TO local considerations. Five dollars have
been spent hy the Grant managers for eye9
one they spent in 1868. and fifty for every
or spent by the Liberals. The resources of
a treasury filled by taxing every civil official,
at home and abroad, the influence Of a Post
Office Department whose head took the field
to command in person, the power of Il twcn-
ty-iouI-hundrcd-mile coast dotted with GUS
tom-houseS, the votes Of the kittery navy
yard, and the resources of political organ-
zation well-ni oh perfect, coupled with pro-
scriptive pressure never cqllallcd, have thus
FALLEN OVER FOUR THOUSAND SHORT OF TIE
MAJORITY OF FOUR YEARS AGO.
OF the difficulties and di>couragemcntS
under which this result WAS attained we do
not now need speak. The Cincinnati move
lcnt is il revolution, and revolutions. do not
begin in populations like that of Maine. IL
has been IN absurd saying, plagariZcd from
the old one about the keystone State, that
H. Maine goes, so goes the Union. But the
Union did not go us Maine did in 1876 any
more than in 1913. In fact, it has often been
Il follower, not Il leader, of political change
-
starting it. Let us Use il rs Il measure:
We may estimate the change OH the vote
of Maine wrought by the Liberal Republic
may he certain that in no other part of the
Union will the change DC Icss--in few so
small. Well,
FIVE FER CENT. on THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL
VOTE SHIFTS THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
INDIANA, CoNSECTICuT, CALIFORNIA, AND ALA
BAMA.
from the Grant column tG its opposite. Add
these to the States already Democratic, and
we have 153 out of the 1S4 electoral votes
necessary to choice. But Missouri IS clear
w ours, and her fifteen votes leave but four
teen more to make up, after the Grant rollt
in October out of New Hampshire. Rhode
Island, ARKANSAS, North Carolina, Ohio, Iii
noiS, and Others scarcely less probable ours.
The lesson. then, of the Maiuc election is
pia;n:--It reveals percentage of change
which, with proper organization and work,
gives lis Pennsylvania aud Indiana in OctO-
Der. After these, the battle wins itself.
A Washington dispatch in the Baltimore
Sun. says:
The result of the Maine election has over
sladowed all else of political interest in
Washington to-day, aud has been the cause
of good deal of exultation in Admni>tra-
ton quarters, where one would think, to
hear the comments, that the presidential
election had been virtually settled. The re-
suit, however, is pretty much what the Lib
erals anticipated, as announced in the dis
patches in Yesterdays Sun. Even the prob
ability of the election of the Administration
candidate in the fifth district was conceded
when it became known what appliances were
used to secure triumph. The main conso-
lation of the Republicans here is the claim
that the result shows that the Liberal Re-
publican strength Is entirely orerbalanced by
disutlected OF Straight Out Democrats, and if
that be the case in Maine, the SAME rule will
hold good throughout the country and there
By reG!ect Grant.
The Pennsylvania Straight-outs meet at
YI,.;.l,,r,r r., pnmtunfa :, sfnfp ticket on the