The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1872-05-08
GRANTS CHANCES.


speech, Senator Wilson predicted that
Grant would receive the electoral vote
OF twenty-eight Of the thirty-seven
States. We venture to say that Mr..
Wilson, in his hours of calm reflection
and when not under the Intoxicating
stimulus of a shouting throng of office.
holders, does not believe anything of
The kind, but on the contrary has the
gravest apprehcnsions that Grant will
be about the worst beaten candidate
that ever ran for the Presidency.
The latest elections show that in
New England the Republican party,
even counting as a portion of its
strength the Liberal element, holds
New Hampshire and Connecticut cer~
tainly, and perhaps Rhode Island, by
| the frailest tenure. The change of n
thousand votes in each of the two first
named States would sweep their Re-
publican majorities quite away. Docs
any well>informed politician doubt
;hat there are twice one thousand
Liberal Republicans in each of those
States?
Confining the survey of the field to
the former free States, he must be
bind who does not see that three of
the largest of them are sure to go
heavily against Grant. One needs to
be only moderately acquainted with
the public men and the interior poll
ties Of New York, Pennsylvania and
Illinois to know that the majorities
they will cast against Grant in No
vember will scarcely find a parallel in
their history. A large number of
eminent statemen who founded, built
up and carried forward the Republi-
can party therein, are, with a CORES,
ponding proportion oe the subordinate
/ leaders of the rank and file, heartily
in accord with the Cincinnati moye-
ment. The sentiment in Ohio anl
Indiana, the two other great States OF
the North and West, is not at present
quite 50 pronounced against Grant as
it is in the three Just named. But no
one questions that Indiana will vote
againat him, though probably Ohio
must be left while longer in the col
umn Of doubtful States.
| How stands the case in regard 60
the other free State? The Republican
majority in New j ersey will be crushed
out between the upper and neither
mllstones Of New York and Pennsvl-
vania. The Republicans hold all the
States in the Northwest, excepting
Michigan and Iowa, by slender
thread which breath CT opposition in
their ranks will break. In all of them
the Liberal cause is steadily advane
ing, and there is scarcely a doubt that
November viii fLd them arrayed
against Grant. Brigadier General
Nye, formerly Of the Madison county
train bands, no longer dominates Ne
vada, while California and Oreean
will be as sure for the Cincinnati mons
inee, fhe be accepted by the Demo-
Gratis, as New Yolk and Illinois.
In brief, we do not believe Senator
Wilson can lay his hand upon his
heart and count upon bis fingers more
than seven of the former free States
which he feels at all sure will 20 foi
Grant.
We now turn to the former slave
States. These were once the fruitful
vineyards of the Republican party.
But the proaigate carpet bag ruler.
have cut up and scattered to the winds
the last hope Of another crop of Re-
puhleans victories in all the field
which stretches from the Potomac and
the Ohio TO the Gulf. The upper tiel
| Of those States were never under Q
strict Republican regime. Ofthe ter
reconstructed Common.w wealths lying
below this tier, North Carolina, Geor,
gia, Florida, Alabama, Texas ant
Tennessee havo, one after another
lapsed Gom Republican rule, while
Grants intermeddling in the loca
! DOlitics of Louisiana aud Arkansas has