The new North-west., 1872-06-15
Where are tho Votes Coming From 70 Elect
0Foeley2 Il
From the Chicago TimcA (Dem.)

From the Chicago Times, (Dem.)
Where are the votes coming from to elect
the sage of ChappaQua? Certainly they
are not coming from Democrats. II every
Democrat in the United States should vote
for him he would fail of election. But il
10 perfectly certain that every Democrat
will not vote for him. It is perfectly GER
tain that there are great many Democrats
who cannot be persuaded to vote for him.
under any circumstances In order to be
elected then, the philosopher must draw
sufficient number of votes from the Repub.
licans tn overcnme this deficit Of DemOcrat-
ic votes. and 10 ovsrcome the Radical party
besides Gan the sage Of Chappaqua get .
10 overcome this double obstacle IN the way
of his electioni There has not yet appear.
ed the least evidence that he can. On the
contrary, there has appeared nnd is daily
appearing, much evidence to the contrary
The prediction Of a few gushing philoso.
pliers, three weeks ago, that Mr. Greeley's
candidacy would split the Republican party
in twain, has proven . mosl signal and con
spicuOus failure. Instead of splitting the
Republican party he has In fact developed
no respectable strength in that party. II is
even obvious that for evevy Republican vote
tie phil0sophsr can draw 0soay from Grant,
his eandSdaey ssosld drivs half dozen Dem.
oeratie S0tss from EAe polis. ==.
How 10 it in the State of New York,
where the philosophers strength among
Republicans may be supposed to be the
greatest. and where the Republican party
10 more divided BY family dissensione than
in any other Statel There is in New York
the Conkling wing and the Fenton wing Of
of the Republican party. to the latter Of
whiCf, M (9ro0lovy 1Ho1ommn II ,,>Svhe ~,
reasonably expected that after the philoso-
piers nomina ation. warmly approved as it
was by Senator Fenton, and the Fent0n
Republicans in New York would declare
for Greeley Precisely this is what wa, ex-
pected, and what was predicted. The ex.
pectatiOn has been disappointed. The pre-
diction has completely failed Mr.. Greelsy's
own newspaper IL the only Republican
journal in the whole State Of New York
that hangs out the Greeley flag. Not a
single Republican ratification meeting has
been held anywhere in that State. Not 4
single prominent or influential Republican
politician in New York, Senator Fenton
excepted, has declared for Greeley. In
fact, his candidacy has received no indorse-
ment whatever from Republicans in his
own State. Not the least evidence has ap
peared to show that he has really any Re,
publican strength in the State where, if
anywhere he should have it. There, as
elsewhere, all the political backing the phi
losopher has received, or seems likely to re
ceive. proceeds from class of demoralized
aritbmetical DemOcrats.
Will the Democratic philosophers who
indulge themselves in the arithmetical ar.
gument please to figure out how, in such .
situation, the Democracy would be able to
elect the candidate who is not their own,
ror "ne IN whose selection they have been
consulted Do they think it would be the
wisest course for the Democratic national
convention to nominate . man who would
drive twenty or thirty per cent of the
Democratic vote from the polls and bring