The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-02
DEMOCRATIC.

hEf IDhAS<h-'
Maine....... Iowa: y
Massachusetts. ......3 California...........--. y
r. Island.....-....-.4 minnesota. "..'... 9
3. CarOlina.........."I NeVaua"....'''''.''''.. q
S 4it6isar ;'"''''..''''..H 100
DOUBTFUL.
n. Hampshire...... 4 Illinois.
Connecticut. ....~... 9 Kansas.
Pennsylvania.......S 90
Mississippi.............S 'o
lHulana.
Upon this basis and q distinct issue
between the two parties as they now
stand, the Democrats would require
eleven votes to elect their candidates
and the Republicans seventy-six, to be
obtained from among the seven States
which are assigned for argument and
illustration to the doubtful" category.
Hence, they become of much import
ance, and must be examined with care,
in order to reach any prudent conclu-
sion. The powerful influences OF men
and money, which the Administration
was able 10 throw into New Hampshire
and Connecticut, recently, could not be
employed in 4 Presidential contest
when the elections occur in all the
States on the same day. With the
people free to vote Independent of this
intrusion, there is hardly any doubt
that both these States would go Demo-
cratic. The Republican detection IN
Pennsylvania is large and grow
ing, and the exposure of the afro
cious frauds in Philadelphia, which are
demonstrated by the admission Of Col.
McLURE TO the seat in the Senate from
which he was excluded 10y corruptlng
the ballut.box and repeating, will only
tend to intensity the feud between the
White and Red Roses OF CURTIN and
CAMERON. Superadded to this fact Is
the Labor Reform movement, now or
ganizing all over the State, and likely
to detach at least 10000. workingmen
from the Radical side. Mississippi
will probably be decided by the events
Of the next two months. About Indiana
there is no real apprehension among
Democrats, and, in certain contingent
cy, it will be surely carried by 10000
majority. Illinois is seriously Affected
BY the revolt against GRANT, which ex-
tends among classes that cannot be
reached by power. The land robberles
in Kansas and the bribery used to elect
the present Senators, have combined
with great discomfort to threaten a
complete revolution in that State
1t is thus seen that the vote OF lndl-
ana alone, which is almost certain,
would he more than sufficient to give
the Democrats clear majority in the
electoral college. With Pennsylvania,
assurance would be made doubly sure.
Now, if the elements OF opposition,
which sympathise in principle and
seek to attain the same practical re"
suits, should harmonic cordially, then
every one of these so-called doubtful
States could not only be carried largely,
but several others would as inevitably
be detached from the GRANT column
These clements are now separated by
names only, and not things. There
is no reason why they should not
come together, and stand upon the
common ground Of Reform, which they
all alike desire to achieve, and which
each separately processes as a cardinal
principle. Like great divisions OF one
army, led by different commanders
they have the same enemy to confront
and aim at a common victory. The
moral spectacle of such union, iSnor-
ing past records and burying old griefs,
would of itself give an impulsion to
the contest worth tens Of thousands OF
votes.
\ great triumph is thus clearly with
in reach of q united Opposition. Let
tins signal ofconcert once be given, and
the country would rise up with an en-.
thusiasm, which would sweep over it
like prairie fire, and recall the scenes
oflS40. Neither narrow partisanshlp,
nor personal ambition, nor designing
intrigue, will be allowed 10 interpose
obstacles to the success Of this patriotic
burmese. Whoever ventures to stand
in the way Of its march or to turn 1t
from a triumphal course to serve mere
personal ambition, will be crushed and
left by the wayside, and execrated as a
warning to selfish schemers. Union is
the watchword, and union means VIC
tory.
THERE seems 10 be no doubt that the
Black Hills gold excitement, Of which