Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-09-14

is felt In these political demonstrations preced.
ing and presaging the presidential election of
November Each successive one, from the in
iaIory of North Carolina, has been watched
with deep and exciting interest The aposa.
cy from the Republican ranks, and the some
what shrewG demonstrations of confidence
with which the campaign was entered upon,
lead the friends Of the Administration and re-
publican principles to look for some basis for
such flourish of trumpets, as was heard at
that time. The election of North Carolina
was a very good indicator, and quite sgni6.
cant of the emptiness and prctcnsion Of the
new movement After hearty laugh over
| the matter there was calming down, and a
posture Of somewhat more quiet delibcfa-
ton and patience assumed for another demon
s,ralion. This was afforded by Western Nir-
| ginia. Here too, was another Indication, con.
llrmatory of and corrOboraling the first. The
result was letting down little lower, the
enthusiasm Of Liberalism. Again, we watch
cd with Eenewed oomposure aud assurance,
further development, and Vermont was the
next in order to set its seal of Tcprobation up
on the New Departure. 1t was in bold relief,
and struck terror TO the now quaking leaders
OF the Greeley movement. Now we have
fourth demonstration, coming up from the
hills and wales OF Maine. To the 5000 ma
jUrity of Vermont, VIC are greeted with some
! 1900 or $4,000 thousand from this gallant
State. In these four State elections, the
bloody chasm" has not been, bridgcd over,
and they failed to show any stomachs for the
unsccmlY work. These successive cl, ct0ns
are pretty fair indication of what /, to he
expected in future, and confirm wgal we
thought we could see early in the movement
and which was then cuupciatcd-that DIR.
Greeley had eliminated, was dead cock in the
pit His is full. measure OF disappointment
and modification. TLIs odillm of csulilpn
sought with the enemies of the country is too
heavy load for him to carry, and il cannot
bat sink hm to.a. dishonorrd. grave The ma
jority at the last State election was Q, ,631-an
increase at this. tinle al some 1000 or 5000
| The reperts are hot all in, and accurate lis-
ures cannot vet Ge given. o. course this com.
parisou will not suit the Liberals. The Ti-
! 6Unc prefers to compare with the vote of '6S
the largest, OWING 10 Grant military popu-
lariiy, and the personal popularity ol the can
didate lon- Chamberlain, the ma.
jori y ran up 10 10000, which was increased
upon in the subsequent general election 10
$4,000. Every member OF Congr,ss-ncu.
ding Speaker Blaine, against whom lhrHe
seems t, have been. u determined hostility
has been elected
! The Tribune lets itself down after this fash
ion-which viii perhaps be read with some
interest and il its figuring has anything like
fairness in it, it may JG also int, resting in the
way Of admpnlion ~ steady and ptrsryrring
work, until the close of the campaign. Trust
not to appearances, but siubbornly and per-
sistcntly WORK. five can, pgeycnt the npps-
tate from getting single State, so much the
better. Hear the TribHRe:
We may estimate the change on the vote in
| Maine, wrought by tho Liberal. Rrpublican
movement, at about five per cent. We may
be ItUin that in no other part of The Union
| will the change he lcss-in few small.
! Wen, five per cent, on the last Presidential
vote shifts the States oi Pennsylvania indiana
Connecticut, CAiiurnh, and Alabama, lrpm the
Grant column 10 lis opposite. Add tn ST 10
the States already Democratic, and we have
lGj out OF the lSi Electoral votes necessary
To II choice. But Missouri is.chnry ours, and
her fifteen leave but fourteen more to make
| up, uilor the Grant rOut in October, out Df
New lIampshirc, Rhode Island, Arkpnsas,
! North Carolina, OHIO, Illinois, aud others
scarcely s. propabc ones
LATER.--The official returns embracing
more than ninety per cent, of the total vote Of
the State, give IN ,jorili, in scyeralGDngres.
siOnal districts very nearly Ms follows In I! G
First distric' Burlicgh has 2,lsO mniuri,y; in
the Second, Frye, 3 500 in the Third Blaine,
37OO; in the Fourth Ilcrsey, $3.50; in the
Fill, Hale, 2,7O0. These aggregate mijorilps
do not dilrr maternity from Prlham's major
| ily. The largest gains ARE in the Third where
| Blaine and III ,le have both gained more than
! l,j00 0ygr their majorlics ion 1870. They
have larger majorlIIss .tAaa were gwen them
in 1853.
In 100 Representative Districts heard from,
! llG Republicans aud - Democrats are clcct,d.
| Twenty-Five districts to be heard from,
ASSASSINATION A PART OF THE TACTICS
A correspondent Of the n. Y. TIpcs. writing
from Ashvillc, North Caroliaa has-Ihc follow,
| ing statement. That it is not without iounda.
! ton, those who remember ihc taking of Of
Presidents HARRISON and Taylor AMI the At,
tempt ON the life OF James Dlcannan, which
nothing but his remarkably vigorous conslitu-
lion lruslratcdi will fad no Officially IN bclev.
ing:
81 have, within the past few weeks,
travelled over part Of Virginia, Soul
Carolina aud nearly all over North Caro-
lina. have talked with hundreds Of
Democrats. have been struck with. one
thing that appears to be common sen
timcnt. The Southern Democrats hate
Mr.. Greeley, while pretending to place
all their tuIh in the tail Of the Cmcin-
natl and Baltimore ticket, simply because
Gra,z Brown is Southern man. They
say that, having nposlalized from RepuL-
licauiSm, like Andy johnson did-belng
Kentuekian 10y birth and educatlon,, u
cousin OF Frank Blair. aud therefore
believer in the sentiments expressed. in
the Brodhrad letter,.-lhat he will, If
elected, be oI more service in restoring
the 'lost cause than Jer, Davis, himself
woald,he. Many cool, deliberate men
have adSaaced the idea that. il elected.
Horace Greeley wuuld not live more than
thirty days alter his Inauguration. In