New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-20
What WIZ be Done IN Norenber.

NEW 1ORh, EcEpIGnD DcE D, 1914
Some folks profess to be nervous over tn
result in Vermont. A man who could hav
suggested that there was any probability 0
the Liberal party defeating the Grant gen
tIemen in the Green Mountain State WUuIt
stand fair chance of being ncarcerateG
i'll the nearest insane asylum on the shortes
notice As the campaign progresses w
begin to indulge in figures, absolute numer
zeal figures. Nobody about the nationa
headquarters here ever entertained for &
| moment the hope that we would carry Yer
mont. Last night and to-day we have
talked over the prospects. in the country
Looking at them from this elevated posi-
ton, the slate is clear and bright. Let Yer
| mont and Maine 90 for Grant and his rings
| Mr.. Greeley's success does not depend on
| the electoral vote of those States But the
| question arises, what States will 60 for Mr.
| Greeley Let us see about it.
| Now, for instance. we can count up the
States which Grant is next certain to carry
| These may be numbered as follows: Maine,
| Vermont, Massachusetts, South Carolina,
| Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mime
| sofa, Kansas and Nebraska. That is a
meagre list. The total electoral vote cast
| by these States is njnety-nine only. Grant
ing these States for Grant, what can we
| safely set down for Greeley? After a
| thorough investigation of the situation, it
seems quite impossible for the sage of Chap
| paqua not to carry the following States:
New Hampshire, Connecticut New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Geor.
gia, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oregon,
Arkansas, Texas, California, West Virginia,
Nevada.
These States cast 248 electoral votes.
That elects Greeley. But there are several
ntbar tot TOO NOT IN, fI,oeo
Let them be set down in column Of doubt
ful. Then let Mr.. Grant capture the doubt
full. But with triumph in all the uncertain
commonwealths, Useless S. Grant has not
the slightest chance of election.
In the latest elections the States of Ala
bama, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Maryland, Missouri Nevada, New
jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and
West Virginia went overwhelmingly against
the Grant administration. These States
will 60 more strongly in November against
the Philadelphia nominee than they did
against the administratioMat the last elec-
ton. Just supposing, for arguments sake,
that there were no Liberal Republicans,
these States are already square against
Grant. Add to this Grant opposition the
Liberal Republican Strength, and these
States are positively certain to roll up their
electoral vote for Horace Greeley. 1t is
supposed by many who think over the
prospects that California, Illinois, Indiana,
Louisiana, North Carolina, PENNSYLVANIA
and Rhode Island are doubtful.
Let us consider this question. 1t is per
haps well enough to admit that these States
are doubtful. But our chances are at least
even with the Grant gentlemen.
Looking at this doubtful list seliatim, we
find, first, that California is swarming with
Liberal Republicans. The people Of that
State have always exhibited a supreme
contempt for narrow minded partisanShp.
They are noted fer their independence Gf
thought and action. They are cosmOpolite
and thoroughly liberal, and when this grand
reform movement began the people Of the
new EldOradO were cnthused, and with
conspicuous spOntaneity marshaIed force
for the Cincinnati nominee. that will sweep
the State in November.
Frank NJ. Pixley aid other electoral can
didates in California, in writing to our ma
tionai committee the other day, say:
"Our cause is prospering in California
and we do not doubt that as presidential
electors we shall carry the news to Gree,
ley.'"
And il Is utterly folly to count California
in any o5heg list but that for Horace Gree.
ley
The next Is Illinois. ANY one familiar at
all with the political tide in that State must
know that the hope OF the Grant men as to
their success there has been on the Wap3
for weeks 1t looks like a big majority to
overcome there-5I. $50; but in d State with
over L hundred counties, and casting d vote
of perhaps half q million this year, the per.
Of change need not be very great
to accomplish a political revolution. Al
ready there are q sufficient number Of Re
publicans who voted for Grant in 1863 and
who arc openly for Greeley and Brown to
change the result. On the hypothesis that the
relative strength Of tho parties is tile salue
as ia I8G8, except the change Of Liberal Re |
pgblicanS from Grant to Greeley, it only |
requires %5,5775 Republicans in the whole |
State 50 renounce the Philadelphia nominee |
to carry The State for Greeley. If dozens |
Of eminent men, orators and statesmen, |
men who have been and still are leaders Of |
public opinion, like Governor Palmer, Gen |
eral Farnsworth, Colonel Leonard SWEET, |
etc, and if a score Of first class newspapers, !
headed by such journal as the Chicago /!
Tribune, can't carry with them $4,000 Re |
publican votes, then leadership and journal |
ism might as well cease claiming the re-
spectacle position accorded to them by the |
thinking world. Illinois will cast it's cleo |
toral vote for Greeley and Brown by 10000 |
majority.
Now we come to Indiana. Senator Nor |
ton and his assistants Of shrewd and sleep |
less organizers have the assurance to claim |
as certain for Grant. 1t is |
nearly joke to mako SO absurd a claim |
Two years ago the opposition walked tri- |
lmphantIy over the political race course, |
and the Republican State ticket was de |
2eated BY 1858 majority. From the stand
point of the national committees, both Lib
sral Republican and Democratic, it is eyi-
lent that Bourbonism III Indiana will
amount to nothing-abs0lntely nothing
Bat, giving the Duncan Adams party the !
benefit of the doubt, and counting two per
,ent of the Indiana Democracy as anti
Baltimore, that would be 1900, based
N the vote of 1870, which was !
10000 leaves l56,800. But there are
igain in the State, at the lowest stimate,
0O00 Liberal Republicans. In 1870 the
Republican State ticket received about 49,
go vetes. Take 10000 FROM that and there
,emain 147, 500. Now, add these 10000 to
he Greeley ticket and that would make
66, 800, or majority over Grant OF 1890.
f Greeley does not carry Indiana by
nearly 10000 majority, shall be greatly
,arts OF the State. They breathe the same
determined and hopeful feeling, and indi-
ate how the tide is running.
A gentleman writing from New Castle,
Henry county, says:
.sTiis is the old burnt district of Indiana,
heretofore largely Republican, and the fields
re white unto harvest, In this
ownship we have not less than sixty-fye
liberal Republicans, where the Republican
majority has heretofore been $50 out of 600
As fnger-board, indicating the road to
raveI, that is good; for when twenty-five
republicans of 425 desert Grant and vote
or Greeley, that will make change in
Tew Castle of 1870. The same ratio through
ut the State would give Greeley the State