Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-26


The Radical pspers are making
the most of the late election. Some
of them affect to consider that the
Presidential contest is already
virtually decided ia Grants favor
The wish is father 10 the thought.
There is a time-hOnoFed adage to
the effect that one shOuldneYer hal
loo before he gets out of the woods,
which we commend TO our Grant
friends. They are altogether too fast.
The decisive battle has not vet been
fought, and though they have had
some advantages in the preliminary
skirmishes, il is very far from cer-
tain that the victory will be on
their side when the ides of Nov.
come. Already they have had a
great disappointment. Indiana
which was first reported 10 have
gone Radical, il seems has elected
Hendricks after all.
After the tremendous majority
roOled up by Georgia the other day
1t is impossible TO doubt that the
ELECTORAL votes of all the Southern
States, with the exception of poor
old South Carolina, and possible Mis-
sissippi, viii be given to Greeley
and Brown. Connecticut, n. York
New Jersey, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, Delaware, and California
may be.confidently reckoned upon,
and the chances are that Oregon and
Nevada will array themselves on the
liberal side.
How then stands the case? Ala
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ten electoral votes; Conn, six; Flor
ida, four; Ky, twelve; Maryland,
eight; New York, thirty-five; New
Jersey, nine; Tennessee, twelve;
Virginia, eleven; West Virginia,
five; Arkansas, six; Delaware, three;
Georgia, eleven; Louisiana, eight;
Missouri, fifteen; Texas, eight; Cal
ifornia, six; Indiana fifteen, and
North Carolina ten-making in all
one hundred and ninety-four. The
indications are that Grant and Will
son will receive the following cleo
torial votes of the following States:
Iowa, eleven; Maine, seven; Massa-
chusets, thirteen; Rhode Island,
four; Vermont, five; Pennsylvania,
twenty-nine; Michigan, eleven; Kan
sas, five; Ohio, twenty-five; Nebras-
Ia, three; and South Carlina seven
making in all one hundred and
seventeen.
The number Ofthe ELECTORAL votes
necessary to a choice Is one hundred
and eighty-fouF. According TO our
figures the States, which are almost
certain to support the Liberal can
didates will give them ten votes in
excess of the requisite number. II
il should turn out that we were mis-
taken in some of the States we have
classed for Grcely and Brown there
is still a wide margin 10 90 upon.
These States, with their electoral
votes, are as follows: Illinois, n I;
Wisconsin, 10; Minnesota 5; Nevada,
3; New Hampshire, 3; Oregon and
Nevada the liberals are confident of
success, and Greeley's chances are
decidedly better than Grants. Our
friends in Illinois believe that her
twenty-one votes will be given to
Greeley; and there is fair prospect
of carving both Wisconsin and Min
nesota if the Liberals and Democrats
work as they ought to do between
now and November.
We do not, of course, pretehd that
our figures are infaliible. but from
the lights before us they are about
as correct as they can be made; and
we advise our radical friends TO reg
ulate their expectations accord
ingly.
There is not in our mind the shad-
ow of a doubt that 3 majority and a
large majority of the people are in
sympathy with the Liberal move
ment- We know it is so with the
people of the Southern States, and
have confidence enough in the sense
of justice, the patriotism, and intel
ligence of the people of the North
to believe that they will prove true
to themselves and the country by
putting down Radicalism:
The campaign now in progress is,
with perhaps a single exception, the
most important that has ever taken
place in the history of the nation
On the enc hand, President Grant
represents Capitalization, corrup-
ton and sectiOnalism, while, on the
other, Greeley is the representative
of honesty and purity in govern
ment, of the reconciliation of the
sections, and of nationality and
peace. II Greeley is elected, consti-
tutiOnal government as well as local
self-goyerDment will be maintained:
but if Grant should prove successful
the disaster would be well-nigh ir-
reperable.
The reelection Of Grant would be
the Endorsement of the pepotism,
corruptions, usurpations and CEN
tralizing policy of his administra-
tion. Greeley's election to the of
fee of President would iuaugurate
purity, fraternity and honest gov
ernment.
All the power, all the money and
patronage Of the Administration
were employed to carry the late cleo
tions. In Ohio and Pennsylvania
the money and frauds of the Radi-
cal leaders triumphed, but in the
great State OF Indiana, in spite of all
they could do, the Greeley candi-
date for Governor has been elected.
How any man, not an office-holder
or a near relative of President
Grant, can prefer his election to
that of Greeley is past comprehen-
sion. We can not and do not be-
licve that the American people are
fools enough to make such a choice.
We have not lost confidence in the
capacity of the people for self-gov-
ernment.
We bid our friends be of good
cheer, for the work goes bravely on.
The people will yet show that they
have not surrendered and do not in
tend to surrender their liberties to
the Grant dynasty. Let every Dem
Ocrat and every Liberal 90 to work
now with renewed earnestness, and
victory will yet be Courier
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