The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-05-14
TABLE OF MAJORITIEs. .

I'm these eighteen States which have
held elections since Gen. Grants last in
auguration the popular majority which he
received in November, 1872, has been re-
verSed, and he is in popular minority of
/ lSS, ,965, a net opposition gain of Cos, ,356.
Three other States-ArkansaS, Illinois and
I New Jersey have held local and legisla-
/ tive elections within the same period, but
as the aggregate popular vote could not
be officially obtained they have been left
out OF the above table. But Arkansas,
( which gave Gen. Grant 3, l46 majority, in
November last elected large Democratic
majority to its Legislature; and in New
Jersey, which gave Grant II, $50, the Re-
publican lossin the Legislative election was
considerable, as will be seen from a table
we print below. Illinois gave Grant
53 ,420 majority in 1872, and in 1873, accOr-
ding to the Chicago Tribune, the county
elections resulted in a Farmers majority
in the State of at least $4,000 over all.
This would indicate a combined Farmers
and Democratic majority over the admins
tration candidates of $4,000. So that, TAX
ing the majorities in the eighteen States
in the table and estimating those of the
three additional States, it is fair to calcu-
late that popular majority of $50, ,l31 fol
Gen. Grant in 1872 has turned to an OppO-
sition majority of $50, 900 in 1884. That
this view of the situation is entertained by
intelligent observers who do not belong
to the Democratic party the following eX-
tract from the editorial comments of the
Chicago Tribune on the result of the recent
elections. East and West, is interesting
testimony:
''It appears pretty evident from the result of
the elections in Ohio that the entire German pop
lrtin md q laru n o
who mpathize with them have abandoned the
Republican party forever. 1t has been but very
few years since every city in Ohio, without eX-
ceptiOn, had Republican government To-day,
the Republicans have not control of one of the
cities Cleveland and Dayton have OudOne even
Cincinnati in their majorities against the Repub-
lican party The same may be said TO have Oc-
CURED in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota. The Republican ascendancy in
these States has for several years been maln-
tanned by this vote, which is now lost to 1t, and
most likely lost forever. This vote controls the
three Congressional and seven Senatorial dis
triets of this county. and half dozen other Con-
gressIoual districts in the State. The dlsahec-
tiOn, however, IL not confined to the Germans.
There has been so much cant and hypocrisy, and
such an abuse of Christian and religious names
and objects to hide confessed and notorious frauds
and viilainy, that thousands of persons every
where have resolved to cut loose from the party
and act independently. The alliance attempted
in Ohio and other places between the Republicans
and the beer-keg smashers proved a lamentabe
failure, and saloOn-prayinS has been voted down
at the baot-bOX.
1.-The general lesson taught by the April cleo
tions is That the Republican party has received a
premOnitory stroke of the general paralysis that
1t will experience in November, le74 Its dis
comGture is inevitable. ti stripped of the allies
by whom it has been kept in power. 1t is aban-
dOned, as in Connecticut, by the disgust, d peo-
ple, who have tired of its corruptOns. 1t Is leti
TO its fate by every man who feels the rlSor Oi
taxation and the extortion of the plunderers, and
its end will he accomplished in the fall by the
great body of the agrlcu!turlstS.' .'
1t will also be noticed that fifteen of the
States in the table, having an aggregate
electoral vote of 175, went for Grant, and
three, with an electoral vote of IS. were
carried by the opposition. In 1881,
eleven, with an electoral vote of l2G, were
carried by the opposition, and seven, with
an electoral vote of n, by the administra-
tion-an opposition gain of nearly 100.
The following table is repetition OF the
first. except that it shows the total vote OF
each of the eighteen States instead of the
majorities only:
TABLE SHOWING TOTAL VOTE.