Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-10-26
THE EMPIRE STATE.
The Prospects in New York.
Cheerful Outlook for the Re
publicans.
From the New York Tribune.

New York is the battle-ground. Re.
publicans willingly acknowledge it.
Democrats boastfully assert it, conf.
dent in the ability of Gov. Tilden to
carry his own State. What ground il
there for this confidence? Nine Dem.
Ocrats out of ten look no further than
the fact that Gov. Tilden did carry the
State in 1874. Yet his vote at that
time was only 4l6, ,391, and the Repub.
licans had cast AS, ,s01 for Gov. Dix
two years before. The Republicans
who did not vote elected Mr.. Tilden.
If thore is anything certain, il is Ger.
tain that full vote of both parties
will be cast this year. Now the Dem
ocrats have never polled as large an
honest vote, in the whole history of the
State, as they did in electing Mr.. Til
den in 1875, for they were then rein
forced by many thousand Liberals and
Independents. That he will not get
the votes of great proportion of these
is known to him, and to every other
intelligent Democrat. A few hundred
support him still, and will do their
best to elect him. At least twenty
thousand oppose him, and will do their
best to defeat him. But with their aid,
the largest Democratic vote ever real
ly cast in New York was 9,4I0 less
than the Republican vote cast for Pres
ident Grant in 1872, when the Liberals
opposed him. Where, then, is the rea-
son for expecting Mr.. Tilden's elec-
ton?
We are told that the Democrats did
once cast larger vOte-namely, in
- fol a,
larger vote, but over 20, 600 of it in this
city alone, was falsely and fraudulent
ly returned. Then they pretended
that 112, ,522 votes were cast for Hoff-
man in this city. In all the hot con-
tests since-lOcal, State and Presiden-
tial-with the aid of thousands of Lib
erals, the Democrats have never in a
single instance polled $1,000 votes in
this city, and they cannot now. Part
Of their pretended vote in 1868 was the
work of Tammany repeaters, and part
was fraudulently returned, never hav-
ing been cast, even by repeaters.
We are told that Mr.. Tilden ran in
an off year, when the full strength OF
parties was not polled. 1t was a year
of Congressional elections; the tidal
wave for which Democrats now look
in vain was then actually rolling; and
while it was an extraordinary poor
year for Republicans, whose vote was
over $4,000 less than their full strength,
the Democrats polled a larger honest
vote than ever before. If their large
vote was due to Republicans, they will
not get il again. If the full Democrat
ic strength was not polled, at that elec.
tion, we do not believe it ever will be.
In the following table, the vote of this
city is separated from that of the rest
of the State. The last column shows
that the Republicans outside of the ci-
ty, with the LiDeralsopposed to them,
polled 389, ,511 votes for Gov. Dix in
1872, and 372, ,145 for President Grant in
1868. Now, that they have the sup.
port of nearly all the Liberals they will
cast over 400, 900 votes in the country,
and the second column shows that they
are able to oil over $4,000 in the city.
On the other hand, with Liberal aid,
the Democrats have been able to poll
ss much as 328, ,955 votes in the coun-
try only once-for Mr.. Tilden in 1874.
Ifthey were able this year, as they are
not, to perpetrate once more the infa-
NOUS fraud of 1868, and to return 112,-
522 votes from this city, they would
still be beaten.