The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-06-09
The Figures.

We have for some days been looking Tor L
statement of the relative strength OF HEN
BRICKS and TnDES il the Democratic Ma
tional Convention when it first assemblies.
The Augusta (Ga.) ConStitntioaaliSt states
the case rs follows:
Hendricks has no strength nj the East,
while Tildcn is rs well supported at the
West as the Indiana Governor. C0nvcn-
tons TO select delegates to ST. Louis have
been held in nearly all the States. Leaving
the South, with its 1873 electoral votes,
out OF the question for the present, we
find that OF the remaining 23l, delegates
representing more than $50 have been
chosen from every section OF the
North and West. With the exception
OF Maine and few districts IN MasSa-
chusctts the delegates from the eastern
States have been elected. There is no rea-
son for believing that the preferences OF the
few to be chosen will radically differ from
those already selected. At one time Bayard
was reported to have some strength i'll Con-
necticut, and so was Thurman in New
HAMPSHIRE prior to the Ohio Convention,
but now there seems to be no doubt that
Tilden will have the forty votes OF New
England. In the middle States New
York's thirty-five votes are also 1ol
Tildcn. New Jersey will vote for /eX-
Governor Joel Parker on the first
ballot, but Tilden will unquestlonabiy
command her nine votes thereafter.
The twenty-nine votes Of pennsylvania
10 be cast as q unit are doubtful, and belong
IN ANYBODY in the calculation. 1t the West,
Of the States which have held conventions,
Tilden will have the entire vote OF Califor'
mia. Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Nevada, Oregon, and nine out OF Nlichigan's
eleventh all, iorty-threc; while Hendricks
can count on the vote OF Kansas, Indiana
and two from Michigan--tWenty-tWo in all,
but forty-four il we include the entire vote
of Ohio. A rccapitulution shows that OF
these two hundred electoral votes Tildcr
has 127, Hendricks Il, and there are
doubtful the - OF Pennsylvania. From
the West there are still to be chosen dele
gates TO cast the tWcnty-onc votes OF Hill
nois, and the ten OF Wisconsin. The latest
indications are that Governor Tilden will
certainly have a decided majority in both
States Illinois may instruct her delegates
to vote for David Davis on the first ballot,
but her hard-moncy Democrats, after lcav-
ing him, will undoubtedly go to TiIden.
But allowing Hendricks and I'ilden an even
chance in these two States and Pennsylvania,
which is rs good a showing for Hendricks as
he can possibly have, we find him SO votes be-
hind in the North and West, he having ~ anC
Tilden more than doubling him with Isl
frilden lacks % Of a majority and 50 OF two
thirds, while Hendricks is short Ill ant
H. respectively. The South now come!
to the front with 13S votes. The friends o
Tilden in this section will increase his 10
to majority, and with the uncommittcd tt
two thirds. The friends OF Hendricks, to
gether with the doubtful delegates, canno
give him even Il bare majority. As between
the two, the friends OF Tildcn are in 4 ma
jority in every southern State except Ten
neSsce and perhaps Arkansas, while Mis-
souri, is claimed by both parties. We OF the
South cannot nominate Hendricks, but We
can prevent the choice OF TilGcn by com
bining together, and thus defeat the candi
date OF every Democratic State, North an(
West. Can we afford to take such re
sponsibility? Can we thrust ourselves for
ward ut ST. Louis to defeat one particular
candidate: II is not expected OF us and we
do not desire il for ourselves. Finding, as
we undoubtedly will do, that Governor
Tildcn is the strongest candidate before the
Convention with Il decided majority outside
OF the southern States, it seems to be our
plain duty to throw our decided influence
in his favor, and, with his other friends, to
give him not only two thirds but three
fourths Of the votes cast.