Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-10-20
THE PROSPECT.

character; contest which is doubtful. [
say it frankly, Mr.. Tilden's election is not
impossible; nay, not improbable" Let us
remember this comes from one of the
shrewdest politicians in the Radical party,
who has had the credit for being everything
but fool, and this admission comes at
a moment when, if there had been the
thinnest excuse for it, the speaker would
rather have said something calculated to
put heart into his hearers. He is candi-
date himself, and evidently painfully feels
the fairness Of the canvass since the Octo-
Der defeat. This much from Republican
standpoint! From the Democratic point
of view, and discounting all the exaggera-
ton of enthusiasm, the victory of Mr..
TILDEN is certain, and we write giving
the word it's full value. The States Of In
diana, West Virginia, Oregon, Connecti-
cut, Delaware and Alabama, all of which
gave their electoral votes for GRANT in
1872, have, since the Presidential nomi-
nations Of this year, voted the Democratic
ticket, making a combined Democratic
gain of forty-two electoral votes, and q
Republican loss Of eighty-four. The States
which have voted for the Republican tick
ct since the nomination are Ohio, showing
a Republican loss of $4,000 On the election
of ~; Maine, showing Republican loss
of 10000 since ~; Vermont, showing a
slight Republican loss, and Colorado, which
did not vote in ~. These Republican
losses are significant as to the coming vote
in other States, for these reasons: in Ohio
the fight was really between TILDEN and
HAYES; the campaign was national one
in which local matters were almost lost
sight Of; the speeches were full ofsectional
hatred, and in short it was regular old
fashioned "bloody shirt" campaign. In
Maine the personal influence Of BLAINE
was brought to the assistance Of the bloody
shirt, and in. Vermont a similar course
was adopted. In any of the States named
the same vote would have been cast if
TILDEN and HAYES electors were being
voted for; the same speeches would have
been made; the same money would have
been spent, and the same ''Boys in Blue'
demonstrations made. In point of fact it
was in all three the actual Presidential
vote.
Turning from the West we find, as we
stated last week would be the case, that
the Republicans are making their last
stand in New York. 1t is forlorn hope,
and from all appearances the Republicans
feel it. Leading a storming party right
90 H1IrI nd
right up to his front door, will be the last
scene in the downward career of party
that started with the best ground under
its feet political organization ever had.
A gentleman prominent in Virginia pc
lities, now on visit TO New York, writes
US that Uncle SAM gives it as his opinion
in private that he will carry the State by
fifty thousand majority, and we are dis
posed to take his word. There are three
things that Uncle SAM is entitled TO have
said of him: he has never made a mistake
in any position he assumed before TIL
people; he has neUer been defeated and he
has never boosted before or after his sue
cesses, and with this record We accept him
as reliable authority about New York.
With this settled, the States Of Delaware,
Connecticut and New Jersey, outlying su
iburbs of New York, are insured. CARL
.ScHURz, BLAINE and the rest will be like
rain pattering on rock. CoNKLINe. the
only man who could do anything in New
York, is not on the stump, and those West
ern bugaboos clad in the red garment,
MORTON, LOGAN & Co., will hardly be in
troduced before the thinking people OF the
East, having just been repudii.ted by the
thinking people of the West.
The South IS the point to which the adj
ADMINISTRATION has finally turned it's atten-
ton. Grant is out in a proclamation put
ting South Carolina under martial law and
the Secretary of War has ordered that ''all
the available military force ip the military
division of the Atlantic" he concentrated
i'm that State. This proclamation aEders
the Rifle clubs, !" the organizations formed
by the white men of that State, to disperse,
thus leaving the State in the hands of the
armed negro militia. What the fate of
The whites may be now, may be inferred
from the fact that at Cairnhoy in that
State Monday, unarmed whites and Fun
armed" negroes were present at a political
meeting. A fight occurred, the negroes
rushed to the bushes where their guns were
concealed and opened fire on the defence
less whites, killing three and Wouuling
fourteen. The bodies Of the whites were
recovered on Tuesday, "stripped of their
clothing and hacked and mutilated in a
shocking manner" One dead negro was
folnd. The killing of the whites vas lone
by the negro militia. With such scenes
as stilese and a proclamation from tie
President disbanding the white clubs, the
people at Sfe North will understand how
it is expected TO carry South Carolina and
will rebuke it at kle polls. We have an !
abiding faith in that.
Perhaps one OF the stronge feelings in
the Southern mind now is that after the |
4th of March next, all this turbulanee at
the South will be stopped J.; no more order
ing of troops into States to control cleo,
tions, no more eorrupting .aR ignorant
constituency and then leading them into
deeds Of violence, and no more covering
up theft and murder by the cry Of "anoth-
81 rebellion This will indeed be a han
py country next year and the next spring
will be the budding of a new life for the
nation.
The Old Dominion Conservative Club of