The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-04
Proofs that Tilaon will DO Elected.

For the past four mouths We have been
proving that Mr.. Tilden ought to be elected
President. The great campaign is drawing
10 close the argument is pretty wea ex'
hausted and we now propose to give few
reasons why Tilden will defeat Hayes on
Tuesday next.
The history Of the country shows that, from
the administration of Jefferson down to the
present hour, the political party which carried
a majority of the House of Representatives at
the election held in the middle ola Presiden.
tial term, never failed to elect the President
two years afterwards. There is not one ex-
ception to this rule; and certainly when it is
the party OF corruption and fraud which is to
be turned out, and the party Of honesty and
reform that is to be let in, the pending con.
test is not likely to vaeate this old rule. Now
for this application.
In the Forty-third Congress the Republi-
cans had majority of one hundred and eight
in the House. Two years ago the Democrats
elected majority Of seventy TO the present
House. This great change Enthusiastically
foreshadowed the triumph Of the Democrats
in the great contest of this year.
The result Of the Western elections in DC.
tober assured the success of Tilden. West
Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana have always
voted for the Republican nominees for Pres.
ident. Candid members of that party admit.
ted that if they failed to carry two of those
States in October, they would have no hopes
for Hayes in November. Early in the can.
yass they abandoned West Virginia, and then
staked their all on Ohio and Indiana. They
worked desperately to secure Ohio for Hayes,
and toiled with the energy inspired by despair
to wrest Indiana from Hendricks. The re-
turns astouuded the Republicans and electri.
fed the Democrats. West Virginia went
pell-mell for Tiden and Reform. Hendricks
bore off a splendid victory in Indiana. But
poor Rutherford He got the Cincinnati
nomination because his friends promised 3d.
900 majority in Ohio for the Republicans in
October if he were on the ticket and 10, he
sneaked out Of the State with o small major
ity in his favor on the State ticket, and two
hundred majority against him on the aggre.
gate vote east for members of Congress
We hold the Republicans to their adms.
sions OF three months ago, that the party
that carried two of the October States would
surely win the battle in November In truth,
there is not Republican that knows much
on the subject, who does not feel sure that the
October elections killed Hayes and Wheeler
stone dead.
Since their defeat in Indiana, large and
intelligent class of Republicans admit that
the presidential candidates who carry New
York will certainly be elected. Now, though
we have not doubt that after the contest is
over it will be apparent that Tilden did not
need the thirty.five votes of this State to place
him in the White House, nevertheless we will
accept the situation as defined by the Repub.
licans. To please them we will concede that
the candidate who prevails in this State in
November will deliver the inaugural from the
east front of the capital in March and we
assert that every New York Republican, pos
sessing sufficient amount of knowledge to
form an intelligent opinion on the question,
believes that that man will be Samuel j. Til.
den.
The result in Indiana undoubtedly threw
the supporters of Hayes back upon New York
as their forlorn hope. With chattering teeth
and quaking knees, they concede this. Now,
deducing our opinions from the very best
sources OF information, we assure the friends
of reform that the Tilden electoral ticket will
receive majority of the votes cast outside OF
the city of New York, and that the majority
in the whole State will be at least so, 900. Let
the advocates of reform in other States not
bother their heads about New York, but
move Immediately on the enemy's works in
their own States.
The Signals Of distress thrown out by the
advocates of Hayes at all points of the com.
pass during the past two OF three weeks, and
particularly within the last three or four
days, prove conclusively that the tide has
turned against them, and that their rotten
craft is about to go to the bottom. Let us
look at some of these signs of sinking cause.
No sooner was the Indiana election over
than Sitting Bull Morton fed to the Pacific
coast. 1t was Morton that raised the bloody
shirt and gave the contest its sanguinary as
pect. Does any one believe he would have
skulked from the field had he not known that
all was lost?
The ordering oftroops to South Carolina to
save that State was only the preliminary step
in programme that originally contemplated
an attempt to carry half dozen States for
Hayes by the bayonet. But the fiery flash of
popular Indignation has terrified Grant, old
Father Taft, noisy Zach, who puts the screws
to the ofiiceholders, and slippery Don Cam.
eroni to whom the facile Hayes owes his nom.
nation and they have abandoned all hopes
OF salvation by means of the army.
Ten days ago the last card which the HAYES
men were playing in this losing game was the
aSDSA Niaiuot 10
about $1,000, 000, 900, and would surely be
paid if Tilden was elected This baseless as.
sertion was undoubtedly making an impress
sion; and therefore Tilden trumped the dem.
agogue trick by his bold, manly, patriotic
letter.
This quite took away the breath of the des.
peradoes who are conducting the canvass.
Casting around for straw whereon to fasten,
and thus for moment avert the doom that
awaits them, they called upon certain Repub.
lican millionaires to come out with the pro.
nuncamento and try to trighten people into
the support of Hayes, whose election would
only inaugurate new reign of plumber, cor
ruption, fraud, and rascality generally. 1t
will avail nothing. The masses of the people
in an emergency like this are not in a mood
to follow the lead even of the richest gentle.
men in Wall street.
The game is up. There is no doubt of the
triumph Of Tilden and Reform. But the vic.
tory should not merely be made certain. 1t
should be overwhelming. Let the people
carry for their candidate and their cause those
five or six doubtful States whose votes will
give them majority of two to one over Hayes
and corruption.-New FORK Sun.