The Van Buren press., 1876-11-07
Proofs that Tilden will be Elected.


ted President The great campaisn is
drawing to close; the argument 10 pret
ty well exhausted 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 majority of the
House of Representatives at the election
held in the middle Of Of Presidential
term, never failed to elect the President
two Years afterward. There is not one
exception to this rule; and certainly
when it ia the party of corruption and
fraud which is to he turned out, and the
party of honesty and -eform that is. to
ne let in, the pending contest is not like
ly to vacate this old rule Now for its
application. -s .- .
In the Forty, third Congress the Re
puhlieans had majority of one hundred
and eight in the House Two years ago
the Democrats elected a majority OF sew.
enty to the present House. This great
change Enthusiastically forshadowed the
triumph Of the Democrats in the great
| contest OF this year.
| The result Of the Western electionsiR
October assured the successof Tiden
West Virginia, Ohio, and Indiana have
always voted for the Republican nom-
nee for President. Candid members of
that party admitted that if they failed TO
carry two of those States in October,
til y would have no hopes for Hayes in
November, Early in the canvass they
Abandoned West Virginia and then stalk
ed their all on Ohio and Indiana They
worked desperately to secure Ohio for
Hayes, and toiled with the energy inspir.
ed by despair to wrest Indiana from Hen.
bricks. The returns astounded the Re-
pubicans and electiied the Democrats
West Virginia went pell nell for 1ilden
and Reform. Hendricks bore off a splen
did victory in Indiana. Bnt poor Ruth
crford lie got the Cincinnati nomina
tion because his friends promised 80, 900
majority in Ohio for the Republicans in
Octo ber if he were on the ticket; and 10,
he sneaked out of the State with small
majority in his favor on the State ticket,
and two hundred majority against him on
the aggregate vote cast for members of
Congress
We bold the Republicans to their ad
missions of three months ago, that the
party that carried two OF the October
States would surely win the battle in Nov
ember In truth, there is not Repu5.
lican that knows much on the subject,
who does not feel sure that tie Octo ber
elections killed Hayes and Wheeler stone
dead
Since their defeat in Indiana. large
and intelligent class of Republicans sd
init that the Presidential candid te who
carries New York will certai ~ be elee
ted Now, though we have not a doubt
that after the contest is over it will he ap-
parent that Tilden did not need the tbir
ty-tive votes OF this state to place him in
the White House, nevertheless we will
accept the situation MS defined by the Re
publieans. To please them we will con-
cede that the candidat who prevails in
this State in November will deliver the
inaugural from the east front of the Cap
tol in March; and we assert that every
New York Republican, possessing SUI
licient amount Of knowledge to form an
intelligent opinion on the question, be.
lieves that that man will be Sanual j
Tilden.
The result in Indiana undoubtedly
threw the supporters of Hayes back upon
New York as their forlorn hope. Witn
chattering teeth aud quakng knees, they
concede this. Now, deducing our opin.
ions from the very best sources of infor-
nation, we assure the friends of reform
that the Tilden electoral ticket will re-
ceive a majority of the votes cast outside
of the city of New York, and that the
majority in the whole State will be at
least $4,000 Let the advocates of re.
form in other States not bother their
heads about New York, but move imme.
diately 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 compass during the past two or 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 60 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 rails
ed the bloody shirt and gave the contest
its sangunary aspect. Does anyone be
lieve he would have skulked from the
field had he not known that all was lost ?
The ordering of troops to South Car.
olina to save that State was only the pre-
liminary step in programme that origi
nally contemplated an attempt to carry
half dozen States for Hayes by the bay.
onet. But the fiery fash of popular in
dignation has terrified Grant, old Father
Taft, noisy Zach, who puts the screws to
the olliceholdcrs, and slippery Don Cam
eron. to whom the facle Hayes owes his
nomination; and they have abandon ed
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 rebel claims, which they
said amounted to about $1,000. .O00, 600,
and would surely be paid if Tllien was
elected This baseess assertion was un-
doubtedly making all impression; and
therefore Tilden trumped the demagogue
trick ty his bold, manly, patriotic letter.
This quite took away the breath of the
dcsperadoes who are conducting the can
vass CASTING around for a straw where