The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-04
Mcclure ON Pennsylvanfa-Til
Chances F1sttering-The Con
gressional Aspect.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the Philadelphia Times.
New York and Connecticut having,
by pretty general consent, passed out OF
the list OF doubtful states into the Tilden
column, the States of Pennsylvania and
New jersey are now the centres OF po:
lltical interest. TIlden can be elected
without Pennsylvania, but Hayes can
not, and the Republicans will make an
exhaustive effort to save the Keystone
State, because it is life or death strug-
gle, while the Democrats will battle for
it because they are inspired with the hope
Of success, and also because they want the
election of Tilden to be put beyond the
reach of Morton's threatened qnipbles on
counting the vote.
Philadelphia is now, as for several
years past, the unknown quantity in
Pennsylvania election. There will be
l25,0O0 votes polled on Tuesday, includ-
ing goodly number Of repeaters, who
are expected to utilize the registration OF
10000 as far as possible; and there Is no
certain Republican majority of more than
10000; it may be $4,000, and $4,000 is
lust possible, if the desperation OF 1872
shall be re-enacted. Whatever is possible
in Philadelphia is what the Tilden men
must accept as the majority 70 be over
come, and that is $4,000.
1t is hardly any longer doubtful that
Tildeh will come to Philadelphia with a
majority, end it may be anywhere from
five to twenty thousand. The msjori-
ties OF the strong Democratic counties
will take the breath out of the other side,
as they come in at figure never before
given, and the problem on which the
State trembles in the bal ance, is whether
the Republican counties can keep up to
anything like their old mark in national
contests. If Allegheny shall start off with
1000 or more; Lancaster with 5000;
Erie with $500; Bradford, with 3,5oOi
Indiana with 2,2O0; Dauphin with 2,2O0;
Chester with 5000, and Delaware with
2,lOO, the majority OF TlIden outsld g
the city will be nominal, and Hayes
will carry The State by say 10000 out OF
a poll OF over 100000. But it Allie
cheney shall drop to 5000; Erie to 1000;
Bradford TO $500; Dauphin to / 500, and
Chester to 1000. Tilden will come to
Phiadelphia with quite enough to over
come a1y possible unknown quantity in
a Philadelphia majority. With Berks
certain to overlsy the long dreamed OF
majority ot 1000; with Northampton,
Luzerne and York sure TO score up
$500 each; with the West
branch Democratic counties of North
cumberland, Lycoming and Clinton
Likely to range from 1000 to 800 each;
with Centre safe for u full 1000 and
Clearfeld for LOO; with Cumberland
crowding close to 1000 and Adams half
as much, and the Western and North
western counties distributed on the Re-
publican side and earnestly united on
the Democratic side, no dispsssionate
observer will set Pennsylvania down as
certain for Hayes. On the contrary,
while regarding it as fairly doubtful, we
consider the chances on the side OF Til
den, and likely to improve daily until
the election.
From dispasslonate review OF the
Congressional battle in this State, we
look Tor Is Republicans and II Demo.
Gratis to be elected on Tuesday, to take
the place of the II Democrats and ~ Re-
publIcans chosen in the general Republi-
can smash-down in 1874. One of the
notable features OF the contest, and one
that is quite significant of the relative
condition of the two parties in the battle,
is the fact that the Republican csndi-
dates for Congress, although up to the
average standard of the party IN point
of ability and party claims, will fall
some thousands behind the party
strength. Harmer, in the Fifth, Over
ton in the Fifteenth, Errett in the Twen-
ty-second, Bayne in the Twenty-third
and Watson in the Twenty seventh,
will each be LOCO or more below the
party majority; and Evans in the
Seventh, Campbell IN the Seventeenth,
Mahon in the Eighteenth, Shellenberser
in the Twenty fourth, White in the
Twenty-ffth and Thompson in the
Twenty-sixth, will each drag 500 or more
behind their ticket. On the other
side, with the single. exception
OF Bridges, in the Tenth district,
who has Just emerged from
a bitter local contest tor the nomination,
the Democrats are cordially united in the
support of their candidates. 1t is evi.
dent unrest and dIsintegartion on the
one side and unity and enthusiasm on the
other, and the erect on the general issue
cannot but be sensibly fe.t.
Such is the aspect in which this State
presents herself within five days OF the
great battle. and the tide that has flung
doubt into Republican Pennsylvsnia, II
not likely now to be hindered in 1t:
course between this and Tuesday next,
Pools on the Election.
There was a very large attendance in