Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-31

out ol tHcsc CtdtcS, South Saipiihal
is sure for the Republican candidate.
The chances are that North Carolina
will also go Republican, and if fair
vote can be had. we will also carry
Alabama. Louisiana. Mississippi and
Florida, and even Virginia, which
went for Grant in 1872. 1t is, at
least. quite safe to calculate that
out of these States we will get enough
electoral votes TO equal those of North
and South Carolina, viz: IL. Should |
the Democracy carry all the balance
the Southern Democratic vote would
be III. The number of electoral votes
in the electoral college is 1863, and the
number necessary to choice, lS5.
Taking this extremely liberal count
for the Democracy, it would leave
them lacking GA votes to elect. Then
, give them New York, 81 votes, Indi-
ana, Is, Connecticut 6, California, 6,
Oregon 3, and their total vote would
be lS6, or one more than is necessary
to elect This view, so favorable to
Democracy, giving to them the very
best showing they can possibly hope
for, shows how very close may be the
coming contest. Even giving the
whole south to the Democracy, save
South Carolina, and the Democracy
could not lose Indiana without fail
ing. Should they lose the 81 votes of
New York, plainly they must be de-
fcated in any possible event. 1t APP
pears to be utterly impossible that the
Democracy can nominate any one of
the present candidates to-day. and
hope to carry both New York and In
diana, so utterly and directly are they
opposed to each other on the vital
question of the finances. Should the
Indiana financial policy prevail in the
nomination. say of Hendricks, the
Democracy will not carry with them
single one of the Northwestern
States, but will also lose New York.
and lose on the Pacific coast, though
they might gain some i'm the South.
shohld they nominate Tilden, then
Indiana is sure to be counted in the
Republican column. All this, however,
makes certain serious struggle in
this centennial year for the mastery
Again are all the States of the South
represented, and the Democracy car
~ Oh the greater portion, just as they
did preceding the rebellion. 1t is a
wonderful but serious fact that in the
national battle TO come off at the polls
next November, the two sections,
North and South, will be almost as
nearly arrayed in hostility as they
were on the battlefield, in the strug-
gle for and against national unity.
No citizen Of intelligence in this coun-
try can fail to see that the question is
to be determined in this battle at the
polls, whether the political principles
entertained by the Democracy OF the
South are to prevail in our govern
ment or the principles Of the Repub-
licans.
1t is utter folly TO say that should
the Democracy succeed, its admistra-
ton will not be directed and control
led by the Southern Democracy, for
the very plain and evident reason that
fwo-thirds, at least, of the electoral
vote must and will come from the
South. that will be cast for Demo-
cratic President. As we see il, in a
certain measure, the struggle at the
polls this fall, involves the same issues
that were involved in the war; not,
indeed, union or disunion, as then.
: immediately to follow, but the pre-
dominance or not of honest govern
ment, of the practical civil e9aaIitE
and freedom OF ali men, s.;,i.arell
education, and all such things as are
the plain ear marks Of the two
civilizations, if SO we may designate
them. How il can be possible that
any intelligent man can expect re-
form from party thus shown to have
its backbone, its control in the old
pro-slavery element of the south, so
lately in rebellion, and which are
faithfully represented on the aOnr of
of the House in their Ben Hills, 10 q
mystery beyond our comprehension.
Republicans look over the ground as
we have presented it above, and see
If You cannot see sufficient in this
years elections to call forth all your
energy as most solemn duty you owe
to the country.