The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-03
THE DEATH.
Proofs that Tilden Will be
Elected.

been proving that Mr. Tilden ought te
be elected President. The great cam
psign is drawing to close; the argu-
ment is pretty we'll exhausted; and We
now propose to give few reasons why
Tiiden will defeat Hayes on Tuesday
next.
The history of the country shows that
from the administration of Jefferson
down to the present hour, the politica
party which carried majority of the
the House of Representatives at the
election held in the middle of a Presi'
Dental term, never failed to elect the
President two years afterwsrd. There
is not one exception to this rule; and Ger.
tainly when it is the party of corruption
and fraud which is to be turned out, and
the party OF honesty and reform that Is 10
be let in, the pending contest is not
likely to vscate this old rule. Now for
its application.
In the Forty third Congress the Re
publicans 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
October assured the success of Tilden.
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, have
always voted for the Republican nom-
inees for President. Candid members Of
that party admitted that if they failed to
carry two of those states in October,
they would have no hope for Hayes
in November. Early in the canvass
thev abandoned West Virginia, and
then staked their all on Ohio and In
diana. They worked desperately to
secure Ohio for Hayes, and toiled
with the energy inspired by despair
to wrest Indiana from Hendricks. The
returns astounded the Republicans and
electrified the Democrats. West Vir.
ginia went pell-mcll for Tilden and re-
ford Hendricks bore off splendid
xictory in Indiana. But poor Ruther-
form! He got the Cincinnati nomlna.
ton because his friends promised 10000
majority in Ohio for the Republicans IN
October il he were on the ticket; and 10,
he snesked out of the State with a
small majority in his favor on the State
ticket, and two hundred majority against
him on the aggregate vote cast for men,
bers of Congress!
We hold the Republicans to their
admissions 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 u
Republican that knows much on the SUBJ
iect, who does not feel sure that the
October elections killed Hayes and
Wheeler stone dead.
Since their defeat in Indiana, q large
and intelligent class of Republicans
| admit that the Presidential candidate
who carries New York will certainly be
elected. Now, though We have not a
| doubt that after th9 contest is over 1t 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
tho Republicans. To please them we
will concede that the candidate who pre-
walls in this state in November will de-
liver the inaugural from the east front OF
of the Capitol in March; and we assert
that every New York Republican possess
ing sufficient amount of Knowledge TO
form an intelligent opinion on the ques.
ton, believes that that man will be
Samuel J. Tilden.
The result in Indiana undoubtedly
threw the supporters of Hayes back kupon
New York as their forlorn hope. With
chattering teeth and qusking knees, they
concede this. Now, deducing our opIn-
ions from the very best sources OF lnfor-
nation, we assure the friends OF reform
that the Tilden electoral ticket will re-
ceive a majority of the votes cast outside
# the city OF New York, and that the
majority in the whole State will be at
| least $4,000. 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 compass during the past two or three
weeks, and particularly within the last
three or four days, prove conclusively
that the tide has changed 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 con-
test its sanguinary aspect. Does any one
! believe he would have skulked from the
| field had he not known that all was lost?
The ordering of troops to South Caro-
| lima to save that State was only the pre-
hminsry step IN programme that origi-
Tally contemplated al attempt to carry
halt dozen States for Hvyes by the bay
onet. But the fiery fash OF popular ill.,
dignation has terrified Grant, old Father
TAFT, noisy Zach, who puts the screws to
the Office holders and slippery Don Cam
eron, to whom the faci.e Hayes owes his
nomination; 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
gamo was the rebel claims, which they
said amounted to about 81, ,500, 900, and
would surely be paid if Tilden WAS
elected. THIS baseless assertion was un-
d,uO;eily making an impression; and
therefore Tilden trumped the dems-
gogue trick by his bold. manly, patriotic
letter.
This quite took away the breath OF
the despersdoes who are conducting the
canvass Casting around for straw
whereon to fssten, and thus for mo-
ment avert the doom that swsits them,
they called upon certain Republican
millionaires to come out with pre-
nuncismento and try to freighten peo-
pie into the support OF Hayes, whose
election would only insugurste Lew
reign of plunder, corruption, fraud and
rsscslity generally. 1t will avail moth
ing. The masses of the people in sr