The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-03


Republican states, | have no doubt we
shall agree as to all of them,
Correspondent-Ner well, here is my
list including Colorado, which will be ad |
mitted this winter:
Maine. ................7 Illinois ............ 81
New Hampshire, Iowa., .......u
Vermont .............. Minnesota. .......,... ,
Massachusetts. ID Nebraska
Rhode Island. .,........ Kansas o. ....... 8
Pennsylvania. Colorado. ............
Ohio. 20 Nevada.
Michigan ..............1l South carolina ....... :
Wisconsin. 10 -
1Othl Iof
Congressman-The list is exactly as
would have made it. Now let us count
the votes of the doubtful states. We
hare left as the fighting ground Of the
campaign:
New York .............ss Oregon.
New Jersey. .....--.
Indiana. ........-......l TotaI...-..........F4
The whole number of electoral votes is
$40. 1t will therefore require lS6 to elect.
We need in addition to our 1872 votes 81
more We must have New York. That
is the essential thing and it is folly to
talk OF making any nomination or platform
that would hazard the loss Of that state.
Some of our western Democrats think
they can get along without the cast. They
nave nOC lOOkeu oyer INC USlu. ne only
state they Can give us is Indiana; but it
would be madness to throw away the 80
votes of New Y ork for the sake of making
sure of Is votes which they are likely to
get in any event.
Correspondent-With both New York
and Indiana you add 80 votes to your 1872,
and elect your president. But you can
win without Indiana, if you can carry two
or three OF the other doubtful states on
the list, and your chances for carrying all
Of them are certainly better than the Re-
publicans, if you put up strong candidate
on a hard-money platform and keep the
school question out of the campaign, New.
jersey and Connecticut would give you the
votes you lack So would California anG
Oregon with either one of these states.
Congressman see you understand The
situation. The south, with the three
Democratic eastern states oF New \ DIRK
New-Jersey, and Connecticut, will elec
the president and we have the two Pacific
coast states and Indiana for margin
We hall set no soft-money traps to catcl
the west If that section will not 90 with
us on hard-money platform we can d.
without it.
Correspondent-How are you going t.
get over the school question pitfall which
the Republicans are digging in your path
Congressman-We shall undermine
them by putting the Blaine amendmen
through the house right after the recess
The senate will then be in dilemma. L
it votes the amendment, it goes before tn
state legislatures this win er for rati
fication, and the question is thus taken on
of politics. If the senate rejects the amend
ment, then it goes to the country in tn
canvass with the Democratic branch @
congress on record in favor Of it and tn
Republican branch opposed to it. So you
see we are not to be tripped up by tn
false issue our enemies are trying industr
Ously to raise We intend to pass MI
RandalPs one-term amendment, toe
and let the senate defeat it if it dare
Beaten by Republican votes, it becomes
leading issue in the campaign; adopted.
Is a tall feather in our caps Nobody ca
say that the Democratic house has don
nothing, if it acomplishes the great reforr
of restricting the president to single teri
OF six years.
Editorial. from the N. Y. Tribune Dec. 3lst.
WHAT PARTIES MUST DO.
Democrats cannot elect the next pres
dent without New York. Republican
can. Those two facts supply the key
the next election. The Democrats mus
nominate candidate, and frame a pla
form, and put their party into positio
that can secure New York. Otherwls
they are whipped before the fight begins
But the Republicans can still make
desperate struggle, with possibility
success, even though the probabilities i
this state should be against them
The estimate published on Thursda
from Democratic congressman of nationi
reputation contained some mistakes, an
especially this, that it supposed that tn
Democrats, having the votes of all the oil
saye states except South Carolina, coul
elect president with only fifty MOI
electoral votes, whereas they would the
have only ISL, and 1876 will be needed [
elect. Oregon, with New York, Indian
and the southern states, would not qui
suffice; it would give them only lS4 vote
But it was probably presumed that ar
influence sufficing to secure New 1ol
would also secure Connecticut or Ne
jersey. The essential accuracy OF Il
estimate is undeniable. The Democra
can count, with almost absolute certaint
upon the votes of fifteen former sla'
states, and the Republicans, if they nomi
ate a candidate who unites the party, CT
count with equal certainty upon the vo
of South Carolina and all the former no
siaveholding states except New Yor
Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana, Cal
tornia, and Oregon, The Democrats tine