The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-10-19

For Electors of President and Vice President:
At Large-JOSEPH TITCOMB,
CHARLES W. ROBERTS.
LIST Dist.-BION BRADBURY.
ID Dist.-GALEN c. MOSES.
I'd Dist.-JOHN C. MANSON.
4th Dist.-HASTINGS STRICKLAND.
9Th Dist.-JAMES K. TALBOT.
The Lesson of the October Elections.
The Democracy set out in the Presiden-
tal campaign with the knowledge that
they controlled enough Of the states of the
Union to elect their candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President, and with a hand
some margin to spare. They reasoned that
it was only necessary to hold their own,
to keep control of the states which they
had. and they were sure of victory. In
all the elections that have since taken
place, they have kept fully up to this mark.
Not a state has lapsed to radicalism--not
one has wavered in its adhesion to Democ-
racy The great interest that clustered
about Ohio and Indiana has resulted, like
the rest of the elections, in the Democrat
ic party holding its own by retaining In
diana, while Republicansm. with all its
strenuous efforts, has barely succeeded in
saving the state in which its Presidential
candidate resides AS strong indicator
in the October contest, West Virginia,
with five electoral votes, went largely
Democratic-so unexpectedly large as to
show !. strong drift of popular sentiment
towards Democracy and Reform. West
Virginia had twice given her vote for
Grant, and was more likely than any other
southern state to support his party this
Hnnr -nnd tho sant of itc wong Nt-o~s
Democratic majority at this time, when
two l. S. Senators are pending, evidences
the popular tendency. 1t means a solid
south for Tilden
The Democrats fought most determined
battles in Ohio and Indiana, contesting
every inch of ground-but they did not do
this because either state was necessary to
Presidential success. Tilden and Hen
bricks can be elected without either state,
as a matter of fact. The Electoral College
will have 800 votes. of which 1S5 const-
tute a majority. The southern states which
are now all conceded to Tilden, give
nnitedly 1873 voters-leaving Il to come
from the North, as necessary to success.
OF the states now in Democratic control,
and regarded as certain to 90 for Tilden.
New York has 30 votes. New Jersey 8,
Connecticut 6, California G, Oregon 3 -
making SO. or twelve more than are re-
quired.
1t viii be seen at once that the key of
the political position is the state OF New
York. There the great fight will be car
ried on, and victory won or defeat en-
countered. Either party might succeed
without it, but such a success is scarcely
possible, unless great and overwhelm-
ing political revolution takes place in No
vember, one that shall carry everything
before it in favor of 4 change of admins
tration. But assuming that the two par
ties are to contend in a fair stand up fight
for the electoral vote of the state, with
pretty near their strength as developed in
the last few years-what will be the prob
able result? First, the Democrats have
carried the state in three consecutive cleo
tons, beginning in 1873. by an average
majority of %, 900. In 1874 Governor Til
den was elected by The very large MAJOR
ity of 10000, owing largely to his great
personal popularity and his reputation as
a retormer Of abuses During his admin
istration, the Governor has not only main
tanned his reputation as reformer. by at
lacking and routing the public plunderers,
but he has reduced the state expenditures
and consequently the taxes, by many mil
lions. These things were not done in a
corner They are patent, and known of
all men,
Is it to be supposed, then, that Gov. Til
den. backed by this prestige, by his repu-
tation as an honest man and reformer,
by hosts of the warmest friends in all par
ties, and by the great and powerful Dem
ocratic party of New York, that demand
ed his nomination for Presidency. is to be
defeated in his own state, and its electoral
vote given to citizen of Ohio Can state
pride be so humbled ? Can her people for
get the great need of such champion of
reform in the White House? 1t is not
possible that all these strong considera-
tons can be overcome They will have
their sway and full effect. and the ballots
that shall descend like snow flakes on the
seventh of November in the great Empire
State, will proclaim that her chief execu-
tive has been called to 60 up higher. and
will marshal the way to the Presidential
chair.
The bloody shirt didn't have so much
effect in Ohio and Indiana as in Maine.
They are close to the South, and saw
through the humbug.
The majority claimed by the Republi-
cans in Indiana was like the Indians rum
that blasted id quick"