Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-21
THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION.
The Democratic Party, and the
Man Who Can Lead 1t to VIC
I'm 1SSn


tory In 1880.
Correspondence of the Register.
He who can point the Democratic
party to the man who can lead it to
victory in 1880, deserves to share in its
honOrs.
The whole number of electoral votes
is $50, and 49, OF that number are re-
quired TO elect the President. The
States that voted Republican in the late
elections are entitled to cast POI elect
oral votes; and those which voted DEM
ocratic, l5G electoral votes, thereby
giving the Republicans % electoral
votes more than necessary to elect the
President
Take the s. electoral votes whicl
New York is entitled to cast from 207
and add to the 80 and YOU elect the
Democratic President with II votes to
spare.
The States which voted Democratic
this fall, will vote Democratic in No
vember, 1880. They are Democratic
States. and will be more Democratic
then than now. Consequently the DEM
ociat who can carry New York in 1880
becomes an important person for the
Presidential succession.
In 1924, by the Vaccinations OF Hen
nv Clay and John Quincy Adams, An
drew Jackson was Tron9ed out Of the
Presidency. That act ruined the po-
litical fortunes OF both Clay and Adams,
and made Jackson the most popular
man of lis day. The people Of the
United States, when left 10 themselves,
have never failed to right q Wrong They
elected Jackson President in 1928, and
gain in 1892. and would have repeated
il in 1886, had he consented to it.
Samuel ]. Tilden was elected Presi-
dent of the United States in 1875 BY
large majority et the popular vote, and
by majority OF the electoral votes. He
was corrnptly and fraudulently cheated
out of the Presidency by, the Returning
Boards of Louisiana and Florida. This
greatest and blacklist of all wrongs which
has ever been perpetrated on the ballot
box, the people want to right, and will
do SO as certain as 1880 comes, and Sam
uel J. Tilden is the Democratic candidate
for President of the United States.
His pre-eminent fitness, his greatest ad-
ministrative ability, his purity of char
acter, and his mastery of the science of
government, speak well for him; but
when We add TO these, his sublime and
heroic bearing, during the great perpe-
tration of the great crime which robbed
him OF high office, and the course since
pursued by him towards those who
have vainly sought TO sully his honor,
he shows himself to be what he is, a
great and good man.
In Our opinion he is the only Dem
ocrat who can unlock the Presidential
Office, and lead the Democratic party to
victory in 1880.
The Empire State, where he lives and
is hes, known; and the State at her side,
where the game chickens grow" and
the 'blue hens crow for the ROSTERS"
will never turn their hacks upon him.
And the ''Old Keystone the land OF
the Penns and the Quakers, who hate
wrong and love right viii wheel into
line.
The "Solid South and the Golden
States OF the Pacific, backed up by "a
divided West," viii constitute such an
army OF just men, battling Tor the right,
. viii sweep down al opposition.
Let the Democratic party IN back On
heir old land marks; plant Themselves