Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-11-16
Totals.......-...........2a3 1877 I56 l$l IA il

totals .-.....--Es8 43f loo I2l Ia II
Leaving out California, then,
which does not elect till next year,
we have majority in the House of
only seven true Democrats, which
may be increased TO twenty-one if
the Independents vote with the
Democratic party. Some of these,
however, were elected in avOwed
hostility to that party.
BY States the vote in the House is
50 near balanced that il is not GER
tain which side would win if the
election of a President should be
thrown into the House. I'm this
event il must be remembered that
the vote is given by States, each
State having a single vote, what
ever the number of its representa-
tiVes.l In this case, leaving out
Indiana, the vote would be exactly
even, eighteen States voting on each
side. Indiana, then, getting the
casting vote, her representatives
stand thus: Republican, 6; Demo-
cratic, G.; Independent, l. This sin
gle Independent representative,
then, as the House at present stands,
would hold the balance and his vote
would elect the President. Before
that time, however, the California
representative will have been rep
resented and their vote will turn
the balance one way or another. At
present the majority of California
representative is Republican.
These numbers, however, do not
by themselves express the gravity
of the situation. When we consult
the barometer, we do not merely
observe where the mercury stands
at the moment, but, giving it a
slight shake, ascertain whether it is
rising or falling, and according to
that we predict fair or stormy
weather. our political barometer is
not only low but falling, and that is
a threatening indication. Moreover,
if analysed the result Of these cleo
tions not only indicate very nearly
a victory for the Republican party,
but they demonstrate an actual
victory of one section of the Repub-
lican party over the other. In New
York Conkling and in Pennsylva-
MIA the Camerons have completely
Frustrated those members Of their
party who were opposed to them,
and the distinguishing political
feature of the section thus predOmi-
nant is persistent and deadly hOstil-
ity to the South. Mr.. Conkling at
the commencement Of his canvass
made the bloody shirt the whole
topic OF his speeches, and it was
only quite at the close of it that he
made hard money speech. With
these men hard money is the cry on
which they are one, but a restOra-
ton of military rule in the South is
the goal at which they aim. At this
time every Republican speech and
editorial bristles with bayOnets.
The independence of the negro vote
Is represented as crushed, and the
bayouets are to set it on its feet
again. We know how Ease all this
is; we know that the negroes here
vote as freely as the white men, but
the Northern people have open ears
for such falSehOOds, and they be-
lieve them, and if the Conklings
and CamerOnS win, the elections
here will (as they were two years
ago. he held under military auspices;
for it is fully established now that
if the Republican party wins tn 1880
the COnklingS and CamerOns will
shape its policy whoever may be
President. Grant or COnkling him
self.
1t is urged on us as impOlitic to
state the WORST Us we nave uOnei
but what we have stated is the exact
truth, and it would be madness to
Withhold it. our people need the
unvarnished statement of these I'M
palatable truths to arouse them from
their slumber of false security; they
need to be confronted with their inn
pending perils in order to arrest
them In the suicidal course which
they are pursuing. The decisions IN
the DsmycrG'jc party must cease, its
unteuabie positions be abandoned or
else it is a fixed position that mill
tary rule in the South, with Grant
to execute it and COnkling to direct
it, will be re-eStabliShed i'm 1880.