The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-11-23

Congress will not meet until December,
1879, and by that time the Presidential
field for 1880 can be intelligently calcnla-
ted by both parties. The issues will be
made up, and the probability Of third
party throwing the election into the House
will be within range of accurate Judgment
If such a result shall be probable, the
Democratic House will arm and equip it.
self for the contingency according to Re
publican precedents. The Republican
Congressman from Nevada, with the Pres
idential vote Of State equal to New York
in his pocket, might be surprised to dis
cover that he hadn't been honestly elected,
and California would be likely to need
some revision of the certificates of her
members, unless the Democrats should
happen to have a majority regularly re-
turned To ali protests from the Repub-
lican Congressman and organs the answer
would be that Democratic Louisiana and
Florida of 1876 had been averaged by
Republican California and Nevada in 1879.
Il would be a revolutionary assault upon
everything that is sacred in free govern
ment, but those who revOlutionized the
solemn judgment of the nation and seized
the whole power OF the government byfraud,
would be unheeded in their complaints.
The study Of the electoral vote as pre-
scented by the elections this year, is an in
teresting one in view of the probable issues
of 1880. Assuming that the general Re
publican tide of 1873 shall be repeated in
1880, and allowing California to be added
to the Republican column, the electoral
vote would divide as follows Republican,
2l3; Democratic, 156. all that is neces-
sary to change the electoral majority from
the Republican TO the Democratic side
will be the change of New York, with its
30 electoral votes Transferring New
York TO the Democratic side, the electoral
vote would foot up-Democratic, 19l; Re-
publican, 178, giving the Democrats q
majority of 10, with Democratic Senate
and House to euro all defects in the count
And when it is considered that New York
gave but $4,000 Democratic majority this
year out of probably 100000 votes, and
that Tilden and Tammany were locked in
deadly factions war that neither will
venture to repeat, the transfer of New
York to the Democratic side in 1880 will
be an easy task with New York city as an
illimitable factory for manufacturing Dem
Ocratic majorities and the fate of Presi-
dental contest depending upon the vote of
the State.
Organs andpolitical leaders mayspeculate
on the chances of the popular vote of 1880
and upon the Democratic majority of the
next House; but the practical solution of
the problems is to be determined by the
relative might of parties. If sectional
issue shall be adopted by the Republicans
as their most available battle cry for 1880,
and an enforced solid South shall be made
to invoke solid North, renewal of sec
tional strife, a new era of business paraly-
sis, and either an honest or a revolutionary
Democratic victory will be the inevitable
results. There will be no peace, no pros
perity, no safety, no majesty of law, no re-
verence for justice, until the people of all
sections and of all parties shall make fraud
and wanton sectional strife objectionable
crimes against the Republic. PhiIadeE-
phia Times,