Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-23
ANTICIPATING RESULTS.


Sporting circles are often the most correct
indicators of the way the wind is blowing.
| Gamblers are always ready to risk money on
anything in the future about which there is
the slightest uncertainty, and it is observable
that they generally provide against any
| emergencies that may arise. If one wishes
to obtain correct idea of how a political
contest is going, he has bat to mingle with
the men who make their living by their wits,
and to note the odds they give in favor of this
or that candidate. They are seldom very
far astray. The betting on the coming
Presidential election has already commenced,
and in some sporting circles in the East has
become decidedly lively. It is stated in the
exchanges that large odds are given on the
election Of Hancock, and that takers are to
be had only on condition that the terms of
the wager shall specify that he will be
inaugurated as well as elected.
This indicates more than appears on the
surface. 1t shows that, although the cam
paign has hardly begun, the Republican
managers are already casting about them to
find some pretext under which the choice of
the people ct the ballot-box may be de-
feated. They are determined that Gen.
Hancock shall not take his seat as President
of the United States if any means can be
devised to prevent it. They have faint
hope that he will be defeated at the polls.
Failing in this they will endeavor to count
him out. They have the machinery of the
elections nnder their control in nearly every
Northern State, and propose to make the
best possible use of their power. In New
York they expect to be able to render the
votes of thirty thousand citizens void; in New
Jersey and Connecticut they calculate that
they can disfranchise enough Democrats to
change the current of popular sentiment.
while 10 Pennsylvania and other of the
doubtful States they will carry matters with
a high hand.
Those in charge CT the fortunes of the
Democratic party should be forewarned by
those outgivings, and prepare to Illustrate
the dark designs of these plotters against
republican government. They should place
every possible guard against fraud around
the ballot-bozes, and take every precaution
to secure en- honest count of the vote cast.
They should provide for every emergency
every chance of defeating the will of the
people, either by fraud or force. There
must be an honest election in November
and an honest count of votes, and whoever
shall be elected must and shall re inauru-
rated, whatever the cost may be. The Re.
publican party stole the Presidency once; it
will never be permitted to do SO
again. by means of the most
unblushing frauds majority of
moro than quarter of a million of
the citizens OF the country were defrauded
of their choice of chief magistrate. The
indignity was almost past endurance, but |
sooner than embroil the country in civil
war, the Democrats submitted. confident |
that in 1880 the people would redress the |
wrong done in 1876. 5e
OF one thing the Republicans who are
now plotting treason may be assured. Gen.
Hancock will be elected President in Noyem- I
Der next, and he will be inaugurated in
March despite the Vaccinations and plot
tings of his adyersaries.