The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-23

The Suns estimate is very pleasant
oae for the Democrats TO contemplate,
but certainly its figures are not reliable.
All that is needed to change the complex
ion of the late elections is the usual
Democratic laundering for the next tw o
years, and the usual display OF good
judgment and shrewdness on the part of
the Republicans. If the Republicans
arc so stupid az not TO see the plain
lessons intended TO be taught by Repub-
lican voters, they may fail-and in fact
ought to fail of success in 1884. It was
Republican voters that made the Demo
cratic tidal wave this fall. They have
not gone into the Democratic party to
stay. they wOul have no object in
doing so, because no one can or does
claim, outside of the members NJ the
Democratic party, that Republican vot-
ers can better themselves or the country
by becoming Democrats. The Republi-
cans merely used the Democratic
party for the purpose of reform
ing the abuses that has crept into
their own party They used it because
there was nc other political organiza-
ton at hand through which they could
accomplish their object. If the party
leaders take the hint intended to be con.
veyed all will be right in 1884, and the
party will win a victory as signal and
satisfactory as that of 1880.
| Zone of the causes that led TO the re-
sglt this year was the large number of
! Republicans who stayed at home. II is
| &timatsd that over one million of Re
publican voters refused or neglected TO
go to the polls. Let US examine Tor a
moment the Suns tables. 1t gives
to the Democrats 299 electoral
votes, but 10 do so counts Connecticut,
Indiana, Massachusetts,, Michigan, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These
have 1877 electoral votes, which being
deducted from the Suns Democratic
column leaves it at 1ol, and added to the
Republican column makes the total 264
| None OF these seven states unless it is
Connecticut can be counted Democratic
under circumstances favorable to the
Republicans. Even at the recent cleo
ton Pennsylvania 2did not go Demo
ocraiic, the two Republican parties hav-
ing three or four thousand more votes
than the Democrats. In the twenty.
seven years since the Republican party
came into existence, commencing
with the campaign of 1856
New York has gone Republican
fourteen times and Democratic thir-
teen times. It's Republican majorities
have been as high as $4,000. $4,000 and
1O7, 900. At five of the presidential cleo
tions within that time it has been car
ried by the Republicans, while the Dem.
ocrats have carried it for president but
twice So that it will be seen that the
Democratic presidential guessers need
not count on its electoral vote for 1884
with any degree of certainty. In fact i
is good deal more certain for the Re
publicans than for the Democrats. In
diana is in good deal the same condi
ton as New York, while the Sun might
as well count the minions of Satan
on The side of righteousness as TO count
i. Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and
Pennsylvania on the Democratic side
That sort of figuring is very loose. We
will give them Virginia, but we will
stand an equal chance for California
Nevada and West Virginia.
. All the Republican party needs to d.
is to make a clean record, unite il
ranks in harmony, kick out its bosses
take sides for the people, put up It's bes
and cleauest men for president and vice
president, keep away from the buzz-sawI
while in motion, and it will achieve I
victory in 1884 no less decided and graf
flying than that of 1880.