The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-09-30
The next Presidential Election.

I1e next PRESIDENTIAL El5CCl0n.
In 1876 it required 1876 electoral
votes to elect President Hayes. 1t
was only the nineteen votes from
Florida, Louisiana, and South Caro-
lima that saved US, for Tilden had
gobbled New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut, and Indiana, with their
siXty-iYe votes in addition to his
nearly solid Southern vote of 1l9.
In 1880 it required 1875 electoral
votes to elect President Gai field. The
North had been aroused to the immi-
nent danger of Southern domination,
presented by a solid South. The
Northern States gave him 214 elec
toral votes. The Southern States
were solidly for Hancock, giving him
13S votes, and the Northern States of
California, Nevada, and New jersey
gave him seventeen more, making
155 all told.
In 1884 the electoral vote, instead
of 1863, of which 1856 was a majority,
will be 401, of which POI will be
majority, unless one or more of the
Territories be admitted to Statehood.
The Democrats, who are already
forecasting and shaping things for
the great fight of 1SS4-When the
South will win all or lose heart for
further Bourbon effort-fnding that
in 1876 some of them, and in 1880
others of them, went Democratic,
put. down rs among the doubtful
States: California, votes; Con-
necticut, 6; Indiana, Is; Nevada, 3;
New Jersey, 8; and New York, So
or II votes as doubtful. They con-
cede that the Republican candidate
for President will get III Northern
electoral votes, and feel certain, with
all the certainty of shot-guns and
bulldozing, and tissue-baIots, of the
1913 ELECTORAL votes of a Solid South,
If this calculation be justified by the
event, the Southern Bourbons will
require but 4S Northern electoral
votes to succeed in grasping supreme
power in the Nation. Only As out
II which they claim as doubtful.
Now, take the votes of these States
which they term doubtful, )" and ex-
anime them. California has S. votes.
Nevada 3, Connecticut 6, New York
36, New Jersey 9, and Indiana Is.
With New York and Indiana thew
would have 81 votes to add to their
solid Southern vote of 153-more
than enough to settle the business.
Or they could dispense with New
York, if they could be sure of
the Al votes of California, Nevada.
Connecticut, New Jersey, and In
diana. These are the only aspects in
which Indiana is pivotal. New
York, however, with any one of the
States of California, New Jersey, In
diana, or Connecticut, would be de.
cisive with "Solid South" and even
with Nevada, or by itself alone,
would furnish tremendous tempta.
ton to a Democratic House to throw
out and refuse to count, on some
trumped up pretext or pretended in
formality, the vote or votes of some
Republican State or States, so as TO
enable them to seize the Presidency.
These are the calculations which
are agitating the minds of Northern
and Southern Democratic leaders al
ready. 1t is this view of the future
that prompts Hendricks to intimate
that the sold ticket" of "Tilden and
Hendricks" or Hendricks and some
other man like Randolph, of New
Jersey, for instance), would win the
next Presidential fight. 1t is more
especially the last view that engross-
es the minds the Bourbon leaders of
the solid South. They propose to
spare no effort, not alone to keep the