Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-07-13


siississippi,; .........s ooo
Total. ..s.....,...- ......,.....''...''1oo
The Republican arithmetician who
collocated the several States in this
mysterious but still, to him, highly sat.
isfactcry manner, has really beenmodest,
In that he only "fggers" out majority
Of one for tho Republican Presidential
candidate. There is only one drawback
to the foregoing table, and that is that,
while all the States which appear in the
Democratic roster, unless tho Democrats
fall to fighting amongst themselves, are
certain to go for the nominee OF the
Democratic party. there are quite a
number OF most material States, that
have been coolly placed in the Republi-
can list, (which are almost certain to go
Democratic likewise.
Pre.ominently first in this list is New
York. The sanguine individual who
compiled those "fggers" seems to have
forgotten all about the election held in
the Empire State last year, in which the
Democratic candidate received the
triaing plurality of one hundred and
ninety.four thousand votes. To an or
binary cypherer this would be obstrue'
tive OF such tables as that upon which
we are commenting. The casual and
ungifted arithmetician would like to be-
gin on from fifty to one hundred thou
sand Democratic plurality. Butthere is
nothing mean Or groveling about this
expansive. minded knight Of the black
board. Like persons endowed with the
apostolical power of working miracles
he delights in moving mountains, and
little knoll compounded of l94,oOe
voters does not trouble him for an
instant. But, IL he should be wrong,
and New York should give, say, twenty
FIVE or thirty thousand Democratic
plurality, the proposition would stand
thus:
Republican Electoral Vote las per sampled sol
Democratic Electoral Vote ditto .2ot
Republican Electoral Vote with New York "a,
Democratic Electoral Vote with New York -.
Dcmocratic). .......-....'''-..'''' ''N''
In other words, the simple transposl
ton of the vote of the great State Of
New York into the Democratic column,
where II belongs, changes this Republi
can majority of one to a Democratic
majority of soventy-onc in the Eleetora
Colleges.
But that is by no means all. II the
incoming Democratic House Of Repre-
sentatives pursues sagacious course
II, as far as II can, it leans to economy
In the public expenditures; ii, in addl
ton, II shows q disposition to protect
American industries, the Democratic
party can safely rely upon carrying al
the States which have been placed IL
the Democratic column and upon several
others, besides New York, which have
been assigned to the Republicans, nota'
bly, upon Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin and New Hampshire. The
changes made obligatory in the table by
these possibilities are so radical and de
biltating to the Republicans that We
decline to pursue them to details. l
sutfices to say that they would swell tn,
Democratic vote in the Electoral Colleges
to over three hundred, and diminish
that of the Republican party TO less thar
hundred, with the result OF Demo
cratic electoral majority of over two
hundrod.
1t is said "fggers" never lie. II
truth, they are the easiest medium o
lying ever discovered on earth. We hav'
lust about as much confidence in oul
own laboriously worked out vaticina
tons as we have in those of the pundi
whose work we have been criticizing
As to one thing, however, we are with
out reserve, aud that is that it will puz
zle any sensible Republican to make on
any exhibit by which his party, in tn
opinion OF intelligent men, can win il
the next Presidential election.
There are several things, however
which ought not to be overlooked il
gauging the chances of the two parties
in the coming great national struggle
and they are that the Republican party j
divided into two great hostile camps
composed OF stalwarts and hali-breeds
and that there is amongst the people I
widespread desire for a change. Thu
average voter has at last reached thu
conclusion that the national ledger
ought to be inspected by a new set o
book-keepers. There remains still an
other most potent element of defeat TO
the Republican party, md it lies in thu
wholesale detection of the German vote
1t may be all very well to pooh-pool
this phase of our current politics, bu
the truth Is that its effects will be far
reaching and almost conclusive of tn
result. 1t was the loyal adherence o
the Germans to the Republican part,
that gave it its original ascendancy
That loyalty has been surrendered TO
cause, and the results cannot fail to b
momentous Of disaster to that organiz'
ton.
CHARLES CROKER, the President
the Southern Pacific Railway, has pu
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