Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-24
FIGURES AND FACTS.
Official Sources Furnish Some In
tsresting Data.
PRoPHEcYIs UNPRoFITABLE.
New York a "Turn About" State as Shown
by the RecOrds---lt is Also
Pivotal.
FROM 1856 DOWN TO 1880.

NEw YoRK, September 23.-The Herald
prints the following exhaustive and inter
esting resume Of the situation in the Empire
State as viewed from past election statistics
There are two classes of voters this year
those who are continent that New York
State will cast her vote for Cleveland and
those who are certain that Blaine will prove
the fayorite. So thoroughly based are these
prophets in their convictions that heavy bets
are made daily and large sums of money
viii be idle in the hands of stskeholdes un-
til the issue of the campaign in November
next. In view Of the extraordinary vacilla-
ton Of the vote of the State; in view Of its
see-saw character since 1856, this unwav-
ering faith appears odd and is certainly one
of the queer developments Of the time. An
appeal to the official record may enhghten
the general mind and enable the oyerzeaE
Gus predictors on either side to go slow
until the autumn leaves begin to fall, by
which time there may be an impetus one
way or the other OF which it will be safer to
rely.
A Few Facts.
1t is said that figures cannot lie. How
ever that may be, it is certain facts cannot
be changed. Herewith we present facts
and figures combined, and very strange
kaleidoscope they furnish.
The Republican party came forward as
candidate for popular favor in 1856. There
were three parties and three candidates,
and after bitter and exciting fight New
York indicated her Republican preference,
the entire vote being as follows -
Vote
Fremont, 2I6OOI
Buchanan, Democrat .-.: .................. l9oSIS
Fillmore, Native LZioV4
This was considered tremendous victory
and did much to push the new Republican
party to the van. During the term OF MIR.
Buchanan the bitter feeling long existing
between the North and the South grew in
intensity and developed into absolute anita
gonism until the summer of 1860 and the
furious campaign of the fall of that year.
There were four Presidential nomination
in lS6O-Lincoln, Douglass, Beckinridge
and Bell-representing the Republican,
loyal Democratic, secession Democratic and
the contest was one Of the most bitter aud
personal ever known. In New York there
was a large element known as copperheads
chiefly merchants who did business with the
South. This element was largely represent
ed in New York city, many of whose first
citizens were more rabid in their criticism
of the abolitionists, as they called they
called the Republicans, than the Southern
ers themselves. There are many curious
features in the vote of that significant year,
one of which was that neither Breckenridge
nor Bell made much of a showing, while the
State went Republican, thevOte cast being
Vote
Lincoln Repubh,an..- 635io
Douglass Democrat 5lZ9IU
Although in both these elections New
York State went Republican, that Of 1856
resulted in the choice of Democrat (Bu-
ehsnan) in the whole country by plurality
of nearly 500, 900 votes, and that of 1860.
in the choice Of Republican ( (Lincoln) by
a plurality Of a little more than 100000
votes.