Year: 1868

Mr. George Wilkes has published
his views of the Philosophy of the
Campaign" in which he expresses
the opinion that the victory of Gen.
Grant will be SO signal that it may
be likened to march rather than
contest, and will hardly wear the
look of an election at all. sWe
also believe he says, ''that Grant
will carry the state of New Y ork,
and that John A. Griswold, who is
now nominated on the Grant ticket
for it's Governor, will defeat any
candidate who may be set up against
him."


AS the democratic vote last year
was three hundred. and seventy
three thousand, which is more than
three thousand above the highest
Republican vote ever cast in this
state; and as the highest vote of
both parties is cast when there is
a Presidential election, we are not
so confident of large majority
But the democratic vote in this city
last year included several thousand
residents of other states brought
hither to determine whether O. Brien
or Connolly should be sheriff; the
German Republican Central Com
mittee took no part in the election
or aided the democrats, on account
Of disaffection created by the Ex-
else law: and there were Republi-
cans who voted the democratic tick
ct, just to administer a rebuke to
their political associates.


This fall the Pennsylvania votes
will be wanted at home; and the
disappointed Republicans will vote
for Grant and Griswold. Besides,
there are many changes in the state
for Grant and against Seymour,
but we hear of none the ether way:
The Republicans Of this city have
not been more united in feeling for
ten years. Mr.. Griswold is strong
and unexceptionable candidate, and
is generally worth several thousand
votes on his personal popularity. -
These considerations give US strong
hope of his election by handsome
majority. be-


If Pennsylvania gives as full a
vote as she did in 1866, and the
states of Ohio and Indiana come in
well at the October elections, there
will be little motive for the demo
Gratis Of this state to work, as the
utmost to be accomplished would
be to place its destinies at the feet
of Tammany Hall. ..


The best judges predict q majori-
ty of twenty thousand in Indiana
for Governor Baker, and a much
larger one in Pennsylvania for New
York.


Letters from the Pacific coast
promise the electoral vote of Ore
gon and California for Grant and
Colfax. We have never doubted
that fraudulent voting defeated the
state ticket in June, as there was an
increased vote principally in the
counties and towns next to the ter
ritory Of Idaho. California was
lost last year by divisions in the Re
publican party, which have been ad-
justed, and the Republicans prom
ise to Grant a majority of twenty
five thousand.


In Louisiana it is said that the
majority will be 10000. tits hard
ly the way to carry the state to ''do
tall boasting," and we shall leave it
to our political adversaries.


But the outlook is infinitely more
promising than it was this time in
1864. 1t did seem then as if Mr.
Lincoln could be defeated if the
democrats would nominate a man
for that purpose; but madness ruled
their counsels, and they received
but the Insignificant vote of three
states. A similar infatuation has
adhered to them in 1868, and they
are only sure Of three states now
The rest is all Dragging. The Re
publicans can carry New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and
Oregon, if they will.