Year: 1860




to the organization of Wide Awake com
panies. The same motive has prompted
the many appeals we have addressed to our
friends everywhere, and we trust the per-
sistanee il not the ability of our efforts may
convince Republicans that this work is i'm
portant. ~ ~


So far we are satisfied it has received
but an inadequate share of attention. We
know that there arc some counties in which
lists, more or-'less complete, of voters,
their positions, and the means of inhuen-
cling them, have been made, but in the
greater number there has been little done,
so little that it amounts to nothing. As
rule this vital work has been entirely
neglected. In this city and county, where
we are destined to encounter the most stren-
eous resistance, and from party almost as
thoroughly united on local offices as if there
had never been split, there has not been the
first step taken to ascertain Systematically
how many voters we have, or how many
we may have to meet. One would think
that in contest where the victory ncces-
sarily belonged to the greatest number, that
shrewd leaders would try the first thing of
all to find out exactly low strong the for
ces on each side were, but so it does not
strike our Republican friends, or has not
struck them yet. Again, in two counties
we have in our eye Republicans tell us that
we will surely carry them, though they
have been almost uniformly Democratic.
"How do you know?" we have asked our
hopeful friends. "Why Dave Thompson,
and George Johnson, and ever so many
more Democrats, swear they have voted
their last Democratic ticket" Every
good" we say. "that is right as far as it
goes, but do you know of enough to break
down that 100 and odd Majority" "No,
we don't" '.T'hen you don't know how
your county will 60" SO it is in many
more counties than the two alluded to-
Republicans are confident, and promise the
most glorious of victories, but they havn't
got solitary figure to show for it. Now
this won't do. We have been mixed up
in politics too long to trust anybody's guess
before plain, correct, full list of voters.-
We want no guessing when we can have
the fact as fixed and absolute as arithme-
tic can make it. Let us have a canvass oi
every school district by some reliable man
living il or near it, the name, residence.
and position of every voter, and we will
insure a success Of our whole ticket State
and national, for the price Of the powder
to fire over the result. We, very proba.
bly, will succeed anyhow, ut let us make
srre With proper effort. in three weeks
from the fist of August. the State Central
ICommitte can have ia their hand an almost
absolute certainty Of the result in October
Is not that knowledge woith the effort to
get it, especially as the getting it gives us
what we can never get otherwise, the pla
ccs we need to work in, and the men we
need to work upon, to secure victory if it
be doubtful? 1t will not do to trust to The
dissensions of our opponents. No wist
man trusts his success to chance, if he ha:
the power to make it certian. We mus
fight our own battles. II our opponents
fight each other. let them. 1t will make
our victory the easier. But if we leave al
the fighting to them, we may find that be-
fore the battle is over they are fighting us


instead OF each other, and we shall then b,
in happy situation. The only safe cours,


is to call the roll of our own army, find on
how many we are sure we can trust, how
many we may have to meet, and where arr
, the weakest points in both lines. Ii W,
are ready for the contest. we shall los,
nothing by being happily saved the trouble
OF meeting it. by the dissensions Of our op
ponents. If we are not ready. we mal
only find it out when it is too late.