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Show ABOUT ELECTIONS. South Carolina will hold aa election to-murrow, beiiR the last State election before the vote for President is taken. South Carolina bciug the most Republican Repub-lican of the Southern States, except Mississippi, will go strongly for Grant, at.d its majority for the administration party may run anywhere (Yon) twenty to thirty thousand. The telegraph furnished very partial and very partisan facts concerning the elections of last week, giving thoso id detail which indicated Republican victories, vic-tories, but suppressing those which favored fa-vored the Liberal party. As this was onl) what was cxp-'ctcd, and in accord with the oourso of the Associated Press and the "Western Union" eince the commencement of tho campaign, we proposed to wait un'.il our eastern exchanges, ex-changes, representing all shades of politics, should co mo to hand, from which facts bearing on all sides could be gleaned. By these wo learn some things worth knowing. Fust, the comparative strength of the "straight out" Democrats and "Liberal" Repub licans is being tested. In the Connecticut Connec-ticut town elactions, towns which have always been Democratic before have gone Republican, showing the influence influ-ence of tho '' straight outs," and twons" that have always been Ru-. Ru-. publican before havo gone Democratic, De-mocratic, tho " Liberal" element preponderating pre-ponderating Tho change has been decidedly in favor of the Liberals, although al-though tho telegraph gave a very different dif-ferent showing; and the indications are that Connecticut will go for Greeley Gree-ley by a handsome majority. The Presidential fight is still beiDg ' waged in the doubtful States with the bitterness of desperation, each side ro-eorting ro-eorting to every means available to secure se-cure success. In this the administration administra-tion party has the decided advantage, in possessing money, a completely drilled organization, agents as un Borupulons as the other side dare boast of, and a host of office-holders working for bread and butter and retention in office as for dear life. The New York " Sun" gives tho following relative to Pennsylvania, on the morning of the day ou which that State eleotion occurred, oc-curred, which wo quote as a specimen way of doing a successful election business busi-ness : " Three separate gaos of repeaters havo gone from this city to Philadelphia Philadel-phia to vote in ttie election. In one of these gangs there aro eighty-seven men; the others are muuh larger. There are several United States election elec-tion marshals among them. They expect ex-pect to vote as maoy as thirty times each. They have free p-u-sago boih ways, and all their expenses paid; and they receive Iron $10 to $60 apiece for their services." Not being well versed in eleci'on frauds we certainly should hesitate to believe this, if it were not sustained by the most exact and circumstantial details, de-tails, names, their offices in New York, and other data being furnished with an exactness which ohallonges doubt. From the tone of our exchanges the bat tie is not ended, and although Grant's prospects aro now the brightest, bright-est, he will not win without a bitter struggle, if ho win at all. |