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Show THE CENTENNIAL ELECTION. j Presidential tables for next year arc! now in order. Our recent eslimato gave the democraU 202, and tho republicans re-publicans 101 electoral votes. Tho Philadelphia Times makes a lie, giv-'ing giv-'ing each p;rty 1S3 votes, with Colo-! rado as doubtful. The New York JL-.rald enumerates nineteen states, I witli ISS electoral vules as likely to go for tho democratic nominee-. This would give the democrats a majority of seven. The Alia CaUJurmu, bow-ever, bow-ever, claims Indiana and California, which would give the republican candidates a majority of thirty-five votes. The Chicago Inlcr-Ocean is inclined to bo still more liberal with tho republicans and piles up for them 220 electoral votes, including Arkansas, Ar-kansas, North Carolina, Oregon, California, Cali-fornia, Connecticut, Louisiana and Mir-si-sippi, two of which are now recorded on tho list of democratic states. Hut these calculations are not worth a rush. The remarkable changes in the election current during dur-ing the past three years shows that r.rti;i;.ii n-u-iir-a havn uat vet settled down upon a permanent basis, and that the pa?t cannot be depended upon as a criterion for tho future. Tho present yoar will closo with the political chances apparently even between be-tween the two parties, But with a united front and moderate good luck the chances will be regarded as largely large-ly favorable to the opposition, as there is a general deiro felt among the people for a change of administration. adminis-tration. The demand for a new deal in politics will also control a great many votes, while the nomination of another man than Grant would largely demoralize- the a'Jminiitration forces and neutralise the immense effective army of trained and paid officeholders, upon whom the present incumbent could depend for faithful! work. With these influences working work-ing in favor of the third term candidate, candi-date, it will be considered a dangerous danger-ous and threatening idea until the nomination of a new man shall put it beyond the power of the administration administra-tion people to bring it about. |