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Show CAMPAIGN NOTES. The New York Sun Bays that the poetBryant will vole for Tilden. Smith Ely says : It will be a hard fight in New York state as hard as the Clay and Polk fight in 1841, when Polk got 5,000 majority. Got. Hendricks says that it will require re-quire hard work, and plenty ef it, for the democrats to succeed at the Indiana state election. New York Sun letter: "Will the democrats carry Indiana?" I asked. "I reckon they will. They're running run-ning an old cabbage leaf inflationist, named Williams, who thinks he looks like old Abe Lincoln." Mr. Tilden has already organized the entire state of New York by school districts. He believos in documents. docu-ments. Two years ago his bill for postage on political documents was $5,000. The betting on the election at Saratoga Sar-atoga has been about even. A Penn-sylvanian Penn-sylvanian who won $17,000 from John Morriaspy on Grant's election offers to bet $20,000 on Hayes and Wheeler. A writer in the St. Louis Republican Repub-lican has an ingenious way of proving the election of Tilden aed Hendiicka. He calls the candidates 3. Tilden and T. Hendricks and R. Hayes and W. Wheeler. Taking the order in which the various letters composing those names stand in the alphabet, just as 3 was found to be the nineteenth, nine-teenth, and adding them together, it will be found that the aggregate is 8tl9, exactly the number of votes in the next electoral college, of which the names of S. Tilden aad T. Hendricks Hend-ricks make up 194, a clear majority of the electoral vote. The following tabular exhibit will make the point plain : S. T 1 L D E N. 1-J--0 -0-1 '2-4-5-14 Hi T UENDR 1C K.S. 2V-S-5 -U--4-1S-9-3-I1-19 Ill 191 R. HAY A S. 1S-Si'ji--5 -19 7C W. W H K E L K K. 23 23-8 -05 15 lb irr. Totsl electoral vote 3GU |
