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Show I PRESIDENTIAL STRAWS. I Popular vole of 1S72: Grant 3,597,- 070: Greely, 2,834,079; majority 752,-j 752,-j 097. Electoral vote: Grant 300; Greely GO. Grcely's vote exceeded Horatio Seymour's in 1S0S by over 100.000, and the electoral vote in 1S0S stood. Grant 214; Seymour, SO. "Huzen Wheeler!" exclaimed an ealhusiastic republican, on hearing the news of the Cincinnati nomination. nomina-tion. "Just as I predicted. We , couldn't have named a better man." In three contests made by him in' Oiiio, Hayes never approached the I republican parly majority. In 1S67 he narrowly escaped defeat by Thur-man Thur-man by less than three thousand; in 1SG0, when there was no adverse political tide, be received but some seven thousaud over Pendleton not one-third the majority the party I could and should have given; and in 18, 3 he escaped with but live thou-1 sand over Allen, when on tho vote actually polled there was thirty thousand republican majority. Philadelphia Times. |