Show THE PARTIES IS IN WAR THIS A republican friend of dr tanner although surprised at the difference between actual figures and tanners Fan ners statement declared d t that bat i he never knew that lincoln was 1 elected on a minority vote lie ile lias has been u under rider the impression that I 1 I 1 lincoln received more votes than were cast for the democratic nominees it is nevertheless a fact that although I 1 lincoln the republican candidate was elected Preg president ident yet ast be had a minority of one million on popular vote as mr elaine blaine puts it in his twenty years in congress douglas and lincoln were both voted for in the I 1 north chile hall and breckinridge were voted for in the south mr blaine says further in his great book it vaa mas the first time in the batory history of the government in wanli hill the president was vias chosen without cl electoral etoral totes notes froin both the free anil states slates ahie ahl result was wag undoubtedly a courte of me weakness akness to mr lincoln a tto ea akness kness made more an apparent parent by his signal failure to obtain a popular majority the fact that a republican president was elected in 1860 is no proof stall at all that there eie no democrats in the loyal states at that time here are some further figures taken from the new york tribune statistics of four loyal oval union states showing the party vote in 1860 and the num number berof of white soldiers furnished the union army by each state troops rep dem vote vote kentucky as 1364 Mar maryland vIona 28 missouri totals those figures from a republican authority contrail contradict act the statements of republican stump speakers it must be plain that if every republican voter in these four states had en hated ted there must lave have been nine democrats to every one republican in these regiments regimen tb As 18 the democratic vote of these four states in 1862 fell from to dua and the alie republican vote increased over 1800 1860 a republican voter of 1860 must have been a gi eat curiosity among these union soldiers nor will iny any one say eay that the democrats of thole border states were any more loyal loval to the he union than tan the damoci democrats ats of new york rk new w jersey pennsylvania ohio indiana and illinois it brust must also be remembered that a great many of the votes cast for tle ill an tj ti 1 11 1 1 avi casaby cast by abolition preachers and quakers who could coula not be made go to war while thousands of republicans afterwards took moral federal office oll ice under tinder lincon lincoln and neer acner smelled led pots ponder der at al all 1 during the war in many northern rn states males it was all a mans mar 6 life was worth to vote the democratic ticket handled of soldiers came hone home from the war with the grievance that they had been refused the privilege of voting because they were democrats ala many ny beave nien men who bear Louo honorable rable sears scars badges of their loyalty v and braver bravely y have declared that they hey ecie not dot a allowed to vote a democratic ticket although their republican comrades voted at every election nor did this military interfere int erfer ence with elections stop slop while the were in the field under tinder military discipline it follo Nied them to their homes at the close of the war and defeated mcclellan in islat but the people murmured and congress in alarm passed it a reform measure in march 1865 restraining officers of the array army a and rid navy from interfering with elections in the states ld and on the day of march 1865 the boston courier contained the following editorial had the act been Pise passed edat at at ai earlier date so that direct and indirect military interference with elections last year had been cunderi un denood cod by tile the people to he be illegal and to tire the offenders to punishment there can scarcely be a doubt thai siar land ali missouri ourt allino indiana pennsylvania 1 ania and new yo york have cast then their votes lor IT mcclel la ian these with aith the otta thron n in b kentucky new jersey and delmare delaa re vi vituld have sec sectored Fernr tired ted a democratic emo cratic ilia jolita IA A sentiment in ili every independent organ or ol the north orth concus red I 1 I 1 |