Show A NEEDED LESSON UNDER the above heading beading the chicago news has the following leader on one of the many disappointed republican candidates for the presidency 96 there is one thoroughly satisfactory t ory outcome of the republican national convention in the signal defeat ot 0 russell A alger the lavish employment of money in his bis canvass and the promise of proportionately larger sums in his campaign if nominated resents presents a spectacle which has saddened bened and disgusted the thoughtful citizens of all classes it is alleged without contradiction that he be his has expended over in his bis efforts to secure the nomination and he be was quoted equally without contradiction as having promised firotto firs tto spend and subsequent ly to increase this amount to if necessary to secure his bis election it is to say that no such sums could be legitimately or honestly used tor for such purpose that only wholesale bribery and corruption could make demands demand of such magnitude upon the private purse of a candidate nor that the candidate who would resort to such means had already proclaimed his bis utter unfitness for any office of trust responsibility or representative character it is already a stigma upon the fair name of the united states senate that so many of its members owe their seats to the lavish use of money but until this candidacy of the michigan Mis higan millionaire lio no ne aspirant to the presidency had ever openly avowed his bis p purpose u and ability to purchase the honor hono r it is a cause for congratulation that this first attempt has so signally failed i THE presidential OUTLOOK As there is now a deep interest in the probable outcome of the approaching political campaIgn the following state ment meat of the relative positions of the various states with reference to the electoral vote will be of interest democratic STATES alabama io 10 arkansas 7 florida 4 georgia 12 kentucky 13 louisiana 8 maryland 8 mississippi 9 missouri 16 north carolina 31 11 south carolina 9 tennessee lo 10 texas 13 virginia 12 west virginia 6 republican STATES california californian aJ colorado AA W illinois k t 22 iowa IS 13 kansas 9 maine 6 massachusetts 14 michigan 13 minnesota 7 nebraska 5 nevada 3 new hampshire 4 ohio 23 oregon 3 pennsylvania 30 rhode island 4 vermont 1 I 4 wisconsin ii 11 18 0 DOUBTFUL STATES connecticut fi delaware 3 indiana 15 new jersey 9 new york 36 69 total electoral vote sure democratic bemo democratic cratic vote additional votes necessary 51 sure republican vote additional votes necessary 18 19 thus it will be seen that lor for demo cratic success the carrying of new york is absolutely necessary as is also a victory in indiana or in both new jersey and fand connecticut it the ite fie publicans public ans yet get new york they win it they carry indiana they still need lour votes As delaware has but three that would leave them one behind but with either connecticut or new jersey in addition to Indi indiana anal they would have a safe majority thus it will be seen that the line of battle is close and victory for either side means hard bard work from this time on the result of the contest is en shrouded even more deeply in doubt than it was after the nominations in june 1881 as there are now new questions regarding the tariff that nave never been fairly submitted to the popular judgment both parties are confident but both realize the magnitude of the struggle they are enget entering ing upon and the political fight that will be carried on from now to november next will doubtless bethe be the most ottly hatly contested that the republic has ever experienced in 1881 all of the states now classed as doubtful ua were carried by the democrats boose who care to note the progress of the coming struggle will find it convenient to cut the foregoing out and paste it in their hats |