Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Can Donglas Carry Illinois! [ARTICLE]

Can Donglas Carry Illinois!

The Democratic papers are jus' now discussing w ith considerable w'crmth this quesj tion. The organs in his inteiest mui.'Uain tha 1 lie can, while the N;itionals (Adminis- ; tr.itioii men) insist that lie eannot. The Times, his', home organ in Chicago, boast that Ire w ould sweep the State w ith thirty thousand majority, hut it did toe same during the last contest. Tin* result, proved that its chieftain was in a pitiable m nor'tv, I wh le his name rallied thirty tli usand more voles in opposition to Democracy than had ; ever been east beloie. Thus much for. the i personal popularity oi Senator I) >ugl s in Klin .is. We do not think the cotfsc o' our SenaI tor since his election has changed m it tors 'much. Indeed, so far as the R ’public ins I are .'concerned, they w.m d rally more t > oppose him than ever, for they .eel that his late triumph was due to an out rug-, ms apportionment. and they are -anxious to try his speed on a. fair course with no odds I against them. Whether I) -uglas is or is ' not the most ili'Q'i table Candidate furtive Democracy is none of our business, we admit, yet when the Times, for the purpose ol aiding the failing fortunes ot its candidate, s betrayed into making the statement that—- " Certainly no Republican in Illinois 'oases ! anv hopes on the alleged weakness of Douglas here. A man who should express in public the opini >n that, with 1) .uglas as a j candidate for the Presidency, a Republican j would stand a better chance for election, on ’ that account, or any chance at all; won d be hooted out of countenance”—we beg leave to say, and we put it on record for w hum it ; may concern, that with any tried Republican j for a candidate, Dougl s would be beaten in his ow n ward—in his own city—in his own j county —and in his own State, in arithmetical progression. This is the opinion of the Republicans of | Illinois-, and this will be the result of their j action, if the Democracy will give them a | chance to prove it.— Chicago Journal.