Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1888 — The Republican Problem [ARTICLE]

The Republican Problem

Philadelphia Press. The problem before the Republicans of the country in making their presidential nomination is comparatively simple. They are not under the necessity of watphing the whole line, but can concentrate [their attention upon three or four points apd govern themselves accordingly. Assuming that the states will be held, the Republicans can count on 182 sure electoral votes. That leaves out New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. It requires 201 to elect. The Republican problem is to hold the 182 and gain the 19 additional. There are three ways to do it—i Sure Republican States..’ 182 New York. 36 Giving 17 to spare 218 ii Sure Republican States ~... 182 Indiana. 15 New Jersey 9 Giving 5 more than enough 206 m Sure Republican States....... 182 Indiana.., 15 Conncticut 6 Giving a margin of 2 203 Republicans’ attention, therefore, must be contracted upon the four states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana. The Democrats cannot win without New York. The Republicans can win on any one of these three combinations. Their ticket must be framed on these lines, and if framed in a way acceptable to all so much the better. The Republican representatives will keep their eyes on those four States, and will heed their voice and votes.

The Rochester Sentinel devotes two columns of its space to a labored effort attempting to show that Hon. Valentine Zimmerman, the Democratic candidate for Congress, in this district, is a great statesman and superior man, but the effort is as vain as making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Mr. Zimmerman is, doubtless, a good average citizen, according to his light, but he is no more than that, while politically he is the embodiment of the worst forms of Bourbonism and prejudice. He is “not the kind of man” the intelligent voters of the Tenth district will choose as their representative ip Congress. —Logansport Journa 1.