The Lincoln County Herald

One of our Democratic contemporaries intimates that the defection from Grant in the Republican party is getting to be so large in proportions, that there ought to be no difficulty in electing straight out Democratic candidates for president and vice president. The same paper has been unfavorable to the passive policy heretofore, on the ground that there was no evidence of any schism among the Republicans. And there would not have been, had not the evidence been satisfactory that the Democrats would make no nomination. Let the Democratic party now, (after having encouraged the Liberals to become insurgent), take the field themselves, and how many more Liberals are likely to join the Democrats than to go back to the regular party?—Republican.