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f - i 12 The Commoner. VOLDMB 12, NUMBEE St ,- a$ ft THREE IMPORTANT FEATURES IN THE 1912 CAMPAIGN ii Students of politics are Interested In the number of women voters, the number of negro voters and the number of voters in general. A statement issued In Washington shows that thero are six states, Cali fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wash ington and Wyoming in which wo men havo the right to vote in all elections. The whole number of women In these six states taken to gether who were of voting ago in 1910 was 1,346,925, of whom 654, 784, or 48.6 per cent were native whites of native parentage; 333, 925, or 24.7 por cent, native whites of foreign or mixed parentage; 327,682, or 24.3 per cent, foreign born whites; 13,488, or 1 per cent, negroes; and 17,046, or 1.3 per cent, "all other," that is, Indians, Chinese, Japanese and other Asiatics. The Number of Voters New York World: The estimate of the census bureau of the number of voters that will take part in the November election is misleading. It puts the new male voters at 3,650, 000, making a total of 24,335,000 male voters in the United States. To this it adds 1,347,000 female voters in six western states where women have tho suffrage. In the last twenty years the in crease in the number of actual'voters in presidential elections has been much less rapid than the growth in population. The figures of the total vote in tho last five presidential years run as follows: 1892, 12,059, 410; 1896, 13,923,102; 1900, 13, 961,566; 1904, 13,528,979; 1908, 14,888,442. The population of the United States, including he terri tories, according to the census, was 62,947,714 in 1890, 75,994,714 in 1900 and 91,972,266 in 1910. While the total population be tween 1900 and 1910 increased 15,- ANYBODY Cm LAY IT. 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"AN AMERICAN COMMONER" 1 " ' ll1"""" mi -i mil ii i . minium pin, mhii li mi 11 I "Tho Life and Times of Richard Parka Bland" is a study of the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, as i,t explains tho first ten years of tha Twentieth Qentury. If you wish to understand the United States this year, read this booi... It was written from tho papers of Richard Parks Blind, wth Personal Reminiscences by Mrs. BJand and with an Introduction by William- Jennings Bryan. The Editor, William yTncent Bvm jneludd in it as an appendix, tha great speeches in which Mr. Bland outlined, the course of events. The 400 pages of the work show that as tho champfon of American Democracy, Mr. Bland's knowledge is now more essential tha that el any one else for understanding WHAT IT IS MOST ESSENTIAL TO KNOW ABOUT THE PRESENT The work- is sold exclusively for the benefit of Mr. Bland's Widow Mrs. Virginia H. Bland,, of Lebanon, Missouri. PJttCB IN OLOTH,Aft Kv ILLUSTBATISD, $ & t U Address MRS. R, BLAND, Lebanex, Missouri IHE PAXTON RALPH KITCHEN, Manager AMERICAN PLAN $2.50 PER DAY AND UPWARDS EUROPEAN PLAN $1.00 PER DAY AND UPWARDS Fourteenth and Farnam Streets, OMAHA, NEB. Council Bluffs and South Omaha Car Lines Pass the Door 977691, or 21 per cent, tho number of actual voters from 1900 to 1908 increased only 1,359,463, or less than 10 por cent in eight years. In 1890 more than one person voted for president to every five of popu lation; in 1908 less than one per son voted for every six of popula tion, although the total vote waa 900,000 larger than in any previous presidential election. The census bureau apparently has counted all persons of voting age, without regard to other considera tions. Allowance must first be made for aliens and then others who are disqualified from voting for vari ous reasons. Of the remainder a considerable proportion will fail to register, and in November a large number of registered voters always neglect to cast their ballot. Even with the admission of the two new states of Arizona and New Mexico, the appearance of women for the first time as voters in Cali fornia and Washington, and the ad vent of an army of first voters, a total vote of 16,000,000 for presi dent in 1912 would be very large in the light of past records. Strength of Negro Vote Washington Correspondent New York Times: The race issue, as raised by Colonel Roosevelt, has directed the attention of politicians hero to its importance in the coming campaign. Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the navy department, has tabu lated the negro vote in the states in which the race is not disfranchised, and finds that it numbers 710,103. In 12 of these states the negro vote exceeds the margin separating the republican and democratic votes either in 1908 or in the subsequent state campaigns. Eleven of these states are no part, of the solid south. It comes as a surprise to learn that Pennsylvania had a negro vote b'g enough in 1910 to turn over the state. The vote there was 55,400, while the republican plurality was only 33,484. In New York the negro vote of 48,820 was two thirds of Governor Dix plurality of 67,401. In Ohio, the negro vote of 37,521 was more than half of the president's plurality four years ago, and about a third of Governor Harmon's demo cratic margin two years later. Even in Illinois the negro vote was more than half of the republican margin of 60,438 in 1910. The following is a table of 15 states without disfranchising laws in which the negro vote in the past four years has either exceeded or ap proached the margin between the two groat parties. The first column of figures gives the pluralities in 1908, and the next column those of the state elections in 1910 and 1911. The letters "D" or "R" before the figures indicate the democrats or re publicans as victors. The last column gives Mr. Tyler's count of the negro vote: PIVlty PIVlty Negro In In 19m vt State P'ty 1908 P'tyorlDll St'gtfi Ark D 30,000 88,578 Conn R 112,915 D 3,890 4 335 Colo g 2,944 D 17,979 3 272 Do R 2,943 R 679 8 903 ind R 10,713 D 12,367 171234 Kan R 37.007 R 16 1G7 1572 y D 8,381 D 31,335 52 331 Md R 005 R 2 997 4C 450 Mass R 110,443 D 8,102 lo!872 Mo R G29 R 15.879 sn'Snn Neb r....D 4,102 2 197 Nov D 437 ... '331 n. m r 388 ...::: n Penn R 292,001 R 33,484 55,405 Tonn D 17,280 ...... dZiil f"!!?61111 of nomination than with it . r.BlTn' nd n opportunity to teat big theory at Baltimore. Do. featod in the first stages of the con. ventlon for the temporary chairman ship, he seemed to lie at a discount But he rallied the country to his aid and swept the deckB of tho bosses in the later struggles. The success of Mr. Bryan at Balti more sprang from .those telegrams which he and others received on tho day following his defeat by Parker. The telegrams were tho evidence of Mr Bryan's present widespread in fluence. They were sent to him as to one who had the courage of hi8 convictions. This power which Mr. .Bryan now wields has come to him largely since ho declared he would not again be a candidate for president. The people took him at his word, and almost im mediately set him-on a pedestal of non-partisan guardianship of the principles of pure politics. It is a brilliant position for any man to hold in this country. It is somewhat analogous to the position of an ex-president. It is the position which Colonel Roosevelt had and which his best friends wanted him to keep. Bryan, thrice defeated, but always rising from political defeat to moral victory, has it. He can keep it only as he remains sincerely de voted to his country's highest in terests without suspicion of self seeking. Minneapolis Journal. Dsot Wear a Truss WMP -JSTUARTSPLASTR-PADS'redirrr!. fcfcft fc-Sr SV Hm tbe trust, betas tudlclneappll M b5555S "fl.pfttors made loUadfcolre purposely J5jS, -N& lt0 no!l1 thoparuaecurcly In place. aotdllPitoemaBctelianorcomcreu nxalnit the nubia bone. Tho mon obitlnato ctiea eared. Thoawndj hard euccesifullr' treated thcmtefrci at homoirlthouthlnrfrnnco fronvwork. SoftaiTeU ret oit to anslr tnftxzienAlr. Proecsi of re- tfeSv I9fl I co very is natural, to no further two for truss. MfcSiiriJ Awarded Gold Medal. Wo nrev what we LiWf & anaABay by acndlnryoa Trial ofl'lipio UF.jT.lfcrflPabsolntely FBEK. Write name oa coupon aud mail TODAY. Addrcu PLAPAO LABORATORIES, Block 64 St Louis, Mo. Name Addreti ,,.,,,. .......,.,,.,.....,, Baturn mall will bring Trot Trial Hapao , BRYAN'S POSITION TODAY Mr. Bryan brought the Baltimore convention to a close with what he called his valedictory. Gladly ho laid down the leadership of his party, and cheerfully pledged that the nominee would not bo more ac tive in tho campaign than he. Mr Bryan conceives his position in the future to be that of a man who can do more, for his country without the Subscribers' jfawrtising Bcpf. This department Is for tho benefit of Commoner subscribers, aj a special rate of six cents a word per insertion -the lowest rate has been made for them. Address all communications to Tho Commoner. Lincoln. Nebraska. ECZEMA SPECIFIC Absolutely guar-- anteed, by mail, $1.50, sample free. Almklov's Pharmacy, Cooperstown, N. D. IWTONTANA HOMESTEADS Write for 1V folder and circular. Lawrence J. Anderson, Lewistown, Montana. T EARN of the vasl undeveloped re-- sources and unparalleled progress of South Florida. "Enterprise," Ar cadia, Fla., tolls it all. $1 year. pHE Practical Reformor has lnfalliblo schemes to free tho world of econ omic social inequality. Postpaid, 15 cents. Reform Pub. 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