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THREE IMPORTANT FEATURES
IN THE 1912 CAMPAIGN
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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,-
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"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
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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.
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BRYAN'S POSITION TODAY
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called his valedictory. Gladly ho
laid down the leadership of his
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the nominee would not bo more ac
tive in tho campaign than he. Mr
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future to be that of a man who can
do more, for his country without the
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