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The Commoner.
VOLUME i, NUMBER S
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. fully in a whlto houso desk:
"This morning, as for . so'mo days
jwt, it sooms oxcoedingly probublo
that this administration will not bo
ro-oloctod." j.
Mr. ThurJow1 Rood, regarded the
ablest polltlcain of his day, was of
the same opinion; he had told Mr.
Lincoln that his ro-olection was an
'impossibility.
Yet when thp votes wore counted in
- November it dovolopcd that Mr. Lin
coln carried all of the states eligible
to voto the confederacy being thon
in existence -oxcoptlng only tho bor-1
der states of Maryland and Kentucky
and Now Jorsoy. Mr. Lincoln had 212
. of tho oloctroral votes to tho 21 for
his opponorit, "General McClellan.
If tho election of 1904 wore' tp bo
held today or this week or next week
tho probability is that Mr. Roosovelt
would bo ro-olected. Ho is as con
fident of his ro-electlon as Mr. Lin
coln wns dubious over his own chances
' and it may yot provo there is no more
.grckmd for tho present confidence of
. the Republican politicians than there
was for tho confldonco of Mr. Harrison
. and hip SUPPOiters in 1892 at tho same
stage of tho campaign, , ,
Tho fact is this is an uncertain
country and nothing is more uncer-
f.nfn flinn urlini- b iirtll ln In r vn.4-
"" wiiiiii TTiiub iu vrni uw m ik jiuui 1
DOlitical camnalcn. Tho mnrerln hn- I
tweon tho winner and tho loer is
usually a vory narrow one. Meas-.
ured by the popular vote, a number
.of projajdents . have boon "minority;',
presidents in tho sense " of having
failed to got a clear majority," of tho
votes case. Of course this means noth-1
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lH tho great Democratic yoto of Texas
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other, could be scattered so as to cov
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in the electoral vote would be far
greater than it is today.
Mr. Tilden had a clear majority of
the popular vote in 1876 and yet was
deprived of the presidential ofllico by
jugglery.
Four years later General Garfield
had a plurality of but 7,108 oyer Gen-
oral Hancock, though he received 214
olectoral votes to lbs for the demo
cratic nominee. That year there were
about 320,000 votes cast for Weaver,
Dow and Phelps, who ran as candi
dates for side issue parties.
In 1884 Mr. Cleveland had 219 votes
in the electoral college to 182'for Mr.
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votes at tho polls than his successful
opponent; the scattering vote that
year was 400,000.
. In 1892 Mr. Cleveland had 277 elec
toral votes to 145 for Mr. Harrison and
22 for Mr. Weaver. Mr. Cleveland
had n. nlnrnHfv nf QQnom .,.. il
i'.85 publican opponent, but oven with that
2.85 ne naa out a minority of the popular
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iM mum oj. more tnan 1,325,000.
Mr. McKinley was a majority presi
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had a plurality of 601,854 over Mr.
Bryan, and as tho scattering vote was
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But despite that preponderance of
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doubt until all the votes were counted.
Looking at the result as measured by
the electoral vote, we are prone to
regard Mr. McKinley's victory in 1896
as overwhelming. As a matter of
fact, a difference of about 26,000
votes properly placed that year would
havo turned the scale -absolutely. '
All of which proves nothing more
than that the country- is. jvery close
politically and that conditions 'in
August may be' absolutely reversed
in November. It will be recalled also,
that In the latter part of August and
ho first part of September, 1896, Mr.
Jtianna was by no means sanguine
over tho outlook for the republican
ticket, however much he may have
talked so.
Tho people who talk of it being a
walkover or a "cinch" for Mr. Roose
velt this year by be badly fooled be
fore the campaign ends. Tho experi
ence of the past shows that it is cer
tainly among tho possibilities that
something may occur auring tho next
two months to puncture all the roseate
dreams of the Rough Rider. Of
course, also, no such thing may oc
cur. It is highly probable that the repub
lican nominee is laugnmg m his sleeve
at all the criticisms that have been
hurled at his head for his catering to
rHUB61,,,'1 X1 zs ousaged this year
for ni?io0Ulnf f .f beIng a candidate
for office and he is after votes. If at
any time these . criticisms cause him
any worry he pulls 'from his Vest
ofClvo it""10 ,1ISt he h of negroes
of voting age in tho doubtful states
nformaMnn13 PieC0 of entening
, Negroes of .'voting age in closo
states:
New York ... ?;.... ; 31.425
New Jersey ;..'..'. 21,474
Indiana 18,186
Maryland : 60,406
Illinois '1 29,762
West Virginia 14,786
Delaware ...., , 8,374
Connecticut . ...-, 4,576
Ohio ; 31,325
Massachusetts . si '.".:. .. . . . 10,54
Kansas . r ,i.;. . . ; . '. ...... . .14,695
Rhode Island .v.v..r; 2,7675
Colorado ". 3,215
California ..;.V. 3,711
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' 4' WILLIAM HANDY,
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