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tnmrjwif -"'! imfjjUi&Br-VyifVW t1w"wtiv jnfyiwfjww IPC) 'V r) ." 14 U' t 'A The Commoner. 'V v VOLUME 4, NUMBER 40 .f-W K 1 fllN l k t ' A The New York World's Lessori McClolIan in 1864 polled 433,568 more votes than Douglas in 1860. Seymour in 1868 polled 900,890 morb yotes than McOlollan in 1864. Greeley in 1872 polled 124,464 more (votes than Seymour in 1868. , Tllden in 1876 polled 1,450,806 . more .votes than Greeley in 1872. Hancock in 1880 polled 57,150 more -votes than Tilden in 1876. Cleveland in 1884 polled 468,972 more . .votes than Hancock in 1880. Cleveland in 1888 polled 627,216 more votes 'than Cleveland" in 1884. Cleveland in 1892 polled 18,685 more jVotes than Cleveland in 1888. "Bryan in 1896 polled 946,007 more .Votes than Cleveland in 1892. t Bryan in 1900 polled 144,792 fewer I .votes than Bryan in 1896. , Parker in 1904 polled about 1,250,- ,000 fewer votes than Bryan in 1900 1 nearly 1,500,000 fewer votes than ; 'Bryan , Jn. 1896, about 437,000 fewer .votes than Cleveland in 1892, .about 418,000 fewer votes than Cleveland in 1888, and only 200,000 more votes than Cleveland in 1884. -A paltry-200,000' votes mark twenty years- of- Democratic progress, while Rqttsbvelt;in:1904 polled ?2,379';000 more .vote's .than Blaine ih,18$4, u , - ' From 1860 to 1900 "the Democratic Jrty gained votes ,ipM,evextK national election. In 1876, nJL8j& in4888 and jn mz it ponea 'plurality of the P.ulS:r v?te' and lMSPfcflJiacock fell oniv 7.UUU behind nnrflnlil. WfoffiubllcaH parV may'''' have lo'itncohei'election byfusmg-'-tS 'yield- ,xo us jf opunstic, ejsmen$sn$.The 'Dem--Jocratlc party by yielding to these ele- iuu.w uua uust unree successive elec Ulpns, and finds itself, .inUho year of its alleged re-organization k-with the J worst beaten candidate" in "Its historv .now lar juuge marker was, respon- conjecturo, Aa The World intimated more than once, the Judge as a can didate fpr. President left something to be desired. In spito of any clamor against a third term, it Is .apparent that Mr. Cleveland would have made a much better run. Ho would have polled thousands of independent and Republican votes in the east which Judge Parker did not get, and ho could hardly have made a worse showing in the west. In addition to Judge Parker's own limitations, the character of some of his advisers made a heavy load of excess baggage for a tired and de moralized party to carry, but beyond all this was the inexorable law of po litical retribution. The slump really began in 1896, when the Democratic party openly surrendered to the Silver Republicans, the Populists and thef advocates of wild-cat money in general. By their temporary help Bryan succeeded in sustaining the record of thirty-two years by polling more votes than his predecessor, but his gain was hardly 4,000j000 in an unprecedented total votd," while McKiriley polled nearly 2,0fl0,000. more than Harrison.1 p This relative decline became real In i'900, when the. Democratic vote showed an actual decrease for the first time since I860., Ttfte .tragical route of 1904 fol lowed" as "a matter of course. For!year's the Democratic party has been.playjng with rotten money 'as a chi'ltt'plays with matches. Until 1896 its rdaaer3'had been able "tb hofd the partyjsojnewhat. in checkiwhenever the issue became acute, but when the Chicago convention stampeded to free silveiutho.way was opened for the" ava lanche -of last November. " f By refusing to indorse uneauivocallv the . gold standard in the St. Louis enough to alienate its Populistlc al lies, but not far enough to convince independents of its returning sanity The 'economic sins of a whole genera tion of greenbackers and free-silverltes have been visited upon Judge Parker. Strangely enough, with this lesson written so plainly that its meaning Is unmistakable, there aro Demo crats who listen seriously to the dema gogic counsel that the only way the Democratic party can win is to' become crazier than it ever was before.The New York 'World. psible for this disaster Is a' matter of I convention the party went , just far Burn'i on Labor nnd Drink Mr. John Burnes, M. P., addressed a largo meeting in Manchester on "Labor and Drink." The lecture was one of the Lees and Roper memorial lectures. Mr. Burns said that the drinking habits of the poorer classes had con tributed to their political dependence, industrial bondage, civic inferiority, and domestic mistry As one bred to the matter as a county councillor and a legislator, ho was convinced on the subject. He described the - public house as the ante-chamber of the workhouse, the chapel of -ease to the asylum, the rendezvous far t the gam mer, and thej satnering" ground for the goal. There was no comparison in drink. Dealing with thaJtfigures of tho money- spent in drink, iwhile de ploring the immense amount spent in every working family, he answered a recent critic by pointing out that Ltwo-thirds of the drink bill Was spent by thr.eerquarters of, population, and only half the amount lieu head Was taken by thoworking glasses aa vmi taken by the classes above them. .fBuc whether (th.e expendjltura -wds fouf pounds ? per .family or 4fifteen pounds per family, working people could not afford, ifc A tovdrinkandvfcrade,he said that they were promised ifrom 2 to '2 i-2 d. per family perw"ejek fif thef would tax bread from abroad. Why not save 5s. per week by ieavinK off beer. Our expenditure handicap 7 in the trade battle with temS?Z America, because our larger consul tion prevented us from spending much money per head in other dirS tiona, and. especially on educa 0n He concluded a vigorous tirad' against drink i rtn onl u.rado ev Is by denying that poverty caused drink as much as drink caused n0v. erty, and by declaring himself dead against municipalization as a remedy It Would cause drinking to become a civil virtue, and to be regarded as local patriotism. London Times. Spilt Electoral Votes The -national election was so one sided this year that much attention has been attracted to the fact that in one state the electoral vote was split between Roosevelt and Parker The incident has been discussed al most as a novelty, and yet it is ia fact a common occurence for a state to have its electoral vote divided. One newspaper writer who has been looking the matter up, at least so far as recent elections are concerned, has found that in 1896 Bryan was successful in securing one electoral vote out nt the 'Kentucky landslide, and also re ceived one from California. -Butu.in .1892 split? electoral delega tionswe're' quite 'common, five states being found On 'the- electoral fence. OhiO'sga.ve one Vote tf of --Cleveland and twsntynwo . for - -Harrison. California gavo'i.'eight-for-.CleveIand and one for Harrison. Michigan l gave five for Cleveland-ana nine fol Harrison. i&Oifcgbnjtgavei ithrte.' for Harrison arid one'fo thevpoptrfist' presidential Candidate;''' General jitTB. Weaver of 'Idw&rci' North -SDakota's vote was 'ev&nlyik i divided' M among1 tho three ticke'ts, one 'each fdr Cleveland, Har risonand Weaver.- The "fact that states so freauentlr split their electoral delegations seems i . 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