The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-01-12
COMPARISON OF THE POPULAR
AND ELECTORAL VOTE OF PAR
les.

OF parties Ill tIfe INIltl
States, as shown by the vote for
members Of the present Congress.
As these returns embrace the result
OF the late elections, they give to the
Republican side the full benefit of
all their successes in 1871. The to-
tai Democratic vote is 2,741.2 05 +;
total Republican vote, 2,7SS,377-
making a Republican majority on
the entire popular vote Of the United
States Of IL, 112.
The electoral vote of the several
States carried by the two parties
foots up-Democratic States, l39 +;
Republican States, I3S-Democratlc
electoral majority, 1.
Thus. whether on the popular
vote or electoral Presidential vote,
the two great parties of the Union
are very evenly balanced. 4 very
few individual votes determine the
result one way or the other.
There isno installing tLesefgures.
The table is compiled from the &C.
tual result of the last Congressional
elections throughout the United
States. These Congressional cleo
tons are almost invariably more fav-
orable to the Republican party than
the election for State officers.
The Sacramento Union publishes
the table in fall, with the following
comments:
This table gives amaiority of one
to the Democrats in the Electoral
College for the Presidency. The
Tribune remarks on the matter that
in Pennsylvania there is a Republi-
can majority that in Missouri the
liberal Republicans voted with the
Democrats to give the State to that
party that on Il vote for President.
Texas wouldnot give 50, 900 majority .
for the Democrats. There are SINH
lar remarks about Arkansas and
West Virginia. We may add to
these remarks of the Tribune. that
since 1870 the State of California
voted in a Republican Governor by
over 1000 majority. and that this is
regardedby Observation-Disclosures
as a p~ernuI4eht majority, unless the
victorious party does something to
forfeit the confidence Of the people.
w may also say that, though Ne
vada and Oregon in 1870 went for
the Democrats, each by a small ma
certain for the Republican Presiden-
tial nominee next Autumn
This IS not saying much and in
deed very little can be said q, The
bald fact stands out glaringly that
the Republican party has a very IN
certain foothold that the slightest
adverse movement of the political
breeze will watt it to destruction.
The Unions reference to Califor-
nia has noapplication, for Mr.. Booth
is credited IN the table with his 5000
majoritv-a majority which that
paper has time and again declared
precarious. and dependent upon the
action of the Legislature this Win
ter. In Oregon, the Democratic
majority is small, it IS true, out ithas
been maintained for many years ana
is certainly surer for the Democracy
than Indiana is for the Republicans,
with whom it is c1assed III the table.
As for Nevada there rs no certain
majority either way. The repeal of
the onerOus poll-taX as a prerequisite
for registration has undoubtedly
strengthened the Democracy since
the last election. Nothing has oc-
CURED either locally or nationally
to affect parties seriously here, or to
authorize the claim of the Union.
Nevada was confidently claimed to
be Republican before the last cleo
ton, and it is very easy to claim it
again ; but if the Union were posted
on the local Influences operating
in this State it would discover that
its assumptions are destitute of any
reasonable foundation. The result
this Fall will depend much on the