The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-12-18

Butler received. ............. 23h.S4s
st. John received. ............ 14S,69S
Cleveland 5 plurality In the whole coun
try is 32,073. and the popular majority
against him is 35l ,463. The increase in
the total vote over that Of 1850 IS s27.15S,
of which the Republicans get SCI ,l66: the
Democrats 40l, PSI the Prohibitionists
lbs, 1903 while the Greenback vote falls off
72,S56. There are , 262 votes returned as
scatteri ng which are not included in the
above calculation. Mr.. Blaine carried six
teen States by clear maiorities and two by
pluralities. Mr.. Cleveland also carried six
teen States by maiorities and four others by
pluralities. One of the things, says the Phil
adelphia Press, which willsurprise careful
observers is the slnallness Of the colored vote
There are undoubtedly, nearly $4,000 900 Of
qualified voters in the country to-day, 1000
600 of whom failed to exercise their right
of suffrage. More than half Of this is due to
the Suppression of the Republican vote in
the Southern states and the indifference
of.the Democratic voters in the same Sec
ton. Of the total Democratic vote. / ZIG,
o32 comes from the Solid South and it
chose 1853 electors. The other 3,12606o
| Democratic votes. cast in the Northen
states. were able only to choose 66 electors
and that by small pluralities in four states.
| OF the 4,sl0,2l9 Republican votes, the six
| teen Southern states polled about .220, 600
while the twenty two Northern states fur
| nished nearly 8 $50, 900.
Ten Southern states, Florida. Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryla.d, South
Carolina. Tennessee. Virginia, West Viz
ginia and Mississippi gave smaller Demo
cratic majority than in 1880, while eight
| Northern states, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Massachusetts,. Ohio. Rhode Island, Yer
mont. and Wisconsin, reduced their Re-
publican majority. Five states only
changed their political relations. Connec-
ticut. Indiana and New York, which were
in the Republican column four years ago,
are now found in the Democratic column.
while California and Nevada swing from
the Democratic to the Republican column.
Delaware. Georgia, Maine. Nevada, New
T. 81 2
HAMPSHIRE, South Carolina and Vermont
show falling off from the vote cast ID
the last presidential election. All the other
states an increase.
The decrease in some of the Southern
States. both with the Democrats and Re
publicans, is attributable to the methods
of conducting the elections. The Repub-
licans know that it is useless to attempt
to put in their ballots as the Democrats
control all the election machinery and
count the vote to suit their purposes. The
Democrats know that whether their full
vote is cast or not, the count will show
Democratic majorities. 1t is not the vote
but the count they rely on. The signiii
canoe of the fact that 1,716.232 Democrat
ic votes in the South assure 153 electora
votes and 3.l26,O6O Democratic votes ii
the North only bring 66 Democratic cleo
toral votes, cannot be oyerestimated. The
, further fact is expressive that while
zig. 2332 Southern votes gave l53 Demo
cratic electoral votes, nearly 3,59O,OO0 Re
publican votes in the North are able tx
furnish only 1872 Republican electora
votes. Population is the basis OF repre-
sentation in Congress and the electora
college. and it is estimated that the SAM
number of voters obtain in the South IL
in the North in the population necessary
for member of Congress and an cleo
tor. Yet the facts. show that it is not ne
cessary for more than one-half OF thi
vote to be cast in the South in order. t.
!. secure the electoral vote of the respective
States.
This condition of things is attractln;
attention throughout the country, for il
is believed that if the same freedom il
voting and fairness in counting had beef
observed in the Southern States that wer
| in the Northern States, at least forty cleo
toral votes from the South would hay
been secured for Blaine, which wer
counted for Cleveland.
Those who favor reciprocity treatle
, base their arguments in their favor upol
the premise of commanding foreign mar
ket for our products. Those who favo
! the protection policy for this country do 81
upon the premise that it is better to hay'
| home market than a foreign market fo
! what we produce. The protection polio.
7 assures employment for home labor ant
T this creates home consumers. American
: independence, in its fullest meaning, il
what they want. and that is the tru'
t American policy. We certainly can gain
/ nothing by opening the markets Of $4,000,
, 900 people, intelligent. Industrious, accus
, toned to the comforts. of high Utilization
, in exchange for the market of 1000, 000peo
pie half civilized, ignorant and superstition
I and educated to be satisfied with the abso
: lutte necessities to keep soul and body to-
, gether. There is not much reciprocity il
, this. 1t is a bargain all on one side. And
) further We cannot compete with England
i'll this market, unless we reduce thu
, wages OF labor to correspond with the
wages paid to English operatives.
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, Hon. II. L. Barton. the member of TIT
: Legislature from Frederick county, is re
ported to have said.a few days before thu
| adjournment of that body. that when hii
party came into power they found 81 500,
| 600 in the treasury. a legacy from the Re
adjusters, and asked, how stands the
; treasury now? p He is reported as say
| ing that when all the appropriations made
by the present Legislature are paid, and
counting all moneys that will naturally
reach the treasury by October /, 1855, the
! State will be in debt 100000
!; This is damaging admission. and shows
what kind of reform the Democrats have
been effecting since they came into power
NEARLY 100000 Of revenue frittered
away in eight months The people ought
to make an0te of this
|
Some of our Democratic friends are find.
ing fault with biennial sessions of the
Legislature and intimate that the repeal
of the clause in the constitution which
provides for them will be made prom.
inent issue in the next falls election. If
we were to judge from the action of the