The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-18
SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.

SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
The northern states have cast in the
recent election 1905, 573 votes, and have
24S electors. But forty-four of those
electors represent the senatorial vote, two
for each state. The remaining 204 are
allotted to each state according to pop
ulation. The south has In like manner
thirty-tWo electors for the sixteen states
and the remainder, 121 in number, are
allotted sccording to population. The
allotment, based upon the census of four
years ago, was at tine time claimed by
the Democrats to be an exceedingly ac-
curate one, and the southern Demo
Gratis particularly justified it with great
zeal, showing, that an allotment of less
than I21 members and representative
electors to that section would give
it less strength than its pro-
portion Of the actual population requir-
ed. Now the northern states cast 1923,
573 votes for 204 represen.ave electors
which is AIS for each district But the
southern states have cast 1894 926 votes,
which is ohly 1903 for each represent
atIvc elector.
If the southern population had voted
az fully as the Northern there would
have been cast for 121 representative
electors 4,17l.8 3S votes. 1t appears, thre-
fore, thai ,206.9 12 persons who should
have voted failed 20 vote, or TO get their
votes counted.-New York Tribune.
The above figures epitOmize the issue
of fair ballot in q way that Is Unan.
sweraBIe. Yet when it was remembered
in many parts of the south where Re.
} publicsns are allowed to vote
quietly and without apparent
J molestation, the force of their vote is
counteracted by the addition of fraudu
lent tissue ballots, the logic of the fig
ures becomes still more forcible. Fol
instance. taking the state OF North Caro-
lima as al illustration, Congressman
York, who was the Republican and In
dependent candidate tor governor
of the state says that hil
vote was 1900 larger than the
heaviest vote ever Dolled in the stat
: beiore-yet the state gave Cleveland
} $1,000 majoritY-and the way IL wa
done Is explained in q recently pub
, lished statement made in cOnversatleI
by q prominent North Carolina Demo
.. Graf, one of whose virtues to say tn,
+ least was frankness, and who admitted
without reserve that he thought the stat
was Republican by several Thousand
majority. But" said he, Eve didn't In
! tend TO be ruled by the niger vote, nj
matter how large it was" "Did you
prevent the colored Republicans iron
s vcting:" asked the interviewer.
Mot at al, replied the North Caro-
b lInian. "We have got too smart for thai
We just let them vote without the slight
!, eat intimidation. We had the Judge
and clerks and control of the bGllo
4 boxes. When Republicans saw tbs
they could vote without the slightes
s opposition, and we're even treated col
& daily bv the Democrats at the polls the
/: put in their b4llnts and went quietl
IL away about their business. we'll pleGseC
We kept tally and knew just bow man
J. Republican ballots had been cast The
G when the time came for closing d
@ polls, We Just put in enough Democrat
tickets u overcome the Republican vol
" and give Us = sure majority"
When all due allowances is made fe
exaggeration in the southern gentlemen
statements, the election returns
! detail from North Carolina give thel
NJ strong confirmation; and Il is evIdeI
tia. in The parts of the solid south q,
YET educated up to the North Csrolir
- method there must have been = strongl
measure cf intimidation used.