The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-06

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The POPULAR EorE.-The Chicago
Times INDUCES in the following 'rumima
tons" on The popular vote at the late presi
dental election;
The aggregate popular vote was O., 81
4O2, a against 0,a04, 42S in 1890, showing
an increase of 6i1,Di5. In eight state,,
hOwever-viz, Georgia, Maine, Nevada,
| New Hampshire, South Carolina, Ielnes-
see. Texas and Vermont, there is "A falling
off in the total vote. In the sixteen south
ern states, the total vote was 2,s35,00l.
against 2,,l0,26D in 1880, an increase of
| III, i32 The Cleveland electors in these
states received | ,G23, Il, votes, against |
! Gjl ga cast for the Hancock electors -four
years ago, showing an actual decrease in
| the democratic vote In the solid south OF
2SG2t. The "bulldozed' and "intimidat.
ed republicans in that section have, on the
contrary, made handsome increase, gain
inc all the new vote and making inroads
upon the democratic vote of 1850. The to
I'll vote of the Garfield electors ia 1880 in
these states was O61 J06, while the Blaine
electors this year received l,2l ,S64, an in.
crease of lii,j50 votes. Six stateS--Colo-
raIo, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon
and Pennsylvania -gave the Blaine ticket
larger pluralite> than they gave the Gar.
field ticket, while in ten stateS--lllinois,
Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island,
| Vermont, and Wisconsin--the Blaine plu.
ralities are smaller than the Garfield plu.
ralities were. Blaine carries two st ties
| 4; ,l, I,r rnrEaIl r,1ty,,,; Ia
and Nevada and loses three states which
were carried by Gartield-New York, Con
necticut and Indiana. Although Blaine :
plurality in Maine is very much larger than
that of Garfield, he received 1880 fewer
votes than Garfield in that state In only
one New England sta'e-Rhode Island
is the Blaine vote as large AS the Garfield
vote. In the six New England states the
aggre gate Blaine vote is }S2, l,3, as against
4l4,4j4 for the Garfield ticket, showing II
positive loss of 22,2Sl There is also Il
slight falling off in the democratic vote in
the New England states, where the Han.
cock electors received 81 ,302 votes, and
the Cleveland electors BOG, l04 votes, de
crease of 4l9s. The net republican loss in
New England, therefore, Is 2S,0S3. Only
five of the thirty-eight states report no
votes for the ST John ticket It's aggre
gate vote in the country was l41,211. The
apparent vote for the Butler ticket was 12j,.
5lS, but owing 10 the fusions in seven
states ii is impossible TO ascertain the real
strength of the peoples party" In Mich
igan the Butler elector who ran separately
received Al 800 votes. The total republi
can vote in the country at large this year
is 4,19j,212; in 1890, 4,440053; increase,
3IG,2l The total democratic vote this
year is 4,Sll,224; in 1890, 4442 ,036; in.
crease, 800 1879 The net democratic gain
is 23,3Ol. The popular vote, as will be OBJ
served is almost as evenly divided as it
was in 1880. The largest democratic ma.
jority is that of Texas, $685. the largest
republican majority is that of Psnnsylva-
mia Sl,ol9t
From which the Times deduces that the
democratic gains have been altogether con.
fined 10 those states in which the spirit of
tariff reform is most active. II is to the
growth of this sentiment that the gains in
Michigan. Iowa and Indiana are clearly
due In New England the republican los
ses are plainly to be attributed 10 like
cause II is equally clear on the other
hand, that in Pennsy lvania, in the south
and on the Pacific slope, where the repub-
licans have made their best showing, their
increased strength is due 10 their cham
pionshlp of protection.