The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1884-09-18
IHE NoYENEFR ELEcTIoN.

STATISTICAL FACTS BkAHIN9 UPON IT
THAT WILL EFFBCF THE REsULT-A
LARGE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY PORE
sHADoWED.
MAJ. Ben. Simpson in InisrTisE.
The vote IN Ksnsas IN 1884 viii not
be less than go, 600, aud It may be TO-
900 more than that. You zee we had
under the census Of 1880 about 285, 900
males over the age Of tWenty-one
years. We have nov at least 800 900
persons In Kansas who are entitled 70
vote. OF cOurss there is aiWays 4
certain per cent who never 60 10 the
polls. More vote In Preaideutial
yeaFs. Of eourBe, than In any other
year In every State 10 the Union. bat
with the most exciting and absorbing
questions, both national and local, at
least ten per cent Of the votes do not
60 to the polls even then. Sickness,
death in the family OF RelghborhoOd,
absence from home. business that de-
mands attention on that day, indlffsF-
enee to results, dissatisfaction with To-
cal candidates, accidents on the wAy
10 the polls, and thousand other in
teryenlng circumstances, prevent TIE
full vote. Statistics will shsw that
there never has been mofe than
ninety per cent OF the vote poiisd
at any general election Ia this cOun-
try. An unusual turnout this fall
would give us probably 275, 900 votes.
have no data 10 correctly estimate
the increase IN population since 1880,
and yet it is safe 70 say that IN NoVenl-
Der SOC, 900 persons will be legal voters
in this State. In 1880 we pOlled 2O5, :
6T2; this was as presidential year; IN
1882, an ''Of year" and very far "off''
ct that, we pOlled l83, ,O82 or q, 900 less
than two years before, and, curious as
it may appear, every one Of these re-
luctant %, 900 were Republicans, as
both the Democrats and GreenbackeFs
increased their vote slightly over that
Of 1880, and that could not have hap
pened 1fths, s,deorease had been general.
There was some distFust of st John,
or some dissatisfaction with his course
In 1881, when he was rpnOIninated
for q second term, as the Garfield elee-
tons secured l3l $40 votes. and the
general average vote Of the State tick.
ct (sxeluding St. john Was l22, ,9O4,
or ! 900 less than the other State ON
GERS. In that year our State ticket
except 81. John had more votes than
Garfield, 30 that the dlssatisfactiOn
was not with the general manage
ment Of State Affairs, but with 81,
JOhn alone. E. g. Ross, ths Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, re-
ceived nearly 1000 more votes than
the balance Of the State ticket with
which he was associated. Republican
State officers had more than on. 900
majority over their Democratic eaIn-
petitOrs in the election Of 1880. In
1882, st John fell behind his vote OF
1880 40, 600, and then add the 1000 he
lost in 1880 and IN the latter year he
had run behind the party Al, 600 votes
net only that should and would
have naturally increased the fall off
22,5OO, the Republican majority on
State officers (eXcept Sc. JOhn) in
1882 over the Democratic candidates
being only IS, 600, while he lost "A, 1885
votes. In this year the average Re
publican vote was 80, ,282 and the
Democratic 60,5OO. The Greenbaek-
ers had q candidate for Governor 10
the person Of Ex-Governor Chas. Rob
isOn. and he failed 10 get their average
vote by about 1900, mOst Of them
doubtless voting for Click. His vote
for Governor was SO, 237, and was TO-
OOO,yOtes less than received by the
Republican State ticket. The increase
in the vote Of this State, for the last
two years especially, have been very
strongly Republican. The Democrats
have done all they could do to dis
courage immigration by the abuse of
the prohibition law, and the agents
Of every State and Territory have
used Il as an argument against Us for
all that Il Is worth. The settlers that
have come into the State IN the last
two years have come In spite Of the
effort, and you will fnd, whom the |
vote Is counted, that three-fOuFths Of
them are Republicans. II we poll |
25O, 900 votes at the next election land |
l think that is near the mark 1T0, 900 |
Of them will be for Blaine and.Logan.
The banner that the Blaine boys bOrs
&C the Chicago convention claiming /
IS, 900 majority for Blaine, was no idle |
boast, but it is q prophecy that will be |
fulfilled Ia November. Our State i
ticket, like that In 1880, will keep up
with the head Of the procession. Gov |
ernOr Click must receive more than i
double the amount OF Republican /
votes that he secured On 1892 20 keen /
neck and neck" with John A. Mar 1
lin, and this is not 10 be considered
among the political possibilities. He
may just as we'll "hang his harp on
he willow" and weep now, e. on the
Tuesday In November that records
he election Of Martln.