Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-01
VOTE.
The Suppressed Southern Repub-
lican Vote.
Sun Dem. l..

New-Sork Sun (Dem.
We have already taken occasion to 70.
fer to an important article published By
the Boston Globe on the returns of the
late election for president. These re-
turns have thus been obtained In
response to a circular letter. transmit
ted to each secretary respectively by the
proprietors of the Globe.
The following Ia the result thus verl-
fed:
The whole number of votes given for
president on the four electoral tickets
was 10, ,057, of which Grover CIeve-
and received 4 $40, 292; James G.. Blaine,
4,S10, 219; Benjamin +. Butler, 234, S4S;
and John p. st. John, las, 1908. To this
aggregate there Is to be added 2,262
scattering and defective votes.
In place, therefore, of the 10000 to
124, 600 plurality which has been COM
puted In various quarters for Grover
Cleveland, it will be seen that his actual
plurality is but 32,073, while In the en-
tire country he Is In a minority of $685.
735.
OF the votes given for Cleveland, l..
OLE, 800 came from the secession states
aud 3,829,472 from the remaining
twenty. eight. The solid south gave
Cleveland 1,716, 232 votes. With such q
disproportion of votesin those states, the
question, though useless, Is pretty sure to
be brought up, whether those states have
not at present more than their just share
Of influence in the electoral colleges and
house of representatives. Small as was
their vote for Cleveland, that for Blaine
was still smaller, showing that a very
large proportion of the legal voters in
those states absented themselves from
the polls. The Globe indicates the actual
number and computes the percedtage Of
the voters that thus refrained from
voting: In Kentucky the percentage was
33; in Virginia it was, 81; In Texas, SO.
In Arkansas, AZ; in Alabama, AZ; in Lou.
isians, %; in Mississippi, SO; In South
Carolina, 60; and in Georgia, &C. This
extensive absenteeism certainly gives
some color to the charge that a large pro.
portion of the voters are kept away from
the polls by intimidation.
The Dragging of the independents
%mugwumps that they saved the election
of Cleveland Is absurd and unwarranted
The detection Of the stslwarts In New
York alone changed the political com
plexlon of affairs and converted into 8
democratic victory what had beer re-
garded as inevitable democratic defeat.
The private secretary of President
Arthur Is said to have predicted before
the election that 80 600 republican votes
would be turned from Blaine to Cleve.
land in the state; but undoubtedly the
number so voting far in excess of this es.
innate. Yet this revolt of the stalwarts
gave the state to the democratic by only
an insignificant plurality.
The breach thus occssioned In the re.
publican ranks is already substantially
heeled. The discreet bearing of the stall
warts during the canvass has rendered
their return to their old allegiance easy
If no renewed bitterness is caused by the
election of the new senator they will be
prepared to do battle next November tc
elect a republican governor. This would
give that party the key of the situation
for 1888.
The restoration of New York to hel
former position at the head of the repub'
lican column would threaten not only
the ascendency but the very existence Of
the democratic party as at present con
Aetituted.