The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-01-14
THE ABSENTEE VOTE.
Some Interesting Calculations Concerning
Absenteeism North and South--The Army

OF the DisgFuntleds ns-vrss@aa
The Boston Globe has obtained from
the Secretaries of State of the several
States official returns of the vote for
President, showing that the whole
number of votes given on the four Elec-
toral tickets was 10,036,057 of which
Grover Cleveland's electors received
4,S42, ,292; those of James G. Blaine re-
ceived 4,8l0,219; those of Benjamin F.
Butler received 234,S4S, and those
pledged to vote for John p. st.
John received l48,69S. Besides these
there were 2,262 scattering and defec-
tive votes.
Cleveland's actual plurality over
Blaine, according to this statement, is
32,073, while his minority, as compared
with all others combined, is 353,735.
OF the vote for Cleveland the eleven
secession States cast 1,012,820 votes,
while the twenty-eight loyal States cast
1924 votes for Cleveland. AS the
vote for Cleveland in the loyal States is
nearly four times as large as in the dis
loyal States, the promptness with which
the late Confederacy offers to run the
Administration will be met by large
numerical opposition. But as the States
giving Cleveland only 1,012,S20 votes
cast more Electoral votes for him than
the States giving him 3,S29,472 votes,
Southern influence is dominant
The Globes figures tend to show that
people don't enjoy their politics as
much in States where the vote is very
one-sided as they do where it is more
evenly divided. In Kentucky 33 per
cent. of the qualified voters refrained
from voting; in Virginia 81, in Texas
80, in Arkansas 43, in Alabama AZ, in
Louisiana So, in Mississippi Sc, in South
Carolina 62, and in Georgia &C. This
extensive absenteeism in the South re.
calls the saying attributed to voters in
Spain, where none are expected to take
any interest in elections unless they
want an Office. If Spaniard /:
asked If he intends to vote he shrugs
his shoulders and remarks: "No,
prefer to take hand in the fight" In
the Latin" States of America the inn
preston is fast gaining ground that il
is not those who do the voting, but those
who flourish the shotgun that decide
the question.
The absenteeism, however, in some o!
the Northern States is so much larger
than one would expect as almost to
palliate in part that in the Southern,
Thirty-two per cent. of the voters stayed
away from the polls in Maine, 36 pei
cent. in Oregon, 80 in Vermont, rs in
Massachusetts and Colorado, 46 in Ne
vada, 62 in Rhode Island, and in only
seven States is the delinquency as low
as 20 per cent. In New York, where
some $50 votes decided the issue, there
were absent from the polls 33l, ,234
votes, or % per cent. of the whole vote
Of the State. In the entire country thu
absent vote numbered 3,754, ,478, or 2i
per cent. of the total vote. North and
South the absent vote is largest in State!
which are most certain! II this absen
vote is taken as indicative of the mum
Der of persons who fail to see their way
to any good result through either po
litical party, or who were not satisfied
with either set of candidates, it becomes
formidable showing for the "army o
the disgruntled. Chicago Inter Ocean