St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-17
graphed to Harrison on the night of the
election. Let us contrast it with the
vote cast in 1884:
Rep. total Dem Scatt'g Total.
1888. $3.50. 79, 6O3 61,1OS $3.50 144,66l
1884. .77.779 5000 1857 140,4


The Republican gain on its own vote
is plus per cent. The Democratic gain
in its own vote is plus per cent. In
the figures presented above scatter
ing" for convenience, includes Labor,
Prohibition and Greenback votes. All
these taken together suffer loss as
compared with the vote four years ago,
but notwithstanding the Blaine dis
patch to Harrison reporting a falling
OF OF Prohibition votes note these
figures:
Prohibition vote 1884. 157
Prohibition vote 1888. 2,97l
Here then is Prohibition gain of $50
per cent in state already having pro-
hlbltlon laws, and presenting no field
for special endeavor on the part of the
PrOhibitionistS.
IT the loss in the vote classed as scat
tering may be taken as entirely Dem
ocratIc gain that would still be 9, 401, or
nearly 600 more than the Republican
gain, but the assumption is reasonable
that the loss of other organizations was
equally the gain OF the leading parties.
Putnam, the Democratic candidate in
Maine, led forlorn hope under circum-
stances of peculiar disadvantage. He
was between the devil of the fisheries
and the deep sea of a tariff bill propoS
ing free lumber. Maine is the seat of
the American fisheries and the center
of a great lumber trade. The presi-
dents retaliatory message pointed to
Names chief port as a possible great
sufferer by policy of drastic reprisal.
Putnam himself had been one of the
commissioners who made the treaty re-
Jected by the senate. His campaign
was conducted in an admittedly Repub-
lcan state, where the great national
leader. Blaine, held command in per-
son. Yet the Republicans suffer a loss
OF 1,2O0 on their plurality, and while
they gain a fraction more than per
cent on their own vote, the Democrats
gain fraction more than 5.
Take this result as a basis of calculat-
ing the outcome in November and what
will be shown? In 1884 New York cast
563, 0S4 votes for Cleveland and 562, 001
votes for Blaine. If Harrison gain 2
per cent on Blaine's vote and Cleve-
land gain 5 per cent ON the vote preVi-
Ously cast for himself, the result will
be:
CleYeland..... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. , 591, 200
Hdrrlson. NORTHUMBERLAND. .573, al
Cleveland over Harrison. ....... 1859
1t Is needless TO make the application
to Connecticut, New jersey and Indi-
ana. But it will be interesting to make
the application as to Michigan, even
without reference to the enormous gain
shown by the Prohibition party in
Maine, gain of $50 per cent.
tOr BIalne ........u... ...192, 600
Add per cent ............ 3,S13-196, 522
FOR Cleveland. .............1S9,3 61
Add per cent .........-.. 9,46S-199, S29
Cleveland over Harrison. 1897
The application of the Maine ratio
would not of itself give Minnesota to
Cleveland, but it is well known that of
all the Western Republican states, that
Is, all the Western states except Indi-
ana, the sentiment of tatiff reform is
strongest in Minnesota. How about
Illinois?
ror Dlalne ........ .....33I, Ill
Add = per cent. 6,748-344, 159
FOR cleveland So. ........312, 5S4
ADD per cent ............ 15,629-32s, 213
Harrison over Cleveland. Is, 946
The claim hastily and disingenuously
made by Blaine and the application
sought to be enforced of the estimated
figures invite this comparison made
upon figures as they actually are. Their
philosophy teaches that, taken in con-
nection with Vermont, where there was
also Democratic gain larger than the
Republican gain on the totals of the re-
spectlve votes, there is a steady Demo-
cratic gain in the Northern states,
whereby New York, New Jersey, Con-
nectlcut and Indiana are Democratic by
increased majOrities, and Michigan will
keep them company.
We have here an indication that ex-
cessige taxation is not as popular as it's
proponents fancied. The criterion is
one set up by themselves.