The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-30
POLITICIAN WORLD.
Candidates, Conysnsio{s, Nomina.
tions, Electiols.
All the News of Politica Movements
of the Four P@ties.

of the -Four P4ties.
Hon. William Dickey Nas sent to the
Maine Legislature in 1S4a and they are
sending him there vet. He has reelected
at the recent election. Hets eighty one
years old.
J. j. Mcintosh, Democr1t candidate
LOT congress in the Sixth Nebraska dis
trlct, has withdraw, sdding that he is
not citizen. EihS
n"-Su'grrSsm,su Urspeasd congress
Tau Henry Cabot Lodge [are the an
nounced Republican Candidates for
United Stats Senator from Massachu-
setts to succeed H. l. Dawea
Hon. w. NJ. Fishback, Governor elect
of Arkansas, will make Democratic
spc ches in New Yo k and tennessee.
Republican convention at aauuton, Va,
has nominated w. q. Franklin, of Ap-
pomatt X, for Congress. T.
1t is reported that Mr.. Blaine may dc.
eide to enter tho Senate instead of Mr..
Hale, whose successor Is to Se chosen by
The Legisl ,ture elected iuI Maine this
week. Hale is candidateifor re -elec-
tion.
There are but 100 coloed voters in
North Dakota. There a Is, 900 iu the
city of Baltimore. Bal inpre has an
are' OF thirty-two square, miles; North
Dakota has an area OF. 10000 square
miles. 50
The total vote for President in 1884
was 10, ,04S,581 In 1888 it was II, 3ss, :
O3S. This year the ratio of increase will
be greater on account of tho addition of
six new States, and the vote of tn Sc
added tc the normal growth in popula
tion in ten years will give q total of,
probably, 14,0O0,000.
When William Henry Harrison, the
grandfather of Benjamin, ran for Presi
cent in 1886, he received Al, ,2S1 votes in
Indiana. His grandson received in the
same State in 1888, 263, ,3e1.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected
President of the United States, in 1860,
he received 1895, 913 votes in tho thi, ty.
two States which then constituted the
Union. In the Presidential election of
1888 the total vote of New York State
was 800, 100. New York's total this
year will not be very far from the entire
vote cast for Mr.. Lincoln in the whole
United States thirty-two years ago.
day, Eh5S JANUARY R;a9 ., to declare the falls this
each. 1t will be transmin }oIs chosen
ing on by special messed Isf in each
case, and announced by Congress on tho
second Wednesday in February. he
House of Representatives canvasses the
electoral vote for President aud the
United States Senate canvasses the elec
toral vote for Vice President.
The Federal census of 1890 returned
the adult white male population of the
United States at 16,940,311. Deducting
the aliens, of whom there are more than
a million, and the electors resident in the
Territories, the total number of qualified
electors was Is, 5oG, 313. Fully 10 pc
cent. of these, for variety of causes, do
not vote. This would give as the prob
able total of the vote cast for President
IA ,010, 900, the same result as is derived
by comparison with previous elections
The banner State for Cleveland in 1885
was Texas, which gave him LAG, 900 ma
j,rity. Harrison had, SO to speak, two
banner States-Kausas, which gave him
so, 1859, and Pennsylvania, which CAV,
hth 80, fcO HbJoiisys Ahtc ytui tuCtt
are four parties in Texas and three il
Kansas, and Weaver is likely to poll ,
good vote in each. Pennsylvania, il
which the fight is a straight one between
the two parties and without complica.
tions from the outside, is likely to kc :
at the head of the column for the Repub.
licans, while Mississippi, under the term
of the new ltcgistry law, will probanl,
give the largest majority for the Demo-
cracy. ga
The two St,tes in which the coloret
voters absolutely predominant in numbe
are South Carolina and Mississippi. Il
South Carolina there are 102, 600 whit,
voters and 132, 900 colored voters. Ii
Mississ ppi there are 100, 900 white voter
and 10000 colored voters colorec
majority Of 80, 900 in each State. Louis
lana has more white than coloIed voters
but it has. on the other hand. NOR
lorcd voters native born than whit
voters native born. These are III
figures: Colored voters, lis, 900; whit
voters (nativc born), 106y00e.. forcip
born white voters. $4,000. The LATTE
hold the balance of power, numerically
a. d this is the only State ins the Unio
where this condition of things prevails