The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-12-06
cURIOSlTlES OF VOTING.
Great Changes In the Vote OF
Ohio and llIinois-Chi.
cago a Prime
Factor.

1t l. singular fact that III Ohio, Is
well as in Illinois. the democratic vote
has gained steadily in the northern
parts for several years, while in the
southern it has lost year by year I'M
til this year, and even now, in a tidal
wave year, gains but 30 per cent OF
the increase in the northern counties.
If line be drawn nearly through
the centre of Ohio it will have forty
four counties on the north and forty.
four on the south of it. At the last
three presidential elections these north
ern counties gave pluralities as fol
lows: 1884, 1928 republican; 1888,
1858 republican; 1919, 1915 dem.
ocratic. Note the steady and I'M
mense democratic grain. AT the same
elections the southern counties gave
these pluralities: 1884, IL, 559 repub.
lican 1883, 6,346 republican; 1892,
II, 1S9 republican.
An examination of the total vote
cast by the two great parties show.
even more strikingly the trend of pO-
litical sentiment in Ohio. We find
that in the north, which takes in most
or the great manufacturing, mining
and sheep-rai>ing section of the state,
in the same forty-four counties before
referred to, the increase in the demo.
cratic vote of 1883 over 1884 was 49,.
59S, while in the forty four southern
counties it was only S,577. In 1892
the increase over 1888 in the north
was 9,154, while in the south there
was an actual loss of 1,496 votes.
From 1884 to 1891, in the northern
counties, supposed to be the stronghold
of McKinleyism, the increase in the
democratic vote was IS, 1872; in the
southern counties it was only quar-
ter of that, or 7.OS1.
1t must he that the Democratic
campaign of education has been more
aggressive and thorough in the
northern than in the southern half OF
Ohio, and it is now as plain as pike
staff that had as much Jealous and
intelligent work been done in the lat
ter as in the former section, Ohio in.
stead of giving a beggerly Republi.
can plurality of 1,O74 votes, would
have given a Democratic plurality OF
more than 20, 900.
In old times the preponderance OF
Democratic strength in Illinois wa-
in Egypt-the extreme southern por-
ton of the State. Douglas looked
to Egypt for his great majOrities,
while Lincoln counted upon the north
for his. But things have greatly
changed. Gradually Egypt has been
diluting its Democracy, while on the
other hand the northern countie,
have shown a decidedly Democratic
leaning.
In the recent election the republi
cans made important gains in the
southern counties-they literally car
ried the war into Africa. On the
other hand, the democrats made great
gains in the northern tier The three
strong democratic counties in that sec
ton were all republican until within
few years. They are Cook, Kane
and La Sale. Only one of them gave
Cleveland a majority in 1SSs-La
Salle-and then of only 800. In thai
year Kane gave Harrison $500 and
Cook gave him 500. This year Har
rison lost them all and Cook gave
Cleveland the tremendous majority o.
33, 900, or half as much as the tota
vote of the county less than twent,
years ago.
The democratic growth in Northern
Illinois has been 80 great of late thai
by the reappointment of Legislative
districts, soon to be made, the cOntro
of the party machinery will pass from
Egypt, the stamping ground of Nor
rison and other Old-timers, to tn,
north, where Cable, Altgeld, Hesins
and others ofthe young and progress
sive element have come strongly t.
the front.
As for Chicago its growth has beer
marvellous, and the enormous increase
in the democratic strength means tina
with thorough organization, which
will now he maintained, the Chicag,
Democracy will before many years h
stronger in numbers as well as infu
ence than all the rest of the state
Already Chicago polls third of thu
total Democratic vote of the State.