Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-11-17
Analysis of the Vote.

executive branch of the government,
but from its position in the senate,
where the Republicans imagined they
had safely entrenched themselves in
power for many years to come by the
admission of six sage-brush and jack
rabbit territories in the Reed congress,
two of them at least having less voters
than an ordinary congressional district
in Pennsylvania.
Not counting Ohio and California,
where tn official will be required to de-
termine the result. Cleveland carried
twenty-five states, Harrison thirteen
and Weaver six, the vote of Michigan
being evenly split In 1888, Cleveland
carried eighteen and Harrison twenty
states. Geographically, Cleveland has
secured the hundred and ffty-nine votes
from the solid South and an even hun
dred from the North, against an insig-
nifcant total for Harrison of one hun
dred and twenty-one. If the official
returns should give both Ohio and Cali
fornia to the Democrats, it would swell
their total in the electoral college to
three hundred, plurality of one hun
dred and sixty-nine and a Northern geo.
graphical plurality of eleven.
The expert political statisticians figure
that Cleveland's popular plurality over
Harrison will approach, if not reach,
$4,000. Add to this Weaver's plurali-
ties in the six states carried by him
100000 and it foots up total of almost
100000 popular majority against the
Republican party.
The heaviest reverses suffered by
Harrison were in New York, where a
majority of $4,000 four years ago was
transformed into majority of Al 900 for
Cleveland; in Illinois, majority of o.
600 was swept away and Democratic
majority of 81 900 substituted; in Wiscon-
sin, where 21,000 Republican majority
collapsed, and in its place appeared
5000 Democratic plurality; in Ohio
where 10000 majority disappeared; in
Kansas, where $4,000 majority was re-
duced to nothing; in Minnesota, where
$4,000 majority was cut in half, and in
Colorado, where $4,000 majority was
reversed.
But it is in fact one unbroken story of
Republican majorities reduced, wiped
out or reversed from Maine to Califor-
MIA, from the lakes to the gulf-defeat,
disaster, route everywhere. The total
vote in the several states will not be at
hand for several weeks, but from all
sections of the country come the reports
that it was phenomenally heavy, show
ing that the people were doing deal of
deep sea thinking during what the poll
ticians called the "apathetic" campaign
and came out and voted with an impet-
uosity never before equaled. 1t is be-
lieved that the total vote in the United
States will reach, if not surpass, 49,
10000.
-Four years ago it ran close to II ,000,-
900, and eight years ago just exceeded
100000. In 1884 Cleveland's popular
majority was $4,000; four years later
when he was defeated, it reached 9S, 900
this year it will reach.55O, 900. On the
basis of 12,500,000 votes, this would
show gain of 900, 900 over Cleveland s
vote of four years ago, and a Republican
gain of 100000. In other words, the
Democratic vote in four years increased
20 per cent, while the Republican vote
Jagged back and hardly showed 10 pei
cent. increase. For twelve years prioi
to 1892 the average increase in the tota
vote of the country at each presidential
election was about 10 per cent.
The capture of the senate is th'
brightest gem in the crown of the glori
Gus victory, as it at last places the Demo
cratic party in undisputed possession 0
every branch of the government. Th
present senate stands AZ Republicans
80 Democrats, Farmers Alliance,
Republican majority of eight. There
whose terms expire March 4. OF these
seventeen come from states previously
controlled by Republicans. The eigh
Democratic senators will either be re
elected or have Democratic successors
They come from Tennessee, New Jer
sey, Missouri, Delaware, Florida, Texas
and Indiana. Besides these eight tn,
Democrats will gain one each from
California, Montana, New York, Wscon
sin and Wyoming, in each of which
states the Republicans lost the legisla
ture. This will give theDemocrats thin
teen of the new senators to be elected
d gain of five. The Republicans wi
also lose senators from Nebraska, NeN
ada and Kansas to the Populists, so tha
the next senate will stand; Democrats
A; Republicans 80; Populists 5, givin
Vice President Stevenson the castin
vote should the Populists combine wit