The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-12-30
a MINoRITY PREsIoENT.

= N4lEOhl rdE5lLEN
Ehs Combined oppositIoa vote over THAT /
Given Grover Cleveland So 5LoEs Than +.
shortly after the recent election /
there was published by the New York f.
World, and copied by nearly all the .
leading democratic papers, "a tahulated .
statement of what purPorted TO be the
repu biican and democratic maiorities-
To this statement the World appended /
e summary reading as follows:
Cleveland over Harrison, Js3,5 HJ-
Cleveland over Harrison and weaver, 557.-
Ool
Note-Not enough is known OF BIdweIi's aud
wings votes 90 mase an estimate from. hut is
Is plain that Cleveland and Stevenson have q
large majority OF all the votes east This mss
not happened before since 1897 CIevllaud'B
plurality in IS5i was 64,65E ln iss5 it was s5-
Ever since that time the Cleveland
worshipiug press have been in spazmB
of ecstacy. over what they choose to
term aa unparalleled victory and a
'iyeritable landslide"
Now it is certain that no one would
think of accusing the World Of iguo-
rance in the premises and is is difficult
to know to Just what motive to lscEl be
the Worlds claim that Cleveland had
maiorities- instead of pluraEties, which
they really are. It was altogether uu-
worthy OF a metropolitan paper like
the World TO make it appear that Mr.
Cleveland had a large majority over
Harrison, Weaver and Bidweui when
as "a matter OF fact there are very few
states in which he obtained a major
ty Of the popular vote. It is, how
ever, iH harmony with the action of
the Kansas City Star in stating
that bIr. Cievelaud's majority in Texas
was f6l, 600, when the truth is that he
had a majority OF only 80, s52 votes, a
loss since 1SSS of about 5S, 600 votes,
q
larger had it not been for the fact that
23, 600 poPulist votes were thrown out
This in face OF the fact OF an abnormal
increase since iS8S OF "a, 600 votes ia the
total vote of the state. counted and uu-
counted
The true method of ascertainiuE if
any candidate has a majority of the
popular vote is eNemplidcd in the fol-
/ lowing table, which is an eloquent
though mute argument for the election
| of presidential electors in the several
| states by the popular vote in each state
/ with the principal of proportional rep
/ resentatiou interviewer in such a man
ner as to give the minority q fair
/ represon ntatiou an the electoral college
I OF each state
! The table is taken from the Kansas
/ City Star. The vote of New York is
not given just as given in the Stars
/ table, the state returning board
/ having since Published the official
/ figures
! As to the correctness of the figures
/ the Star says
/ These figures are with but few exceptions
I Jhe ohl-ial returns a7 compiled by the canvass
/ ing boards OF Ih1 various states auI sent TO Lh1
/ Star by telegraph as soon as complete In Orc
! Eon, Michigan, Wyoming, Montana and one or
/ two other states Tho onicIai canvass has not
I been made rs yet. for legal and other reasons
[ but tho figures given below, AS sent by the sec
reEarles OF state viii probably be found 10 vary
Q "H.# HHH. 90
/ the final count
! with unblushiug efFroutery and o.
! gross disregard for the truth, the Star
I then says:
! In the tabuIuted returns below 1Ir Cleveland
/ apparently had no supporters In colorado, kan
Z sas Idaho. Nevada Oregon ana ~ Vv0miug but
/ this was the result of political maneuFer-nE 10y
! which the democratic votes OF those states
} We're cast for the peoples party ticket In
/ Nebraska sle Cleveland vote appears vevy
small, but this due to the fact I'm rgguest ts
I were sent cut 20 the democrats 20 vote for
/ Weaver and over GD.O-0 OF them uadoub lCdIy
/ obeyod the Instructions. The votes OF tho
! states named which cast presidential ballots
: for Cleveland iu lsSS were as follows Colora-
do, a'r555. hau7a7r li- 7i5. Nevaia, s. $3.50 and
IdIho were O-5 and iu Wyoming 6,-I9.
This would be amusing We're it not
/ so contempt BILE. such "a statement is a
/ fair ILLUSTRATION of the startling and
! alarming fact that the partisan press
of the United States uniformly deceives
/ the people and sacrifices truth at the
[ altar OF party policy. All popujists
| know that in Colorado and Nevada
/ there We're no Cleveland men, his
/ known autagonism to silver having al
/ rayed all his former supporters against
/ him In Nebraska an analysis OF the
vote shows that only 5000 democrat Is
! voted for Weaver and that the demo
cratic loss since 1890 was about 80, O0l
votes Fifteen thousand of these votes
/ went to Weaver and 10000 to Harrison,
but only 18, 600 of them were cast for
the republican candidate for governor,
residue either leaving the state or not
going to the polls As for Kansas and
her 1O2.T45 democratic votes, it may Ue
stated that in 1890, in % straight
three-corued fight, from IS, 900 TO 30 OgC
of them voted the populist ticket Hery
is the table: