The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-30
POLITICIAN WORLD.
Candidates, conwRsids. Nomina
tions, Electiols.
All the News of Politics Movement.
of the Four Paties.

Hon. William Diekey 4as sent to tho
Maine Legislature in 1s4a and they are
sending him there yet. He Eas reelected
at the recent election. Heis eighty one
years old.
| j. j. McIntosh, Democnt candidate
for Congress in the Sixth Nebraska dis
trict, has Withdrawn, fading that he is
| not citizen. SStcS
-vv"s,rrsmru orSpossSa rap ! ana congress:
Tan Henry Cabot Lodgelare the an
nounced Republican candidates for
United Stats Senator from Massachu-
sotts to succeed II. l. Dawes
Hon. w. NJ. Fishback. Governor elect
of Arkansas, will make Democratic
spc ches in New 70 k and tennessee.
Republican convention at aauuton, Va,
has nominated w. &. Franklin, of Ap-
pomatt x, for Congress. l.
1t is reported that Mr.. Bhine may de-
eide to enter tho Senate Instead of Mr..
Hale. whose successor is to be chosen by
,hc Legisl ,ture elected IN Maine this
week. Hale is candidatefor re -elec-
tion.
There are but 100 coloed voters in
North Dakota. There c 1900 iu the
city of Baltimore. Bal imore has an
are, of thirty-two square miles; North
Dakota has an area OF 10000 square
miles.
The total vote for President in 1884
was 10, 04S, ,561. In 1883 it was IL, 3sS,
03S. This year the ratio of increase will
be greater on account of the addition of
six new States, and the vote of tn Sc
added tc the normal growth in popula
tion in ten years will give total of,
probably, 14,0U0,00O.
When William Henry Harrison, the
grandfather of Benjamin, ran for Prcsi
Gcnt in 1886, he received Al, ,2s1 votes in
Indiana. His grandson received in the
same State in 1888, 263, ,381.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected
President of the United States, in 1860,
he received 1865, ,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 1920, 100. New York's total this
year will not be very fur from the entire
vote cast for Mr.. Lincoln in the whole
United States thirty-two years ago.
day. january 8, to declare the falls this
each. 1t will be transmitsd SoIs CHOSEN
ing on by special messenaef in each
ca c, 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 cleo
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 thele are more than
million, and the electors resident in the
Territories, the total number of qualified
electors was $3.50, 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 ,0J0, 900, the same result as is derived
bv comparison with previous elections
The banner State for Cleveland in 1888
was Texas, which gave him 146, 900 ma
jcrity. Harrison had, SO to speak, two
banner States-Kansas, which gave him
80, l59, and Pennsylvania, which gavr
him 1914 majority. This year there
are four parties in Texas and three in
Kansas, and Weaver is likely to poll
good vote in each. Pennsylvania, in
which the fight is a straight one between
the two parties and without complica-
tions from the outside, is likely to kc y
at the head Of tie column for the Repub-
licans, while Mississippi, under the terms
of the new Registry law, will probably
give the larges. majority for the Demo
cracy.
The two St,tes in which the colorcd
voters absolutely predominant in number
are South Carolina and Mississippi. In
South Carolina there arc 102, 900 white
voters and $4,000 colored voters. In
Mississ ppi there are 100, 900 white voters
and 1900, colorcd voters-a colored
majority of 80, 900 in each State. Louis
lana has more white than colored voters,
but it has, on the other hand. more
c lorcd voters native born then white
voters native born These are the
figures: Colored voters, 11e, ,9GG; white
voters (nativc born), n6,8Ge; foreign
born white voters. $4,000. The latter
hold the balance of power, numerically
a d this is the only State in the Union
where this condition of things prevails