San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-08-05
Third Parties iii Presidential Years.

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sometimes give it to one of the 9th
, er Of the great organizations which
) could not have obtained it withou
their aid. They do this, too, whel
they do not gain single vote in tht
electoral college. Indeed, the only
decisive influence which they have
had in politics, was in the years il
which they did not carry a single
state. The earliest of the so called
third parties, which was formed
was the anti masonic party, which
figured in the presidential canvass
in 1882, and whose standard bearer.
William Writ, Secured the seven
ELECTORAL votes of Vermont, but it
did not have feathers weight in
the canvass so far as regards its
effect on either Of the great organi-
cations. Jackson beat Clay this
year, as he would have done If the
Writ party had not been in the
field. The know nothings of 1856,
led by ex-president Fillmore, carri-
ed Maryland, but they neither ma
terially hurt nor helped Fremont
Or Buchanan, the republican and
democratic standard bearers, re-
spectively. Nor did the constitu-
tional union party of Bell and Ev
erett, which carried Virginia, Ken
lucky and Tennessee, in 1860,
change the result in that year.
The liberty party in 1914, however,
the free soil party in 184S, and the
prohibition party in 1884, although
neither secured an ELECTORAL vote,
turned the scale, and all did this
in New York. The ibertyities
drew enough whig votes away from
Clay in that state to give the state
and the nation to Polk and the de-
mocracy; Van Buren,, as head of the
free sellers, attracted enough dem
ocrats in the state away from Cass,
the regular democratic nominee, to
put the wing party candidate, Tay-I
1or, IN power, and st. John, in the
same state, carried sufficient
number of prohibition republicans
away TO defeat Blaine eight years
ago.
This is the record of third par
ties in presidential canvasses, and
it lends some popular interest to
the organization which has just put
a ticket in the field at Omaha. The
question as to which Of the two
great parties well be injured the
more by this ticket depend chiefly
on the section in which it displays
its greatest strength. If it polls
more votes in the ex-slaye states
than in the others, then the demo-
Gratis will be the principal losers,
and vice versa. So far as can be
at this distance from the
election, the activity of the party
will be divided pretty equally be-
.ween the sections. That is, It's
leaders boasts that they Will carry
TWO or three states in the south and
about the same number in the
north. In such a case, or even if
he party gained the northern
states, which it pretends to be con-
ident of carrying, there would
hardly be any election by the peo-
pie, in which event the house of
would be called on
10 make the choice, and the demo-
cratic candidate would be yictori-
1us. But no level headed person
in either of the great parties looks
ior any result of this sort. The
chances are the question will be
decided at the polls. There is no
good reason to assume that the
party vote anywhere in the
south will be great enough even to
throw any state of that region into
he republican column, nor that it
viii be heavy enough in the west
o take any state away from the
epublieans. Apparently, the fight (
will be between the two leading
PARTIES, without any outside inter-
erence which can tell in the re- t
ult Still the presence of this
bird party in the field iniects
actor of uncertainty into the can t
ass, and will cause some concern t
o the leaders and directors of the 1
wo great organizations. Globe I
Democrat. c
The pledge Of the Homestead c
trikers to abstain from violence l
uffers from the prevalent disease t
# aggravated subsequently. San
Daily Express. t
Specimen Cases. e
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