Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-01-28
THE VOTE Of THE PEOPLE.
Figures Indicate = steady Growth Of the
nrmncrafic Party.

The VOTE OF The PEOPLE,
Figures Indicate a steady Growth Of tho
Democratic Party.
A complete table Of the popular vote
At the last presidential election in com.
oarison with that al the election Of
ISIS contains some suggestions of IN
usual interest In the first place il
shows that the total vote was compara-
lively light. The total vote in 1884
was lo,o5l,Sot and in 1855 1t was H..
iI0,dd2 This j an increase u about
Il per cent IN the touc wears In 1922
The total vote was l2,O6>595, an in.
crease Of a trifc over i per cent,
although in the meantime six new
states hal been admitted into the
lnion, with an aggregate Of 214. S5i
votes The table shows that this loss
IN the total vote must have fallen
chiefly upon the republican party,
though the increase Of the democratic
vote was less than would have been
expected in ordinary circumstances
The vote of the Peoples party ex-
plains in part the relative falling off
Il both the regular parties, but it
5 evident that it was drawn much more
largely from the republicans than from
the democrats, The total vote Of the
prohibitionistS and the labor party in
1884 was SIS, 7S2. and in 1855 it was
1913, 7l2. But in l>s2 the prohibition and
peoples party vote reached an aggrc-
gate Of 1913, Oh. Of which l,040. 600 was
cast for the Weaver ticket. In the
states where there was a fusion be
tween the democrats and populists.
and where the democrats withdrew
their electoral tickets, the votes are
all credited to Weaver, which involves
a deduction Of democratic votes from
the Cleveland column, the number Of
which cannot be estimated. There was
a combination between the republicans
and peoples party in Louisiana which
may affect the republican vote there,
though it is probable that the division
made in the table represents substan
tally the actual strength of the two
parties in the state.
The vote for Cleveland when he was
elected in 1851 was A.S1+Qs6. and his
plurality over Blaine Vas 23,OO5 in the
whole country In lsSS his total vote
j,5352i2, which was an increase of
fully l3!. per cent over that OF the pre-.
ceding election, and. although defeated. |
he had I plurality of 1884 over Har-
rison on the popular vote Of the coun-
try, The latter obtained his majority
Of the electoral votes by CARRYING GER
tain close states by a narrow margin.
Clevelaud's total vote at the last cleo
ton was 5.55i,Gs5, which was an in
Of only about 3 par cent. over
that Of l>s4, but his plurality over
Harrison was increased TO $50, 342. The
vote Tor Blaine in 1854 was
4sSl.0sl, and that for Harrison
in 1855 was $40, 10S. This was an in
crease in the republican vote Of a little
over Il per cent, that in the demo.
vote having been 49,: per cent.
These figures point significantly to the
means by which the republican victory
Of -FOUR years ago was gained by con
centrating the powers Of corruption
upon New York and Indiana. Har-
rison's total vote at the last election
was 5,i52, S43, a falling off Of more
than ; per cent. from that of lSsS.
These figures indicate a steady
IN the strength Of the demo.
purity in the last eight wears,
out they show that the increase was
'elatirely greater during Cleveland's
administration than during the subse.
luent four years, and hat the launch.
ne Of his tariff policy in the message
II 1851 dld not weaken the party in the
'ountry at large. But their greatest
igniticance is in the evidence Of a loss
VI strength by the republican party dur
ng the administration OF Harrison and
while the agitation of the question of
arm reform was most active. There
5 no doubt that this is largely accounted {
0r by the passage Of the Mckinley {
aw and the extravaganza OF the Fifty
.rst congress, The dissatisfaction {
With the course of the republican party
'as indicated by the failure of the to. {
al vote OF the country to show its nor
nal increase, by the reduction of the I
epublican vote not only relatively but
bsolutely, and by the development of
ugh unusual strength by the third
in states that were previously !
n,,r l1fa,n