Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-01-11

F.; comparatively unknown In politics or
public life, and their greatest recon-
mendations appeared to be that no
| one knew anything against them.
The whigs nominated Gen. Wlnneld
Scott, who was Commander in Chief
of the American army in the Mexican
war.
Both parties adopted long plat
forms. The only essential difference
in the platforms was that the Demo
Gratis again opposed internal improve
ments and protection, while the wing
platform favored both.
The free soil party entered the fight
that year and nominated John I.
Hale of New Hampshire. for Presi-
dent.
The campaign was without special
features, but when the returns from
the election came in it was found
that a greater landslide had occurred
than the one in 1910. There were
then thirty-one States in the Union
and 2e6 votes in the electoral college.
OF these Pierce received 254 and
Scott AZ.
That was the greatest landslide on
record, and 1t proved the death blow
1f the whig party.
But great as'was Pierce's majority
In the electoral college in the popular
vote he ran only little more than
900, 900 votes ahead of Gen. Scott
The popular vote of the two candi-
dates was: Pierce, 1,601, ,474; Scott,
1886, 57S.
Four years later Millard Fillmore,
the whig candidate for President, got
only eight electoral votes. In that
year the Republican party developed
unexpected strength and gave John
@. Fremont, its candidate for Presi-
lent, ia electoral votes.
Owing to the peculiar political con
ditions existing in this country in
1858 and 1872, the large majority Of
the votes of the electoral college re-
ceived by Grant can not be claSsed
as landslides or political revolutions.
The recent landslide is in every
way the greatest one on record.
While the returns from the popular
vote are not all in the indications are
that Cleveland got greater pleural-
ity of this vote than any other candi-
date when the voters of the country
were divided into two great political
parties.
Some Of the interesting features OF
this landslide are that Ehe Democrats
carried every state that was classed
as doubtful, and carried some of the
strongest Republican States in the
country.
Divide the States into the usual ge.
ographIcal divisions, Eastern or New
England, Northern, Middle, South
ern, and Western States, and it will
be found that the Democratic ticket
has majority Of the electoral votes
Of every section except the Eastern
States
The Democratic ticket has goOo
plurality of the electoral votes of all
the States North of Mason and
Dixon's line.
The greatest changes in the popu
lar vote in the recent election Oc-
CURED in the Northwestern States,
and to show how sweeping was the
landslide in that section some figures
are interesting:
In 1888 Harrison carried Illinois by
%, 900 plurality over Cleveland and
had a majority Of all the votes cast in
the State.
Blalne's plurality in the same State
in 1884 was 5000. Hayes carried
the State BY 20, 900 in 1876 and
Grant carried it by 60, 900 in 1872.
The landslide there this year shows a
change of more than 81, 600 votes
from the vote four years ago.
In Kansas Harrison's plurality fom
years ago was $4,000. The republi-
can pluralities in the State in 1880
and 1884 averaged 90, 600.
The landslide in Ohio was almost
as great as Illinois HarrisOn's plu-
ralitY in the Buckeye state four years
ago was l9, 900, while Blaine carried
the State eight years ago by 80, 600.
In Wisconsin the republican plu-
ralIty four years ago was 81, 600 and
eight years ago 2S, 600.
If the Democ ats had lost the fOuI
states of New York, Indiana, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, which were
regarded as the real battle ground Of
the campaign and have heretofore
been classed as doubtful States,
Cleveland and Stevenson would still
have 233 electoral votes, or ten more
than enough to elect.