Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-07
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great landslide in American politics.
The Democratic and wing parties
were supposed to be about evenly di-
vided.
The Democratic convention met in
Baltimore on June !, 1852. and after
a session lasting four days nominated
Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire
for President and w. r. King of Ala
bama for vice President. Both candl-
dates were obscure men. They were
comparatively unknown in politics or
public life. and their greatest recon.
mendations appeared to be that no
one knew anything against them.
The wings nominated Gen. Winfield
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 whig
platform favored both.
The free soil party entered the fight
that year and nominated John F.
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 296 votes in the electoral college
OF these Pierce received 254 and
Scott A.
That was the greatest landslide on
record, and 1t proved the death blow
Of the wing party
But great as was Pierce's majority
in the electoral college in the popular
vote he ran only little more than
200, 600 votes ahead of Gen Scott.
The popular vote of the two candi-
dates was: Pierce, LOCI, IA; Scott,
!, 1856, 57S.
-Four years later Willard Fillmore,
the whig candidate for President, got
only eight electoral votes. In that
year the Republican party developed
unexpected strength and gave John
c. Fremont, its candidate for Presi-
dent, ia electoral votes,
Owing to the peculiar political con-
ditions existing in this country in
1868 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 the 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
ographlcal divisions, Eastern or New
England, Northern, Middle, South
ern, and Western States, and il will
he found that the Democratic ticket
has majority Of the electoral vote,
of every section except the Eastern
States
The Democratic ticket has a GOOD
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
-, 600 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 %, 900. Hayes carried
the State by 20, 900 in 1876 and
Grant carried it by $4,000 in 1872.
The landslide there this year shows a
change Of more than 32, 600 totes
from the vote four years ago.
In Kansas Harrison's plurality -four
years ago was 1000. The republi.
can pluralities in the State in 1880
and 1884 averaged 90, 600.
The landslide in Ohio was almost
as great as Illinois. Harrson's plu-
raIty in the Buckeye state four years
ago was $4,000, while Blaine carried
the State eight years ago by 81. 600.
In Wisconsin the republican plu-
rallty four years ago was p, 900 and
eight years ago -, 600.
If the Democrats had lost the fouI
states Of New York, Indiana, New
Jersey aud 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, o. ten more
than enough TO elect
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