The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03
SURE STATES.
OnIy y Few states Have Beer Loyal 20 Ous
Party Tor Many Years.

As the Republican party was established as a
national organization In 1880. II celebrates this
year the fortieth year Of existence. II has par
ticlpated IN ten national elections, and this
years Presidential contest will be tho eleventh
In which tho two competitors for popular
recognition have been the Democratic party on
the one side and tho Republican on the other
Nine States OF the Union snd nine only have
been uniformly Republican In all national con-
tests for forty years, These states are Iowa,
Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska,
tbince Its admlssion). New Hampshire, Ohio,
Vermont, and Rhode Island. They are entitled
to recognition as what, probably, may DO called
the sure Republican States" and the list would
be n longer one but for come political mis-
chances and fatalities which havo impaired tho
integrity of several. In the list Of such Ro-
publican States. with otherwise an unbroken
record OF undertaking party support at presi-
dental elections, ia Pennsylvania, which the
Democrats carried In 1886; Kansas, which
slipped into tho Popullst column in 1902,
Michigan. In which the adoption OF district
electors" gave the Democrats four In 1SD2. and
oregon, which was carried by the Democrats by
a small majority In 1868.
On the other side there arc only two States
which have been uniformly Democratic at every
elcctlun without IA break. aud these are not, rs
might be supposed, either Kentucky or New
Jersey, two democratic strongholds. but
Georgia. the Empire state OF the SOUTH and
Texas. Georgia and Texas arc the only States
in the Union which have been uniformly Demo.
cratic at the last ten Presidential elections. but
there are several other States which, during
that time. have been Democratic with one break
only. Among these are New Jersey and Della
ware, which were lost to the Democracy In tho
contest OF 1872 in consequence OF the detection
or the Democratic "straightouts" opposed to
the nomination OF Horace Greeley and Is. tratz
Brown. Kentucky has been Democratic except
at one election, that of 1850, when the Union
party. which ran John Bell for President, got
$4,000 votes In the Blue Grass Commonwealth.
against $1,000 for Breckinridge, the Southern
Democratic candidate, aud $4,000 for Douglas,
tho Northern democratic candidate. Mr.. Lin
coin, though born in kentucky. received in his
native Sth,e when first a candidate for Presi-
dent only 1900 votes. The second time he ran
he received q 1000. Immediately following the
reconstruction. period, when tho suffrage was
Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
south Carolina were carried by the Republicans.
Virginia never has been carried by the Itcpubli-
can party III a national election, although tho
and Morton ticket Came within Il
small fraction Of carrying the Old Dominion In
1883 1t went for the Union party, Bell and
Everett, by the slender plurality of 800 votes in
] $50. Nevada has been carried once by the
and once by the S!lveIites. Florida
has been twice Republican. Wisconsin has
been carried by the Democrats in one national
that of 1892, and Missouri twice for
the Republicans, in 1864 and 1868. Indiana
has gone Democratic in four national elections
and Republican in six. There was no national
in Texas In 1868.