Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29
CHICAGO'S REGISTRATION.
The Increase Not Distributed as Jones
Would Like 1t to be.

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. %. The tire.
mendous registration OF Chicago is
glowing theme for local politicians OF
all parties. Whoever shall be elected
President there will be thousands OF
disappointed Chicagoans; to have
registered larger vote than any other
city in the country is performances
on which every Chicago spell binder
may ring the changes without risk to |
his popularity. Chicago's cup OF happi-
ness runs over when in any spectacular |
undertaking she surpasses New York.
There was not newspaper in the city |
could let the registration figures go |
without scare head noting that in the !
possible vote this pushing city at last |
leads New York by 80, 335.
Only at the sound-money headquar-
tiers is this big registration received
with unmixed satisfaction. Chairman
Jones and his mathematical young men
have been making some brave figures,
| hut the undeniable fact is that the in
crease is NOT distributed as he would
| like it to be by any means. There is
such wonderful multiplication of
votes in the districts that Bryan can
| have no hopes of carrying. The po!iti-
clans roughly calculate always that a
heavy vote is net gain TO the party
| which is locally dominant. Estimated
on this basis there il not much in the
registration figures of which either the
| Republican or Democratic party can
boast over the other That is to say
| the increase does not lack much OF
being uniform throughout the city.
| This, however, is a serious disap-
pointment to the Popocratic managers.
| They have been boldly claiming-the
more camorously because they have
realized lately that this was their one
chance in Chicago-that the Demo
cratic war'is, especially the tenement
house districts, would show more than
proporrionate increase. Their local
lieutenants have been working des-
perately 10 bring this about and they
realize that the figures which actually
resulted, showing an even increase IN
the different sections OF the city, bodies
only defeat for William Jennings Bryan.
In fact, the net gain-.not large rela'
tiveiy-is in the Republican wards.
Several OF the banner Democratic wards
have Jagged conapicuously. One big
tenement house ward even shows loss
OF 303 votee.
Evidently. the gain is the gain OF
sound money rather than Of the Re
publican party. The National Demo.
cratic managers are delighted with the
eagerneRs shown by classes on whom
, the straight fight Tor sound money has
most counted. Busi1ess men have been
especially keen to register. Seeing
, that they, even though they be Demo
, Gratis. live for the most part in the Re-
, publican wards, so called, the regiBtra-
ton promises spiendidly for the In
] diauapolis ticket. That the anxiety OF
/ this c!aes of men is for sound money
I the permanency of the gold standard
and continuous opportunity for present
business projects-rather than for the
monopolistic hodge podge of which
Mark Hanna is the champion, will
scarcely be questioned in any quarter.
1t is never so hard to bring to the
polls that class of voters who in the
cities are accustomed to vote the regu.
> lar Democratic ticket. Yet in 1892 the
Democrats of Chicago had to pay, &C
corciing to good authority, $50, 600 tt
u register their vote. The Republicans
u doubtless paid even more. This yea
y the cost to the sound money com
. mittees, both Republican aud NGtiona
!. Democratic, has been comparativel!
% trifilnG. Hundreds Of men who boforl
| WOhlti ubb VAIN bAV bibGh "
y register have come from business Jour
y neys for that purpose, many of then
travelling hundreds of miles. On
. prominent merchant, Palmer ant
y Buckner man, who is quoted publiCl,
- as saying 81 would cross the contihen
~ to help to beat Bryan" is little NOR
20 than type of this class.
~ In connection with the analysis o
y the Chicago registration. much discus
AZ sion is given TO the Chicago Record
at postal card ballot, the biggest thing q
"a the year in the straw vote line. Chair
"a man JONES' cil-pushers have evel
al been able TO figure out semblancs G
III comfort from the Records figures
ia which in truth are dreadfullly ominou
r.. for Bryan. They do it by some of thus
percentage calculations which the aver
age voter would rather accept withou
question rather than investigate.
-, few days ago these clever young me
-, even got in their work on the Ne
York World. Said the World:
n. "Men who delight in deduction
A, drawn from percentages are in stat
bs of bewilderment over the Record posti
If. card vote. The facts are thu
in each of the three States of Missouri
lie Iowa and Indiana, the detection {
til Harrison voters to Bryan is larger tina
lie that of Cleveland voters to Mckinley
ty and this, in spite of the fact that tt
,er total Mckinley vote in Indiana an
in Iowa is greater than that of Bryan.
to The trick in calculating, say the pc
fits centage of Bryan's gain from the Ha
of rison vote is in taking as a basis IL
III entire Bryan vote instead of the Ha
ist rison vote, The result is falsely Gale
the percentage of Republican detection
M An experienced Democratic can
200 paigner of this city furnished the 70
alo lowing correct calculation:
''In my ward of the Records co
respondents A, 800 are for Mckinley, 81
for Bryan and 100 for Palmer. OF ii
+, Mckinley men, 500 voted for Clevear
IN and lS6 OF tho Bryan men voted {
M Harrison. Down at the Auditoriu
do Annex they say; lS6 is 81 per cent ar
of o fraction, of 092 therefore Bryan W
tic get in that ward 81 per cont Of ii
an former Republican vote OF course,
IN get the real Republican vote, they shou
the subtract the Cleveland Mckinley M
not and the Palmer men, COZ in all, fro
at l,365; that leaves g. 1853; then il tn
ses will divide 1856 by 1866, they will g
ME little less than Ca Therefore t
Re- detection of Republican votes to Bry
the is somethi ing under 5 per cent T
dly proportion of 1882 Democrats who a
going to vote for Mckinley to t