The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-10

me ROCKY MOuui3lu range OF WEST VI
those mountains They are for the
most part thinly settled. having in 1890
total population Of only 2,Sfi,ioo. or
less than per cent of the 62,1l6,s11 in
the whole forty-five although they have
an abnormal proportion OF the electoral
yotes-36 out of Az, or about one
twelfth. These SO votes are so divided
between the two candidates as TO give
Bryan q majority of 10 or of 4. accord
ing as Wyoming shall prove to be for
or against him.
This side OF the eastern foothills OF
the Rockies lies 81 states. of which p
ers, and II below that line-counting
Missouri with the south, as il has al
ways been in political affiliations. and
the adjoining state OF Kansas with the
north. as it has been since the slavery
issue was supplanted by Populism.
The northern states have 3S.295,523
people. and 263 electoral votes: the
southern, 21,OO6.SSS people, and l4S
are solid for Mckinley, with the excep-
ton of Kansas. Nebraska, and possibly
South Dakota; the southern ones solid
for Bryan, except West Virginia and
Kentucky.
Among the various points Of differ
ence between these two groups of states
is one which is seldom thought of, but
which is brought into bold relief by the
results of the recent election. The south
is essentially a native section, the white
population of many states being almost
exclusively the descendants of the ear
Iy settlers. The north is half of foreign
birth. with many states in which that
element constitutes large majority or
the people.
The last census gives the number or
persons whose parents. one or both,
were foreign born. which is much
fairer test than that Of native or for
eign birth. For the south the whites
alone are now 10 be considered, as the
negro vote has nowhere turned the
scale, except in Kentucky. For this in
uuiry, moreover, we disregard Ken
lucky and West Virginia. which have
gone for Mckinley. Taking the other
states in that section we find that the
whites have among them only about L
per cent of people of foreign parentage
i'm North Carolina; between and In
South Carolina. Georgia and Tennessee
and between and ) in Virginia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Arkansas. In
Florida there is large element or Gu
bans; in Louisiana, New Orleans. the
one large city in the south, has drawn
many foreign immigrants; and in Tex
as many Mexicans have drifted across
the Rio Grande, and there is consid-
cradle German population-carryln ing
the ratio in these three states up to
about Is per cent in Florida, 10 in Tex
as. and 20 in Louisiana. In the section
as a whole the foreign vote is very
small. and in no one Of these last three
states has it ever been a controlling ele-
ment.
On the other hand, in the north we
have in New England persons of for
eign parentage constituting from about
23 per cent of the population in Maine
to 56 in Massachusetts and % III Rhode
Island; in New York about 81, New Jer-
sew. 30, and Pennsylvania 81; while
west of the Alleghanies the only states
with a relatively small proportion are
Indiana with about II, Missouri ~, ana
Kansas %. Everywhere else the ratio
is large. and in some states very great:
about 35 per cent in Ohio. As in Ne
braska. "A in Iowa, 80 in Illinois. 30 in
Michigan. 81 in South Dakota. "a in
Wisconsin, as in Minnesota, and 80 IN
North Dakota.
Now the native south went for Bry-
an: the foreign-bOrn north stuck by Nc
Kinley. From the Atlantic TO the Mis-
souri, there was not break in the Nc
Kinley column. New York. more tnan
half foreign. gave Mckinley about 2to,
600 more votes than Bryan; Illinois,
half foreign, $4,000 majority for Nc
Kinley in a vote two-thirds as large as
New York's: Wisconsin. nearly three
fourths foreign, about 100000 majority
in a total vote only about quarter az
large as New York's. Moreover, the
state which makes the poorest showing
of all the great states east OF the Mis-
souri, river is the one which has the
smallest foreign element. Indiana has
only about 81 per cent of people with
foreign parents, and its majority Tor
sound money is only 1900; while Iowa
with nearly a per cent, gives MAORI
ty of about 1900.
Kansas. which has chosen Bryan
electors, also elected Populist legisla-
ture, a Populist state ticket, and a
Judge who will make a majority of the
supreme court Populist. Kansas has
less than 2S per cent OF foreigners
among her population. North Dakota
has more than 30 per cent and North
Dakota has rejected Populism In every
form. national and state.
But the most striking test or the Tor
e!gn element is afforded in Missouri.
As a whole that state has about IS per
cent Of people of foreign parentase, OF
whom nearly half are found in St
Louis. where they number 304.II3, or
almost exactly two-thirds Of the whole
451.77o. The foreign metropolis Of Ms
souri, went for sound money by large
majority: the remainder Of the state,
with only 3t3, AS foreigners out OF