Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
Official Paper of County.

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OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
Meaning Of the Figures.
AS the official counts come in and
as the unofficial counts ere revised
and corrected in anticipation OF the
authoritive verdict, it is borne upon
us more and more that Bry JAMS de-
feat was achieved npon very mar
row margin, and that the "landslide"
spoken of SO loudly three weeks ago
was but a thing in buckram. The
New Orleans Times-Demccrat,
one of the besu-informed journals in
the country and without superior
in the collation. and analysis of sta
tistics, has just completed careful
examination of the figures, and says:
'.All the counties of Texas have
been heard from, and we are at last
able to give the total vote cast at the
late election. There were cast 10, 1872
49S votes, OF 1,5s5,224 more than in
the previous election an increase of
over 10 per cent. The plurality of
Mckinley over Bryan was not the
100000 predicted. but barely half
that much, 592, 666 in all. 1t is not
the largest plurality ever received by
a candidate for the Presidency, but
islbelow Grants in 1872, and but little
over his in 1868, Lincoln's in 1860, and
Blu chanan's in 1856"
The totals are thus given.
Total McKinley.................. 7044,SS4
bryan............' ................. O,4o2,Slo
fallner................... ............ llO, 6So
lowering. ....... 104, 427
Bentley................. 10,678
chett................. .......... 9942
McKinley's plurality........... 592, $3.50
Total observation-disclosures. 13, 732, 49S
Our contemporary concludes as fol-
lows:
The table going the rounds of the
press purpotting to be the popular
vote, and originally published in the
New York World, is an arrant fake. 1t
gives South Carolina to Mckinley
it credits votes to Palmer in South
Dakota, where there was no Palmer
ticket, and Its returns for most of the
states, and particularly the Southern
States-among them Alabama, Louis
lana and Texas-are incorrect, and.
in many cases, evidently invented,
as votes are credited to candidates,
particularly Palmer, where not a
single vote was received by them
1T will be January before the Off
cial votes in all the states are pro
claimed, but there will be practically
no change from the table given
above"
1t is quite safe to assume that these
figures are practically correct. The
Times Democrat is a specialist and a
high authority in matters OF this
kind. We venture to say that the
returns, when at last they shall have
been officially promulgated, will not
affect our contemporaries statement
to The extent of one-half of one Per
cent as regards any of the totals
above given.
Senator Chandler, therefore makes
no mistakes in his very forcible letter
to the London National Review,
when he says:
"That the Uuited States is opposed
to the single gold standard, and Is in
favor of retracipg in due course and
with careful regard to the national
honor the steps taken in the demone-
tizaticn of silver, until both gold and
silver shall be admitted to free coin
age at the ratio of 15i to 1, and made
the standard money of the world, ant
the measure of the values of tbs
worlds aproposition which woulG
receive the suffrages of four fifths o
our voters, if this proposition alon
could be fairly presented to them
even without further debate. The.
have sufficiently informed themselye
to believe that the quantity of rea
money and not the money which mus
be redeemed in some other money
determines the prices. of the world
: commodities, that the demonetizatio
ofhalf of the worlds real money
slowly reducing prices and crushin
debtors and that the use Of only gol
as non.redeemable money is placip
the great instrument of exchange j
commerce upon such narrow bas
that the present depression in Fro
duction and trade will continue, wit
occasional and temporary reaction
for an indefinite period, and wit
manifold evils to the human race tn
world over.n
If the wild project embodied in tt
Chicago platform commanded near
$500, 900 votes, out of less than Ia, 90
000 cast by the entire nation, VIII,
would be the popular majority upc
an issue of rational, intelligent Ell
conservative bimetallism?-Wa shin
ton Post.
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