The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-11-18
ANALYSIS OF THE COUNTY VOTE.
rall.siou. Ann-Elsosion Claims Disposed of.

During the recent campaign IL was
many times asserted that when the cleo
ton returns come in there would he
found great detection to exist among
the farmers who had hitherto been vot-
ing the Republics ticket. That they
would he deeply imbned with the heresy
of Free Silver, and that the results every
where would show this to he 50.
That there are spots here and there in
the county where a considerable number
of this class did give early evidence of
absorbing this delusive doctrine is prob
ably true.
But il certainly can not be said that
any considerable number of farmers of
Somerset county were caught by the cry
of cheap dollar. Certainly the attempt
to array country against town, and class
against class, failed them.
The total vote for all parties as cast in
Somerset county foots up total OF $50;
of this vote 2l26 was east in the boroughs
or Incorporated towns, divided as follows:
| Mckinley and Hobart.....-..l3fs
Bryan and Sewall ..-........... 66S
| Bryan and Watson -..-.-.--.....
| Bryanfsnd Free silver. ID 6S
| Mckinley over total Bryan
| Note---.-.-.---.--..-.- ohl
The boroughs also also gave the following
vote to other candidates:
| lowering, pro. .--...-........-- 81
Bentley, National ...............
Palmer, tJeffersonian)...-.-... s
| While the townships of Elk Lick and
| Summit are second to none in the county
as farming townships, yet as the mining
interests there are largely developed,
this article will deal with their
vote separately: The total vote of the two
townships was $50 divided ar follows:
Mckinley and Hobart. So
Bryan and Sewali li............. 3l3
Bryan and Watson ..............
Bryan and Free silver. 3A
Mckinley over total Bryan
Vote-...-...--....--..- ao
The Prohibition, Socialist and Jefler-
sonian electors each received one vote
here.
The remaining townships of the county
may be fairly classed as purely agricul
tural, or at least nearly so. The mining
interests at Listie and other points along
the line of the s. Il G. X. II.
are not extensive enough to take any of
them out of this class; not more than
two of their villages would have a popu-
lation large enough for incorporation as
boroughs, and these townships can,
therefore, be classed as being distinctive
ly agricultural as any in the State. Their
total vote is 1884, divided as follows:
Mckinley and Hobart.-...-..39S5
Bryan and sewall.............. 1858
Bryan and Watson............-.
Bryan and Free silver p l3Si
Mckinley over total Bryan
Note.--------.--
In the townships Prohibition electors
received 90 and the Jeffersonian electors
6 votes.
Had there been any foundation for the |
anti-election claims made for Free Silver |
it would be shown in the largely increas-
ed vote that would have been given to |
Bryan as compared with the Democratic |
vote of previous years-but there is no |
such increase. While there is an in |
crease of 80 votes over 1892, that is not |
even what the natural increase would be |
while it is decrease of Dos votes when |
compared Win the laiSest previous Dehi-
ocratic vote, which was in 1880.
There were in the entire county 2l3 |
votes east for the Bryan and Sewall elec-
tors found in the Free Silver column
possibly these voters may have formerly |
been Republicans instead of Democrats
or Populists, which may have the been
alleged Free Silver detection among the
farmers, that was TO overwhelm the Re
publican party in defeat cut very in
significant figure, their vote instead
showing that all classes of our people
whether farmers, mechanics. laborers.
professional or business men are alike
opposed to reputation and anarchy.
Y.
Now a Publisher.