Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-07
AN INDEPENDENT FORECAST
The Washington Post (Goldite) Com
ments on Its Recent Figures on
the Electoral College.
FUSION MEANS Mr.. BRYAN'S ELECTION
Figures That Must Fill the Breasts OF
McKinleyites with Unspeakable
Dismay-Useless to Pooh-pooh
and Sputter and Abuse.

Washington, Oct. 7.-Figures on tn
electoral college are interesting at thi
time. The Washington Post, an indie
pendent Republican newspaper, publishe
the, following editorial:
Whose correspondents who are nov
| deluging US with criticisms of the cleo
tion figures recently given out by tn,
Post are reminded that the most import
ant of the estimates in question were pre-
| dicted upon the consummation of genu
inc, cordial, enthusiastic and thoroughly
organized fusion between the Democrats
and Populsts throughout the country
The only states assigned to Bryan, indie
pendently of that fusion were: Alabama
IL; Arkansas, g.; Florida, 4; Georgia, 13
Louisiana, 8; Mississippi, 8; Missouri, II
South Carolina, 8; Tennessee, 12; Texas
Is; Virginia, IL; Colorado, 4; Idaho, 8
Montana, 8; Nevada, 3; North Dakota, 8
South Dakota, 4; Utah, 3; Washington, 4
Wyoming, 3. Total, 148.
Furthermore, we expressed the belief
that amounts TO conviction that without
fusion, and real fusion, Mr.. Bryan will
not receive more than these 148 votes. 1t
will be admitted, we think, that our fig.
ures are thoroughly conservative. Only
the most ecstatio or reckless Republican
seriously imagines that Mckinley will
carry any of the states We have assigned
to Bryan. One has but to look at the
betting list published by the Mckinley
men in New York to realize that we have
kept carefully, almost timidy within
bounds.
"Then as to the states which we put to
Bryan's credit in the event of fusion on
the lines already indicated, what reason
they are: Kentucky, 10; Kansas, 10; Ne
braska, g.; Indiana, 16; North Carolina,
II. Total,57.
"Of course we understand that these 81
votes added to the 148 above calculated,
will run Bryan's strength up to 205, or
within 10 of election. Of course, we un-
derstand that seeing these figures in cold
type is not nearly so encouraging as
whooping and throwing hats into the air
and braying Mckinley into the White
house by mere force of clamor. But
really this not our fault. The contest has
to be decided November 3, next,
not BY stupid vociferation, but by
the ballots Of an intelligent and
patriotic people, and we must in fore
casting the decision, consider facts, rea-
son, probability-not our personal preju-
dices and desires. We can not elect Nc
Kinley by getting together under an um-
brella and resolving that Bryan is as
good as defeated at the present moment.
1t is foolish to blind ourselves to the ex-
istencs of the earnest millions who dwell
beyond the Potomac. and the Alleghenies.
Those millions are there, aid they must be
taken into account. We can not dispose
of them by making great hullabaloo
over here on the Atlantic coast.
eve still maintain that in the event of
fusion between the Populists and the
Democrats everywhere, Bryan may safely
count upon POS votes to begin with, and
We will stand to the list of doubtful
states, from which Mckinley must get 81
votes, while Bryan only needs to get 10 in
order to he elected. Look at it again:
Illinois, "a; Oregon, 4; California, 8;
Maryland, 8; Delaware, 3; West Virginia,
6; Minnesots, 9; Michigan, "A; Wisconsin,
IL; Iowa, 13; total, 102.
ut will not change anything to pooh
pooh and splutter and get red in the face
and heap savage and occasionally idiotic
epithets on Bryan. If this youthful per-
son from Nebraska is to be beaten at all,
it must be done by sensible, fair-minded
and rational appeals to the judgment and
conscience Of the American people"