The evening times., 1896-08-26

The vote OF the wage Garner in the ap'
preaching election will cut an important
part in the result. The total vote for Presi-
Dental electors in all the forty-four stfeS
nf the country which participated in 1892
was IL .06s ,585. The vote Of Utah. a Ter
ritory in 1892, but State this year, WIS
81, 500 in the Congress election OF 1892.
The total number Of male inhabitants CT
voting age by the Federal census last
preceding the Presidential election OF 1892
was 10, ,94O, 900, subject to the deduction
OF 1.150,000 aliens, and 10000 male
residents of-voting age in the District of
Columbia and the three Territories of
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma In
several OF the Southern States, more par
ticularly Mississippi, South Carolina and
Florida, there are constitutional restric-
tioDs upon voters which greatly limit
the number of voters in the total population
of male citizens above the age of twenty
one.
In Mississippi, where the number of
citizen voters, less aliens, is 260, 900, the
total vote In 1892 under the restrictions
established by the Mississippi constitution
OF 1890 was only $4,000, and in Florida,
with SO 900 citizens in 1892, only &c.
600 voted In that year.
WILLAFFECT THERESULT
There are, approximately, 15,Oo000O
voters In the forty-five States of the Union
this year, and about one-third OF them,
or 100000 voters, are artisans, me-
chapics and employees in fact orics or manu-
featuring establishments. These wage
earning voters are not evenly distributed
throughout the States, but are very numcr
gus in those States OF the North and West
in which the contest is likely to bc closest
this year.
Upon the votes OF these artisans and wage
earners the results must this year, as in
previous elections for the Presidency, in
great measure depend; and no class OF voters
have greater reason to be opposed TO the
spirit OF arrarianism which seeks to en-
hance the selling price of the commodities
OF sustenance and reduce the obligations
OF rural debtors by the establishment as a
unit OF value OF deprecated dollar in
which the workiDgman Is to bepaid.
In New York the vote OF which AT the last
Presidential election was $50 900, more
than one-half OF the total number Of voters
were either manufacturing employees or en-
| gagged in the business of transportation.
| Next to New York in respect to such wage
| earners was Pennsylva mia which east at
the last Presidential election 1000 900
votes.
IN THE WEST.
Massachusetts, Ohio, and Illinois follow,
| States in which the battle for Mckinley is
prosecuted not only with the greatest vigor
and intensity, but also with the best assur-
ances OF success. The single State of Ohio
has more manufacturing employees, more
| money invested In factory enterprises, and
larger pay roll of artisans than Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas,
Arkansas, North Carolina, West Virginia,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida COM
bined.
| What is true In Ohio, the growth OF which
in manufacturing enterprises has been very
| rapid OF late years, is true also, though to
a somewhat more limited extent, of Illinois,
which by the last census ranks second
| among the States in the production OF steel
and fourth in the production OF iron. Mich
igan is yet another State the manufacturing
interests of which are OF great and increas-
ing Importance. The number of working
men in the mills and factories of that State
reached n total of 100000 in a total vote
OF 10000 at the last Presidential elec-
ton.
Fifty-three per cent of the number of
employees in American factories are en-
gagged in what are known as the North At
lantic States. These North Atlantic States
are the six New England States, with thir-
ty-nine electoral votes all solid for Nc
kinley and Hobart, and the three States II
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
with rs electoral votes, all solid for Nc
Kinley and Hobart; a total, In these nine
States, employing more than half of the
factory and mill labor OF the country, If
III electoral votes, or more than half Of
the ga necessary to elect a President this
year.
VOTES FOR MCKINLEY.
Thirty per cent of the total number of enl-
ployes soffactofies and mills in the country are
voters in the Ohio Valley and Lake States,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon.
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Ken
lucky. These nine States have collectively
l40 electoral votes, which, together with
those Of the North Atlantic States, make -
257 for Mckinley and Hobart, or thirty
three electoral votes more than are re.
CURED to elect and secure their success
and all OF them, with the possible exception
of Missouri and Kentucky, which have to-
gether thirty electoral votes, are claimed
with confidence by the Republicanmanagers
Kentucky has now Republican governor
and the revolt Of the honest money Deniu
Gratis has attained greater dimensions IL
Kentucky than in any OF the States ives
of the Alleghanies. In Kentucky, to
the Populist vote is uniinportant as an ad
junct of assistance to the Bryan ticket
for the Populists at the last State election
in Kentucky polled only per cent of tn,
total vote in that State, whereas in Mis-
souri, the Populist vote was twice as much
or 8 per cent.
Y Both of these States, Kentucky and Mis-
D souri,, are controlled, to very considerable
extent, by the influence of their most lsa
portant cities, Louisville and st. Louis
s respectively. Both are increasing rap
: idly in manufacturing interests as well Il
t in population. Louisville, which, by tn
l Federal census of 1890, had 16O 900 pom:
lation, has new 200 900, and st. Louis
which, by the same census. had 451 ,0oO
had by the last local enumeration coo, 900
Both cities are strongholds of the SCUM
i money sentiment, Democratic as well a
Republican, and in both States William Nc
Kinley was the first choice of the local he
publicans.
BRYAN.s sPooRPRosPECTs
In the st. Louis convention Major NJ,
: Kinley received the entire 26 votes of Ker
lucky and the entire "a votes of Nilsson
on the ballot for the Presidency, and it
somewhat significant and instructive fac
that in these nine States of the Ohio Va
t ley and the lake region he was the unan