New-York tribune., 1896-02-05
HOW TIE STATES STAND.

The silver states, properly speahlHS' hdNt %"
electoral votes, being eight in number with
nopulation Of only 2,IJ3.595. Wyoming ana
North Dakota are here excluded as producing no
silver. and South Dakota because 1t produces
only 100000 and has far more important In
tcrcsts. and Texas for the same reasons IL Is
the little group Of eight States which attempt to
dictate to 96 per cent of the population, because
these States have sixteen votes In the Senate
The States in which communlstic passion rather
than any interest In silver Is the bottom OF hos
tlllty 10 sound money are five at the North ana
thirteen at the South. The five Northern States
have % electoral votes, with population or
3O5s 23S larger than the population OF all the
silver States west Of them. but have so far re-
covered from the DcmocraticPopulist craze that
in four OF them Kansas. North and South Da-
kota and Wyoming-the Republicans had ma
iority over Democrats and Populists together
at the last election. while in Nebraska the Pop
ulists and the Democrats who refuse to vote with
them would have had plurality at the last elec-
ton II united
The thirteen Communist Democratic States
Of the South have AZ electoral votes, with a
ponulation OF 2o2iI.UJi. ana though in some Of
them Rcpubcans and PopulistS might have a
pluraty If united, there is probably not one in
which the Republican party. standing squarcly
for its convictions and principles. would expect
TO succeed. If there were any prospect Of Re
publican success in Presidential election in
other the Democrats and Populists would be
apt 10 unite Thus we have twcnty-s!x States
not AT all united in principle or purpose. but try
ing 10 get silver communistic victory on Il frcc-
silver basis and If all should be combined they
have 2u3 electoral votes, with population "l
2G Ui,.u27, but In four II these States with ~
electoral votes the Republicans had clear ma
jorliy ut The last election.
The phalanX OF States which no silver com
bnatlon can break stretches from the Atlantic
10 the western border " Iowa and Minnesota.
having 227 electoral votes, clear majority OF
the whole number being now 224, and having a
population of 34Os7.1O7 in 1890. In every one
Of these States the Republican majority AT the
last election was large that whatever might
happen under some circumstances there would
b. no possibility OF breaking II by II Democratic
silver combination. From 10000 in PennSyl-
vanla. the Republican majority over all Demo-
cratic and Popullst votes WAS 13ocr In Illinois,
10000 In New York. $1,000 In Massachusetts.
$1,000 I'm Michigan. 10000 In Ohio, 3o,oOo III
Maine. 10000 In Wisconsin. 2soOO In Vermont.
1900 IN Iowa, 25,OO0 in Ncw-Jcrsey. 5000 III
Connecticut, 1900 In Indiana, 1000 in New
Uanpshire. 1000 in Rhode Island and 5000 in
Minnesota But besides these there are three
Southern States in which Republicans have ma
loritcs over Democrats and Populists both
1900 In Maryland, 1000 in West Virginia and
1sp In HelaWare-and these three States, with
/ Il electoral votes and l97367T population may
with reason be added TO the solid anti-silvcr
phalanx. This gives ~ electoral votes, against
9oI from all other States put together.
II IS conceivable that on different lines and
issues Republican success In some Of these
/ States might not be- certain. The object here Is
/ 10 make II plain t. every Republican and TO
/ every Democrat that a division on the silver
| Issue means Republican success with absolute
! certainty There is not even decent chance 10
throw The election into the House, but II that
! were possible the present House would elect,
voting by States, and 10 the nearly solid dceSI-
tlons from the eighteen States above mentioned.
excluding Maryland. which Is divided, the Re
nuMlcans would add In vote in the House the
DELEGATIONS from Kansas. Nebraska Missouri,
/ South and North Dakota and Wyoming no mat
| fer how the silver people and Democrats might
/ divide Thus the silver game, which 1t has
plcased the ma aiority Of the Democrats to play
s., obstinatcly, means their sure defeat, whether
they can manage to absorb the silver men and
the Popusts, or whether the silver men absorb
on the sands Of time