Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

80. ill ircrease the number ofdelegates
% tba State Convention, if the .. 600 basis
is continued. from 2s9 10 35S, and Butter
county will have three delegates, Inc
cote taken as the basis is the presidential
and guberuatorial. For the last two years
the conventions have been made up ac-
cording to the vote polled for Gov. hast
;rgs. Fer the next two years President
McKinley's vote will be the basis, and as
II was 40 large it will be necessary to IN
crease the ratio to keep down the slze OIL
tho convention. The delegates to the
convention of 1897 will be elected under
the present rules.
There will be A Republicans in the next
State Senate and III il the House, total
Of 215 in the joint caucus. If all were
nresent in caucus the number required to
nominate a United States Senator
would be los. In the joint ses-
sion of the two houses for the electon
the journals do not show a constitutional
majority OF each house for candidate IN
the separate halloting done ON the pre-
vious day there must be joint ballot taSen'
and a candidate to be successful must re-
Give l2s votes, a constitutional majority
,t the 254 members OF the General Assem-
bly,.
The next Presidential election will pro-
badly see the voting done by machinery
s-rw
At the late election the Meyers voting
machine was again used with complete
satisfaction in Rochester, n. I. Ine
voter presses button opposite the name
of each candidate he wishes to vote ior'
and the machine does the rest. BY the
use of seventy of these machines, more
than halt of the vote Of the city was poll
ed before moor, and at O'Clock the oiilcial
vote of Rochester was cast up and at IL
O'Clock was in type in most OF the neWspa-
Der offices of the county. Those who voted
the straight ticket could pass in and out al
the rate of four minute, and the average
was 60 to 20 votes an hour, or more than
one a minute. The universal use OF THIS
machine would do away with the present
cumbersome and perplexing blanket bal
lot, and the result of national election
would he known IN time TO be published
next morning. The machine Is so accu-
rately constructed that 1t precludes al
possibility of repeating or fraudulent
count.
The New York World has taken the
trouble to ascertain how much money was
used in the late Presidential campaign
and saws that Chairman Hanna had abo1
81. .462. 900 to elect Mckinley, and thai
$75.O 900 of that is still in the Republic az
treasury. Chairp an Jones, of the Demo
cratic committee. had almost as much
This enormous sum Of money was spent
principally for the printing and distribu-
ton of Literature on the currency question
and Ior the expenses of campaign speakers
As much as $50, 900 o week was spent io
postage alone. Presidential campaigns
cost money, bat we must have them.
The Mckinley and Hobart club, OF Con
nellsville, of which B. F. Boyts is presi
dent, and ]. l.. Kendall secretary, has
adopted resolutions fsvoring the election
of ex-Pos.master General John Wana
maker as United States Senator. The re
solutions express that Mr.. Wanamaker
because of his integrity, strength
character, force of intellect and his pract:
.t .-.,sfAe \.
State. The Fayette county representa-
tives in the Legislature and the STATE
Senator are urged TO use all honorable
means to carry out the wishes of thei
constituents
The Democrats won Wyoming by bu
few votes, on the Electoral ticket, but
the Republicans have the Legislature by {
majority of II on joint ballot. The ma
jority for the Bryan Electors. taking thu
highest Mckinley and the lowest Bryan
candidates, is GO, and the acreage majority
less than 200. In South Dakota there il
an equally close shave, as the Bryan Elec
tore haye less than 200 majority, and the
Populists elect the Governor and Con-
gressmsn, but the Republicans elect th'
State Treasurer by majority of 2.