Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-20

gone for Mckinley. Taking the other
states in that section. we find that the
whites have among them only about
one per cent. of people of foreign
parentage in North Carolina; between
three and four in South Carolina.
Georgia. and Tennessee: and between
four and I'VE in Virginia, AiHDa:.I,s.
Mississippi. and Arkansas. In Florida
there is large element of Cubans: in
Louisiana. New Orleans. the one large
city in the South. has drawn many
foreign immigrants; and in Texas
many Mexicans have drifted across the
Rio Grande. and there is a considerable
German population-carrying the ratio
in these three states up to about Il per
cent. in Florida. 10 in Texas. and 26 i'll
Louisiana. In the section as whole
the foreign vote is very small. and in
no one of these last three states has it
ever been a controlling element.
ON the other hand. in the North we
have in New England persons of for
oisn parentage constituting from about
% per cent. of the population in Maine
to SO in Massachusetts and SO in Rhode
Island: in New York about 81, New
Jersey 50, and Pennsylvania 81; while
with a relatively small proportion are
Indiana with about Il. Missouri %, and
Kansas IS. Everywhere else the ratio
is large. and in some states very great;
about 50 per cent in Ohio. 4S in Nebras-
ka. Al in Iowa. 30 in Illinois. 50 in
Michigan, 81 III South DAKOTA, "A in
Wisconsin, 10 in Minnesota, and - in
North Dakota.
60 Oh. cont
election from this point of view is that
the almost entirely native South went
ovcrW helmingly wrong on the burning
issue. while the largely foreign born
North went even more overwhelmingly
right. From the Atlantic 10 the Mis-
souri, river there was not a break in the
Mckinley column. New York. more
than half foreign. gave Mckinley about
275, 600 more votes than Bryan; Illinois,
half foreign. 145,0 majority for Nc
Kinley in a vote two-thirds as large as
New York's; Wisconsin, nearly three
fourths foreign. about zoe, 600 majority
in a total vote only about a quarter as
large as New Yorks.
Moreover. the state which makes the
poorest showing of all the great states
east of the Missouri river is the one
which has the smallest foreign element.
Indiana has only about u per cent. Of
people with foreign parents. and its
majority for sound money is only
1000; while Iowa, with nearly Al per
cent, gives a majority of about 1900.
Indeed. it is not too much to say that
but for its foreign vote Indiana would
have gone for free coinage. since nearly
three-fourths of its foreigners are Ger
mans, Scandinavians, English and
Scotch. who voted overwhelmingly for
sound money. The most hopelcsSly
wrong state in the whole North is Kan
sas, which has not only chosen Bryan
electors. but has also elected q Populist
Legislature. Populst state ticket,
and a judge who will make the ma
jority of the supreme court Populist:
and Kansas has less than % per cent.
of foreigners among her population.
North Dakota has more than 70 per
cent, and North Dakota has rejected
Populsm in every form, national and
state.
But the most striking test of the for
eign clement is afforded in Missouri.
AS a whole that state has about 2S per
cent. of people of foreign parentage. of
whom nearly half are found in st.
Louis. where they number 304, 7173, or al
most exactly two-thirds of the whole
ALTO. The foreign metropolis of Mis-
, souri, went for sound money by large
majority; the remainder of the state,
with only 3G3.453 foreigners out of
2,076,6SS. gave free coinage a still larger
majority, so that it was the native
Americans who carried it the wrong
way.
We have had a school of writer's and
| speakers in this country who for years
have lamented the threatened destruc-
/ ton Of our institutions by the ignorant