Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-10


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Republics New York Bur. eau, ia Tues
days Issue. egives approximately the.
vote cast for fpresident in all the states.
IN the late election. with but few ez-;
ceptions they ARE theDEiclal figures and
many usefnl and, Instructive observa-
sions may be inaade. In the first place,
instead of NEE. Mckinley having more
than milli3al splxrality.he has 6z6, o4S.
and the STATES. .of>New.Y Ynrk and Penn
sylvania alone sfurnishxs 81, COS of his
plurality and If Massachusetts be add
ed il exceeds hislPlurallty nearly Ioo.-
900; hence, we ssee that these three
states furnished hfsn a plurality 100, 900
in excess of his pitaGalaty in the nation.
In 1892 Massachusetts and Pennsyl
vania together gave Harrison plu-
rality of 80, 76S and ,Newgork gave
Cleveland plurality of 445s5xS, leaving
a plurality of &4,e5o in these three
states Cor H arrison and yet CIeveland's
plurality in the nation was $50, $40,
On the issues of the secent campaign
the thEee states named would, ofcourse,
give immense maJonitaes for anybody
againsta3ryan, and. without them Nc
Kinley would have been in a minority.
Another,thing that has pEobablyIEot oc'
Cured to many is, that in 1892 H arri-
son received but I45 electoral votes,
while in the recent electioa Bryan gets
rs; and tiln 1883 Cleveland received
but 168. sk3ence, it appears that, EEot-
witbstandipg the effort to make it ,ap-
pear that RFyan is a very badly beaten
sman. he gets more electoral votes than
.Clevelend did in 1888 and more than
Harrison in 1852, and, besides. Bryan
fpolled about snillion more votes this
year than eithar Harrison or Cleveland
did in either 1888 or 1892. And he
carried four moEe states than Harrison
did in 1892. 4tfhas also been claimed
that Mckinley carried very large ma
Jofity of the states this year. when the
facts are that, giving Kentucky to Nc
KiHiey, he has but1s3 states to Bryan's
z2. One electoral vote in Kentucky is
conceded to Bryan and the other II
are only claimed or shown to be elected
by a plurality of z5s, and if the contest
which the democrats are making in tha
state saould be successful, then Bryan
would Rave one more state than Nc
Kinley. AS it is, they have 22 states
each and Kentucky divided. Again:
the following states gave very small
Mckinley pluralities: California, 32e1;
Delaware. 1916; Oregon. 2t26; Ken
tucky, granting it to him. zsS. making
total of 1851. Add to this McKin.
ley's pluralities in Indiana. IS, 4o3; and
West Virginia. II, 1o1, and we have
total plurality for Mckinley in the six
states named of o,o55, and an electoral
vote of 4o. And a change of $1,000
votes properly distributed through these
states would have given them to Bryan
and would have elected him, as the
electoral vote stands Mckinley, z7z.
Bryan IT'S, majority of 81 for McKin
ley. The facts are. there is no COM
fort in the figures for the gold bugs and
there is much to make silver men feel
good and work confident of success in
1900. In view of all things with which
fhe Brvau forces had to contend in this
campaign, it was a great battle and the
forces are resting on their arms for the
next contest.
Fire at Pawnee Rock.
S. p. Leitner's house burned to the