Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-16
WHAT THE VERDICT MEANS.

ing 1877 electoral votes, are now claim
ed positively for Bryan: Alabama,
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, MISSISSIPPI
pi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ne
vada, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washing
ton. The remaining 25 States, cast
ing $50 electoral votes, are practically
conceded to Mckinley. Although
Mckinley has a popular plurality of
about 100000, Bryan pretends to
hail the result of the election as
''moral triumph for 'sbimetallism. -
Waving the matter of popular plural
lty, let us see what the proportions of
this triumph" really are.
In the group of States carried by
Bryan there are eleven in which from
20 to 45 per cent. of the population
over 10 years of age can neither read
nor write. Of the 1877 electoral votes
credited to Bryan these eleven States
furnish 112, or two thirds. The aver
age percentage of illiteracy for the
OAIiiO group 10 a. Ou oAO OohCA
hand, in only four of the States carried
by Mckinley is there an illiterate
population in excess of 10 per cent.
The four States in question, namely,
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky
and West Virginia, have only thirty
votes in the Electoral College. The
average percentage of illiteracy in the
twenty one other States voting for
Mckinley is 5.8.
The estimated population of the
whole fortyfive States is 7O,359, 123.
The States carried by Bryan have
population of 54,932, 765, or a little
over one third of the total, while
those carried by Mckinley have a
population of 1885, 338. To express
the matterin another way, each cleo
toral vote for Bryan represents an av-
erage of $4,000 population, while
each electoral vote for Mckinley rep
resents an average of over 162, 900 of
population The five Mckinley States
of Illinois, Indiana, New York, Ohio
and Pennsylvania, with 40 electoral
votes, have substantially the same
population as the entire twenty Bry-
an States, with 1877 electoral votes.
The eight Bryan States of Colorado,
Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
Utah, Washington and Virginia, with
q combined population of only $780,
600, will cast as many votes exactly
in the Electoral College, namely, So,
as New York with population of g.
100000.
1t is estimated that the total wealth
of the forty five States is 1854, O95, 1922
$50. Of this amount $16,680, 1884, 1884
belongs to the States claimed for Bry-
an, and the remainder, $47, 1884, w.
979, or nearly rs per cent of. the total,
to the Mckinley States. The average
wealth of the States in the Mckinley
column is 1900, 900, 900, and the av-
erage per capita 1,044. The average
wealth of the Bryan States is $685., OOO,-
600, and the average per capita 1868.
the United States-land, fences and
buildings-is S13, 279, 252, 749, but of this
sum only So, 6s7 .551 ,95s, or % per cent
is located in the Bryan States. The
aggregate value of the implements,
machinery and live stock on the farms
of the entire country is $2,703, ola, 040,
which the Bryan States own 1868, 1885,
474, or only about 36 per cent. The
amount of capital invested in manu-
features in the United States is Sc, $780,
1876, 1856, only STAT, 759, 034 of which, or
a little over IL per cent is to be found
in the States which declared for fifty
cent dollar for American workingmen.
OF the 4, s76, $40 savings bank depos-
itors scattered throughout the Union,
less than per cent, or about 10000,
reside in the Bryan States, and of the
81, $40, 597, 023 of savings bank depos-
its all but 81, 9SS, 044, or about SO per
cent belongs TO persons in the Nc
Kinley States. According to recent
official statement, there are 1888
buildings and loan associations in the
Republic. OF this number 4,749, or
nearly five sixths, are located in the
States which voted for Mckinley. On
the pension rolls of the Federal Gov
eminent are the names of $40, 523 per-
sons, and out of this total only 1885,
$40 are residents of the Bryan States.