The San Francisco call., 1897-08-29
HOW THE Votes
were ANALYZED
Lesson Told by a Study Of
the Election Returns of
This City.
Strength of Republicanism
Fully Up to the Normal
Standard,
Elaborate Dissection of the Vote
From the Official Records and
What It Shows.

The following is an elaborate analysis OF
the vote cast in this City at the Presiden-
tiaI election last fall, made up from the
official records by an expert. 1t is so clear
that it needs no explanation:
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 81, 1896.
Hon Frank Mclaughlin, Chairman Republican
State Central CoTlmlttee-DEAR SIR: few days
after the last elecuon / promised YOU TO get
the vote of San Francisco anslyzed TO ascer-
tain The condition OF the Republican vote OF
san Francisco and the relative strength OF
each faction thereof
To carry ont my desire 1t was necessary for
ne 10 find some p2rson with knowledge OF
the history Of the party in this City Tor the
past Ten or twenty years. In doing SO could
not find any better man an James w. Nc
Cabe, who Is 8 frsl-c class acc countRnt, and is
secretary OF the Citizens Republican party
and one OF its ablest workers
For convenience sake the showing is divided
into three parts:
Exhibit A-Analysis of the electoral vote Of
the City and County of San Francisco.
Exhibit B-The relative strength OF the two
factions OF the Republican party.
Exhibit C-Comparison OF vote of the 5492
persons who voted for the head Of the ticket
and failed 10 vote for Assem- lyman, ana what
would have been the result had they done so.
The analysis of the electoral vote is plainly
set forth in exhibit A, and it shows plainly
that the Republican party on National issues
has been brought bsck to and resumed its nor
nal condition of 1890.
That only 976 De emocrats voted for McKin-
ley. aad this vote belongs properly o the sold
Democrats, as they averaged only 246 votes.
and the presum ptlon is strong that these $50
votes consist Of business and professional
men, thus showing that the laboring class
$1,000 by and voted for the Democratic
nominee.
EXHIBIT 3.
The relative strength oi the two factions OF
the Republican party is ob'aIned by first
eliminating the Citizens Independent vote
from each faction. This is done by taking the
at oh n of hot n S1e.
sIon, obtaining the total, and totasiZinE the
total vote of such Assembly districts, obtain
ing the PEI cent of The vote cast and applying
said per cent TO the total vote OF the districts
where the Cidzens Independent ticket hsd
no Assemblymau in the district, and was
fused with either of the two Republican fac
tions. The computed figures OF such vote are
marked under It's proper heading II the Ia bic
attached.
In the Fortieth Assent bly, Districtthe Repub-
licAn organization IN that district abandoned
their organization, and came over 10 and be-
came part OF the Citizens Republican party
The table shows that in the five Senatorial
districts and the remaining Assembly dis
tTicts-
Cf which tie Citizsns' Independent vas. 2oS8
Leaving straight Re- ubl can vote. 1885
Vote cast CITIZENS Republican.......l1,sS ,sSS
OF which The Git zens' Independent
was. 1890. ..--..-..-- 11OAo
-1O,S45
Leaving a dfHsrence between the Two
factions Of Ss411
That these figures represent the full strength
of the Republican vote is plainly shown as
follows:
ToaI Republican vote as above. ....... 13 756
IoiaI itizeus' Independent above -. 6,551
20,3O7
Aud we have within few hundred votes
Of the R-rublican candidate for Mayer, Col
onel c. L. Taylor's vote, which was 20, ,761.
u
publican vote as above 10 the hgures...... lo.545
nd we have the Mckinley vote, which is
81, 81, 652
Analysis OF THE REPUBLICAN VOTE
Chizens' IndepeDde ent ...... -. 6.55I
Ci liens Republican. 10 s4'
McKin ey's vote e.........................30 80, 652
EXHIBIT C.
Reference is made to this exhibit for the
vote which was Dot cast for Assem- biymen. The
result eIc, is fully set out in The preamble
and table of figures attached.
The figures show hat IN the year 1890 the
RepublicaE organization was in a healthy con-
ditlon within this City and County, the total
vote cast for Governor being So, ST., OF which
Markham q ,2ls
Bidweil- -.------.-.--.--.--......- ---.----- 6I9
ScAtteTins-..-. .-.'-'.-.--'.....-'-..--' 59l
Toa,. .55,8l7
There was no Populist party that year. The
result of the election that year was the cleo
tion OF Markham as Governor OF this state.
During Mr.. MaTkham's term of office his friends
and those whom he appointed TO office under
took 10 try and get control OF the Republican
organization in this City and during the year
1892 the Republican County Committee was
divided into TWO motions. The faetional strife
was so great during that yesr in the County
Committee for control that 1t reached the rank
and file of the Rspu biicaD voters in every dis
trict in San Francisco, and has continued and
still exists, the following figures Will show
as compared with the vote OF 1890:
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1892.
Harrison a4a1S
CleVelAn1 Of OI6
Popu-lst @5os
Prohi btion .......................... 4S9
Total vote polled 5S42s
These figures show falling off in the vote OF
the Republican party from 1890 TO 1892 OF
2S02 while the total vote of the City increased
3112, and shows Populist vote lfor the first
We come 10 the election of 1894 and take
the vote for Governor; we find the stale of
affairs worse:
ELECTION OF 1894.
ssas 2Sss
PopulIst st..-.----.....--..-s s......--...... b 45S
Prohibition OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 800
Total vote SO, so3
We find the vote of this City for 1894 in
creased by 1926 over 1890, yet the Republican
candidate for Governor runs 66O3 votes less
than the Markham vote of 1890, while the
Popuiist vote mad increased 3051 IN two years.
We come to the election of 1896 and find the
factional strife greater han before, bui, ior-
tunsiely for Mckinley, all factions voting for
the Republican electors, but unfortunately
divided as TO municial candidates, the Repup-
lican nominee for Mayor, Colonel c. L. Tay-
lor, running o,157 votes behind the McKin-
ley vote. Annexed you will find analysis of
the vote as promised. Respectfully