The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-02-06

AnuEona, CuuIOrnla ana DIuryfnnu. Cleve-
land also had 8 electoral votes in Michigan
and 1 IN Ohio. Harrison had l vote in
California. The following table shows the
comparison In graphic form:
FOURTEEN GERMAN STATES, CONTAINING ss PER
CENT OF GERMAN OF UNITED
HrAEES.
States. Elect'l votes. Net pluralities.
Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.
1896. ....6 s "a 18 9,6a8
1895. ~ 2 @5 Is 1,ll2,1sI
A large element of the foreign born pop
ulation of the United States are the Eng
iish, Scotch and British Americans. Con.
trary to the general supposition, they form
the largest foreign section Of our poprla-
ton, with the single exception Of the Ger
mans. They numbered all told in 1890
{, 132, 26l. They are found chiefly In the
IS states given below and to the numbers
Indicated:
Massachusetts, .SO6,G23 Wisconsin. ...... So. $50
New York. ...... 272,947 Maine............ 81 ,647
Michigan. 49,. .24e. S72 California. -. 60,8O
Pennsylvania. $780, g7 Rhode Island. 1881
Illinois ......... $780, 500 Iowa........... 51,e94
Ohio ............. 77.8l7 North Dakota. 1854
Mtnnesota-...... 63,0iO
These 18 states nave within their bor-
ders about 1900, 900 of English, Scotch
and British Americans. 1t Is perhaps
something more than q coincidence that
every one of these states voted for McKin-
ley last November.
There were in this country, in 1890, $685.
249 Scandinavian born persons. Nearly
700, 900 Of them are found in eight western
states, as follows:
Minnesota. 49,. .2l5,2l5 Nebraska....... 1884
Illinois .........1 2s,s97 Michigan ....... 41,496
Wisconsin. 800. 89,79S North Dakota. 34.218
Towo 70 47A South Dakota. Al L372
Only two of these states voted for Bryan.
In these states Mckinley gets rs electoral
votes and Bryan IL. McKinley's popular
plurality in the six Scandinavian states
carried by him Is age, 1859. Bryan's popu-
lar plurality in the two states carried by
him Is 10, 242. Net plurality for Mckinley
In the eight Scandinavian states, 412,917.
This grouping Of facts, taken in con-
neotion with the enormous gains made by
the Republicans in the cities, where the for
eign population Is largely conferred, shows
oonclusivoly that the plurality for McKin-
ley was due wholly to the foreign vote:
Upon p~ainstaking analysis of all the
conditions l have concluded that the 49,
$40, 900 voters of last November were d.
vided as follows:
Native white American............... 100000
Native colored American .............. 10000
Foreign American. 5,S9O,OO
Total vote. 49, 4o,o 900
Analysing the election results from the
showing made in the foregoing article,
aided by personal investigation of the trend
of the foreign vote made during the cam
paign, I conclude that MoKinley's total
vote was made up as follows:
Foreign born or of foreign family, =. 100000
Negroes. A@o,ouo
Native white American. .............. 8,075,OOO
Total. 7,1l0,OOO
And that Bryan's vote was made up as
follows:
Foreign born or of foreign family. 800. 2,325,0O
Native white American ................ 4,U35,OUO
Total. o'oOo,VN
While these figures are in the nature OF
things only approximate estimates, they
are believed to be reasonably accurate.
They show that go per cent of the foreign
vote went TO Mckinley and "a per cent OF
the native white American vote to BryaE
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