The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-17
Gen. GrOSVenor on
ELECTION Results,

~ ENERAL GROSVENOR, Of Ohio,
III u who gained Il reputation during the
n last presidential campaign as an
lOI expert in figures, has prepared a
Nv statement for the Washington Post,
showing the results that may be expected
to follow the recent elections, which is
interesting ana suggestive. General GrOs-
NcnOr thinks the elections will reshape
ana rcorganize the future of the Demo-
cratic party. I'VE Uhe Republcans)
elected congressman in forty-two states
of the Union says General Grosvenor,
land carried states enough to have elect
cd 292 members of the electoral college,
had it been Il presidential election. The
Democrats, including the states in which
there was practically no election so far as
a free expression by the minority was
concerned, carried l5i electoral votes so
that had the presidential election been
helG one week from Tuesday the Repub-
licars would have had almost two-thirds
| of the electoral college. The Republicans
| carried twenty-sx states for IL majority
| of the representatives In congress- 30
| that, should there be failure of election
| in 1900, this house of representatives, will
| cast twenty-siX votes for the Republican
| candidate for president.
"a result so sweeping is necessarily sig
nificant. What is the Significance! OF the
states voting for Bryan in 1886, the fol-
| lowing elected the Republican ticket on
| Nov. S: Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, Nebras-
| ka. South Dakota, Washington and Wy
oming. These states made a complete
| somersault, forsaking the Democratic
| column and coming over to the Reubli-
| can. Beginning on the Pacific slope, un-
| iii we reach Montana, there H. u clean
| sweep, and even the distinguished and
| venerable senator from Nevada, while
| his state has gone for free silver ii is
| said, is appealing for support, with little
| prospect OF an election. The sgnif-
| Cance of the change of conditions clear
| up to and including Missouri cannot DO
| over estimated. Now, while all this has
been going on there was u significant
| naltinG Of Democratic acquiescence in the
| platform of 1896 in New York, Connecti-
| cut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mary
| land. In all these states the Democracy
refused to endorse Bryan and his plat
| form, and in these states there was such
| a significant reaction favorable to the
| Democratic party that its effect will not
| be overlooked
1.-THE gains of congressman. which en-
| dangcred in the earlier reports the house
| OF representatives, came almost eXclu-
| lively from tho states that had thus aban-
doned and repudiated the Democratic
| platform. New York and Pennsylvania
were significant for their reactionary at
| titudc. In those two states the Dem1c-
racy made large gains. II Is true that
the unfortunate political blunde: Of pilinG
up the tremendous patronage of Greater
| New York, where the overwhelming ma
iority in one borough could crush the OPP
position in the others, had much to dc
with the significance of the New York
gains. So, TOO, the revolt Of great
body Of Republicans i'm the state OF Penn.
sylvania was mainly instrumental in the
Democratic gains in that state; but there
is enough in those states including the
loss of two or three members i'm NoN
Jersey, and at least two i'm Maryland, tC
make it absolutely significant that the
abandonment of Organism operated Ms
strengthening 20 the party. So Bryansm
is being overthrown from both sides Of
tho controversy. II is being hemmed IN
between the East and West, and hctwcer
the Northwest and the Ohio river Its
strength, so far as the possibility of car,
| rying states Is concerned, now lies i'm The
practically non-suffrage states Of the
| South, and Missouri, Kentucky, old Vir'
ginia, and so on. Had Mr.. Bryan beer
q candidate for president last week Il
would have been a difficult matter fol
him to have secured one third of The
electoral vote Tie would probably have
lost twenty-five Of the l5i votes nominallS
carried IN these local elections. Now
when Il Is considered that from time inr
memorial almost in an election such as
this in the Observation-Disclosures year the