The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-09-19
The consen. of tie Governed.

(From the Salt Lake Tribunel
AT the Kansas City convention in
sonorous measures Senator Tillmsn o.
South Carolina read to his open
mouthed listeners platform which
declared that all Jus; governments are
founded on the consent OF the gov
erned. and that governments without
the consent OF the governed are tyraa-
ny. The main burden OF the platform
was the danger of imperialism. the
danger Of governing peoples without
their consent. But who really are the
tmperialists of the United Statese Mr..
Bryan enters this campaign with the
absolute certainty OF obtaining LIP
electoral votes in the states that went
out of the Union in rebellion. But
looking over the election returns Of
1896 We find that it required only II $50
votes in the state Of Alabama to secure
an electoy for Mr.. Bryan. At the same
time it required 37,10l votes in the
state OF New Jersey TO secure an cleo
toral vote for Mr.. Mckinley. In the
same year it only needed 1850 votes
in Georgia to give to Mr.. Bryan An
electoral vote, while it required $3.50
votes to give Mr.. Mckinley an electoral
vote in Wisconsin. All that was need
ed to secure an electoral vote for Mr..
Bryan in Louisiana was 1850 votes.
At the same time every electoral vote
for Mr. Mckinley in Maryland required
81 1855 votes In Mississippi matters
were reduced still finer. There it
needed to secure Mr.. Bryan an cleo
toral vote only 1924 votes, while in
Minnesota ii required $4,000 votes 10
get one electoral vote for Mr.. Mckin-
ley. Il was even worse in South Caro-
lima There all that Bryan electoral
vote needed was 1866 votes, while off
on the Pacific coast in California it
required $4,000 votes to secure one Nc
Kinley elector When 1852 votes in
Alabama gave to Mr.. Bryan eleven
electors, it required 271.014 votes in
New Jersey to give to Mr.. Mckinley
ten electors. In Georgia. to secure
thirteen electoral votes for Mr.. Bryan,
only 1S3, 061 votes reported at the polls,
but to get twelve electoral votes for
Mr.. Mckinley in Wisconsin 447 900
votes were needed The eight electoral
votes Of Louisiana were secured FOR
Mr.. Bryan by 101 ,046 votes at the polls,
but in Maryland to turn the same NUM-
Der of electoral votes for Mr.. Mckin
ley, 250,s42 votes were required. M.
Bryan secured nine electoral votes, to-
gether with the blessings of Mississippi
on a total vote of 69,57S, while up in
Minnesota, to get nine electors for Mr..
Mckinley 341, 1854 voters had to report
at the polls. South Carolina turned in
nine electors to Mr.. Bryan. but it re-
quired only 6S,907 votes of her people.
To obtain the nine electors from Cali
fornia, 296,503 voters had to record
their votes Since then several Of the
southern states have made arrange
ments to reduce their voters. North
Carolina has passed a constitutional
amendment to neutralize the consti.n-
ton OF the United States. There she
inhibits the illiterates from voting,
but she puts in proviso that if the
grandfather Of any present voter voted
some forty or fifty years ago, his de-
scendants shall not be debarred. They
are not quite sure down there that
this viii stand the test Of the courts,
and so We are informed by the Courier
Journal that this amendment is not
made operative until July l, 1902, the
purpose, as not at all concealed, being
to make such changes in case of Mr.
Bryan's election, in the supreme court
Of the United States as will make that
amendment in North Carolina consti-
tutional. Who are the imperialists
The men who are trying to uphold the
laws in the Philippines or the men
who are trying and succeeding in not
only DISTINGUISHING the colored men of
the south, but making Of no account
three-fourths Of the vote Of the north ?
In electing congressman and electors
to elect presidents, the voters of the
old states OF the south that were In Sc
cessSon are made to do double and
threefold and fourfold work as corn-
pared with those Of the north. Thus.
as we have shown. 1t required more
than two men in New Jersey to count
for one in Alabama; quite three men