Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-11-07
DEMOCRATIC ARITHMETIC.

"The jig is all up." Mckinley and bis campaigners might just as well quit campaigning and go home, ac- cording to a statement just issued by the democratic congressional commit tee. Rainbow Chaser Jones is mot in it" with this committee. According to this statement there are not enough states in the country to accommodate the overflow of votes which they al- lege Bryan will get. In order to ac commodate the greatly changed vote as given in this statement Bryan will have to carry all the states in the re- public of Mexico as well as all of the British provinces, to make up the number of states that this changed vote will carry.
 Bryan carried twenty-two states plus one electoral vote each in California and Kentucky receiving 176 electoral votes. Quitting, for the sake of con venience these odd electoral votes, Mckinley may be said to have carried twenty-three states and Bryan twenty two states.
 This committee very modestly claims year Bryan will carry all,,the states this year that he did four years ago, and in addition:
 An alleged change in the German vote is sufficient for him to "carry several states" that he did not carry before.
 ''The change in the labor vote is sufficient to carry several doubtful states for Bryan"
 The return of the "gold democrats" to the democratic fold this year Sin sures a safe democratic majority in several close states"
 An alleged change in the Irish vote, it says, means success in several inn portant states which four years ago went for Mckinley"
 The Holland vote holds the balance of power in three or four important states and will carry them for Bryan.
 'The anti-imperialistic vote in one pivotal state is strong enough to carry
  it for Bryan, while in a score of other states this vote is also said to be very large" says this committee.
 It will be noticed that not single state is named where these alleged changes are going to occur, and the indefinite number of several is given in every instance except two and in one of these the number three or four is given and in the other one plus a score. Now it is universally conceded that the term several cannot be applied to a less number than three, so that placing this estimate at a minimum number of that term we have four times several states which this committee proposes to carry for Bryan this year which he did not cary four years ago or a total of twelve. Then taking the minimum of ''three or four" which the committee alleges the Hollanders are going to place in the Bryan column, and the number of states is increased to tif- teen. This only leaves eight for Me Kinley and it would seem that the would be willing to grant him such a paltry number as that. But no, they line up the anti-imPer- ialists and ruthlessly snatch away one of these eight states by their vote and then add that there is score ot others in which the possibilities are all in favor of Bryan.
 From this it will be seen that the figures out sure thing of sixteen states for Bryan ofthe twenty three he failed to carry four years ago with a possibility of twenty more.
 If you, reader, have carried out these figures correctly you will dis cover that the country is just thirteen states shy of the number given by this committee as among the possi- bilities for Bryan.
 And yet that committee sends this statement broadcast, as a serious esti- mate of the results.
 The prospect now is that Mckinley will carry every state that he did four years ago, with the possible exceptions of Kentucky and Maryland and that Wyoming, South Dakota and Kansas which cast their votes four years ago for Bryan will be found n the Mckinley column this year.
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