The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-11-21

nave been. ....................22l
Necessary to choice. ................224 224
On the other haod:
2rysn's electoral vote as it is. 155
-ectoral vote of these y States. Il
bi,an's electoral vote as it would
~ a'e been .............. .226
AA,ece,sry to ehoice. 224
Inc c.nge Of $1,000 votes. therefore,
proper distributed in the - States in
the Ast'would have given to Bryan
Two more han the necessary number
OF elector' votes; his electoral ma.
Jorlty over Mckinley would have
been 5.
1t YOU'D o1n oan satn that party which can
POI. o.1 .,ooo' yUvotes .S;S and come as near to
victory as TINS neither moribuud nor
crippled, and under no obligation to
accept the dictaon of the small min.
ority Of its forI- members who cast
their votes sgsil il and dafesteS It
ne ouI 1eeeii i::gnlzss the strength
u lne Oenoc?aI''lem demonstration and
solcsS s, q warning silar to that given
oy Inc o:sle On morning of the
In the first place, o rower oe tho
political revolution s,tod in 1868 bV
Bryan aad continued VI littla r NV
ap9Ieclsole IoaS olmlnuSion the campaign
OF lSoV' must nos DC l,iuized. At
ooto elecslons ne was ;feated by
majority ol 'ne 3ptes of great
proportions, See at o2In received of |
popular votes much lar volume
than had ever been cast DINO. |
cratic candidate for presid, and ne
greater percentage Of them n;ven tn
MIR. Mckinley on both occSns vas
only about per cent. TheoIiticsI
force represented by Bryarism tbsTe.
fore too tremendous to be ovnoIed
in any consideration of the St;cal /
future, more especially Of the ,tnre
Of the Democratic party.
Estimating that the whole num- of
votes polled at this election was Iii
lions, something like seven millioof
them were cast for Bryan. In .
State of New York, cut of an ags
gate for both Mckinley aud Bryan |
about one milli> and half votes, tn
plurality over Bryan was less than i
per cent. and his plurality over McKin
ley in this city was more than p, 1000
A candidate who receives support S.
numerous, IN spite of great revol
against him in his own PARTY, csnno
be removed from political consideration
simply because of his defeat, but mus
rather be regarded seriously as th
representative Of a popular feeling o
ominous strength snd pervasiveness,
It is not improbable, it seems rathe
to be probable, that if the elements il
the Democratic party which represen
its conservatism and its national spiri
should regain the control of its organ
izatioo, the burning political sentinen
of which Brysnism has been the ex
preston would be driven of in violen
revolt to act by itself as az iadepend
ent political movement. In truth, tht
genesis Of Bryan IS political force va
the consequence Of the Demonstration
of the strength Of such a politics
movement in the campaign Of 1892
when Mr.. Cleveland wsp elected for tn;
second time. In that canvass tie Pop
ulisls polIe1 mere thar one millicr
votes, exhibiting a stength which
alarmed both Of the great parties
Br5an's scheme was to prevent til:
political division by fusing Populis Z
with Democracy, and ne succeeded il
it so far that in the canvass Of 1896
Populism disappeared practically as al
independent movement. His vote III
creased over tzat for Mr.. Cleveland il
1892 By almost exactly the amount ot
the Populist vote in 1892. and he KEPT
it in the late election. Nor is it now
destroyed by his defeat. Any conser,
yatiye domination of the Democratic