The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-04-20
POSSIBILITIES.

The total vote of the ELECTORAL college is
All, and it requires 224 for the election of
President and Vice p esident. Before
formulating their platform and selecting
their ticket it would be wise for the Demo
cratic leader to give careful attention to
the table of the States The solid South,
including Delaware, has 1j4 votes, and in
order to elect their candidates the Demo
Gratis must carry all of these and 20 votes
in the North. These 20 votes have here
tofore, until 1896 been looked for in New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indi
ann, which together have g.. Before the
admission of States between the elections
of 1898 and 1897 this number was suffi-
Gent But now it is necessary to carry
still another State.
| The makers of the Chicago platform of
1896 deliberately abandoned Interpretation
of carrying New York. New Jersey or
Connecticut and hoped to make up for
their loss by carrying States of the Mid
die West, the Rocky Mountains and the
Pacific Slope. In this they were disappoint-
ed and not onl y this, but for the first time
since the South threw off the carpet bag
governments the solid South was broken.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and West
Virginia, with an aggregate electoral
vote of 26 gave % of them to Mckinley.
Bryan's total vote was 116 Of this vote
100 came from the Southern States and
| the remainder from the Rocky Mountains
| and "the Slope" These States which
| went for Bryan were Colorado, Idaho,
| Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
South Dakota, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming. All these States combined
have an electoral vote of As, or one less
than New York and New Jersey. Besides
carrying these States Bryan got one vote
in California aud one in Kentucky, bring
ing up his total vote to 1,6 or 95 less than
were cast for Mckinley. Mr.. Bryan lost
% votes If the border Southern States,
| which had always been regarded as GER
tain for any Democratic candidate.
If the silver question is to be pressed to
the front, to the exclusion of the living
|
at the expense of the vote of these border
States, 90 in all, as well as of the so
votes of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut. If the Democrats carry this
fall all the States they carried in 1896,
ia exclusive of the two odd votes, then
so more votes must be found somewhere
in order to succeed. Upon the straight
silver issue the struggle for these will be
in vain. The great States of the Mississippi
Valley-Ohio, Illinois and Indiana-have
never been carried upon any such issue.
If, however, the silver question is ignor
ed or dropped and a PLATFORM is adopted
which pledges the party to uphold the
Constitution, to oppose imperialism, to
put hooks in the noses of the leviathan
trusts, then the party should carry the
solid South and Delaware, with 16i votes |
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Indiana and Illinois, 81 votes, or 81 more
than a majority. In addition to this
there are other States which light reason |
ably be relied upon with such IA platform |
and an aggressive campaign upon it. The |
platform of party cannot of itself deter |
mine the issues which will be considered |
in the campaign. The questions growing |
out of the Spanish War will be the issues |
this fall. The Democratic platform can
not change them. But it can drive enough |
voters out of the party to decide the re-
suit. The opportunity of the time honor
ed Democratic party is in sight. That |
party has always claimed to be the party |
of the Constitution. Its founder wrote |
the Declaration of Independence and the |
principles of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence are attacked by the Mckinley |
Administration. A great Democrat formu- |
lated the Constitution, and the Constitu- |
ton is arrogantly limited or set aside. |
The question now is whether there is |
enough of wisdom and patriotism in the |
party to measure up to this great occasion |
and rescue the Government from those |
who would sap and mine the foundation
upon which the great fabric rests. That |
is the question: ulino,e SIN.
Under orders from the republican bosses,
who wish to keep down the total of ap-
preparations at this session of Congress,
the House Military Committee, which had |
previously agreed to increase the annual
appropriation for the support of the Ma
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