The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-12-08

most OF the elections previous TO the
advent OF the Republicans In 1855
Fremont the Republican party's first
presidential candidate. carried none Of
the slave States In some OF them he
had no votes. and in others his vote
wzs so small that il could appropri-
zteiy hare been placed in the scat
tsTing" column in the count
The know-Nothing. or American.
party. which had ex-President Fillmore
only opponent in the slave States. On
the other hand. Fremont carried al
the Western States except Indiana
Illinois and California On the advent
Of the Republican party the West
joined IL Except as cross current
was injected into politics by the Popu-
list party and the silver issue, nearly
all the Western States have been car
ried by the Republicans in almost
every canvass since 1856.
In Lincoln's election a solid North
confronted a South which was solidly
anti-Republican- All the free States
were carried by the Republicans. eN-
cept that Douglas got three of New
Jerseys seven electoral votes. the re-
naming four being won by Lincoln.
New Jersey was one OF the States in
which there was a fusion between the
forces of Douglas. the candidate of
the Northern Democrats; those Of
Breckenridge. the nominee of the
Southern section OF the Democracy,
and the element, chiefly old Wings.
who had not yet become diffused
among the two big parties, who sup
ported Bell, the Constitutional Union
list party's candidate.
On the popular vote the fusion had
a lead OF more than 1000 over the Re
publicans in New Jersey, but the four
electors who represented the Breck-
enridge and Bell sections of the coal
ition were scratched to such an ex-
tent that four of the Lincoln electors
squeezed in. The three votes which
Douglas got in New Jersey were all
that Douglas received, except Mis-
souri's nine. In Missouri Douglass
had a close race with Bell. Bells total,
5S.372 being only little over 400 be-
low the aggregate given to Douglas.
On the othev hand, the Republicans
were practically shut out of all the
slave States. Douglas carried one Of
these, Missouri. while Bell won three
of them. Virgins. Kentucky and Ten
nessee. the rssC going to Brecken-
ridge. Lincoln had 9.S15 votes in Del
aware, 2.294 in Maryland. 1929 in Vir-
ginia, 1864 in Kentuck and HOPS in
Missouri. In the rest of the slave
States. the two Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama. Mississippi, Louisi-
ana. Texas and Arkansas-the Repub-
licans received no votes. In the whole
of the slave States the Republican to-
tai was 26.430. much more than half
of which was cast in Missouri. The
greater part of Missouri's Republican
vote was cast in St Louis, and chiefly
by Germans. 1t was one of the taunts
of the secession element in Missouri
in 1861 that the organized section of
the Unionist ingredient of st. Louis
population was foreign born. the for
eigners in this particular instance be-
ing Germans. The greater part of the
regiments which Francis p Blair or
ganized in the early part of 1861 for
the defense of the Union belonged to
this sturdy element of loyal Ameri-
cans. In the reconstruction days the
solidity of the South was broken by
the capture Of several of the ex-slave