Arizona republican., 1902-11-19
A Shrinking Party.

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat directs attention to the fact that if president had been chosen at the late election the tally in the electoral college would have stood thus: Republican, ,S22; democrat, l54; republican majority, 16S. This is the resultant of the states standing in the votes on Tuesday. November 1, 1902. The republicans would have had more than twice as many electoral votes as the democrats, based on the tally for state officers or members Of congress, or both, in the various states on that day, coupled with the figures in the states-Oregon, Maine and Vermont which had their elections for congress- men and other state officers earlier in the year.
 Draw a line across the map of the United States from Maryland and West Virginia onward to California. Every state north of that line, comprising two-thirds of the countrys area and more than two-thirds of it's states, of its population and of it's electoral votes, was won by the republicans, except Missouri and Nevada. The republicans carried every state outside of the old solid south except Nevada, and the vote was so close in Nevada that if the cleo tion had been a presidential contest the republicans would probably have won that state. In addition the republicans carried Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia of the old slave states. Only fourteen states were held by the demo- crats, Thirty-one states were carried by the republicans. Of course, if the ballot was as full and free below Ma son and Dixon's old line as it was above that boundary, the republicans would have carried two or three more states.
 To this pitiful measure has the once mighty democracy been reduced in the nation. The democracy lacks leaders, issues and votes. Without the issues it can never get the votes. In the recent elections all the clements of the democ- racy seemed to be pulling together, but they accomplished nothing. Cleveland, Hill and German were talking for the ticket In the east. Tom Johnson was talking and working for it in the cen tral west. Bryan was on the stump for it In the states on the Mississippi's sun set side. All was vain, however. Cleve- lands residence state. New Jersey. which until recently was as reliably democratic as Mississippi or South Carolina, rejected his counsel The state, New York, which gave him the election for governor twenty years ago by the largest majority ever rolled up for candidate for that office in any state except once or twice, disregarded his advice. Tom L. Johnson was over whelmingly and ignominously over thrown in Ohio, that state casting a far larger majority for the republicans than it did for it's favorite son, Me Kinley, for president in 1900. Bryan was cast out and repudiated all over the west, including his own state. Of the four mining states which gave him the only votes which he received out side of the old slave region in 1900. ev- cry one has been won by the repubIi- cans except Nevada, the smallest and poorest of all Of them. The immense majority of 137 electoral votes rolled up for Mckinley and Roosevelt in 1900 would have been exceeded by 31 if a president haL been chosen in the recent election.
 Quitting the wartime election of 1864, in which eleven states were un- represented, and Grants canvasses If 1868 and 1872, in which the south's so- cial and political rehabilitation had not been completed, no election since Pierce swept the country in 1852, carrying all but four states, showed such a prepond- erance for the dominant party as would have been displayed on November 1, 1902, for the republicans if a president had been elected on that day.