The sun., 1902-11-14
IFIT had BEEN FOR PRESIDENT.
The Electoral Vote as II Would Have
stood In No, ember. IO02.

! From the 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
If President had been chosen In last
! weeks election the tally in the electoral
! college would have stood thus Republican
/ s22: Democrat. iSt Republican majority.
! los This is the resultant OF the States
| standing In the votes on Tuesday. Nov. 4.
| 1902 The Republicans would have had
more than twice rs many electoral votes a.
! the Democrats, based on the tally for State
| officers or members of Congress. or both in
! he various states on that day. coupled with
| the figures in the States-Orero ron, Maine and
| yermont-which had their elections for Con-
| gressmen and other state officers earlier In
| the year.
Draw IA line across the map Of the United
| State. from Maryland and West Virginia
! onward to California. Every State north
| of that line. comprising two-thrds OF the
! country's area and more than two-thirds of
tits States. of its population and of its electoral
votes was won by the Republicans. except
Missouri al nd Nevada The Republicans car
ried every state out side OF the old solid South
except Nevada and the vote was so close In
Nevada that II last weeks election had been
a Presidential contest the Republicans would
probably have won that State, In addition
the Republicans carried Delaware. Mary
land and West virginia Of the old slave States.
Only fourteen States were held by the Demo-
Gratis. Thirty-one States were carried by
the Republicans. or course. II the ballot
was a IS full and free below Mason and DiXon's
old line as 1t 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 IL can never get the votes
In the recent elections nll the elements OF
the Democracy seemed to be pulling together.
but they accomplished nothing. Cleveland,
nd Cor N tal N for hn rat
In the East. Tom johnson was talking and
working for II In the central West. Bryan
was on the stump for 1t in the States on the
Mississipprs sunset side. All was vain, how
ever. Ccveland's residence State. New Jersey
which until recently was as reliably Demo-
cratic as Mississippi or South Carolina. re-
jectcd his counsel The State. New York
which gave him the election for Governor
twenty years ago by the largest majority
ever rolled up for "A candidate for that ONCE
in any state except once or twice, disre-
Rardcd his advice, Tom l.. johnson was
overw helmingly and ignomlniously over
thrown in Ohio, that State casting n far
larger majority for the Republicans than It
did for its iavorte son. Mckinley. for Presi-
dent in 1900 Bryan was cast out and re-
pudiated all over the West including his
own state. OF the four little mining states
which gave him the only votes which he re-
ccivcd out side Of the old slave region In 1900
every one hh- De'n won ny lh' fepubllcanS
except Nevada, the smallest and poorest OF
all Of them The immense majority OF 1877
electoral votes rolled mp for Mckinley and
Roosevelt In 1900 would have been exceeded
by 81 II President had been chosen In the
recent election.
Omitting the war-t inc election OF 1894 in
which eleven states were unrepre sented.
and Grants canyassrs of 1858 and 1872. I'm
which the South's social and political reha-
bitatton had not been completed no election
since Pierce swept the country in 1882 carry
ing all but four States. showed such A pre-
ponderance for IN" dominant party as would
have been displayed on Nov t. 1902 for the
Republicans If President had been elected
on that days