Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-02
Republican Attempts to Capture South

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should look for any material gains IN
:he slave region IN the near future.
MissC1' however, stood ready, just
I aa soGE ,ts a Republican organization
should be effected. II contribute some
thing to the 1900 total which the party
received in the other slave states. Said
Henry Wilson in the senate on Decem-
yer 10, lS56 two weeks after the cleo
len: s'In the city of st. Louis nearly
eco Germans to show their devotion
! 10 liberty. went to the ballot boxes,
when they could get up no state ticket
fer Fremont, and voted for MiIlard
Fillmore, the Know Nothing candidate,
With the word Protest printed on
their ballots Blair Brown and
| others of Benton,s antislavery asso
ciates in Missouri went with Benton To
the support of Buchanan but few
of them voted for Fillmore in prefer
| encc. Buchanan had $4,000 votes III
iissouri and Fillmore $1,000. \ large
| ma .iori1y Of the latter. of course. We're
Old Wigs, whose party had been
,Wept away in the Kansas-Ncbraska
| and Missouri compromise repeal ey
clone of 1884. Some of these Missouri
ans joined tle 1sepubliean partE after
ward. but most Of them became Demo
! Gratis. When President Buchanan IN
the latter part of 1887. gave his favor
to the Lecompton constitution scheme
tG force slavery on Kansas against the
wishes Of aa undoubted majority of
| lie people of that territory some
northern Democrats in congress, led
by Douglas turned against Buchanan,
and other Democrats out OF Office.
among tnem Benton, did this. From
! that time till his death, a few months
later. in April. 1898. Benton accord
ing to his daughter, the late Ms. FIRE
mont, Was il fu!l and ayowe1 synipa
thy With the Republicans. The Re
ubleans made an active canvass IN
| Missouri during the congressional
campaign of 1888. and in the presiden-
tial canvass of 1860 they polled II 90U
votes This was double Linco!ns poll
IN the other slave states-DelaWare
| Virginia and kentucky-in which he
received votes.
! In 1860, as in 1856, the Republican
was a sectional party. Out of the l.,
$50, ,0o0 votes received by Lincoln at
his first election, all except 26,000 We're
obtained in the free states. In five OF
the fifteen slave states his vote was
| tritiing, and in ten Of those states he
| received no support at all. Even Bell
and Eyerett's party of Constitutional
Unionists. chiefly old Wings who had
supported Fillmore the American
party's candidate, in 1856 was more
widely diffused than the Republican
party, although it carried only Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and had
/ popular vote of less than third OF
,hat cast by the Republicans. Except
as it was effaced in Rhode Island. New
FORK and New Jersey. by fusons with
re Democrats. the Bell and Everett
clement had following in every state
of the thirty-three. free and slave. The
war, of course. killed the third party,
and compelled all the voters to take
sides on the main issUe-to be either
Democrats or Republicans.
With eleven states in the Confeder-
aaS, and consequently unrepresented
the voting for president, the Repuo-
leans in 1864 had an organization II
Il tie loyal states which, OF course,
included the slave states of DelaWa,e,
Maryland. kentucky and Missouri. and
tAe neWly#created state of West Nlr-
e1nja Lincoln carried three save
states IN that year-3lar land. West
Virginia and Missouri and was on1y
4 fsw hundreds behind Mcclellan in
.s5aware ItneonS electoral vote
IL l. is eosesp4red With z.--JhaJ Of
- Jersey Delaware aad kentucky
Mcclellan The difference III the
aaiar vote. however between the
candidates was relatively small.
salolu's total of the home vote being
aa3o7o ard MeClellans t.So3 ooQ
>60ut dozen states allowed their sol
'e.s in the field 70 vote and the total
these Was l16.00Q for Lincoln anu