The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-29

ton. having declared themselves in IA
vor Of the federal jurist 1t looks. Q {
this time, as if any sound-money Dem 1
Ccrat could carry New York in view
Of the far-reaching and rancOrous dis
sensiOn between the friends Of Mr..
Plat and those Of Governor Odell. The
Ousting OF the veteran senator from
the leadership OF the party in his
state. which he has held for many
years. threa tens to have consequences
no less serious than those which fol-
lowed President Arthur's alienation Of
the Half-Breeds by the forced nOmin-
alton Of Judge FOlger for the governor
ship. The outcome Of that tactical mis-
take was. it viii be remembered. that
the Republicans lost the state BY nearly
100000, and Mr.. Cleveland's phenom-
email career began
Two members of the house Of rep
resentatives, General Grosvenor and
Mr.. Payne. have lately asserted that
Mr.. Roosevelt does not need to carry
the state of New York IN order to be
elected. Now it is perfectly true that
in 1895 the deduction of New Yorks
thirty-siX electoral votes from Mr.. Nc
knley's total GID would not have
given the presidency to Mr.. Bryan. It
IS matter of common observation,
however. that when the state OF New
York is carried with a large major
ity by a given political party. that par
" is almost certain to carry the adj
joining STATESMEN Jersey and Cen
necticut. If the -fifty-two electoral
votes Of New York. New Jersey and
Connecticut had been subtracted from
Mr. McKinley's aggregate in 1895 ne
would have been defeated. only in
1880 could he on the face OF The re-
turns, have afforded to lose the COM
90. &c 81
Wealths. Had he lost them, however,
the loss would have indicated a tidal
wage against him which, probably,
would have prevented him from car
rying Indiana, Maryland and West
Virginia. In the latter event he would
have been defeated. OStensibly, Mr..
Cleveland in 1892 could have afforded
to lose New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, but not Indiana also. in
1883 it is notorious that General Har-
risOn was elected by the vote of the
state of New York. At that time both
/ New Jersey and Connecticut gave their
Z electoral votes to Mr.. Cleveland. II
7 Mr.. Cleveland was elected in 1884 It
| was by virtue of a plurality of less
I than 1000 IN the state of New York.
| The same thing is true of Garfield.
/ We add that it was because Mr.. Til
/ cen got the electoral votes OF New
( York, New Jersey, Connecticut and IN
diana that even the partisan majority
/ Of the electoral commission had to con-
cede him 1874 electoral votes as against
/ 1S5 given to Mr.. Hayes In view Of
/ the part played. during the last quar-
/ ter of a century by New York. either
/ directly. or Indirectly through New Jer-
/ sey and Connecticut, it is absurd to
say that Mr.. Roosevelt can afford to
lose his native state.
We have formerly pointed out that il
has seldom happened that the ire
mendous powers Of the presidency.
] transcending as they do in magnitude
have been conferred upon a man
! against whom the business world has
/ been arrayed with a close approach of
/ unanimity In the history of the re-
! public there are three apparent excep-
/ tons to the rule, but these, upon close
i inspection, turn out not to be true ex-
iceptiOns- They are Jefferson, Jack
son and Lincoln. 1t cannot be denied
] that almost all of the few bankers,
manufacturers and great merchants
that we possessed in 1900 We're fed
eralists and regarded Thomas Jeffer-
son not only with profound distrust but
with positive detestatiOn. 1t is we'll
known that Jefferson obtained seventy
three electoral votes, against the sixty
five cast for John Adams, the federal
list candidate. It. should be borne in
mind, however, that at that time the
few bankers and great merchants ex-
listing in the United States were con
centrated in such sT1all SEAPORT towns
as Charleston. Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York. Newport Boston and Sa.-
lem. In the absence Of the facilities
at present afforded by steam and cleo
tTicity their means of communicating
their opinions were extremely defective
If they could have reached every trad
er in every country village as he car
now be reached, it is certain that the
federalists would easily have beaten
Jefferson, notwithstanding the fact
that the bulk of the republics capt.
tai was in $500 invested in agricul-
ture. The election of Andrew Jack
son in 1923 is eXplicable on somewhat
similar grounds. His known hostility
To the United States bank had ar
rayed against him a large majority
I of the business men in certain sea
board cities. to-wft, Charleston. BaIu-
more. Philadelphia and Boston. In the
city Of New York the business com
munity was at that time somewhat
divided in sentiment owing partly q
jealousy of Philadelphia, which theT
was the banking center of the United
States. and partly to sympathy fol
Jackson. based on the belief that hi:
- 0ELtdN III LlAE AAUn0E VI AN ~ ~sF~ p NerNA
in the winter Of 1925 was the resuif
of a bargain between John Q. Adams
and Henry Clay. AS for Abraham Lin
coin. il is obvious that. in his cas'
the ostensfble exception proves the rule
There is no doubt that the bankers
and merchants not only of New Or
{ leans. Charleston and Baltimore, bu
also Of Philadelphia, New York an
I Boston. were, for the most part, We
IhementIy opposed to Mr. Lincoln's can
{ didacv. They assumed, and the even
proved that they were justified IN as
= Stunning. that his election would be fol
5 lowed by civil war. Their opposition
! would have been fatal to Mr.. Lincol1
= had his opponents been able to unit
1 iron n candidate. The combined vot
! cast for Douglass, Breckenridge an
BcH was almost a million greater tha'
e that cast for Mr.. Bryan. As for Nj
$ BRYAN. against whom the bushes
S world was practically unanimous
. vas beaten in 1896 by 95. and IN $50
p by 137 electoral votes. the tremendou
a effect produced by business interest
. on those occasions should manifestl
. be ascribed 10 the thoroughness Wit
S which the whole country has been Snl
S together by electricity, which now per
e r1its convictions and warnings fornu
r. lated in business Ccnters 70 be tashe
= in a second from che end OF the re
r. public to the other.
"A EpEW0NT DEFEATED