Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-22
NUMBER 25

antecedents Of the states involved, the
desire for change, reasonable or un-
reasonable; the periodical swinging Of
the political pendulum, and the ele-
ment of chance or accident
New York is more likely to go Demo-
cratic than not. If she goes Democrat
ic, so will Connecticut, New Jersey,
Delaware and Maryland most proba-
bly,, for those five states usually vote
together, and those five states have SO
of the 81 additional electors which the
Democrats must secure.
West Virginia has gone Democratic
more often than Republican. Nobody
who notes events carefully would be
surprised to see her Z electoral votes
cast for the Democratic candidates in
1904, which would leave the Democrats
short only 5 votes.
California is evidently travelling rap
idly toward the Democratic camp.
which she will probably reach next
year, with her 10 electoral votes, Civ
ing us mere votes than we need.
Counting the votes of West Virgin
ia for the Republicans and the 13 votes
of Wisconsin for the Democrats, we
would have vote to spare
The only state carried by the Demo-
Gratis in 1902 which the Republicans
have a ghost of show of carrying in
1904 is Rhode Island, with 4 electoral
votes.
To sum it all up, there appear to be
154 electoral votes certain for the Dem
ocrats Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carroll
ma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia; certain for the Republic
ans, 174-Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, North
Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Vermont and Washing
ton; doubtful. 148- California, Colora-
do, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Ma
ryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Ne
braska, New Hampshire New Jersey,
New York, Rhode Island, Utah, West
Virginia and Wisconsin.
The Republican Row.
When Republicans fall out, honest
men may get their dues = is a very
slight modification of a well known
saw. The time has come for the fall
ing out of the Republicans. They have
already begun to wool each other to
the queens taste. Senator George
Graham Vest of Missouri, the Prince
Rupert of Democrats, recently intro
duced resolution to take the tariff
off anthracite COAL which resolution
stirred up the animals in the Republic
an menagerie at a great rate. .Aldrich Of
Rhode Island jumped Vest, which was
natural as Aldrich thinks himself the
heaven appointed guardian of the Chi
nese wall tariff advocates and theories;
but, to his utter amazement, Dolliver
of Iowa, brilliant young Republican,
jumped the Rhode Islander in most
vigorous fashion. The bone of conten-
ton, or the apple of discord, at present
among the Republicans is a purported
declaration of the late Governor Nell
son Dingley, father of the Dingley tar
if bill, that certain schedule rates were
purposely placed too high in that bill
in order to give us an advantage in
negotiating reciprocity treaties with
other nations. BY placing the rates
too high in the bill, so the theory is, it
would enable us to cut them to rea-
sonable basis in reciprocity negotia-
tions. Some say that Dingley did say
it and some say he didn't, and the bat
tie RACES furiously all along the line
among the Republican freebooters.
More power to their arms! The more
they wool each other the better off the
country will be. Senator Vest un-
doubtedly did good thing in precipi-
tating the row and no doubt he enjoys
it hugely.