The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-23
LESS VOTES THAN
FOUR YEARS AGO
Total Was l3,508,496, Against
13,968,547 in 1900.
ROOSEVELT'S BIG MAJORITY
SOME INTERESTING ELECTION
FIGURES.

! nHICAGO. Dec. 22.-The official can
u vass Of the votes cast Nov. for
! presidential electors was completed
today, when the result was announced
in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wash
ington. The Associated Press is there
fore able to give the first table giving
! the official vote of the forty-five states.
/ The total vote is Is. sos, 496. against 49,
! 96Ss51f in 1900-a decrease of 46OO7S.
/ The ballots were devided as follows:
] Roosevelt Republican. 7627632.
I Parker Democrat, 50S0,054.
| Debs. Socialist. 391. So.
] Swallow, Prohibition. $50, 3O3.
I Watson. Peoples. 1851
CoTreg9n, Socialist-Labor, SO. 453
HOlComb, Standardization $50.
Majority Over All.
Roosevelt received over all Las, 76S,
and over Parker 2,547.57S. In 1900 Nc
| Kinley had 46LO46 more than all the
/ other candidates and S59.9S4 more than
/ Bryan.
The vote for Roosevelt was 4O9.S22
| more than for Mckinley while that
! for Parker was l,2T,772 less than for
| Bryan. Mckinley polled more votes
| than Roosevelt in Alabama. Georgia.
Kentucky. Louisiana. Maine. Maryland.
/ Mississippi New Hampshire North
Carolina. South Carolina. Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia. Roosevelt got
| more than Mckinley in the other lhir-
! ty-two states.
! Parker received more votes than
| Bryan in Delaware, Georgia, Missis-
sippi, New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island. South Carolina and West Vir-
ginia. while Bryan got more than Park
er in the remaining thiTty-seVen states.
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The Republicans made gains over
! their vote in 1900 in thirty-two states
and the official figures show losses in
! thirteen. The total gains of the Re
publicans were 732,04S, and the total
losses 312, 249; net gain. 419.799.
The Democrats pOlled more votes in
eight states than in 1900, but less in
! thirty-seven. Their total gains were
! 30 192, and the total losses /. POI. 491: net
loss, 1,26O.699.
Roosevelt carried thirty-two states.
against twenty-eight by Mckinley. and
has 1876 electoral votes under the appOr-
tionment of 1900. Mckinley had 292
under the apportionment of 1880. there
having been an addition Of % by the
last appOrtionment.
Parker carried thirteen states
against seventeen by Bryan. and has
l4O electoral votes Bryan had l55 UNI
der the appOrtiOnment in force i'm
1900.
Watson's Largest Vote.
Watson received his largest vote in
Georgia, the total of that state. p. 634,
with pesos in Nebraska. being nearly
one-third Of his aggregate-113,63 7.
Barker pOlled 50,2lS in 1900
The Prohibition vote i'm 1900 was POS
I9l; IN November, 1904, 260, 300, a gain
of 5l.5l2.
-Four years ago the Socialists had
an electoral ticket in thirty-two states
and pOlled ST,769 votes. This year they
had a ticket i'm forty-fve states. and
the Debs vote was 391 .5ST. In 1900 over
5000 votes were polled i'm only Cali
fornia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mis-
souri, and New York. In November
Debs got over 5000 i'm California, II
liuois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas. MaSsa-
chusetts, Michigan. Minnesota. Mis-
souri,. Montana. Nebraska. New Jersey.
New York. Ohio. Oregon. Pennsyl-
vania. Utah. Washington and Wiscon-
sin. the largest number-69, 225-in Hi
nois.
Socialist-Labor Party.
The vote of the Standardization par
~ in 1900 was 1894 This year it was
%. Asa loss of 6.401 i'm these states:
Colorado. $50; Connecticut, SIS; Iii
nOis, 1888. Indiana, 1888; Kentucky
1856 Massachusetts. 2.359: Michigan,
1912: Minneapolis. 974: Missouri S75:
New Jersey, $3.50: New York. 9127:
Ohio. 2.633; Pennsylvania. 2.211: Rhode
Island. 4SS; Texas. 421: Virginia. So:
Washington, 1872; Wisconsin, Do
The COntinental-LaboT party had adj
herents only i'm Enthusiastically Chicago
where $50 votes were pOlled