The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-12-27
VOTES THAN MCKINLEY.
PARKER LESS THAN BRYAN
Total Vote Of the Country For Presis
dental Electors Falls Short
Of Four Years Ago.

Chicago, Dec. 23-The official can
yass of the votes cast November forf
presidential electors was completedI
when the result was announced IN
Minnesota, North Dakota and Washs'1
ington. The Associated Press tsl
therefore able to give the official vote
OF the As states The total vote a.
13, sos, ,496, against 13,96S,574 I'M 1900
decrease of 46O,O78. The ballOtsd
were divided as follows:
Roosevelt, republican, 1921, ,6S2:
Parker, democrat, 5,OSO,O54; Debs, sol
cialist, 391,5S7; Swallow, prohibitions
ist, 26O,3O3 watson, peoples, 114,s|
637; Corregan, socialist labor, 33,46S:|
Holcomb, continental labor, $50.
Roosevelt received over all 1,746, 766|
and over Parker 2,547,57S. In 1901
Mckinley had 467,O46 more than all
the other candidates and 859,984 moral
than Bryan.
Parker Behind Bryan.
The vote for Roosevelt was 409, 1921
more than for Mckinley, while thatI
for Parker was 1,277,772 less than forI
Bryan.
Mckinley polled more votes thanJ
Roosevelt in Alabama, Georgia, Ken-I
lucky, Maine, maryland, MississippisI
New Hampshire, North CarolinasI
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia. Roosevelt got more than
Mckinley in the other 80 states.
Parker received more votes than
Bryan in Delaware, Georgia, Mississs
ippi, New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island. South Carolina and West Vir1
ginia, while Bryan got more than Par1
ker in tlhe remaining 81 states.
The republicans made gains oven
their vote in 1900 in 80 states and the
official figures show losses in Ii. The
total gains of the republicans were
732,O4S and the total losses 312,249
met gain, 419,799. The democrata
polled more votes in eight states than
in 1900, but less in 81. Their total
gains were 3O,I92 and the total losA
1921, ,491; net loss, 1,26O.699
Carries Thirty-Two States.
Roosevelt carried 80 states againsI
20 by Mckinley, and has 1886 electoraI
votes under the apportionment
1900. Mckinley had 292 under the an
portionment of 1880, there having beeq
an addition OF 20 by the last appo1
tionment.
Parker carried 13 states, against !
by Bryan, and has 14O electoral votes
BRYAN had 155 under the appOrtioQ
ment in force in 1900.
Watson received his largest vote
Georgia, the total of that state, 22.634
with 2O,5O8 I'M Nebraska, being nearl
cnethird of the aggregate, 114.637.
The prohibition vote in 1900 we
. 2O8,791; in November 260,303, gal
of 51,512.
Four years ago the socialists had q
electoral ticket in 80 states and pOale
S7,769 votes. This year they had
ticket in As states and the Debs vot
was 391, 1,587. In 1900 more than 500
votes were polled in only Californi4
Illinois, Massachusetts,, Missouri an
New York. In November Debs 81
more than 5000 in California, Illinof
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massach1
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri
Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ne
: York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvanil
. Utah. Washington and Wisconsin, u
largest number, 69,225, in Illinois.
. Socialist Labor Vote.
The vote of the socialist labor par
in 1900 was 39,944. This year it w
O 33,453, loss of 6,941 in these state
Colorado, 1856; Connecticut, 575; =
g nois, 4,69S; Indiana, 1888; Kentuch
.r 500; Massachusetts,, 1883; Michag1
v 1,O12; Minnesota, 974; Missouri, l.e7
New Jersey, 1850: New York. 81
Ohio, 1888; Pennsylvania. 2.2l
= Rhode Island, 4S8; Texas, 421:
ginia, 56; Washington, 1882; W.
r. sin, 22S.
The continental labor party ha6
herents inly in Illinois--really ~
cago, where $50 votes were pcll