Little Falls herald., 1904-12-09
A Dlv,DtD VICTORY
INTERESTING FIGURES OF THE
LATE ELECTION.

New York World: Nineteen States
from which the official returns have
been received gave Roosevelt 4, 7s6, 1l8
votes and Parker 2,749. 007. These
States in 1900 gave Mckinley 4. s58, 996
and Bryan 8, 626, 966. Roosevelt's gain
over Mckinley in these states ts
377, SS7. Parker's loss as meahured by
Bryan's vote In 1900 is s77, 95e. In
other words, the republicans made a
normal gain, while the democrats
sustained unparalleled losses. which
accounts for .-Mr. Rosevelt's unpre-
cedented plurality.
The. official returns are coming in
slowly, but 1t is already evident that
the total vote was less than that cast
in 1895 or in 1900. The Evening Post
estimates Roosevelt's total vote at
7, 7O2, $50 and Parker's at 5,119. 704.
McKinley's vote in 1900 was 1907, S23
and Bryan's 6, 1853, 1873. The estimates
of the 1904 vote may be slightly
augmented by the full official re-
turns. but they indicate an increase
of approximately 500. 600 in the repub-
lican vote as compared with 1900 and
a falling off Of 1850, 000 in the demo.
cratic vote.
The total vote in 1900 was little
more than 25, 900 in excess Of the re-
cord breaking vote of 1896. Against
total vote of 1851, 566 in 1900, the
vote of 1904 promises not to excee d
IS. 400. 600. It NAV be many thousands
less. A conservative estimate indi-
Gates that 2, 800, coo failed to vote at
ALA number that is aboat equal to
Mr.. Roosevelt's popular plurality.
On the basis Of the vote actually
cast, Mr.. Roosevelt could have
allowed Judge Parker all the Dets
vote, all the Watson vote, all the
Swallow vote and all the scattering
vote, and still won by popular
plurality double that of Mckinley in
1900.
Only two states carried by Nc
Kinley show a decreased republican
vote this year-Maine and Mary yland-
and the decrease in Maine is only 81.
Only seven states show a gain for
Parker over the Bryan vote in 1900
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Della
ware, West Virginia, South Carolina.
Georgia and Mississippi. In the other
states Parker's loss ranged from 258
in New Jersey to 1s5, 900 in Illinois.
The meaning of these figures is very
plain. The republican stay -at-home
vote was largely Offset by the votes of
democrats who preferred radical re-
publican to conservative democrat,
while hundreds of thousands Of others
did not vote at all. Judge Parker's
total vote is less than Cleveland's in
1883, and only 200. 900 in excess OF
Clevelana's vote in 1884. although
10000, 90 more votes were cast in this
election than in that of 1883 and
8, 300, 600 more than in that Of 1884.
Even in the disaster of 1872 Greeley
polled more votes than Seymour polled
in 1868; yet Judge Parker ran nearly
1, $50, 600 behind Bryan in 1900.
In 1892 Harrison was defeated ~
the stay at-home epublicans, his vote
having fallen from 5440, 216 in 1883
to 5, 176. 10S in 1899. The disaffection
against Parker was the disaffection
against Harrison multiplied by five.
That is the whole story.
For reasons of their own hundreds
Of thousands Of democrats refused to
vote for Parker. Some Of them voted
for Roosevelt and some for Debs, but
the great majority Of the dissatisfied
elements lid not vote at all. They left
the work of electing Parker to the
enemy's country"
On the face of the returns there is
no Disgusting the fact that the elec-
tion was half victory for Theodore
Roosevelt and balf victory for Will
lam J. Bryan, whose followers have
fed fat their grudge against the ''re-
organizers.