Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-01-05
1T WAS A GREAT VICTORY.
Most Marvellous of All Ever Achieved
by Any Party in United
States.

It is hard for even the most intelli-
gent democrat to grasp the proportions
of the recent republican landslide.
Here is William j. Bryan trying to
show that 'it wasn't much OF
shower" Mr.. Bryan points out that
Jefferson in his second election received
162 electoral votes, compared With IA
cast for Pinckney, and adds that 'Presl-
dent Roosevelt in his books speaks
very disparagingly of Jefferson" Mon
roe, in 1920, got all the electoral votes
cast except one. Jackson, in 1882, had
219 votes, as compared with Az Tor
Clay. In 1910 Harrison defeated Van
Buren by a vote of 234 to GO. Pierce
carried every state but four in 1902 and
had 254 electoral votes, as against AZ
cast for Scott Lincoln in 1864 had 2l2
electoral votes, as against p for Me-
Clellan. while Grant. in 1868, received
214 electoral votes, as compared with
so for Seymour and got 2GS in 1872 to
G3 for Greeley AS Roosevelt will have
1896, as compared with $40 for Parker,
Mr.. Bryan claims that the ''unprece-
dented republican victory was far
from being unprecedented.
Mr.. Bryan overlooks several impor-
tant differences between the election in
1904 and all the others which he men
tions, says the St Louis Glube-Demo-
crat. When jefferson won his big vic
tory in 1904 the federalist party was on
the down grade, and though in coalition
with a boiling element Of the democrats,
it made a pretty strong fight in 1872 it
never had much strength as an opposi-
tion party after 1904 and it dropped out
altogether just after the canvass OF 1876.
The reason why Monroe, in 1920, got all
the electoral votes except one was that
Monroes' party was the only party in *
istence at the time When Jackson, in
1882, beat Clay by such an overwhelm-
ing vote the various elements of the
opposition to Jackson's party had not
yet cOalesced. 1t was the panic of 1891
largely, though not wholly, caused by
Jacksons overthrow of the United
States bank, together with the demo-
cratic defalcations in federal Offices,
which gave the wings their big victory
in 1910. Pierce carried every state eX-
cept four in 1852 because the whig
party, deserted in the south and the
north, was on the point of extinction,
and vanished from the stage in 1854
Lincoln's big victory in 1864 was won
through a temporary coalition of the
war democrats with the republicans,
at a time too, when II states in the
democratic quarter of the country were
prevented from voting. Rebellion and
reconstruction were hitting the demo-
cratic party at the time that Grant car
ried the country in 1868 and 1872.
As Mr.. Bryan knows something Of
United States history he will see the
broad divergence in the conditions in
existence in all of those elections from
those which prevailed in 1904. Unlike
the federaIist party in JefIersOn's and
MOnrOe's elections the democracy in
1904 was in vigorous shape. Through
all the states of what are now called
the solid south the democracy had the
cards stacked in its own favor. 1t was
not assailed from within to any such
degree in 1904 as the losing parties were
in 1892, 1910 or 1852 No part Of the
democratic region was shut out from
the polls this year as it was in the Lin
coin and the Grant campaigns, which
the late democratic leader mentions.
If the election had been as fair in the
south in 1904 as it was in the rest Of
the country the republicans would have
carried several of the states whose votes
will now be counted for Parker, and in
that case Rooseyelt's proportion of the
electoral vote would have been as large
as that of most of the other presidents
whom Mr.. Bryan has named. Moreover,
Roosevelts proportion of the popular
vote was larger than that of Jackson,
Harrison, Pierce, Lincoln or Grant.
When the democratic standard bearer
Of 1896 and 1900 digests the chief facts
connected with the election of 1904 he
will see that it was the most marvellous
of all the victories ever achieved by any
party in the United States.