The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-03-02

.icauism. beiuidi.d and seii-ryu
tent with the poor victory won
Uecause q. the negative stand Of lt-
opponents. The story Of hDw II
happened has been told countless
tlme- aud 10 20 into q repetition Of
those facts now would yc foreign
10 this subject
The object here II % show. pitec.
lively and couclu.lYciy. now n can
never happen again How u hap
pened is ancient history how II
will never happen again probably
u iDrecagtlug d bit, but IT carries
IT, own proof with it, 80 that the
denial cannot be but weak and
Intellectual
Official figures show that the
total Democratic vote IN 1904, a
presidential year. vas lJ,1s- for
the eleven counties Jt the district.
The Republican vote was lG, lGG
This gave the Republicans the i'm
mense aud overwhelming majority
Of BIS, and, accordingly, our Mr..
Rhode site 10 Congress.
Just four YEAR ago. when Mr..
Bryan was at the Democratic helm,
he yG'e 10 To" Thirteenth District
wa Democratic, lTl77: Republic
rIH. lJ,l33. majority for Demo
.ra'-. 2,D45 ~ ,hi- time the
counties Of Dent, Shannon. Texas.
Webster and Wright yer" included
.lu the Thirteenth, and BOIlluger
wa 10 the Fourteenth. The Gg
ure- given above. however. aud the
totals are for the eleven cOuntle.
now constituting the Thirteenth
District, including BolliugDr COM
| ty'- vote for Mr. Nandlyer.
II IT is admitted that the k"pub.
iIcau vote Of IL, 1876 in 1904 il the
total strength Of the Republicans
III the Thirteenth District, and it
cannot be any greater than that,
then the Democrats still have d
majority Of ,Ol2, for the vote OF
1900 when the Democrats cast
HIS votes. must be- considered d
low estimate Of their strength
IN 1904, every Republican hill.
billie and his brother went down
to the polls To cast ballot for
Roosevelt, incidentally slipping one
IN for our Congressman. Just
about one in every eight Demo
Gratis wen; uut 10 the woods that
day to cOgitate painfully upon the
misdeeds Of the East aud South
when they forced upon the West
the Wall street candidate, Alton
Il Parker.
Our Congressman was elected,
thanks 10 the Republican hill
blllIe's pernlciDus activity ana the
Democratic voters disgust This
year there will be the same old vote
rolled up in the solid Thirteenth
and our Congressman will b.
Democrat.
In the off years Of 1895 aud
1902, the Democratic vote was
within less than 100 Of the vote
cast IN 1904. and ia those wears il
Is estimated that not l"-s than
: ,ffbD Democrats, living a. isolated
points in the District. dldn'' 20 To-.
the polls.
Figures based npOn IL" last five
elections show that in 1904. 3OJ
Democrats remaued at home IL
Jefferson county alone. In BDiliH-
ger county, almost 200 Democrat,
did not vote. Carter, ReynOld- |
snd Iron show pr0pOrtiDnate de
creases. Ste. Genevieye lost 100 /
votes and Washington 300. 81. |
Francois. Perry, Madison and |
Wayne show slight decreases. IN /
none Of these counties do the Re
publican gains equal one.third Of |
the Democratic decrease. In fact.
in three counties the Republicans
did not poll as large vote in 1904
az they did in 1900.
The total vote, both Democratic
and Republican. was 32,3l0 in
1900 while in 1904 il was 81 ,954,
showing a decrease Of 357 votes.
Yet the actual Democratic decrease
in 1900 was 1880.
The following table gives some
comparative figures on the strenth |
Of the two parties in the elections |