The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-11-06
ELECTION
POINTERS
USEFUL INFORMATION
ON PAST CONTESTS.
FORTY SIX STATES VOTED THIS
ELECTION, GIVING TOTAL OF
4ss-242 FOR A CHOICE.

ginning March 4, 1909.
The electoral college vote this year
is as follows: Alabama II, Arkansas
0, California 10, Colorado S, Connect.
cut z, Delaware 8, Florida S, Georgia
10, Idaho 3, Illinois 27, Indiana 49,
iowa 10, Kansas 10, Kentucky 49,
Louisiana Q, Maine 6, Maryland g.
Massachusetts Is, Michigan IA, Mime.
sofa II, Mississippi 10, Missouri IS,
Montana 3, Nebraska 8, Nevada 3, New
Hampshire 4, New Jersey IL, New York
80, North Carolina IL, North Dakota 4,
Ohio 23, Oklahoma 7, Oregon 4, Penn
sylvania "a, Rhode Island A, South Caro-
lima 9, South Dakota 4, Tennessee 10,
Texas 1S, Utah 3, Vermont 4, Virginia
~, Washington S, West Virginia 2, Wis
consin 10, Wyoming 3. Total vote 4S3.
Necessary to choice 24s.
In 1896 William Mckinley received
Ell electoral college votes and William
j. Bryan I'll. Mckinley s popular vote
was 7,104,790; that of Bryan $500, 1926.
In 1900 William Mckinley received
s92 electoral college votes and William
j. Bryan 1855. Mckinley Is popular vote
was 7,207,s23; that of Bryan 6,35s, 1913.
In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt was vic
torious over Alton B. Parker, polling
an electoral college vote of 326, while
that Of Parker was 40. The popular
vote for Roosevelt was 7,623,4s while
that for Parker was 5,o77,971
The president of the United States
will not be elected Tuesday. The people
in each state will merely choose a set
OF electors of most of whom they have
never heard. They will assemble in their
state capital the second Monday in Jan
uary and ballot for president and vice
president. Each Of these assemblies is
called an electoral college. There are
as many electoral colleges as there are
states. The territories and the District
of Columbia have no presidential vote.
If candidate should die between the
November election and the date of the
assembling of the electoral colleges the
electors would probably receive instruc-
tions from national convention or
from recognized party leaders.
After the voting is done certified
copy is sent by special messenger to
Washington. On the second Wednesday
in February congress meets to count the
votes and to announce the election.
In 1887 congress enacted law pro-
viding that if double returns should be
sent in the one should be received
which has the certificate of a state tri-
t6unal appointed to canvass the vote
shat is, it is left to state authorities to
decide whether the electoral votes are
cast by electors duly chosen.
Each state has as many as it has
senators and representatives.
Each state prcscribes how electors
must be chosen. The electors are most
always voted for on general ticket.
Occasionally popular elector will re-
ceive enough complimentary votes to
elect him oven if his fellows on the
ticket are defeated. Sometimes mis-
takes in marking ballots will result in
q divided electoral vote in close state.
In 1S45 congress prescribed that the
national election be held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in No
vember. Before that time some of the
states held elections on different days
A plurality in the electoral college
does not elects The constitution pro
yides that if no candidate shall receive
a majority of the electoral votes the
election shall be thrown into the house
the three highest candidates only being
voted on.
The house votes by states, majority
of the members from each state casting
its vote.
On two occasions an election has beer
thrown into the house. In 1900, whel
Jefferson was elected, and in 1924, whel
John Quincy Adams became president
A man can be elected president by {
minority of the popular vote. In 1872
Andrew Jackson had a plurality of So
900 over J. @. Adams and in 1888
Grover Cleveland had plurality o
nearly 100000 over Benjamin Harrison
In 80 Of the states a governor ant
other state officers were elected; in tn
others minor state officers or justices o
the supreme court, and in seven, cor
gressmen were elected. The states o
the Union, with the exception of Maine
Vermont and Oregon, voted for mem
bers of the house of representatives
The three states named held their stat
elections earlier and Tuesday voted onl
for presidential candidates, In Arkar
sas and Georgia the state officers wer
chosen this summer, leaving only tn
representatives in congress and pres
Dental candidates for November 3.
The terms of 81 United States sena
tors-12 democrats and 10 republican
expire March 3, 1909. In numbe
of the states the senatorial choice a
ready has been made by primary.
national house of representatives wa
elected-the 61st congress. The presen