The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-26
ROUNDING UP THE RETURNS.

make falrlN correct esllHldle as u
The extent of the vote for presiden
J in the election some weeks ago. Sew
eral of the states were in doubt TO
| few days after The voting. ant
Maryland split its vote, as it die
t more than once in the past but by
= the end of the election week The
q country knew that Taft had 81
electoral votes. as compared Will
162 for Bryan None of the minor
4 candidates received any electoral
votes in any of the recent contests
., In the electoral vote Mckinley had a
sh majority of 80 in 1896 and of 137 in
W ~ 1900. Roasevets majority was 195
tn in 1904. and Tafts is 159 in 1908.
M M Except as there has been "A drop from
thdhe 1904 margin, there has been a
sain.steady increase in the Republican ma
thsjority in all the elections since the
Vi end of the inter-regnum during
he Cleveland 5 terms. In Bryan's own
eaayears, however. the Republican ma
Priority has steadily grown Parker in
%, I'd 1904 CHANGED to De weaker than
DO Bryan has been at any time, but Bry-
"a "a an has been falling backward with
al out interruption from the beginning.
III The majority against him is greater
h. in 1908 than it was in 1900, and il
u was greater thar il was in 1896.
After lowering close to the H.
" O08, O00 mark for several presiden-
v tial elections, the popular vote has
: now left that line far behind. Count
= ing the scattering votes ia with those
east for the candidates of The vari-
Gus parties. the popular poll WAS 49,
923. 900 in 1896, 10 1861 600 in 1900.
and 13.529,000 IN 1904 II is ap-
proximately 1850. 000 in 1908,
Here, too, Bryan's vote has been get
ting beautifully less from the begin
1896, It was 6,S5S,133 in 1900. and
il is 6,45O,690 in 1905. The APP
parent increase in 1908 over 1900 is
due to Qklaboma's advent as state
- -
in 1906. Subtractins the l=-'VVV
votes which he received In 0kianoin.-.
his tally i'm the recent election was
below that of eight years ago. This
shrinkage in Bryans vote is all the
more remarkable when it is borne
in mind tina: the country has been
growing with considerable rapidity
during all those years, and the poll
of the Democratic party. under nor
, NAL conditions. ought TO have in
!, creased instead of decreasing. As
compared with the gains on the Re-
/ publican side the steady weakening
I in Bryans strength shows MP i'm.
/ pressiyely. McKinley's lead over
$ Bryan in the popular vote was $685.
r .s54 in 1896 and S49,790 in 1900,
! while Taft's margin is about 1909
+, 900. The only comfort which Bryan
can extract out of these figures is
that Parker was beaten worse II
1904. Roosevelt's lead being 2,545,
Sis. Apparently Tafts total of thu
popular vote is about $4,000 create
than Roosevelt's, but Bryan's poll i
far ahead of Parker's.
The vote for the minor parties i
always slower in reaching the publ
than is that for the two big orga
nizations. Returns for all of them
however, are sufficiently full to shoy
than the average person expected
In point of strength they stand in thi
order, beginning with the largest AM
dropping to the smallest: Socialist
Prohibition, independence League
Populist, Social Labor. Instead o
getting 100000 or l ,500. 900 votes
which he predicted Debs, the Social
list candidate, obtained a few thou
sand less than 100000 which he re
ceived in 1904 His tally in the re
turns thus far in is 401 900. but
liz believed he will get 1000 or 8,
900 more when the final figures ar
ut hand. Chain, the Prohibitionist
=" 1000 "a cOmnarel