Evening star., 1909-03-03

son of Illinois being the vice presidential
candidate. Benjamin Harrison of Indiana
vas again the republican candidate for
President and Whtclaw Reid of New
York for Vice President. James Il.
Weaver and James q. Field headed the
peoples ticket and John Bidwell and ].
B. Crantill the prohibition. The demo.
cratic ticket polled over 100000 votesl
the republican over 5175,Oo0: the green.
back or peoples. 1,oDe1. OF the 44i
electoral votes 2T1 were cast for the
democratic 145 for the republican and %
for the peoples. In the popular vote Mr.
CleVelandS S plurality was over :;Sn,0D.
Mckinley Twice Elected.
For the term 1s97-1?01. when William
Mckinley and G.. A. Hobart the republi.
can candidates. were elected. nearly H..
100000 votes were cast for the All elect.
ors. The other candidates were William
]. Bryan of Nebraska and Arthur SewaE
Of Maine on the democratic ticket. anG
MIR. Bryan and Thomas L. Watson OF
Georgia on the populist ticket: Joshua
Levering and Hale Johnson. prohibition.
list; John NJ. Palmer and Simon j.
Buckner. national democratic: Charles H
Matchett and Matthew Mcguire socialist
labor; Charles +. Bentley and James IL
Southgate. nationalist
For the popular vote over 1.O00,O09 were
cast for the republicans and over 6,J00 ON
for the democrats. Mr. Mckinley had
votes 271 were cast for Mckinley and
Hobart, 1IG for Bryan, 149 for Sewal
and ~ for Watson.
For the term 130l-l905 Mr.. Mckinley anG
Mr.. Bryan again headed the republican
and democratic tickets. respectively Mr.
Roosevelt for Vice President with the
first and Adlai T.. Stevenson with the
second. There were other tickets which
figured at the polls, but not in the elect
oral college.
John C. WoolIey aud TT p MetcaI ~ ware
the prohibition candidates; Wharton Bar.
ker and lgnatius Donnelly. populist: Ell.
gene v Debs and Job Hartman. socialist
democrat; Joseph r. Malloney and Val.
entine Remmel, socialist labor.
In the popular vote of over 5000 OM
the republican ticket received over 200.
600; the democratic vote was over $780,.
600. In the electoral vote the former had
292 TO 100 for the latter.
Roosevelt's Record Breaking Vote.
For the term of 1905-1909 the candidates
were Theodore Roosevelt. New York, and
Charles w. Fairbanks, Indiana (republi.
cam; Alton r. Parker, New York. and
Henry G. Davis. West Virginia demo.
craD; Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin
Hanford (socialisD; Silas C..SwalIow and
George w. Carroll (prohibitionist: Thorn.
as f. Watson and Thomas III. Trimbls
tpOpulisO. and Charles H. Corrigan and
William w. Cox socialist labor.
The republican ticket polled over 500
600 votes; the democratic candidates over
'.eOo.o0o Mr.. Roosevet's popular pIu.
rality was over 2.JO0.000. His electoral
vote was 336; Parkers 140.
Election of Taft.
For the next term 1909-13. William II
Taft. Ohio. and James s. Sherman New
York. were the republican candidates
William j. Bryan again became the dem.
ocratic candidate for President his run.
ming mate being John w. Kern of In.
diana. Eugene Y. Debs and Benjamin
Hanford again were the socialist candi-
dates; Eugene w. Chain and \. s. Wat
kins. the prohibtionist; Thomas r. Wat.
son and Samuel Williams, the popuiisti
August Gillhaus and Donald l.. Munro
the socialist labor: Thomas L. IIisgen and
John Temple Graves. the independence
Taft polled over 1.uU0GGo votes: Bryan
over 6.0O0.O00. Taft's electoral vote was
321: Bryan's, 162.