The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-18

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The total gain in membership of the
House is forty-two, exclusive of Ari.
zona and New Mexico, New England
gains three. the middle States twelve
the north-central States east of the
Mississippi either FIVE or six, according
as the States may be divided in groups.
The older northern States thus hold
about half of the total gain; the other
half goes to the southwestern, noun
tain, and the Pacific States. 1t ap-
pears, therefore, that, as result of the
census and the new apportionment, the
eastern division and the extreme wes~
tern and southwestern parts gain in
voting power in the House, and the
rest of the country relatively loses.
Politically speaking, the twenty-nine
States which gave an aggregate Of 321
electoral votes for Taft in 1908. will
gain thlrtytwo votes. The seventeen
States that gave 162 electoral votes to
Bryan will gain ten electoral votes The
growth of political power has resulted
differently from any previous census, in
that the Middle West has lost by com
parison, while the East and the noun
tain and coast States have relatively
increased their power. The New York
Tribune editorially expresses the result
politically, with somewhat Of provi.
siona forecast, as follows:
The most patent result of the growth
OF the country In the last three decades
has been, far as the distribution Of
political strength Is concerned, the d.
solid South. In 1884 and 1888. when the
South was still unbrokenly Democratic.
II was able TO cast 53 votes. and a Dem
ocratic candidate for President needed
he could obtain by carrying, New York
and Indiana or New York. New Jersey
and connecticut, II the solid South Of
would be able to cast next year 1856
votes-Oklahoma's nine votes being in
Guided But even with that addition
eight votes. majority OF the new Elec-
toral College being 263. To make good
that shortage a DEMOCRATIC candidate
jersey Indiana and Connecticut.
That expresses accurately the present
situation, and so far as one can Judge
from present and past, 1t is fair state
ment, But there are two things to
be taken into account While it is
true that the South has lost relatively,
it is also true that there is such re,
vival going on in the South, such
reconstruction Of business, Of values.
and of immigration, that the ensuing
ten years are practically sure to bring
the South Very strongly to the front
Another proposition, closely related To
the problem Of the political power of
the South, is the immigration into the
southern States Of large numbers of
farmers from, the North These farm.
ers are able TO sell their land at fg.
ures undreamed Of heretofore They do
sell 1T, and, turning their eyes south
ward, Ind as good or better land than
they sold. for one-auarter of the price
They therefore 60 South, open farms in
the northern fashion, and are making
j new South indeed. on quite different
lines from the new South of reconstruc.
ton days. This immigration from the
North is likely also TO have very i'm.
portant political effects. The solidarity
of the South has been somewhat en-.
croached upon by the election of Re.
publican Governor in Tennessee. and
Republican Governors in Missouri and
Kentucky. The Republicans are also
in control in Delaware, and most of the
time in West Virginia. And then. the
protection sentiment is very strong in
the South. which ought to help. and
evidently will help Republican pros
poets in those States. So that, while