The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-25

| We have received the following let
ter from one who states his problem us
follows
Lucn. Utah. Sept. %. 1912.
Editor Trlbune:-What is your opinion
on the following election forecast;
That the next President or the United
States will be Republican, but not
! Taft"
The reason advanced being that nei-
Their OF the three leading candidates Will
receive sufricient OF the electoral vote
| to win out, therefore the matter will go
to the House OF Representatives for set
| tlement, when each State will have but
single vote for the choice of Its can
| didate. There viii, therefore. be but AS
votes in all, and as there does not ap-
Dear TO be any sure thing of either TAFT.
in 20 States, the chances are good for
a deadlock lasting until March 4, 1913,
at which time, n no choice has been
made the Vice President now in office.
will become President for the term Of
four years from that date. 3,
That problem is stated all right un-
I'll the statement gets along to the sue
cession of the present Vice President in
the way of holding over There is no
hold-over proposition in the Consttu-
ton.
When the popular election fails, and
there is no majority in the Electoral
college for any candidate, the election
goes into the House Of Representatives,
where, as stated by our correspondent,
each State has one vote At present the
division Of the States is e2 Republican,
22 Democratic and 4 tie, politically
considered. That is to say, o2 States
have majority OF Republican Repre-.
sentatives, and will cast the vote Of
their States for n Republican, presum-
ably President Taft; % States have n
majority of Democratic Representa-.
tives, and will accordingly cast the vote
TO wit, Maine, Nebraska, New Mexico,
and Rhode Island, have delegations
equally divided between the RepubE-
cans and the Democrats. That is, Maine
has two Democrats and two Ropubli
cans in the present House, Nebraska
has three Republicans and three Dom
ocrats, New Mexico has one Republican
and one Democrat, and Rhode Island
has one Republican and one Democrat.
Under the Constitution, the House
of representatives must elect before
the fourth day OF March next; or, if it
fails to elect before the fourth day of
March, the Senate proceeds to choose
Vice President from the two candi-
dates receiving the highest number of
votes in the Electoral college Tho Sen
ators vote individually as Senators, be-
ing in this different from the members
Of the House, who vote simply in each
case, one vote for their State The Sen
ate must cast majority vote of Sena.
tors to elect. The number Of Senators
in the present Congress is 95, there be-
ing g vacancy from Colorado; therefore,
4s Senators must vote for any candi-
date IN order 20 elect him. The lineup
of the present Senate is So Republicans,
AZ Democrats and one vacancy (from
Colorado). 1t is quite possible that in
case the election falls to the Senate
that body, with its so Republican votes,
might elect as Vice~Presjdent Mr. Sher-
man, the present Vice-PresideDt. in
that case, Mr.. Sherman would succeed
to the vacant Presidency; but he would
not succeed by reason Of being Vice.
President now, and holding over, He
would have to be elected Vice-President
by the Senate in order to succeed to
the Presidency, according to the pro-
visions of the Federal constitution.