The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-20
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How Our Washington Cor
respondent Demonstrates
That ssUncles Judnsis the
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VI Washington, fiMarch 20.-ir tho
Democrats win, the national election
they must take into rlous consider-
ation the availability of the different
candidates, and selecteas IA standard
bearer the man who viii have Ahe
Aest chance OF securing enough ballots
Election. fN''
i, the Democrats 9can geWry Ohio.
lndlanas aril New York thess. will
| Win. The ballots of these states, add
I'd TO those states that Will be safely
Democratic, will elect their candi-
date. The fight for victory must be
made in these states.
There will be 531 votes In the cleo
toral college, which win select the
president in 1912 The majority re-
quired to elect Is 266. Studems of
national politics estimate the Demo-
cratic candidate can reasonably de-
penl on having 1877 votes in the cleo
toral college, and In these figures are
included the Southern states, Missouri
and Maryland, both carried by Presl-
DENT Taft In 1908, Arizona and New
Mexico and Colorado, carried by Bry-
An in 1908. N1Hlfl
q Inc Denocraltic presidential candl-
date-mlist obtain 10 additional cleo
toral votes TO win. New York, Ohio
end Indiana, with totaf of S4 votes,
would bring the Democratic strength
In the electoral college up no 271
Votes, or five more than the majority
required to elect These states All
have Democratic administrations.
Spppose on the other hand, the
Democratic party should decide to
make it's fight for the Vest 1t would
pc necessary no carry Wisconsin,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, California,
Montana, South Dakota, North pa
kota, Oregon and Wyoming, with a
total of 10 votes, which would bring
the Democratic strength in the elector-
a! college up to 266 Votes-a bare ma
jority
An of these states, with one ex-
ceptlon. have Republican adminlstra-
hons and IL would be folly for the
party to attempt 10 canry all of them.
When one analyzes the situation,
the question as TO what the Democ-
iacy should do to win resolves itself
into two propositions;
shall the party make fight for
the three eastern states, needed TO
win, all Of which have Democratic
state administrations. or, shall the
party battle for the ten western states
needed to record Democratic VIC
tory, all of which have Republican adj
minisitrations
Any OF the candidates for the Dem
ocratic nomination should carry the
southern states, hut shoulI the party
decide to center its Efforts toward se-
curing New York. Ohio and indiana
then the question of lbhe availability
OF the candidates in those three states
becomes a question OF utmost Import
once. Ohio, dn this event, becomes
one OF the qdvotal states, and Gov
ernor Judson Harmon would be the
logical nominee, aside from his other
puaiiflcations' Nobody ldoubts that
with Harmon the nominee the DEM
ocrats would carry Ohio.
In 1908 Mhile President Taft car
rled Ohio by plurality Of $1,000
Harmon candidate for governor, beat
his Republican opponent by 10000.
Governor Harmon gave greater
demopslation of his vote getting
Quality IN Ohio in The election of Mo-
vember, 1910, when his vote exceeded
that O. the combined Democratic