Bisbee daily review., 1913-01-31
ELECTION FIGURES ANALYzgo.

ELECTION FIGURES ANALYZEo.
 Every party ia the country. except one. fell off in it's vote in 1912, as compared with 1908. As the complete tables of the official returns are now at hand. it is possible to make aa analysis of the vote. Wilson won 115.65O fewer votes than did Bryan four years earlier. The split in tho republican party, Of course. made Tsft's vote. which was ls7s.90S ia 1894. only 3.4S5 .sS2 in 1912 for smaller in the later year. while Roose- veIts poll was 4,1le.5S2 in 1912. This diffusion in the republican poll in the republican states left only two states, Utah and Vermont each with four electoral votes, to Taft, while Rooso- welt carried California (exeept two electoral votes which were captured by wilson) Michigan, Minnesota, Penn sylvania. South Dakota and Wash ington, with eighty-eight electoral votes, to the colonel. Wilson's cleo toral poll was 435. or far larger total than was ever boiled for any previous presidential nominee. The nearest vote to his by any other can didate was that of Roosevelt in 1904, which was 3S6.
 Oddly enough, the combined vote for Roosevelt and Taft in 1912 was below the Taft vote in 1908 by more than 7s.00O Their aggressive poll was much more than 1,3O0.000 greater than Wilson's. Been Chain, the prohibition candidate. boiled A. 0op fewer votes in 1912 than he did in 1908. Except in New England and the Rocky Mount ain region, the states showed a fan ing of in the aggregate vote. Two new states were added to the roE in 1912, These were Arizona and New Mexico. Two new states, Washing ton ana California, gave women the ballot between 1908 and 1912, and thus added several hundred thousands to their poll. There was an increase oi about per eens in the eountry's population between the campaign in which Taft was elected and that in which wilson won From all these sources about 100000 were added to the number entitled to vote. And yet we see that fewer ballots were cast by each of the great parties, and also by the prohibitionists The coun- try $ aggregate poll in 1912 did. in deed, cross the 15.ooO,0oe mark, mak- ing a gain of 146,s7s over 1908.
 This gain. and much more, was ab- sorted by the Socialist party. The vote for Debs. which was 42O.7ss in 1908. jumped to 9OI.sSo in 1912. The  socialist vote much more than doubled in the four years. Debs Ioil exceeded 35.000 in Texas, Missouri. Wisconsin, Indiana, California. Illinois Peunsyi yania and Ohio the increase being in the order here given. 9o,ooO ballots being cast fer him in the Buckeye state. Debs received more =o:cs than faft in arizona, caIifOrnia, Florida Louisiana. MissiS<ippl Nevada and South Dakota. Des5s beat RooseveR ia Florida and Oklahona.,, It ~as a campaign full oi surprises. Despite the sound and fury, the big Sartie: made a poorer showing than they Sit in 1908, when. apparently. The eaor
 to get out large vote was less thaT it was in the 5tfent campaign. vii Sons weakness was esperialIys strik ing. A much smaller minority of ;h' people supported him than gave thei
 ballots to Bryan in each of his thre'
 canvasses. He lacked the great per
 soaaI popuianty of the NehrasiSan.