Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-27
Interesting Analysis Of
Vote for congressman
Returns Show Progressves Are Returning to Republican Party,
Still Enough Stood Out to Defeat Their Own and Republi-
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Washington, Dec. 26.-When the
Republican Congressional Committee
entered upon the recent Congressional
campaign, it found that it needed the
support of members Of the Progressive
party in eighty-four Congressional dis,
tricts in order to elect the Republican
candidate. The assistance needed
ranged from.1 to SO per cent of the
Progressive vote in each district, as
follows:
From 1 to 10 per cent, sixteen dis
tricts; from II to 25 per cent, seven
teen districts; from 26 to 50:per cent,
fourteen districts; from 81 to Is per
cent, eighteen districts; from 76 to SO
per cent, nineteen districts.
In the present Congress there are
2S6 Democrats, 1875 Republicans, 5
Progressive Republi cans, Is Progress.
siyes, 1 independent, and 5 vacancies.
In the Congress which will come into
being after March 4 there will be 232
Democrats, 1874 Republicans, 7 Pro
~gressives, 1 independent, and 1 So.
cialist. This represents a loss in the
next Congress of Sd Democrats, 5
Progressive Republicans, 8 Progress
sives, and a Republican gain of Il AID
a Socialist gain Of /. The net result
on these returns shows that there has
not only been a heavy return of the
Progressive party vote to the Repub-
lican ranks in the past two years, but
that there is a disposition among Re-
publicals to abandon those party
names, such as Progressive Repub-
lican," which have hitherto emp!ra-
sized and advertised the mongrel con-
dition of the party politically.
At the present time the political
committees in Washington have re-
ceived the official returns from TWEEN
ty-four States, as follows:
Arizona, Delaware, Idaho. Indiana,
land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nevada, Nebraska,
North Carolina, New Hampshire,
North Dakota, New Jersey, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin and
Washington.
What the Returns Show.
These returns show that the head
of the Republican ticket carried the
following States which were carried
by President Wilson in 1912:
Delaware, idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, New Hampshire. North Da-
kota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin.
These States have an electoral vote
of 90. In, addition, the Republicans
took from the Progressives the States
of Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania.
and Washington, with an electoral
vote Of u. They also carried, the
estates of Connecticut, Illinois, New
York, Rhode Island and West Virginia
the official returns from which are not
at hand. The substance of this situa.
ton indicates a trend toward the Re-
publican party in the last election and
at least presages a close contest be
tween the Republican and Democratic
parties in 1916.
While the Progressive party admit
teddy did not make a showing in the
recent Congressional elections at all
commensurate with it's showing in
1912, the Democrats, nevertheless,
owe to it's existence their continue
tion in control of the House in the
next Congress. The returns from the
twenty-four States already in. show
on their face a defeat of twelve Re
publican candidates for Congress be-
cause of the Progressive vote lost to
them. Had the Republicans carried
these twelve seats, the Democrats
would have had a majority over all IN