The Lamar register., 1915-01-13
1914 VOTE WOULD ELECT RE-
PUBLICAN PRESIDENT
TwO-Thirds of Progressives Are In
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Kan
sas

elections held last November. Ac-
cording to long statement given out
tonight by Secretary Reynolds at the
committee headquarters here, the
analysis shows three very important
political facts.
First, the republicans carried upon
national issues states that would give
a clear majority in the electoral col
lege and elect a republican president
2. The democratic majority in the
next house is only the result of the
progressive vote in certain districts
of the country, and the democrats viii
be really minority party in the
house of representatives.
3. Two-thirds of the progressive
vote of 1912 has not only ceased to
support third-party candidates but has
returned to the support Of republican
principles and candidates.
These three propositions represents
analysis Of the official figures Of the
votes cast in thirty-eight states.
"The republicans carried twenty
three states" says the statement,
(which, in the electoral college cast
28s votes for president, clear ma
jority of % over the 266 necessary
for choice. There are three states
which may be temporarily classed as
doubtful, as on national issues they
divided their allegiance. These are Or
egon, South Dakota, and Nevada, in
which democratic senators were chos-
en-, but republican house delegations
were elected.
AT this election 23O democratic
candidates were successful. In thirty
nine Of the congressional districts,
however, the progressive vote was
larger than the democratic plurality,
so that, had it not been for the pro
gressive vote the democratic mem
bership in the next house would be
only 19l, with 21s necessary fer a
majority. The progressive vote also
elected four democratic senators
those in Colorado, California, Indiana
and Oregon.
"The question of what has become
Of the progressive vote Of 1912 is well
answered in these official -eturns. In
the thirty-eight states whose returns
have been compiled there is repG"'i-
can gain Of PASS, ,5SS ovr ne repub-
lican vote Of 1912. Their, is pro-
gressive loss of 2,5O7, ,S11 as compc red
with the presidential vote OF that
party two years ago. In other words.
the progressive loss is within less
than l per cent of being the anne as
the republican gain.
"In the twenty-three states which
put themselves in the republican col
umn, the republican plurality over the
democratic vote was over 100000;
whereas, in 1912, the Wilson vote in
the same states was larger than the
Taft vote by over n million. of the
total vote cast by the three parties
in these states in 1914, the republicans
cast 49.6 per cent, the democrats 3S.9
per cent and the progressives 11.5
per cent. In 1912, the presidential
vote cast was: Republicans 2S.4 per
cent, democrats 39.7 per cent and the
progresives 31.9 per cent"
The twenty-three states are, Con-
necticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois.
Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North
Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington,
West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyom-
ing. The total republican vote cast
in these states is given as 4,113,319.
Democratic 3,215,426 and progressive
956,467. These states in 1912 gave
Taft 2,477,372, Wilson 3,495,7O4, and
Roosevelt 2,SO5,74s.
Continuing the committees state
ment says:
"Of the total progressive vote cast
by these twenty-three states, it is
interesting to note that half of it was
cast by two states, Illinois and Penn
sylvania, and near two-thirds Of the
total by the three states of Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Kansas.
Figures have been compiled from