The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-01-29
,e official returns show, that there has

,e official returns show that there has
| been a Progressive loss of 2,5O7,oll
votes, as compared with the presiden-
tial vote of that party two years e
in the thirty-eight states whose official
returns have been compiled. A Repub-
lican gain of 2,489,588 votes e the
Republican presidential vote OF 1917
is also shown. ,
The following states, with an cleo
toral vote of 288, we're carried by the
Republicans on national issues at the
recent election, according to the COM
mittee: Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Illinois. Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Wash
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and
Wyoming.
The vote last year, based on the
election of senator's and representa-
tives was: Republicans, 4,113,319,
Democrats 3~,215,426, Progressives,
956,467. In 1912 the vote in these
states was: Wilson 3,495, 704, Roose-
welt 1885, TAB, Taft 2,477,372 Thus it
is shown according to the committees
figures that not alone was there a
huge slump in the Progressive vote,
but the Democrats suffered a substan-
tial loss as well.
1t is interesting to note that OF the
total Progressive vote cast in these
twenty-three states, half of it was
cast in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and
nearly two-thirds of the total in Hi
nois, Pennsylvania and Kansas.
Figures have been compiled from
twelve states in which Republicans
were not successful at the election,
and these are representative states IN
different sections of the country. In
the total votes. cast in these twelve
the Democrats won by a plurality OF
less than 200 900.
Ouly rev VOlcS A>VCCuVu
In 1912, the Democratic plurality ir
I these same states was more than
! LOCO, 900. A small percentage Of Re
' publican gain would have put three o.
7 these states into the Republican col
umn, as an increase of a little more
than 5000 Republican votes woule
| have carried Nebraska, Colorado ane
Maine, with their twenty votes in tht
;, electoral college. These states were
e Alabama, Arizona, California, Colo
e RADIO, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Mary
land, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska ant
a North Carolina. In the 1914 vote was
e Republican -...-...--..---"-l,472,23'
S Democratic ,66 ,o2'
Progressive 47O,96'
In 1912 it was:
Taft 733, O2'
r Wilson ,767, 88
ROOSeVelC ,O4O,So
- Taking all of the thirty-eight state
together in which official returns haN
y cen compiled, the Republicans at tn
, November election cast AZ per cent o
the total Republican, Democratic an
Progressive vote. The Democrats cas-
= Al per cent and the Progressives 1
per cent. In 1912 in the same states
!, the Republicans cast 26 per cent o
this total, the Democrats 43 per cen
an dthe Progressives 81 per cent.
e The house of representatives chose
at the November election will contain
Republicans 1876, Democrats 23O, Pro
gressives 6. In addition to these Their
are from California, a Progressively
% publican, a Prohibitionist and an In
l. dependent, and from New York a Sc
D %cialist. The house of representative
Is elected in 1912, contained: Republic
= ans 1872, Democrats 292, Progressive!
T. Is, Progressive Republicans 5, indie
pendent 1.
'e The committee says that it was tn
Progressive vote that saved the cor
troll of the house of representatives t
y the Democrats. They elected twelv
u more than a majority of the hous'
- whereas in thirty-nine congress di:
tricts Democrats were chosen becaus
IL of the candidacy of a Progressive .
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