Bridgeton pioneer., 1915-02-04
DEMOCRATS IN MINORITY BY
NEARLY TWO MILLION

The Republican National Committe,
has compiled the official figures of tn,
election of 1914 from every State o
the Union. Wherever there was al
election of United States Senator, thu
committee has taken that result as tn,
vote of the State In those States
where no Senatorial election was held
the committee has taken the total Con
gressional vote as the figures o
those States. Compiling in this wa!
the figures for the whole United States
the result shows that over one hun
dred and sixty thousand more Repub
| lican votes were cast than Democrat
ic. And this, too, in face of the fact
that the Progressive vote amounted tc
nearly one and half millions.
This shows well in what a minority
is the Democratic party today To
gether, the Republican and Progress
sive parties cast seven and one-third
lHilIlOIi NOICos 1llo was tAlC pilIA-DCAll-
ocratic vote of the country Every
voter who cast one of those ballots
declared himself opposed to Demo
cratic rule in the nation and all that it
means. The number of votes cast in
the whole country in favor of Demo-
cratic national policies was five and
three-fourths millions. So there were
about one and two-thirds millions of
voters who declared against Democrat
cy at the November election, more
than the number of those who de-
clared for it. That is a margin suffi-
cient in size to make even a Wilson
Administration pause in its program
of obstinate disregard of the wishes of
the nation.
The National Committee in its state
ment gives compilation of the Con-
gressipnal vote cast in the different
States, that is of timely interest and
of great significance 1t brings out in
it's true colors the voting problem that
the North has to face as compared
with the situation in the South. 1t
tells the whole story of the political
conditions in those states that are to-
day in control of the Congress of the
United States. 1t is control that in
evitably comes when the Democratic
party is in power at Washington.
So far as populations is concerned,
each Congressional district in the
country is made up of the same num-
ber of inhabitants. The districts must,
so far as possible, be absolutely equal
in population. This is the law of the
land. Yet at the November elect.o
the total vote in an Ohio Congression-
al district was over forty-nine thou
sand and in Mississippi district it
was forty-siX hundred. Those figures
represent the average Congressional
district vote in the two States, that
are respectively the highest and the
lowest, on the list as regards number
of votes cast for members Of '9Con-
gress.s 20 s
0There are eight States of the Union
in which the total Congressional vote
cast per district averaged less than
nine thousand. All of these are South
ern States, and from all of them go
solid Democratic delegations to the
Capitol at Washington to- make laws
that will bind the whole country.
Down in one of the Mississippi dis
tricts a Democratic member was re-
elected by the casting for him of but
two thousand votes.
In Pennsylvania the average Con-
gressional district vote was a little
over thirty-four thousand. This is
about equal to the vote of Mississippi,
South Carolina, Florida, Arkansas,
Louisiana, George and Alabama COM
bined. In other words, in a Pennsyl-
vania district there are as many votes
cast at an election as are cast in seven
Southern districts. one from each of
as many different States. Yet the
present Democratic Administration is
vigorously prosecuting charges that
there was intimidation of voters at the
recent election in several Northern
States. And an Attorney General from
Texas, where the average Congress
sional district vote is but twelve thou
sand, is leading the hunt. The beam
should certainly first be removed from
the Southern eye. before a search is
instituted for the mote in the Northern
eye. The doctrine of consistency, and
the duty of those who live in glass
houses, should both be kept in mind
just now at Washington.-Ph Philadelphia
Press.
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