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Show PRESIDENTIAL POINTERS Only one candidate for president pres-ident died between the election and meeting of the electoral college. col-lege. Horace Greeley, the Democratic Dem-ocratic and Liberal candidate, died before the meeting of the electoral college. The Democratic Democrat-ic electoral vote was divided among four candidates. B. Grata Brown, the Democratic and Liberal Lib-eral candidate for vice president, received 47 votes, 19 less than the number of Democratic electors. elec-tors. James S. Sherman, candidate for vice president on the Republican Repub-lican ticket 1912, died on Octo- ber 80, a few days before the election. No provision was made by the Republican national committee com-mittee for nominating a successor, succes-sor, and at the meeting of the state electoral colleges the Republican Re-publican electors chosen in Vermont Ver-mont and Utah eight in all voted for Nicholas Murray Butler, But-ler, of New York. |