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Show injured Innocence. The Salt Lake Herald affects to be shocked and indignant over the "race" plank In the" Republican Re-publican platform, and assumes to believe that it is sufficient In itself to defeat Mr. Roosevelt. Still can the Hdrald explain why It requres twice as many votes to elect a Congressman or to secure an electoral vote north of the Ohio, as its requires re-quires south of that river?. Will it tell us where the equities "come in? If there should be legislation legisla-tion which would reduce the vote of a "Southern gentleman down to the level of just a common Yankee like Senator Lodge or Senator Hoar, would that be another proof that the animosities of the great war still exist in the North and that the purpose pur-pose is to add one more oppression to the suffering suf-fering South? To make it clear, let us copy some of the returns re-turns of the last Presidential election, in 1900. In that year Massachusetts had 16 electoral votes. In that year she cast 445,863 votes. In the. same election Mississippi had 10 electoral votes and cast 56,859 bahots to obtain them. In the same election, Pennsylvania, to gain hor 34 votes In the electoral college, cast 1,136,888 votes, while Georgia had her 13 electoral votes counted on a home vote of 166,735. Iowa had the same number of electoral votes as Georgia, but it - ' jJHi required 447,972 ballots to stand off Georgia f I HH 166,735. Connecticut has seven electoral votes, 1 1 i fH Louisiana nine, but in 1900 Connecticut polled lj 1 Bfl 176,564 votes while Louisiana got through nicely I' I WM on 67,904. In 1900 Colorado and Florida each had J j H five electoral votes, Colorado cast 215,805 votes, f I and Florida returned 35,341. I H California and Kansas eaoh has 10 electoral j M votes and South Carolina 9, but the votes in the I H three states In 1900 were respectively, California, 1 I M 289,720; Kansas, 348,556; South Carolina, 50,815. j j H Where does the Herald's Indignation and in- ' j WM jured Innocence come In? Again the question j f jH comes up, why should it take three times as many 1 5 M Northern as Southern votes to elect a Congress- lM man, or to gain an electoral vote? |