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Show H TWO PAGES OP ELECTION DATA. M The Standard, in this issue, presents an illustrated review of the M political situation in the nation. The two pages of statistics headed, H 4 'Disputed Political Territory" and "How the States Were Won and M Lost," are a review of all the campaigns since Washington's time M and are of sufficient value for reference to warrant filing away in H scrap-book or library. H The figures are given without party bias and without any at- H tempt to make a showing for or against any candidate or party. H The one most impressive fact disclosed is the extent of the de- H batable territory, in which neither candidate can rest assured of H victory. H We direct attention to the compilation of figures under the hcad- M ing, "Electoral Vote of the Presidents." For forty years the Repub- H lican party has won in the national campaigns, with the exception of H the two Cleveland elections. The idea generally has prevailed that H the United States has been overwhelmingly Republican. By carefully j H I studying the popular vote, it will be discovered that even in the first H Grant campaign, when the hero of Appomattox was at the height of j H his glory, Horatio Seymour had only 300,000 less votes than Grant j H , " Tilden in 1876 defeated Hayes by three-quarters of a million 1 H popular votes. 1 H There were less than 9,500 difference between Garfield and Han- fl H cock. 9 H Cleveland, in each of his three campaigns, polled a higher vote 4 ' S than his opponents, even in the campaign when Harrison was elected. McKdnley defeated Bryan 600,000 in 1S96 and again in 1900. H The greatest Republican victory was that of 1904, when Boose- H velt defeated Parker by over two and a half million votes. Hj That mighty landslide was cut in two when Taft was opposed 1 by Bryan in 1908. Hl Since the last presidential campaign, the congressional contests H have indicated heavy desertions from the Taft side. Half of the H Republican states have gone over to the Democrats or have shown H symptoms of disaffection by rejecting the regular party organization H and accepting the doctrines of the Progressives. H New York state, carried by McKinley by 268,469 and by Taft by H 202,602, has elected a Democratic governor by 67,401. H Connecticut, California, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, H North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon and Wyoming have elected Democratic H ' governors since Taft's election, and states like Nebraska, Kansas, j Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and South Dakota are honey- H combed with Progressives. Hl The table on the electoral and popular vote on the chart page H j will prove a great aid to those who delight in making election fore- H I oasts. This table includes the present division in Congress on party H j line, t which our readers may desire to refer, if the electoral ool- H 1 lege fails to elect a president and the contest is thrown into the lower Hj house of Congress, as provided by the constitution, with each state's H congressional delegation entitled to one vote. |