Show STUDENT LIFE 50 Student Liee Published Monti Jv by the Students of The Agricultural College or Utah STAPP Walter Porter ’03 Editor-in-Chi- ef Associate Editor Preston Peterson ’07 Business Manager B F Eliason ’06 F It Jensen 'OS Assistant Business Mgr DEPARTMENTS '05 E Barrack JVerna Bowman James Kearns F Biter Jr Stuart Lee '07’06 Horace Kerr 'OS B H M Stoops Literary Student Affairs Notes Department ’07 Local Alumni and Exchange Advertising Bureau Staff Artist ’05 '07 SUBSCRIPTIONS One year Single copies Extra copies to subscribers 100 25c 15c 21 Entered as second class matter Dec unat the post office at Logan Utah der an act of Congress of March 3 1879 is made from Student College' Room 37 Life officedelivery 1903 Voi 3 November 1904 Mo 2 Editorial The Election On Tuesday November 8tli the work of the great political campaign closed With the party leaders the work commenced in earnest a year or two ago But to the general public the campaign means tlie thirty days just preceding election day when orators spring up on every side with the full conviction that it is their duty to “lead the people in the way they should go” It would not he profitable nor interesting to enter into a discussion of tiie platforms at this time We have heard nothing else during the last month and we have had those logical and convincing arguments coupled with the profoundest expressions of sentiment and most powerful hursts of oratory But let us turn our attention to the election problems that confronted the two big parties and made necessary strenuous and energetic work to secure votes After a preliminary canvass was made the Republicans felt sure of the electoral votes of most of the northern and eastern states but conceded to the Democrats the entire South The total number of votes in the electoral college is 477 and 239 votes are required to elect Out of the total number the Republicans were sure of at least 224 and the Democrats were safe in figuring 011 159 long before the fall campaign opened Of the 93 doubtful votes therefore the Republican party had to secure only fifteen in order to win whereas the Democratic party realized that they had to get eighty of them or be “snowed under” Still the work of securing the necessary votes was far from a hopeless undertaking on the part of Democracy New York with 39 and Indiana with 15 electors were Moreover among the doubtfuls the two states nearly always vote the same way and are almost in- - |