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Show TJIK ELECTORAL. COLLEGK. By the apportionment act passed by congress last winter the electoral college col-lege will number 44-1 members, instead of 401 as iu 1888. an increase of 43. No state loses through the new apportionment apportion-ment and the gains are made by the following named commonwealths: Alabama, Ala-bama, Arkansas. California. Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri. Mis-souri. Michigan. New Jersey, Oregon and Wisconsin each has an increase of cue member; Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas each a gain of two members, and Nebraska comes to the front with an increase of three. Then there are the stales admitted ad-mitted since 1888: Idaho, three; Montana, Mon-tana, three; North Dakota, three; South j Dakota, four; Washington, four; and J Wyoming three, making twenty elect-I elect-I ors for the new commonwealths. It will be seen that in this increase of forty-three votes in the electoral college col-lege the reliably democratic states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia. Missouri, New Jersey and Texas gain iu the aggregate ag-gregate just seven. It is well to take into account, however, in this connection, connec-tion, that the Michigan legislature last winter passed an act requiring the election of presidential electors to be conducted by the congressional districts of that state separately, and that the democratic majority of that body gerrymandered the state in fine style with the view of returning the largest possible number of democratic demo-cratic electors therefrom, so of her fourteen votes in the electoral college the democracy may secure one-half. The showing, though, as it now presents pre-sents itself, is not unfavorable to the republican party. New York is apparently ap-parently falling out of line as a pivotal state; the great and growing commonwealths common-wealths of the west will soon have their due representation in congress and in the electoral college, and after March 4, 1893, that representation will be felt in the councils ftf the nation more effectually than at any peii in the past. ' X th 9i , |