Show THREEANDAHALF TO ONE I the men of the North were as alert and as tenacious of their rights as those of the South there would bono bo-no question about who would be elected President Take n fow examples Now Hampshire has four electoral votes So has Florida Well In 189G New Hampshire Hamp-shire cast 79000 votes and Florida H 000 Again West Virginia has six electoral votes and South Carolina has nine In 1SOG West Virginia cast 197 COO votes and South Carolina 65000 Mississippi and Minnesota each have nine electoral votes In 1S96 the former cast 69000 votes the latter 333000 Now Jersey has ten electoral votes Georgia has thirteen Their votes stood 355000 I for tho former and 154000 for the latter lat-ter Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Geor-gia Louisiana Mississippi and South I Carolina have combined sixtysix electoral elec-toral votes Illinois has twentyfour electoral votes In 1S9C Illinois cast 1090869 votes and the other seven States cast S99133 The States of the South mentioned In that list arc all old States and are thickly populated The trouble Is that a large proportion of the people are colored men and arc denied the ballot The white men who are Republicans know that it is useless use-less to vote as their votes avail nothing I noth-ing In that way In the last Instance cited above In seven of the great States of the South it only required 11000 votes to elect an elector while in Illinois Illi-nois It requires 15450 Chanting his cry of Imperialism and telling of the tyranny ot a government not carried on with the consent of the elrrec governed Mr Bryan hopes to be elected elect-ed through I system which In a political po-litical sense makes one man in Mississippi Missis-sippi equal to three men and a large fraction In Illinois And so far as known Mr Bryan never thought there I was anything wrong in that arrangement i arrange-ment Why should he when without the arrangement ho would have no more chance to be elected than has Wharton Barker But seeing that understanding un-derstanding I and still approving It how can any Democratic orator or Journal have the cheek to expatiate upon the tyranny orn government which is carried on without the consent con-sent of the governed Will some journal jour-nal that every morning cries its eyes out over the political fetters that have been placed upon the wrists of Aguin aldo explain why one vote In the South North Is equal to three and a half votes I |