Show The New York World will not be comforted over the Kansas City platform plat-form It analyzes the vote for 16 to 1 in that convention There were Arizona Ari-zona Indian Territory New Mexico Oklahoma and Hawaii that have no electoral vote With those votes dropped and also the vote of Alaska against free silver the committee stood for 16 to 1 21 against 16 lol 23 with Montana refusing to vote The twentyone States whose representatives representa-tives Imposed 16 to 1 upon the party have In all 148 yotcs less than one third of the electoral votes Of these twentyono States Iowa Maine Massachusetts Mass-achusetts New Hampshire Oregon North Dakota Vermont and Washington Washing-ton are conceded to the Republicans They have fiftythree electoral votes Sixteen to one therefore got the representatives rep-resentatives of only 95 electoral votes that Mr Bryan can possibly claim about oncllfth of the electoral college That Included all the States that under ordinary circumstances would be classed as neutral California Connecticut Con-necticut Illinois Maryland Michigan Minnesota New Jersey New York Ohio South Dakota West Virginia Wjsconsln States that cast 176 electoral elec-toral votes and decide Presidential cleptlons Only four rockribbed Democratic Dem-ocratic States voted for 1C to 1 Alabama Ala-bama Arkansas Missouri and South Carolina Nine normally and naturally Democratic States voted against 1C to Florida Georgia Louisiana Maryland Mary-land Mississippi North Carolina Tennessee Ten-nessee Texas Virginia all of them In the original solid South The final wall of the World Is that 1C to 1 was overwhelmingly rejected by the Democratic Demo-cratic and doubtful States and was forced upon the party by the representatives represen-tatives of Republican and Populist States In conjunction with the delegates I dele-gates from four I Territories The truth is it was forced upon the convention by Mr Bryan himself and the States that voted for It at least all the States I east of the Mississippi river did it simply In the hope of putting the Ins out and getting the outs In |