Show SOME DISCOURAGING FACTS A gentleman was here last week who lives in New York He said when he was coming away he met the manager of the New York Journal and said to him I am going West I shall be gone until after election and I would like to pair with you The manager smiled and said Whom would you vote for If you were here Why he said McKInloy and Roosevelt of course Then said the manager You cannnot pair with me I am going to vote for McKinley and Roosevelt I myself Then said the man II will go to Mr Hearst and pair with him and the manager laughingly said r ThereIs no use for you to go to Mr Hearst The man asked J Mr Hearst going to votejfrm Mr McKinley McKin-ley and the manage replied efs not going to vote or MrBryan A very dlstlngulshedJdDcmocrat In1 I the East who has the facilities for communicating com-municating quickly with the editors I throughout the countryhas since election elec-tion asked more than 200 Demoqratlc editors how they voted and how they felt about the election Most of them replied that they voted for Mr Bryan but every one added that they vqted thinking it would bea great calamity were he to be elected and many of them said that while they voted for him they never would except they knew by the situation that he was going to be defeated This was almost the universal situation throughout the Southern States and yet Mr Bryan received almost 7000000 votes Statements State-ments of this kind l well authenticated make one doubt whether the rule as at present established is altogether safe on which to trust through the ballot the destinies of the country When voters by the million will vote for a man hoping that he may be de feated and when editors by the hun dreds advocate the election of a man whom they want to see defeated it shows party servitude which is dangerous danger-ous to the the future of this country In the South the vote was cast because there Is a sentiment that It Is criminal crimi-nal to vote a Republican ticket Men have the courage to pray quietly to themselves that the Democratic party may be defeated but they have not the courage to say to their neighbors llt wouldbe a misfortune to this woulthe country coun-try to elect1 d certain man I shall change my vole this year And that makes pertinent one paragraph in the GlobeDemocrat which says What a fever of excitement there would be in this country It the election of President hinged upon the electoral vote of the two Gocbcllle tates of Missouri and Kentucky Now It is known that while they were Democratic Judges of election in every precinct of Kentucky who had full control of the ballotw the bent they could do was to bring in a I majority of a little more than three thousand for their ticket It la manifestly mani-festly certain that 0 majority of the i votes In that Slate were cast for McKinley Mc-Kinley and Roosevelt electors The i GlobeDemocrat Is bold In the assertlyh I that except for the Iniquities of the Ncsbltt law which wan modeled after the Gocbcl law of Kentucky oc Missouri would have for gone McKinley and Roosevelt Now suppose the election of the President had rested on the votes of those two Stales would the North and West have stood It What i would have been the right thing to do Or suppose the I election had hung upon tho votes cast in the States of the I j I I South where either the colored men are disfranchised or their voles are never J counted what then As we have pointed out before the State of MIs Blsslppl with less than 60000 votes has I nine electoral votes or onofourth of tho electoral votes of New York where I the votca arecounted by hundreds QC I thousand Mjw crtalnly If the South I W left her uiunltiuola Congressmen there ought for the sake of the future peace of the country If nothing else I to be u limitation on the electoral fJ J votes of those States to something in proportion propor-tion to tho votes cast in the last election I elec-tion |