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Show SOCIALISTS' V BIG GROWTH Party Jumped From 97,-T30 97,-T30 to 500,000 in Four -Years. . : . NEW YORK, Nov. 19. A statement Issued by officials of the local Democratic Democrat-ic party announces that the party's1 followers fol-lowers "have grown from 97,730, as shown, by the ballot of 1900, to half a million in 1904. "Every State, with the exception of Massachusetts and possibly Colorado." says the statement, "reports an Increase, In-crease, Illinois leading with a vote which will be nearer to 100.000 than to the "5,000 reported last week. "The Middle Wert Ohio; Indiana, Illinois, Illi-nois, Wlsconsln.vMlnnesota, Iowa, Kan-- Kan-- ees and Nebraska Is the field in which this year the Socialistic vote Is most marked. "A feature of the election was the al-- al-- most complete extinction of the Socialist Labor party, especially In New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, where Its adherents . were formerly ctlve." - |