Show PRESIDENTIAL RB ELECTIONS V. V What o of Today WAITS r rr I r Jury in Worlds World's History P Passes ses Judgment Judg Judg- ment Today I I t rr f WHO WILL WIN IS ISS ENGROSSING QUESTION S t l That No One Will WiIl Secure Electoral S Votes Required rt 4 BY FREDERIC 3 J. J HASKIN l tho down of tho sun to to- ir the thc mightiest jury that ever eYer Eat sat in py 1 causo will wm bavo hayo marched to the thc r 1 a nd d recorded record tl i its t Jt it is not probable tb thai d the ibo day 3 sixteen i illion Jion freemen will have gono to t tho e Ifs anti and back to their work again Six Six- cn D million men Shoulder to shoulder ID of them miles I long ng Six Six- i icea cea n million on men An AlL arn army y o ot 1600 0 Pediments girnt hl in that each cach i vot I akes k s' s only half an m hour hour from the thc time 1 cans I his IllS worl o lc he hc returns iti it i require moro than a th thousand usand in ra r for ono man to do it all 0 When ta 1 et as this speaks hat nhat w won won- n S it tb that t all 1 partisanship nhip prow grons OUS silent t bl abides s ts' ts s v VB- VB r t the he her Cf C HW J I. I t but u U Win WI a three three- fi fight t l in n which chich t c each eli ch pa party J js is is practically y c certain to cot et ct some sonio electoral lcd raI raIv v Votes tei it 1 becomes a question whether ti i no nio o of them can get the lr r in majority j rity of 1531 31 i votes votes' in the tho electoral Coc elec ec toral pr lc colleges Je of tho cral ac stat states Ii This means t that al t to nin in ono of tho s have haic votes licu i the r e c- c r- r t and select a president T je fin indicates tc that tho political author author- titi think Wilson will fill do this but that neither of the others can call tb do it H. Chair Chair- r wan an 1 claims that tha t 1 Mr r. r Taft will yarry arry arzy the and shows SO votes in hi his S forecast t. t But ho bo includes l li and aud Nary Nary- ind J nd m in n hi his total and if bo be losea losee thorn h ho pares down tn his bis total by br 26 votes ote t down n to to 2 I votes otes or 16 short of or hIS hia need if his candidate ii i to Problem Is Complex f Thc churns chums have hac not been bern burd bej irH on tho the specific pc fiu figures s that the tho r L cl ims ims are aro aro hut but it Jt nn ms certain ertain ft that tha t if it Mr Ir can wi win it will wm be by b. leaving caving nothing f for r ir r. r Taft The cv ex must t win vm ip even c thin not taken bv by K lson If rt C Taft should carry carn on the leyen dates of or Wa Washington hinton tahVO tah V o row Vermont Colorado e Inland and ana Idaho and aud Wilt Wilson on should cam tarry only onh Ho tho solid and New Terse Jersey R win But Hut if he should t e rn YorI orl and arid an any other othor ono one tto cither of f t them bem he bc would fall below b requisite ite bG tiG YOU S Or if ho should can Now ow York tho the loss lors of rJ vania anJa in jn comb nation with either Call Call- i mia Indiana Illinois IOWA Towa Ka Kansas 11 Ia 5 Maine Ja nc a b Michigan r bi n Nc- Nc a Ohm Ohio Vet Virginia or In tin Mill Ica him hint outside of the circle 1 These figures might be r nd finith to how wb t t an aU S odAy phIL I fi bt Ko will have o to to win winS f m Wil Oll should carry the iatA h Democrat Dc governors he WI wn b by h. a u mar margin il greater grealer rc than at t b by Chairman for 1 rall Or jf if JIO carries th the L Ji COUNTRY WAITS BREATHLESSLY Y I FOR VERDICT I Continued from front page 1 two twenty states tates which would cast their votes for him if hi hIs hia election w were r thrown into the house bouse ho will WUl win with two twenty votes to spare In other words if h he ho- carries carries only tho those e states which wont went Democratic for congress two ye years rs ago he be will win wn with a safo afo mar mar gin giu This do doCs not sot in include luclo the vote otc of the states which are divided on a ahouse ahouse house presidential Mainc ballot Maine Rhode Island and Nebraska and Now Mexico The Thew f w nt twO states which have havo can roan delegations in in tho the house bouse have a total electoral vote of ot votes s while tho those thoM so which have Den delegations delegations dele have votes tho four d divided dele delegations havo twenty ono votes otes If neither candidate is able ablo to muter muster mu mug mus ter 66 votes otes votes confessedly a lar large e task with three rOn mon like Taft Tart Wilson and Roosevelt lt running running-it running it it is certain that there them will be bo some so-mo desperate Orate maneuvering maneuver i jug ing bet w between n election q day and the tho day daj when the electoral colleges meet If Taft and Roo Roosevelt together have hav enough electors t to win by b- by uniting them for one ono man will HI that be considered 7 Are Aro the tho Republicans apt to throw their strength th to Wilson Willon rather than to see Roosevelt get into nto tho white whito bou house o again aJain f Would tho the Progressives rather rathor throw their heir strength to the party they y lately left left- than to throw the J c into the tho housel Could the peacemakers rs induce the tho Progressives si o and the tho Republicans Re Be- Reo publicans to compose their differences and unite once a again in t These are arc questions ques ques- lions that are being asked It is asserted as as- in some quarters that seeing in 11 how OW hopelessly tho the house would be deadlocked deadlocked dead dead- locked on a Pre presidential ballot tho Republicans Be- Be publicans and the Progressives mi might ht ma mate make e a deal to settle tho matter in th the electoral l con colleges q either rby by calling Da na national na- na tio 3 cont conventions or otherwise May Sit St Tight t. t But this is is scarcely probable sinco since the Republicans have everything to gain fain gain and nothing 1 to lose hose bv by sitting U tight t should h a a d deadlock occur Practically every political mit writer r m mu the tho has baB fallen into error concerning concern concern- lag Ins ing th the tho succession in an tho event that th the senate and arid house bouse both fail to to choose am and ud the secretary of or state stale becomes president The succession sio law Jaw of 1886 ays fays that th t in n certain c events the secre tarv arv of state shall act set as president ia and ana if he i ie je not notable able to do BO so the sue sue- uc cession b J de descend t to the other cab cab- ab net officers in order It provides that t be 30 ie hall shall If serve until such disa disability is 18 s removed or a president is elected I It t further provides for th the calling to Bother gotler of eon congress reea immediately after the rhe succession iou if if- it be not then in hi session an aD J practically every Overy er author author- ity ty h hs ha a assumed that t the e convening of con congress conos os is 18 a provision for the tho author author- i tion of a special p e al elect election n to fill tho the ac vacancy c The proceedings s of the constitutional convention indicate that this was o ex ox exactly what was was was' int intended d by ti the O eon con constitution makers When the C cOnven ion tion t took ok up t that proposition it WAS Wag proposed U that such officer r shall hall act accordingly until tho time of f electing a 3 president shall arrive J J. J The Tho- documentary docu docu- m history toTY of f tho the Constitution says that th thereupon Mr Madison observed ob oboe ob- ob served ered J t tbt t this this' as 35 worded would wOl prevent pre pro pre vent t the vacancy bv byan an au aut intermediate t rin di dito to election tion of the president 1 and B moved to substitute until such disability bA bAT T removed or a president nt shall bali bo be ele elected Governeur Marl Mori Tie ris r th the tb motion w ich was agreed aeed to Th The account then adds a that that tat sOme me objected to the substitute b because according to the process pro process e es established t bb hed for choosing choosing- the ex executive there would be be difficulty in effecting i it if at than fixed periods period but that on on th the motion of Mr r Randolph the substitute was as pa passed ed N luw w Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Vir Virginia South Carolina and Geor Georgia a. a voting for tor forit or it it-i it rind and Massachusetts Co Connecticut Delaware are and North Carolina Carolina- voting iiga against it Further color olor IB me lent lent- to this idea idoa bythe bythe by bythe the fact that th tb the succession e ion a act t of 1792 framed fumed D by a a. congress in which sat at a 1 largo r e number of those e who had h. h helped frame framo the thc theron ron constitutional clause itself provided pro for lor an intermediate election Vh When n one none one re reads reda tho the succession ion sion act of of- 1386 1886 with th these ge facts iu in mind ho he that tbt the Pro provision r requiring quiring the of oC congress m l the tho event of a 8 cabinet n ISm is m do f for r tho purpose c of having in tho the machinery i lo for r a Jpe special ial eJ election r p pro pro o- o vided Vidad It would seem all ques that tion-that tion t that that was as the he- purpose of the constitution No Special lal Et Election c ion Called But when con congress in in 1886 passed l the succession ucc sion act it ignored these things A careful pf the tho com committee corn corn- om reports on the tho bill biH and aud tho thio de ilo- debates house show bates in in Iii the senate and conclusively that they the ignored the Morris Madison ide idea and intended that there thera should be no io special election It W was S specifically d declared by Senator Hoar manager of ot the thI I bill in the tho sea sen senate ate at that it was not i intended d that there should be any intermediate diato elec tt tione ne A number numb r of senators introduced introduced intro amendments amendment to continue tho the special election provision of the euc- euc UC cession ac act of 1795 1711 but were wor voted down When tho bill biB which was WitS passed pass cd by a a. Republican senate wont went to the tho Democratic house it met the same ame objections there A A number of Democrats and Republicans amendments to roena enact re-enact t the thc special election clause of tho the act act- of 1792 1702 among them William Villiam McKinley McKinle afterward afterward after after- ward president but the they thoy were vere were uniformly uni nfl form voted down Therefore if there thero should be he a a deadlock as a result of toda today's AI election elec elee tion lion nothing could prevent Philander C. C Knox from becoming Iu president for fora a full fuji term of four years except a su en premo court eburt decision d declaring Unconstitutional that part of oU oL tho the law Jaw of 1886 1856 which fails to provide for a special cial dal election But Ov even v n this would bare barely barely bo ho possible sinco such Buch action would woula precipitate chaos and bring ab about about-a ut- ut uta a situation as threatening as th Tilden Hayes contest Nor or is is it probable that the supreme court would even even- be asked to pass upon the constitutionality of the tho law law since both parties had bad an ani equal handin baudin hand baud in in its making It n was waa originated cd by a Republican Ben senate te concurred in In u by a Democratic house and approved by a 1 Democratic president It may well wen bo be termed a mystery why con congress congress- skated on such thin constitutional con con- ice ico when it entirely disregarded here gardea the tho meaning of the tho provision of the tho constitution providing No for the tho succession on when Madison's amendment t was introduced for tho the very ry purpose of preventing such a a. course There was some ome difference of opinion ion d disclosed d in the debate debato on the succession act as to whether tho the secretary sec see of state acting as ns president could 31 another secretary of state Some Somo ur urged d th that t ho wa was only ex president and tb that t ho ho- would have t to continue to act a as secretary of state or his bis successor might say to him im You sir are arc no no IO longer louger s secretary secre cre tarV tary of tat stat I and therefore no no lon longer er acting n president The Tho office is is now mine Tomorrow PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Election Election Returns |