| Show presidential ELECTORS A GOOD way to acquire an idea of the steady growth of the united states stales is to take a retrospective glance at presidential elec elections the electoral college this year consists of vote the constitution provides that the number of presidential elec electors torm from each state shall be equal to the number of representatives and senators from the state in congress under the recent apportionment the aggregate ate number of senators la Is 88 and representatives representatives which will compose the next congress making a total of in the political conventions of both the democrat and republican parties the usual basis of representation la Is two delegates for each elector though territories are not represented in the electoral college yet they are in the conventions A at t the first election in 1789 the total eleo electoral toral vote was 78 73 in 1792 it ws wis in 1796 and the same in 1800 it kept on steadily increasing until 1884 when it numbered votes and thame the same in 1888 this thin year it has increased by 43 six new states have been admitted since 1884 which in addition to the increase in congressional districts through the new apportionment portion ment adeo accounts unto for the augmentation benjamin harrison in hi 1888 carried twenty states with wn an electoral vote of they were as ae foll follows california colorado illinois indiana iowa ranson kansas maine massachusetts chu Mich michigan ijan ka nevada new hampshire new ahlo oregon pennsylvania rhode island vermont and wisconsin the vote for these states this thin year will aggregate about grover cleveland carried 18 states with an electoral vote of fifteen of these are known ae connecticut new jersey and west virginia are more or less doubtful the popular vote for cleveland aggregated for harison fi thus showing a majority nanjo mojo rity of nearly for the beaten candidate this illustrates the anatoly of the electoral college the cons constitution titu tion pro provides video that each state shall select its own electors in whatever way it chooses choose the amendment to the constitution provides for the method of casting this electoral vote electors have been chosen in the rast past in various ways but latterly the system ay stem of electing by the vote of ala people at large from each state has prevailed hence the popular majority in a state decides the issue no matter how the congressional Congress iona districts may go it is in possible for a state to elect a democratic congressman next november out of ef a total of fourteen and yet that state may have fourteen republican electors in the next college an issue has just been decided before the tue court of michigan on the very point the legislature of that state passed a law providing for the election of presidential electors by congressional districts and dividing the state into two districts for the senatorial electors the constitutionality of this law had been questioned by the chiefs of the republican party and they abbed for a decision in the matter that court affirmed the of the law according to a dispatch in last evenings evenin gB NEWS |
