| Show BEN BUTLER and his chances to get to the white house yes we expect to elect butler president of the united states thia this campaign there was a 4 smile of incredulity says the milwaukee sentinel as the speaker a member of the N national abiona I 1 central committee of the peoples party addressed his remarks to a crowd in front of grand avenue last evening how do you propose to do it ii a sarcastic ear castic voice inquired you laugh said the man of the peoples party but I 1 can show you how we will accomplish that apparent poss possibility ability ibi lity there here are electoral votes aint there and it takes to elect dont it several heads nodded assent now w he pursued the electoral electoral elecio ral vote vot b has oa a always been pretty evenly divided and from appearances it will be so again suppose butler builer dont get but I 1 electoral vote and ind cleveland and blaine each if the electors were to vote according to instructions why there would be no election dont you see and the election would be thrown inlo into the democratic house of representatives senta tives which would give cleveland 23 out of the 39 states you would then see the queer spectacle of wisconsin with its six democratic Cou congressmen gressmen out of a total of nine nine casting its vote for cleveland and virginia voting for blame blaine ohio too would vote for a democratic president tho the majority of its congressmen being oft of that fiat political faith now dont you suppose that the republican electors rather than see the tile election ino into the democratic house would add heir their electoral votes to butlers and elect him in preference to cocle cleve e land 2 I 1 the crowd was staggered by this mathematical computation and logical deduction by which the cockeyed son of destiny was to draw a salary of a year suddenly an idea seemed to strike one of them all very well said he but where ia butler going to get his 1 vote that was the reply is is as gimple as hs A B 0 I 1 merely said 1 I 1 vote so as to give 1 au an extreme illustration tra tion I 1 think hell liell get more there is no doubt but that the fusion in michigan will n ill carry tha thai it state tate for butler that makes 6 then there are fusions in iowa kansas kaneas nebraska and W west e vi virginia irginia bo be v surprised if i shutler butler obtained 30 or 40 electoral votes in any event whether he lie gets I 1 or 40 as long aa ad neither biarne nor cleveland gets butler stands an elegant ant chanca of rattling the dry f baues boues ones at washington and the speaker ascended til thes estai taira N to attend a meeting whistling the tile Cr crosslet Crops let on the R while the crowd took out pencils and tried tiled to figure the tile thing out on the backs of enec 4 lopes |
