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Show MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS FAVOR A PRO- TECTIVE TARIFF. H Many times it linn been pointed out that in H 1012 the republican and progressive platforms H declared in favor of tho protective principle nnd H thnt the candidates of those two parties polled a total of 7,G07,7. votes while the democratic enndidntu polled only 0,21)0,818. It is notorious I thnt tho democratic enndidnte received hundreds H of thousnnds of votes of stnunch rcpublicnns H whose course was determined by the feeling Hjtl nrouscd by strife within the pnrty. Hfl But there are some other figures, not so well H known, thnt throw light on tho real strength of protection sentiment. Wood row Wilson hnd n H majority vote in only fourteen states, with n m total of one hundred nnd fifty-two elcctornl Hf votes. Tho combined republican nnd progressive votes constituted n majority in thirty-four states V whoso elcctornl voto aggregated three hundred nnd seventy-nine. If, therefore, the enactment HI of n tariff Inw hnd been determined by the actual HI vote cast, the republican tariff principle would hnvc been maintained by an electoral vote of two Hm nnd n half to one. This fnct wns pointed out by Senator Warren of Wyoming during the tariff debute in 1013. HjH SenntoV Warren nlso presented figures showing HB thnt tho twelve Southern States and Arizona and H Oklahoma, which gave n majority for the demo- H crntlc pnrty, hnvc a total population of 26,583,- ! 823, while the thirty-four Northern nnd Western H states, which gave n majority for the two protcc- ! tivu tariff parties, have n total population of 65.097.3G0. HS Tho people of this country were in favor of H protection in 1012, and, after two years exporl- H ence with n tariff for revenue only, they arc H mora strongly in favor of protection, notwith- standing the fact that tho dire results of demo- cratic tariff policies wero prevented by the out- break of the European war. |