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WORLD CROISE OF OUR BUmE-SHIPS

A Significant History-Making Movement by the United States.

Pacific Ocean Saved to America bj Robust Policy of Republican Party.

The present world cruise of Amerifcis can warships is one of the most interior important and far reaching perh^formances of any administration sinc« the Civil War. History rides upon the to brow of the flagships of this fleet Re\Eighty-flve millions of people have for his months been attempting to interpret w the movement and solve the problem >ur government is attempting to proplonprly adjust by this circumnavigation 6f hea the globe. When President Roosevelt first announced that the fleet of battleships was to make the long Journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, the Democrats turned prophets of evil , and predicted many disastrous things would follow as a consequence of this L. unprecedented move. y r . Armada and World Gratae. The armada took its departure from wc Hampton Roads, Dec. 16, 1907, and M after a wholly successful voyage around f the Horn, of about twelve thousand miles, it dropped anchor in San Franv cisco Harbor May 6. 1908. The ships that form the four divisions of the fleet in this record-making cruise are: The Connecticut, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Georgia, New Jersey. Rhode Island. Virginia, Alabama. Illinois, Kear ^ sarge. Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, Kan 1 sas and Vermont. To which were added the Nebraska and the Wisconsin, already in Puget Sound, thus making a fleet of eighteen first-class modern ^ battleships in perfect condition. There were already In the Pacific ^ and Oriental waters the fine armored 0 cruisers West Virginia. Colorado, Majy ryland and Pennsylvania. Their twc sister ships, the California and South v Dakota, were also on the Pacific, and aJ the powerful Washington and TennesJ see went from the Atlantic to Join the 1 armada, thus ipaking eight armored * cruisers to be added to the eighteer Jt battleships. In addition there were in S th® Pacific several protected cruisers 7 gunboats and other lesser craft. All told there were ten hundred and fifty '* officers and nineteen thousand five bun

a 4red men.

y In due time the main fleet of war ! ships resumed its western course and will touch at the leading ports of China 1 and Australia, passing on east by way of the west, and coming finally to Mai . ta and Gibraltar,/Where it will coal and ultimately return to its starting J point at Hampton Roads, some time

t early next February.

In this expedition the Republi/nr

* party has a policy which projects itself t far Into the future, but it is an entire f misunderstanding of the whole scheme

to suppose that' it is aimed narrowly or definitely at any single power. It Is

F one of those robust constructive poll b cies of the party gauged on world lines

It is more of a notification than a ^ threat, to all existing governments.

1 Welding North and South America. t, The eyes of the world have followed I our fleet with absorbing interest. Ont < of the great advantages gained by tills I cruise is the cordial welcome and close t acquaintance which it has evoked from

the governments and peoples of the

^ chief republics of Latin America. Tc

the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Chi lians and the Peruvians, the mighty re public of the north had been merely a

# name or a dim figure, powerful and

honored perhaps, hut not actuallv

B known. For years there bad been lit v tie or no visible evidence of the wealth B or authority of the United States, in

the chief South American ports. But

1 they were nil visited by swift and Z stately liners, flying the flags of the

H maritime powers of Europe. At every South American port the fleet, our navy, our government, our in

Gy stitutions. our people, our aims, our tt' industries, our trade—every coneeivnbk g thing that is ours, have been discussed ° I as they never were before, and that * v without suspicion of our political and ir diplomatic intentions. One business

house in New York states that its South American correspondence has increased fourfqjd since the'fleet visited Rio Janeiro. In this case it seems that trade may follow the battleships. President llooaerelt Explains Move-

ment.

I In a statement in a speech he made In St. Louis. President Roosevelt took the pubilc into his confidence to a degree when he said: “California. Oregon and Washington have a coast line which is our coast line Just as emphatically as the coast line of New York and Maine, of Louisiana and Texas. Our fleet Is going to its own home wafers In the Pacific and after a stay there it will return to its own home waters In the Atlantic. The best place for tbc naval officer to Team his duties is at sea. by performing them, and only by actually putting through a voyage of this nature, a voyage longer than any one tieforc* undertaken by as large a fleet of any nation, can we find out Just exactly what is necessary for us to kno^4as to our naval needs and practic^^ur officers and enlisted men In the highest duties of their profession.’* Awakening ef the Orient. The Pacific Ocean is recognized by •11 far seeing statesmen as the theater Of the world’s coming great struggles

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for military and' commercial mastery. When China awakens, to the degree that Japan la now awake, events pass- [ ing the power of the Imagination to . conceive will take place. • As to the palliative and beneficent effect this cruise may have on China and Japan, there can be but one opin-1 Ion. While Uncle Sam was little con-' cerned about the rumors to the effect that Japan was about to descend upon j the Philippines, or possibly to make a demonstration off our Pacific coast, yet he did desire, and perhaps is in a position to insist, that the Open Door policy be maintained In China. Japan has apparently never been quite reconciled to this policy, and is said to have worked to establish in China the policy of “spheres of influence.” To this America, with European nations, strenuously objected—and does still object. This Open Door policy stands as a world monument in diplomacy to the constructive genius of the Republican party. William Howard Taft is in full sympathy with this constructive policy. Mr. Taft on his last trip to the Orient was given such an enthusiastic reception at Shanghai, China, as was never before accorded to any visiting statesman by officials of the Celestial Kingdom. On that occasion Mr. Taft made a speech which, in spite of its genial tone and cautious phrasing, was at once recognized as of the highest International importance. Said he: “WE WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST AT BEING EXCLUDED FROM THE TRADE OF CHINA BY REASON OF OUR INSISTENCE UPON THE POLICY OF THE OPEN DOOR. The acquiescence in this policy of all the nations Interested has been so unhesitating and emphatic that it is hardly worth while to speculate as to how far the United States would go In the protection of its Chinese trade. * * * This feeling is likely to find expression in the action of the American government. The United States and the other powers favor the Open Door, and if they are wise they will encourage the empire to take long steps in administrative and governmental reform.” So we have not far to seek for another very powerful reason for this world cruise of our fleet. Mr. Taft simply announced In diplomatic language that this cruise is intended to say that the Open Door policy will be maintained at any price. He is in thorough sympathy with the alert constructive policy of the Republican party. He is one of its chief expon-

ents.

Perfection of Dladplln®. This world cruise of the mighty armada of sixteen ships of the line has been, and Is being, conducted with s precision worthy of the fine traditions of American seamanship—which speaks the highest praise. Every man, from officer to common sailor, has felt that the eyes of the nation at home were following him, and that however modest his situation, he must bear himself worthily as an American sailor, in the stoutest squadron that ever flew the Stars and Stripes. There Is no question but that this cruise will be noted by all commentators of the future as one of the most remarkable happenings of any age. Even though the American people have not fully understood the significance, when all the facts are known, it will be found to have been one of the distinctive acts of statesmanship of the present Republican administration. Mr. Taft Is the man to continue this his-tory-making policy of the Republican party.

COCKE,AN ON TAFT.

There Is a remarkable unanimity of opinion of Judge Taft In all parties and in all sections. Men pay tribute to his remarkable ability even where party politics may exert such an influence as to demand the espousing of the rival presidential candidate’s cause. As an illustration W. Bourke Coekran in an Interview at Boston the other day said : “Yes, I shall support Bryan; he is the best candidate the Democrats could put up. Taft, however, is the greatest and best qualified nominee ever offered In any republic In the world. He is a greater man than Roosevelt, and when surrounded by the same environments that made Roosevelt great will prove a bigger man. Taft is a wonderful adqjinistrator, the greatest the country has ever seen, and Is a wonderful worker.”

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The Reason Colored Men Can not Be Democrats

On® is running on his R«oord; th® other is running away from his Record.

DETAILS OF THE POSTAL SAVINGS PLAN

Prompt Performance of Republican Platform Promise Is Certain.

Postal Savings Banks Will Form Save and Convenient "System for Accumulating Savings.

Democratic Ineomalateney.

The Democratic leaders have been for years making loud declarations against corporations and trusts and railroads and have, nevertheless, instituted no legislative steps in all this time for the purpose of restraining abuses. They are now indignant that' the Republican party, in carrying out the promises of its own platform, is putting into practice the principles which they, with a superb self-compla-cency, claim are really covered by a Democratic patent.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft,

•t Greensboro, North Carolina.

Society I® Sound. •In spite of the general comfort, there ha^k been made manifest by signs not to be misunderstood, a quickening of the public conscience and a demand for the remedy of abuses, the outgrowth of this prosperity, and-for a higher standard of business Integrity. Every lover of his country should have a feeling of pride and exaltation In this evidence that our society is still sound at the eera.—Hon. Wm. H. Taft, at Columbus, Ohio.

A bill providing for the establishment of postal savings banks was favorably reported by the United States Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads during the recent session of Congress, and is reasonably certain to be enacted into law during the coming cession, thus adding prompt performance to the promise of the Republican national platform relative te this form of strengthening out national system of

finance.

The bill. reported provides for the establishment of postal savings depositories for depositing savings at interest with the security of the Government for the repayment thereof and designates the money-order post-oflices and such others as the Postnuister-Geoemh may, in his discretion, from time to time designate as savings depositories to receive deposits from the public and to account and dispose of the same according to the terms of the act. The depositories are to be kept open for the transaction of business every day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, during the usual post-office business hours of the town and localities where % the respective depositories are located, and during such additional hours as the Postmaster-General may designate. Accounts may be opened by any person of the age of 10 years, and a married woman may open an account free from interference by her husband. A trustee may open an account for another person. No person can open more than one saving account except when acting as trustee for another person. A depositor's pass book will be delivered to each depositor in which the name and other memoranda necessary for identification will be entered, and entry of all deposits shall be made. One dollar or a larger amount In multiples of 10 cejits will be necessary to open an account, but deposits of 10 cents or multiples thereof will be received after an account is opened. Upon receiving a deposit the post master i» required to enter the same in the pass hook of the depositor and immediately notify the Postmaster-Gen-eral of the amount of the deposit and the name of the depositor. The Post-master-General, upon receipt of such notice, is required to send an acknowledgment thereof to the depositor, which acknowledgment shall constitute conclusive evidence of the making of such

deposit.

Interest Allowed on Deposits. Interest is allowed at the rate of 2 per cent per annum, computed annually, on the .average deposit during j each quarter or the year. One thousand dollars' is the maximum deposit allowed to the credit of any one account, and interest will not be p&id on any amount to the credit of an account

In excess of $r>00.

Pass books must be forwarded to the Postmaster-(ii«neral on the anniversary of the making of the first deposit for verification, posting, and credit' of intenest due. Withdrawals may be made under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Postmaster-General. Deposits are exempt from seizure under any legal process against the depositor and they are also exempt .from taxation by the United States T5r any state. The name fo a depositor or the amount to his or her credit may not be disclosed unless by order of the Postmas-

ter-General.

Postal savings funds are to be deposited by the Postmaster-General in national banks located as near as may be in the neighborhood where such deposits were received at a rate of Interest not less than 2^4 per cent per annum. If deposits can not be made in national banks at the specified rate of interest, the Postmaster-General may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General, invest the same in State, Territorial, county, or amaiclpal bonds.

TAFT’S INJUNCTIONS.

I ask that every responsible and fair-minded labor leader, every responsible and fair-minded member of a lalnir organization, read these \(Taft’a) injunctions for himself. If lie will do so. Instead oLcomlemning them he will heartily approve of them and will recognize this further astonishing fact that the principles laid down by Judge Taft in these very injunctions, which laboring people are asked toVondemn, are themselves the very principles which are now embodied in the laws or practices of every responsible labor organization. The principles which he therein so wisely and fearlessly laid down serve as a charter of liberty for all of us. for wage workers, for employers, or the general public; for they rest on the prlncipie8.pf fair dealing for all, of even-hand-ed justice for nil. They mark the judge who rendered them as standing for the rights of the whole people; ns far as daylight is froqi darkness, so far Is such a judge from the time-server, the truckler to the mob, or tbe cringing tool of great, corrupt and corrupting corporation*—President

Roosevelt.

‘A STATESMAN WITH SCIENCE.”

A CON-

Description of the Republican Presidential Candidate by Senator Borah of Idaho. (From Senator Borah’s Boston Speech.) “Now, it seems to be conceded by friend and ftfe tiiat few men have been nominated for the presidency whose experience, whose training and whose sound and wholesome fashion of grasping and dealing with public questions were equal to those of William H.

Taft.

“He is not a crusader, he is a statesman with conscience. He has won hia present position through a cheerful, unhesitating and undeviating devotion to duty, through actually achieving things on the oi>eii field of action, through an intelligent conception of tbe strength and worth of our great government with its checks and balances; and the strength and capacity of our citizenship with its loyalty and its patriotism “No man ever had a deeper regard for the fundamental principles and precepts upon which this government is founded, and no one ever had a firmer conviction that the constitution is a sufficient charUby which to measure all rights and obligations and to gauge all the demands and all the aspirations and restrain and control all the reck lessness of this indomitable race of ours. Trained in the law. eleven years on the bench, he explored well the sources of jurisprudence and carried away from his work an everlasting devotion to order and justice. “Under all circumstances and under all emergencies, he has proved himself a brave, (^ean-minded, self-poised and courageous statesman. No man can put bis finger upon a little tor cowardly act, an incompetent or questionable piece of pubilc service—no stain upon his private life, no shadow upon his public career. And standing now in the full fierce light which bents upon a throne, with eager eyes scrutinizing every act of a long and arduous public career, no doubt arises as to his experience and ability, no challenge comes to his fine sense of duty or his patriot-

ism.”

I believe our strong party with Its great principles is only in its infancy. Our glory as a nation has but Just begun. There are mighty problems yet to be solved, grave questions to be answered, complex issues to be wrought out, but I believe we can trust the Grand Old Party and its leaders to care for the entire future of our Nation and of our people as it has cared for them eo well In the past.—Hon. James S. Sherman.

In Des Moines Mr. Bryan talked free trade, in Indianapolis sailed into corporations, and In Topeka proclaimed the necessity of the guarantee of bank deposits. Mr. Bryan is geographically adjustable at a moment’s notice, and never dismayed when one of his paramount Issues blows up.—St Louis Globe-Democrat ,

Record of Republican Party Shows True Friendship and Open Door

of Opportunity.

The nominating conventions of tbe great polittfcal paities of the country have been convened, -made their platform*, named their Standard-bearers and j'mrded. 1 Tbe committees to conduct the stupendous work of h national campaign have been organized, and from their headquarters tons of political literature and thousands of spell-binders are being sent to engage the attention of all male citizens, twenty-one years

of age and older.

Distinct issues have been raised and are being discussed by the ablest and foremost citizens and partisans. One party, with a view of continuing its hold upon the reins of government aud perpetuating peace, happiness and industrial and commerial growth,which under Republican promoters and festerings, have become the legacy of all Americans, asks for another term of power; while others, with a purpose to exploit tbe vagaries, heresies and dogmas with which a one-idea party is ever over-burded, request the American people to swap tried and proved principles for their theories. While there are four or parties with candidates in the field, the great political battle is being waged by but two of them. One of these, the Democrat ic party, does not now and never did invite the. support of the colored voter Indeed, in does not want the support of the colored voter, but it lacks the courage to say so. This wast emphasized at the recent Democrat State Convention of West Tirginia. < In the North,[where conditions differ from those in the South, speakers, representing tbe Democratic party, have sometimes appealed to the colored man for support. But they have been able to picture to him nothing that their party has ever done for his race, nor have they been able to hold on 1 to him any promises for his future good. Their pleading* have been the

alleged failures

party Ahhg.

party's virtues, if they possess any,

on the race question

The Republican party is the only one in the present conflict standing for human rights. It may be said of it that it does not measure up to tbe will of those suffering most because of a disregard for equal rights and an untrammelled suffrage. But then, it is true of it that it represents all tbe recognition, support and encouragemehtthat these receive at the hands of the white race, and this, as long as it remains true, will make colored men the friends, advocates and votes of

the Republican party.

If a colored man is intelligent and upright and has the confidence of a constituency sufficient to elect him to a seat in a Republican convention, national or otherwise, and chooses to atlend'its sessions, the same provisions are made for him and he has the same privilege of service on the various committees as well as on the convention floor, accorded any other member of the convention. The right to resolve, to speech make, to vote and to give and receive applause, is as much his as it is the wealthiest and whitest member of the convention. In short, there is no color line in a Republican convention and no place there for it. Each’ repsentative of the people there acts as he is instructed byhis people,or it without instructions, he proceeds as

his judgment directs.

The platforms of Republican conventions are the enunciations of the people, for and to the people, and no plank in them indicates anything other than broad and liberal principles, and this is especially true of the one made at the late Chicago convention. One of these planks—the one called the race plank—seems to have aroused more interest, feeling and fear in the ranks of the democrcy than have all the other planks of the platform bunch

of cbe Republican

tbeir own or tbeir 8tadent ® bave done and endeavored to

ed together. Over this plank,—which simply calls for an investigation to dermme whether or not any one is being defrauded out of his rights of suffrage; if in the matter of elections even and exact justice is meted to all and every citizen; if state conventions and state laws are formulated with a view to giving one party or race advantage over another in elections.—the Southern of the Democrat party is getting as mad as if it had been suddenly

afflicted with rabies.

The Republican party. In its alleged race plank, merely proposes an honest investigation, an inquiry into conditions in the Southern States, where, in the suppression of the colored votes Democrats enjoy inordinate advantage and unjust increase in congressional end electoral apportionment. Such ah investigation can in no wise harm, or affect any just man or section. And certainly bo honorable Democrat nor other person who is doing right can object to snch an investigation. Colored men do not attend Democratic conventions, because Democratic conventions are white men’s con ventions and colored men are not want ed at them. Colored men will not sup port by word or vote a ticket made a political party which denies them the right of participation in its conven-

tions.

The party that is too arrogant to in-

vite Or admit colored men to its conventions should be too haughty and too proud to ask for or even to accept their votes at an election. And the colored man who is conversant with adminisrativc Democratic politics, and votes the Democratic ticket, begs them for their insults, stultifies himself and cringes like the whipped span

iel beneath his master’s lash. Some few colored men claim that

these representations.cannot be applied to the Northern Democrat; that he is a more liberal and creature, and is therefore entitled to consideration. Well, these Democrats of the North may be all that is claimed for them, but they neither represent nor control

their party.

Despite harpings and carpings|t0 the contrary, the colored man has no disposition to enter exclusive social circles or to couple up to purely social condions without the same invitations and evidences of acceptability shown other people. Indeed, if he ever did he no longer intrudes his presence within his own race where there is doubt of acceptability. The colored man will not stand for any political party opposed to his man hood rights. He will resist with ballot every encroachment upon him on account of his color. His right to hon est toil, to accumulate, to educate, to vote and to become the recipient of votes, is as sacred to him as to any other citizen. If there to other people are inalienable righes, they are no less to him. And to deprive him Jof them, or to attempt to do so, awarens the same feeling of resentment found in other human beings. The Democratic party, where the colored man is concerned, is a party of taxation without representation. The controlling element in it not only refuses fair and just treatment to ihq colored man, but it actually and wilfully opposes fairness and justice to him by any white person or political

organization.

The colored man has always been as much the friend, political and otherwise, as the Sonthern white man would permit him to be. If in bis politics be has followed strangers, it was because in them he found elements of charity and friendless and opportunities to possibilities not seen elsewhere. He has%ccepted them as other economic

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Bave them rttarff HTm -full value ill the civic, industrial and commercial

world.

The colored man is simply human and as such he is susceptible to humane treatment. Mr. Lincoln is quot ed as saying to colored men, “It is difficult to make a nan miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” The souls of colored men are as closely related to their Creator as are the souls of other human beings They, like all others, were lost in Adam, and reclaimed in the death and resurrection of a crucified Redeemer. Tney are conscious of this and feel worthy of themselves, and this is mans normal state. The Democratic party, domineered as it is by the Tillmans and Vardamans, offers to the colored man disfranchisement, restricted and limited education, unjust discrimination on pub ic carriers, lost hopes, crushed spirits, blasted ambition and degraded manhood. None of these will the colored man accept without indignant protest, nor longer than he is able to help himself The Republican party, opened and is keeping wide the door of hope and of opportunity to the coloied man to share the olessings as well as the burdens of patriotic citizenship. In the Democrat!? party the old slave oligarchy is in the saddle, and human rights as well as human life are cheap. The Republican party must triumph this fall in order to rebuke the ideas that are obtaining in the Democratic as regards the liberties of black men. For, if nullification of the war amendments to the Federal Constitution continue unrebufced. and the reversal of the results of the war pass unchallenged and the political re-en-slavement of colored men, women and children under a system of peonage is suffered to be consumated, patriots every where may: well ask the question: Who surrendered at Appomattx?

SIX HORSES AND A MULE KILLED IN BURNING BARN

Fire Destroys Webb-Smith Company Storage Building and Threatens Other Property. Six horses and one mule were burned to death in a fire that completely destroyed the barns and storage build ing of the Webb-Smith Company, at Henry and Meridian streets Thursday night. One horse and one mule were led out of the barns after the fire started, but the horse was burned so badly that Humane Inspector John Shine killed it later. The entire loss caused by the fire is estimated at $5,000. V The animals ran out of the barn,the mule running north on Me*idian street with its mane ablaze. Included in the list of losses in the Webb-Smith Company barns ure two-bnggies, a dozen heavy wagons used for moving safes and other apparatus for moving heavy articles. Mrs Hulda Webb, colored, is the only surviving member of the Webb-Smith firm.

States -

Whiles

Negro«

California

489,545

3.711

Colorado

181,618

3,215

Connecticut

275 126

4.576

Delaware..........

45,592

8 374

Idaho

! 50.328

130

Illinois

1,370,209

>29.762

Indiana..,

701,761

18,186

Iowa

630.665

4.441

Kansas...

398.552

14 t95

Maine

216.856

445

Massachusetts.

830,849

10,456

Maryland.

260.979

60 406

Missouri

809.797

46.418

Montana

94,873

711

Michigan

1712,245

5 193

Minnesota........

502.384

2.168

Nebraska

297 817

2^98

NewHa-n pshire

130,648

230

Nevada

14,652

70

New Jersey

532,750

21,474

New York

2,145,067

31,425

North Dakota..

93,237

115

Ohio

1,180.599

31.235

Oregon

131.261

560

Pennsylvania...

1,763 482

61.668

Rhode Island...

124.001

2,765

South Dakota...

107.353

184

Utah

65,205

358

Vermont

108.027

289

Washington

183.999

2,230

Wisconsin.^

567,213

1.006

Wyoming

36,262

481

Rather than be Elected By the Negro Vote Leading Southern Newspaper Declares Against Negro Democrats Jacksonville Miss. News. So much has been said in thegeneral discussion of the force and affect of the Negro vote of the North that it will prove a matter of public interest to see just exactly what the Northern negro vote amounts to, and bow far it would be a controlling factor in a Presidential election in the event that Mr Bryan's candidacy should capture that vote of make any consioerable inroads upon it. Below is given"the white and negro votes by states, taken from the official Federal Census reports of 1890, and to which i* added the popular plurality of both the Republicans and Democrats in the Presidential election in 1900. when Mr. Bryan made his second disastrous race for the Presidency:

Plurality

39,770 R 29,66) D 28,570 R 3.671 R 2.216 D 94,924 R 26 479 R 98.506 R 23.354 R 28,613 R 81.869 R 13,941 R 37.830 D 11.773 D

104,584 R

77.560 R 7,822 R 19.314 R 2,314 D 66,899 R

143,606 R

15.372 R 69,036 R 1.M41 R

288,433 R

43.657 R 14.986 R 2 .138 R 29,719 R 12.622 R

106.581 R

4,318 R

From these statistics it will be seen that the Northern negro voters hold tbe balance of political power in only five states, viz.: Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland acd Missouria, which have under the apportionment of 1900, in the aggregate, 54 electoral votes, as follows: Delaware. 3; Indiana, 15; Kaansas, 10; Maryland, 8 and Missouria, 17; total. 54. If Judge Taft can hold the states that went for Mr. McKinley in 1900, excluding the above named five states his vote will stand thus: California, 10; Colorado, 5;Ccnuecticut, 7; Illinois, 27; Iowa, 13; Maine. 6; Massachusetts. 16; Michigan 14: Minnesota, 11; Montana, 3; Nebraska, 8; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 12; New York, 39; North Dakota, 4; Ohio, 23; Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 34; Rhode Island, 4; South Dakota, 4; Utah, 3; Vermon, 4; Washington, 5; West Virginia, 7; Wisconsin, 13; Wyoming, 3. Total, 283. The total electoral vote, under the apportionment of 1900, is 476. Deducting this estimated Republican vote from the whole number, and conceding to Mr. Bryan all of the remaining Electoral votes, including the five above named states where the negro voters hold the balance of power, this will give him 193 Electoral votes, leav ing the Republicans a majority of 90. If West Virginia is lacluiieri in these estimates, the result will be as follows West Virginia has253, 129 white and 14, 786 negro votes. That state gave Mr. McKinley a oopular majority of 21,022, If this negro vote was given to Mr. Bryan, it would give him West Virginia’s seven Electoral votes, «but it would still leave a total Republican majority of 76 in the Electoral College It is thus apparent that the negro votes are so distributed in the Northern states that they cannot hold, or control, the balance of power in Presidential election, taking as a basis for this conclusion the vote in the three Presidential elections for 1896, 1900 and 1904. These statistical figures show very cleirly and unquestionaly that, giving the solid negro vote of the No-thern states to Mr. Bryan, he would still be far short of an election. And this mutt prove a gratifying view for the Southern white men, who stand invincibly for white political supremacy, who cannot contemplate with any toleration the idea of the Northern negroes holding tbe'balance of power in a Presidential election, lu which they will control and decide the destiny and policy of tbe nation between twc national political parties. Such a state of affairs would be bad for the country. and would prove a calamity to the South. Nobody appreciates more accurately and intelligently than the Southern man the significance of and sad consequences of such an event. If Mr. Bryan is elected, it will be by the white voters of tbe United Stases, and not by lagging the negro back into politics. The Daily News has hereto said, and here reiterates, tuat tbe white Democrats of the South would rather sustain another defeat than to see Mr. Bryan elected, if his victory carries with it a pledge to extend political recognition to the negro and accord him office-holding privileges.