Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — BALLOTS ARE CAST. [ARTICLE]

BALLOTS ARE CAST.

ELECTORALCOLLEGE PERFORMS .QUADRENNIAL WORK. Cnmberaome Method of Choosing the Nation’* Chiefs—Resultj Forwarded to Washington Popular Vote and Pluralities for President Since 1876, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were, elected President and Vice-President, of the United States at noon Tuesday. The electoral college met at that time. It cast 447 votes. Of these 21)2 were given to McKinley and Roosevelt and 155 to Bryan and Stevenson. The electoral college does not meet in a body. Its membership consists of the electors chosen in each of the forty-five States of the Union lust November. The electors of each State journey to their respective State capitals. They meet with the Governor of the State and other dignitaries. At noon each member casts a ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates he was chosen to elect. The ballots are then counted. When this ceremony is completed three statements are drawn up. Each statement is a duplicate of the others. These statements certify that the votes of the electors have been cast according to law and the will of the people. They also state the number of votes given each candidate. The statements are sealed in envelopes. One is sent by mail to the Secretary of State at Washington. Another is placed in the hands of a special messenger, who Is directed to proceed by the shortest and most expeditious route to Washington and deliver it to the President of the United States Senate. The third is placed in the hands of the judge of the district in which the electors convene. In this way loss of the,statement or failure of it to reach Washington according to law is avoided. The House Tuesday passed a bill appropriating $12,500 to defray mileage of electoral messengers bearing to Washington...the verdict of .the people in the. last presidential election. At noon Feb. 13, the presidci.it of the Senate will summon the doorkeeper of that body, and opening the safe will deliver to him the forty-five sealed envelopes. The doorkeeper will place them in two new cherry-wood boxes, and carry them into the Senate chamber. The members of the Senate will form themselves into a procession and inarch under police escort to the House of Representatives. There the House officially will receive the Senate, and the business of counting the official returns will begin. When the result is known the president of the Senntu will announce to the assembled Congress: "William McKinley has been duly elected President of these United States, and Theodore Roosevelt Vice-President, for four years beginning March 4, 11)01." Then, and not until then, is the full ceremony of a pi'esidential election an accomplished fact. The electoral vote as cast by the electors of the various States Tuesday is us follows: McKln- Bry-1 McKln- Bryley. an.- ley. an. Alabama 11 Nevada 3 Arkansas .*• V Hampshire 4 California .. I) o .\ew Jersey., to Colorado 4! New York ... 3(1 Connecticut. <) .. X. Carolina.. .. 11 Delaware .. 3 . .j.X'. Dakota .. 3 Florida 4 Clino ...23 Georgia 13 Origin 4 Idaho 3jPennsylvania 32 Illinois 21 . . Khode Island 4 Indiana .... 15 ..’B. Caroilna. . ... 9 lowa 13 ..is. Dakota ... 4 Kansas .... 10 . .Tennessee .... 12 Kentucky .. .. 13 Texas 15 Louisiana .. .. 8 I'tah 3 Maine <» ..[Vermont .... 4 Maryland .. 8 ...Virginia 12 Massaehus'ts 15 . . Washington .4 Michigan ... 14 . W. Virginia . H Minnesota .. t) . . Wisconsin, ..12 Mississippi . .'. ti Wyoming ... 3 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Total 292 155 Nebraska ... 8 ..I McKinley's majority, 137. In connection with the recent quadrennial meeting of the electoral college the popular vote of this and some preceding elections is of public interest. The figures are: 1900— McKinley 7,200,077 Bryan . 0,374,397 McKinley’s plurality 533.280 189 G—McKinley 7,104,779 Bryan 0,502,925 McKinley's plurality (311,854 IW2-Cleveland 5,3541.918 Harrison 5.17H.10S - Cleveland's plurality 380.810 1888—4'leveland 5,588,233 Harrison 5,410,210 Cleveland's plura'itv 98,017 ISM— Cleveland 4,911.017 Blame 4,848,381 ("level ind's plurality C 2.683 1880 -Garfield 4.440.0.53 Hancock 4,442,035 Garfield's plurality 7.018 1676 T 1 den ? 4.284.885 Hayes 4,033,950 Tilden's plurality . 250,935