Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — DEMOCRATS AND 1912. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS AND 1912.

The new electoral college of 1912, containing 531 votes, will require 266 votes to elect. Although Mr. Bryan in three cam-, paigns and Mr. Parker in'l9oß were unable to win for the Democratic party, it is by no means a hopeless task that confronts the Democrats next year. Mr. Cleveland in 1884 won by carrying the solid South pnd four Northern states: New' York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecticut. Mr. Tilden had previously done the same thing, although deprived of his victory in Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. The Democrats can win in 1912 by carrying the solid South and those four states. The solid South, counting Delaware and West Virginia as a part of it, and including the new state of Oklahoma, 17 states in all, totals 186 votes. New York with 45, New Jersey with 14, Indiana with 1 15 and Connecticut with 7 give 81 more, or a total of 267. This is one more, than a majority and there is still left Colorado, Nebraska and Nevada, with a total of 16 votes, all of which states Bryan carried in 1908, and Arizona and New Mexico with three; each, both of which may be Democratic. ] j New' York, New Jersey, Con- : -.;,r ' b

necticut and Indiana have Democratic Governors and all were carried twice by Cleveland and once by Tilden. Cannot history repeat itself? —Boston Globe.