Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1916 — MAKING SOME NEW HISTORY [ARTICLE]

MAKING SOME NEW HISTORY

Election Statistics That Upset All Former Precedents. For the first time in the history of the United States a President has been elected without the aid of any one oOthe four states Maine, New York, Indiana or' Illinois, and knocks in the head that time-worn and antiquated statement, “as Maine goes, so goes the nation.” But it will still be used for lime to come by those two-by-four politicians who can offer no other argument for the support of the Republican ticket, for Maine has never but once given a/'fiemocratlc candidate a plurality, and that was in 1912. A Democratic President was elected in 1884. Maine went Republican, New York and Indiana Democratic, and Illinois Republican. A Democratic President was again elected in 1892. Maina/went Republican and New York, Indiana and Illinois went Democratic. In 1912 when President Wilson was first elected all four of these states went Democratic. The election of 1916 demonstrates that the balance of power has been taken from a few Eastern states. With their rapidly Increasing population the Western states will now have a more effective voice in Presidential elections.