People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — BALANCE OF POWER [ARTICLE]

BALANCE OF POWER

THE POPULIST PARTY A POV/ER IN THE LAND. If the Votes Cast for Its Candidates Were Thrown to Any One of the Old Parties the Other Would Go Into Oblivion —Will Keep On Growing. The Minneapolis Tribune to off set the wonderful gain of 600,000 votes which it now admits the People's Party made in two years has the following to say: But the probability of continuing such a percentage of gain is as tenuous as most of the Populist theories. There is much less significance in a large percentage of gain by a new and small party than onr Populist friends imagine. If a newspaper ■tarts out with one subscriber and gains another, its circulation has increased 100 per cent, at the same time it has not receved no positive addition. A gain of 600,000 votes in a great country of about 70,000,000 inhabitants is a mere bagatelle; it cuts very little figure. It shows up weH in the vote of a party that had only a million votes all told in 1892, but as a positive gain it is not important. Six hundred thousand votes might be taken off or added to the aggregate of republican ballots without producing any more effect upon the aveage results than a single fly bite produces upon a cheese. The returns are not in sufficiently for us to note what changes 600,000 taken from the republican vote would have had this year. But a few figures on the election of 1892 as to the effect 600,000 taken from the democratic or Populist column and added to the republican column would have had. The electorial vote as cast stood rep. 146, dem. 277, Pop. 23. Change I Would have given | Electorial of votes [ the republicans | rotes 80 476 ” ” Arkansas with 8 20 ” ” California ” 1 7 480 ” ” Colorado ” 4 8 685 ” ” Connecticut” 6 260 ” ” Delaware ” 3 13 651 ” ” Florida ” 4 961 ” ” Idaho ” 8 13 497 ” ” Illinois ” 24 8 563 ” ' ” Indiana ” 15 8 938 ” ” Kansas ” 10 20 011 ” ” Kentucky ” 13 10 565 ” ” Maryland ” 8 14 953 ” ” Mississippi ” 9 21 740 ” ” Missouri ” 17 2 270 ” ” Nevada ” 3 7 488 ” ” New Jersey ” 10 27 760 ” ” New York ” 86 16 305 " ” N. Carolina ” 11 119 » ” N. Dakota ” 2 90 674 h* >* S. Carolina ” 9 19 272 ZD 11 ” Tennessee ” 12 29 858 r * Virgluia ” 13 2 088 *• ** W.Virginia” 6 3 273 ” ” Wisconsin ” 12 69 7? 1 " ” Texas ” 15 26 480 ” ” Alabama " 11 40 830 ” ” Georgia ” 13 89 860 ” ” Louisiana ” 8 540 *’ ” Ohio ” 1 Pr ft change of 427,040 to tho wpubU-