Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — POSSIBILITIES. [ARTICLE]

POSSIBILITIES.

Congressman Springer & laterviewed on the Presidential Question. What Wonld Happen if Somethin* Elee Should Happen—The Solution from a Democratic Standpoint. Congressman Springer is at the Palmer nouse, on his way to his summer home at Traverse-Bay. “The result of the Peoples ’pai&ffconven tinn at Omaha may cut considerable figure [in the November elections,” saffi be. ‘TII in,any of the States of the South and West the new party will have so strong a following that thoeleetoral ticket be lost to both the Republicans and Democrats. In fact, in some of the States where the Democrats are in a hopeless minority, they wHf’-wit-put np an electoral ticket, but will put the People’s party electors on tlie regular Democratic ticket, in hopes that they'irfay thereby prevent tlie Republican electors from getting a majority of the votes. Ts this can be done in enonghr&tates, there will he no doubt as to the result of the election and as to who will sit In the White House after March 4. “The new People's party is not the old Fanners’ Alliance alone. It js a coalition" of the Farmers’ Alliance, the old Labor party and members of various other parties, such as the Greenbackers, the Grangers and the Independents. In Pennsylvania the followers of Mr. Powderly, to tlie number of one hundred thousand, will vote for the nominees of the Omaha convention, and, as most of these will be taken from the ranks of tho Republicans, Pennsylvania may go Democratic. “It requires a majority of tlie votes of the elijctoral college to make a candidate President, and if the people's party can gqt a balance of power and keep both the Republicans and Democrats from having a majority tlie election will be thrown into tlie Hpnse of Representatives. As the present House is Democratic, Grover Cleveland, of course, will be tho man elected. Tho vote in. the House of Representatives, Id case tho electoral college failed to elect, would be by States, and not by the separate representation in Congress. Each State has but one vote, and is voted the way tho majority of tho Representatives vote.* A State that lias twenty Representatives in Congress, nine of them Republicans and eleven Democrat?, would cast its vote for the Democratic nominee. As something like thirty of the-forty-four States are Democratic, looked at from this standpoint there could, of course, be but one Result. The law provides that in case the electoral college falls to select the House shall balipt on the names of the three men who received the highest number of votes. This would prevent the choice of a rank outsider. Entile Senate, where the Vice-President ia elected, in such an event as I have named, each Senator casts one vote. The result of the election, in case the People’s party should get a balance of powor, wonld be, therefore: President, Grover Cleveland*, Vice-President, Whitelaw Reid.”