Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1904 — WHAT STATES THE WINNING PARTY MIST CARRY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT STATES THE WINNING PARTY MIST CARRY.

(From the Cincinnati Post.)

Before the campaign is fairly begun, it is possible to say just how many votes in the electoral college each party is sure of. Some States are safely Republican, others safely Democratic. 1 hey never change. In others the independent voter thrives. A study of the map shows the Republicans have strong holds on the New England States, Their strength, however, begins in the < >lii<» valley._ailtL spreads westward. AH the "white States are Republican. Tilt Democratic tide begins in the South and sweeps northward and eastward. Its States are black. Scattered till over tire the great debatable States, in which the independent voter thrives and which are the battle grounds of both big parties. 1 his is the subdivision: REPUBLICAN. DEMOCR .Vl’I.C. California 10 Alabama H Delaware ....... -3 Arkansas .. .... J Idaho •• 3 Florida •> lowa 13 Georgia 13 Kansas .... .... It* Kentucky 13 Maine 6 Louisiana » Massachusetts .. Iti Mississippi .. ••10 Michigan 11 Missouri 18 Minnesota U N Carolina . . .. 12 Nebraska S S. Carolina 9 N. Hampshire .. -I Tennessee r~ Ohio 23 Texas 1« Oregon ......... 4 Virginia • ••• 1- ■ Pennsylvania ... 34 Maryland 8 Rhode Island ... 4 Nevada 3 South Dakota ... 4 —— Vermont ..........—4 Total ■ —.... ..10L Washington ..... 5 Wyoming 3 North Dakota .. 4 Total IS3 ELECTION HAY IS NOV. Total number of electoral votes 476 Necessary to ele< t ■ 239 Republicans sure of 183 Republicans must sectire ■;<> Democrats sure 0f...., Democrats must secure 77 STATES SAID TO BE DOUBTFUL. Colorado, with ‘ 5 Connecticut, with 7 Itliiioi#, with ..........7.. ... •• - 27 Indiana, with L> Montana, with -e. 3 New York, with 39 New Jersey, with ............12 West Virginia, with 7 Utah, with ;.. 3 Wisconsin, with ...... 13 Total 131 Thus it stands that if Roosevelt Cttn carry Illinois, Indiana and one other debatable State lie will be pretty apt to be elected, or if he carries Illinois anil Wisconsin be will likely win in enough of the smaller debatable Slates to elect him. On the other side, Parker must carry New York, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Indiana or their equivalent. He must carry both the East and the West. If he should carry New York, New Jersey,, Connecticut and West \ irginia in the East, he would lack 12 vqtes unless he carried some Of the Western States. If he should lose all these ami carry Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin he would lack 22 votes. The issues of both parties were made to suit the debatable States, and while the Republicans have slightly the best of it, the fight is an open one. In assigning the different States to the different columns, the experience of previous presidential years has been the guide. Only where a State has been overwhelmingly and persistently Democratic or Republican has it been assigned arbitrarily to either column..