Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1908 — Two Hypothetical Changes. [ARTICLE]

Two Hypothetical Changes.

It is said to be expectation of the Democratic party to win the election of 1908 by means of the votes contributed to the electoral college from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. This is not, from the Democratic point of view, an unpleasant picture. These four states cast a total of seventy eight electoral votes, which added to the vote of the solid South (counting in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Missouri and Ok'ahon a), would give the Democratic candidate 244 electoral votes, or two more than the minimum necessary to a choice. In order that these votes may be eventually delivered as they are thus anticipatorily counted, however, a change is necessarya mere matter of figures whose nature will appear from reflection upon the Republican pluralities in the last presidential election, viz: Ohio 255,422 Illinois 305,049 Indiana 93,343 Wisconsin 155,834 Total 810,248

Nothing- is simpler than for the voters who contributed this 810,000 Republican plurality. Such a change is predicted upon another change that is with equal positiveness averred. It is that the Democratic party has changed, and having seen the error of its ways, has become everything that it was not, and instead of deserving the distrust of every state in the Union whose electoral votes are determined by the issues between the parties, has become the proper object of confidence and support. If there is any reason why the Democratic party of toddy is safer and more capable than it was in 1904, some circumstantial evidence to that effect should be adduced. In their private dealings and in their business enterprises, men do not put an efficient servant or agent out to put a discredited one in.