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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1899)
Figures of Presidential Election of 1896, and Congressional Election Following, with Reference to Next Year's Campaign. (Now York UralJ.) Map Showing Election Results of 1896, Republican Slates StiaieU Republican Vote, 7,104.779; Representing 271 Electoral Votes. Democratic Vote, 0,502,025; Representing 170 Electoral Votes. Hap Showing Election Results of 1898, Rcpnblican Stat s ShaflcJ, OwO IIE active work of the presidential 1 1 campaign of 10C0 began recently In 2 Chicago, where the Democratic na tional committee met and Indorsed the Chicago platform of 1890 and Mr. Bry an, who was present. Mr. Bryan at pres ent has control of the machinery of the party, and there seems little doubt of his renomlnatlon. Some of the leading gold Democrats of 1800 nre announcing their opposition to the platform and candidate once more, but the exact amount of oppo sition within the party cannot be deter mined for some time. Mr. Bryan's friends lay claim to suc cess on the following grounds: 1. Most gold Democrats will vote for Bryan either because they do not like the treatment they have received from Republicans or because they are opposed to imperialism. 2. Many former Republicans will vote for Bryan because they are opposed to trusts and Imperialism and because they think free silver would help the situation. 3. A reaction against an administration always sets in, and in normal times it is virtually Impossible to re-elect any Pres ident. 4. Bryan is better known than in 1S90, fear of a panic no longer exists and this country is able to establish free silver on Its own account and maintain it. The Republican view is quite different. They prophesy McKinley's re-election on the following grounds: 1. McKinley's successful administra tion of civil and military affairs. 2. The prosperity that has come from the DIngley tariff and the gold standard. 3. Gold Democrats will not support Bryan and the Democratic party cannot be made to unite on any one. The study of election figures of 1897 and 1S9S is interesting at this time. No one will claim that they necessarily fore tell the result In 1900, but they do give a pretty correct idea of what the Demo crats must overcome in order to win. The two diagrams given herewith show the results of the elections In 1890 and 1S98, the Republican States being shaded. It will be noted that McKinley carried a compact body of States covering the northeast section of the country and Ore gon and California in .addition. These States represented a total of 2'il electoral votes, Bryan capturing one in California and one in Kentucky. The vote for the two leading candidates was: McKinley , 7,104,779 Bryan 0,502,925 being the largest vote ever cast in a presidential election. These totals vary slightly from some other estimates, as bome persons count the votes of the high est electors and some the lowest, while Republican Vote, 5.499.001; Representing Ui-' l-.iectorni Democratic Vote, 5,427,224; Representing 175 Electoral otea. accounted for by the Bryan tote In Cal ifornia. others give the nveragc. McKinley's to tal plurality was little more than his plu ralities in New York and Pennsylvania combined. There were few State elections in 1S97, and In none of them were the changes Important except that New York aud Kentucky went Democratic. In 1S9S there were State elections In all but a few of the States and in nil the congressional district. The diagram above shows which States were carried by each party, those by Republicans be ing shnded. It will be noted that the Democrats gained over 1800 only two States Kentucky and Minnesota and the latter only on the governorship, where fusion elected a popular Scandinavian by 20,000 plurality, though the Republi cans carried every congressional district by pluralities aggregating over 32,000. On the other hand, the Republicans gained Washington, Wyoming. Kansas and South Dakota, which have twenty- one electornl votes, the same as Ken tucky and Minnesota. The total vote in 189S in the various States foots up as follows: Republican, 5,499,005; Demo cratic, 5,427,224. The vote in the electoral college repre sented by these States are: Republican, 272; Democratic, 175, or within one vote of the result in 1S90 ,the difference being What Mr. llrrnn must havo to win I forty-nine more electoral vole tlinn hi parly carried Inst fall. In nil probability he must have lifty elght votes, for Min nesota can ncarcely be Imagined n ft sure Democratic Stnte. As to wheru these voles would come frojn In ense of Mr. Bonn's election, those Interested In the subject may ligure out for them selves with the aid of the nbovc mnp nnd the following table, which gives the electoral rote of each State: Alabama .. Arkansas . California . Colorado 4 Connecticut 0 Delaware 3 r'lorlda Georgia 13 Idaho 3 Illinois 2I Indlnna IS Iowa ... 13 Kansas 10 Kentucky ... Louisiana ... Maine Maryland ... Maanarhuietti Michigan ... . Minnesota ... , Mlatlailntil ... Mlatouri ... ..UlNrliraaka 8 .. til Nevada ...3 U, New IlatnpaMre ... 4 New Jtracjr 10 New Vork 31 North Carolina ....11 North Dakota 3 Ohio 'J3 On-Ron 4 I'pnusrlranla 3J IthtHlt- Inland 4 South Carolina .... 0 South Dakota 4 Tnneeu 12 Texas IS Utah 3 Vermont 4 Virginia 13 WaihlnRton ....... 4 Went Virginia ..... 0 WUcunnlii 12 Wyoming 8 ..13 .. 8 .. 8; ..IS ..II .. 0 .. 0 .17 Montana 3 Total 447 AUTOCARS FOR THE MAILS. Pos!ofHce Pepartmeiit Experiments with Them in 1 ulTalo. For some time past the Chicago postal authorities bare been experi menting with autocars for use in the postal service. Heretofore collection wagon3 have been hauled by weary horses. In the big down-town district where collections are of hourly hap pening men on foot do the work. But in the outer districts the contract wagon with Its despondent nag Is the The wagons are much like those now In use. They have a covered scat. where the operator can sit and manage the machine. They He low on sturdy trucks of iron, but light In construe tlon. They have the covered body with a door In the rear, which can be locked after the collector has deposited the contents of a mall box. They have thirty-Inch wheels with pneumatic tires and are otherwise the same wag ons now in use where a bedraggled and melancholy horse Is the drawing power, The principal change to be noted in 9 TJJE OLD MAIL WAGONS AND THE NEW. f real thing. But the Government baa had Its attention called to the fact that It Is possible to collect the malls by means of horseless carriages. Experl incuts so far seem to demonstrate the practicability of the idea. In Buffalo N. Y., the use of such cars has been successful, but It should be borne In mind that Buffalo Is a city of asphalt streets and lack of grades. Chicago postal authorities do not believe that they will prove successful In the? outly ing districts of Chicago, nlthough swifter service Is a thing much to be desired. So long as. the project Is wholly In the experimental stage no special type of mall enr to bo operated automatic ally can be fixed upon as the style of greatest utility. But In tho cases where cars havo been used a general typo has been used. Capacity for tho storage of bundles of letters Is a pre requisite. Tho express wagons used havo great storage capacity. They are electric cars with storago batteries as motors. In tho mail cars the same gen eral plan has so far been carried out. these wagons is that tho rear trucks carry nearly all of the carrying capa city, une gearing will be rigged much like a four-wheeled hose reel of light steel, with a space back of the forward tmcks for the placing of the oattery or whatever kind of motor Is to be used. Tho vehicle back of this will hang low as the ordinary mall wagon does, thus providing a recepta cle for the collections. Tie machine can be operated by one man, as Is the case at present. He will sit in the box seat In front, where the motor and steering gear will conio close to the hand. When tho vehicle Is stopped for any purpose ho can dismount and take on or dlschargo his collections as readily If not more so than he does now while his nag Is browsing on the grass plats near tho curb. Strength and lightness nre the two essentials In tho construction. Recent experiments seem to demonstrate that the automobile can bo used on country roads with as much success as tho bi cycle can. NATURE'S WAR PAINT. Darlc ItacVa and Light Hrcnnts Slake Uirds Almost Invisible. Passing through the Natural Ills tory Museum a day or two ago, my eye was arrested by a case which ap parently, contained a gray, duck-IIke bird facing Its own ghost The "no passage" barrier precluded closer In spectlon, nnd for five minutes I stood staring at the case, unable to make out what that wraltli-llke, almost Invisible bird-form might be. I had given It up, when the descrip tive tablet, which had been pushed aside, came to my assistance. The ex hlbit Is designed by a clever American naturalist to show why Nature has colored most wild beasts and birds dark above and light below. The visible bird was a model clad In flannel of dingy-gray, aud against n background of similar hue It showed up distinctly, thauks to the light on Its back and its own shade. Its ghost-like companion, clad In the same way, owed its invisibility to tho application of a little dnrk point on Its back and a little white paint un derneath after the fashion affected by scores of birds. It seems Incredible that such paint ing could moke the difference, but so It Is. AN EXILED MONUMENT. Germany Wonlil Not Permit Ita Erec tion-New York Dedicates It. In Bronx borough, New York, has been unveiled a monument with a unique and romantic history. It Is a sculptured exile driven from Germany because of the bitter feeling that still exists against the man whom It com memorates. The monument Is a fountain, renro- sentlng the Lorelei, famous In German song and legend, and commemorating neine, the poet, whoso verses of Ger man legend and particularly of tho L.oreiei are familiar In everv Germnn household, but whose advocacy of llh. eriy mauo mm detestable to German royalty, ueino has been dead vrvira but his memory Is as much nn nbwt of hatred in governmental circles as ho was uimscir. The monument was designed hv iw Herter, one of Germany's forrmnf ov ists. Surmounting tho whole Is a fe male figure of tho Lorelei ory siren who dwelt In a cave on tho River Rhino and lured men to destruc tion in the whirlpool. Tho work was admired by all Germans, but when Its erection was attempted at Frankfort tho authorities forbndo tho Wnrlr in oti. Then it was taken to Dusscldorf, Hamburg and other cities, with similar results Finally a number of wealthy ubiui-u io uuy it and put it up In Now York. Hero ntrnln (viJ was an objection. It was said that nemo was not nn Amorlenn n,i nothing to do with this country. After a long struggle the objecllon wna over come nnd now the memorial Is In place In the northern end of the city. Tho sculptured merman nnft mermaids nt "-im -1 i i TI1K HKIXK FOUNTAIN. the fountain's base will lend to n belter knowledge of tho delightful legends of me ituinc. The Fcnr of Kenr. Some ono says the only thine to ti-nr is tear, niui that's about rliiht. 'Hint doesu't mean thnt one Is to go nlxut In a state of cheerful Id.ocy, cures dug ev ery ouzz saw he comes across In the absurd Idea that nothing enn do him harm. That would bo Invoking the fool killer, who does sometime catch up with such people. It means the nmoii. cal application of tho Idea that there aro two things ono need not wnrrv about-what ho can help and what 1m " a ming can be helped, Its help and not worry thnt It uuu IS I A. , . . . ' uu u n cannot no helped, It Is high tlmo thnt tho "incident bo closed," at tho diplomats say. 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