"In five states the electoral vote was divided: In California and Ohio because the vote for the Cleveland and Harrison electors was so close: in Michigan because by act of legislature each congressional district voted separately for an elector: in Oregon because one of the four candidates for electors on the People's party ticket was also on the Democratic ticket, the result being three Republicans and one People's party elected in North Dakota because one of the two People's party electors who were elected cast his vote for Cleveland, this causing the electoral vote of the State to be equally divided between Cleveland. Harrison and Weaver. In the States of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota and Wyoming the Democrats ran no electoral tickets, and voted for the People's party electoral tickets for the purpose of taking those states from the Republicans. With a few exceptions they also voted for the People's party electors in Nevada. In Louisiana the Republicans and People's party united their vote, each nominating half of the eight candidates for electors, and in the table their aggregate popular vote is divided. $In Oregon the highest vote for an elector was that cast for the one candidate who was on both the Democratic and People's party tickets. He received 35,813 votes. The next highest was for a Republican candidate for elector, 35,002. This gave the Fusion candidate (who afterwards voted for Weaver) a plurality of 811. *There was fusion on the electoral ticket of the Democrats and Populists, and in some instances Silver Republicans. in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut. Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah. Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. In some of the States like Illinois and Kansas, there were Bryan-Watson tickets run by the Middle-of-the-road Populists. It was impossible to separate the Populist from the Democratic vote in the states in which there was a fusion of those parties: for the reason that in some of the states, like Illinois, in which the two parties voted for the same electors, but upon separate tickets, county officers, in making returns to the Secretaries of State combined the votes on electors. In such cases the vote classed under the head "Bryan-Watson" was no indication of the strength of the People's party, while at the same time it gave too large a vote to the Democrats. Bentley-Natl. |