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VOTE FOR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, 1900 AND 1902.

Vote for Representatives in Congress, 1900 and 1902.

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(2) Wilcox, Ind. Home Ruler, elected Delegate to Congress from Hawaii in 1900.

In twenty years the workshop of the world has become the dumping ground of the world.-London Daily Telegraph, December 10, 1903.

To be an American citizen to-day means more than ever before; it means greater opportunity and enlarged responsibility.Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, at Baldwin, Kas., June 7, 1901.

The question of human rights and human liberty are the potential questions which have summoned our mightiest armies and have assembled our fleets and stirred our country to the utmost depths. Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, in U. S. Senate, February 22, 1902.

The foundation of our whole social structure rests upon the material and moral well-being, the intelligence, the foresight, the sanity, the sense of duty, and the wholesome patriotism of the wage-worker.-President Roosevelt at Labor Day picnic, Chicago, Sept. 3, 1900.

The menace of 16 to 1 still hangs over us with all its dire consequences to credit, confidence, business, and activity; the enemies of sound money are rallying their scattered forces. The people must once more unite and overcome the advocates of repudiation. President McKinley to the Notification Committee, July 12, 1900.

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So long as labor is deemed honorable there need be no concerns as to the future.-Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, in a Labor Day address at Kansas City, Mo., September 1, 1902.

What has been done for the tin-plate manufacturers in the United States can be done for American shipbuilders and American shipowners.-Hon. Wm. S. Greene, in Congress, April 28, 1904.

The Republican party stands now as ever, for honest money and a chance to earn it by honest toil.-From an address by Hon. Wm. McKinley before the Marquette Club, Chicago, Feb. 12, 1896.

It is no longer a question of expansion with us; we have expanded. If there is any question at all it is a question of contraction; and who is going to contract?—President McKinley at Iowa Falls, Iowa, Oct. 16, 1899.

In the Post-Office Investigation the source of corruption, the fountain head from which flowed the whole miserable business, was found not in a Republican, but in a Democratic Administration, and it was a Republican Administration which applied the lancet and let free the poison-Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, in the Senate,, April 1, 1904.

Popular and Electoral Vote in Presidential Elections from 1856 to 1900.

Showing number of votes cast for Republican and Democratic candidates, the electoral vote, and the per cent given to the Republican candidates in each presidential election from 1854 to 1900.

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b S. A. Douglas, Democratic (Northern), polled 1,375,157 votes and carried 2 States having 12 electoral votes; J. C. Breckenridge, Democrat, (Southern), polled 845,763 votes and carried 11 States having 72 electoral votes.

c Constitutional Union party, John Bell, nominee.

d Eleven Southern States with 81 electoral votes refrained from voting.

e Three Southern States (Mississippi, Texas and Virginia), with 23 electoral votes, refrained from voting.

f Seventeen votes rejected, viz., 2 from Georgia, for Greeley, and 8 from Louisiana, and 6 from Arkansas, for Grant.

g People's party, J. B. Weaver.

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Make them pay duty while we pay taxes.-Hon. P. C.

in the Senate, April 1, 1904. escape," and then enforced that order-Hon. Albert J. Beveridge, Administration which did not hesitate to say, "Let no guilty man I fancy the people will be found pretty well content with an

5, 1900. must have read to no profit the splendid and incomparable history of their country.-Hon. C. W. Fairbanks, in U. S. Senate, March Those who denounce the gold standard and assail its supporters

Roosevelt at Waukesha, Wis., April 3, 1903. for the rights, but for the feelings, of other nations.-President with courtesy, with scrupulous regard in word and deed, not only writer in the press, the fact that strength should go hand in hand I would like to impress upon every public man, upon every

lis.-Hon. Elihu Root, at New York, Feb. 3, 1904, to have them in possession of all the wealth in this great metropohonor and the devotion to his country of Theodore Roosevelt than in life is the honesty and frankness, the truth and loyalty, the I would rather have my boys taught to think the finest thing

THE MCKINLEY STATES VERSUS THE BRYAN STATES.

Educational, Financial, and Industrial Conditions in the States Carried by McKinley and Bryan, Respectively, in 1900.

The table presented on the opposite page shows conditions in population, literacy, educational facilities, educational expenditures, industries, savings bank deposits, and other measures of conditions in each of the states carried by McKinley and Bryan, respectively, in 1900. It will be noted that the states which gave their electoral votes to McKinley in 1900 had 66.2 per cent. of the population of the country, and those which gave their votes to Bryan 33.8 per cent. The McKinley states, although they had twothirds of the population, had but 31 per cent. of the illiterate white population, while those giving their vote to Bryan had 69 per cent. The McKinley states show a total expenditure for public schools amounting to 189 million dollars, or 85 per cent. of the total, while the Bryan states show a total of but 33 million dollars, or only 15 per cent. of the total public school expenditures of the United States. Of the value of the real property of the United States, amounting to 25 billions of dollars, 84 per cent. was located in the McKinley states and but 16 per cent. in the Bryan states; and of the personal property of the country, amounting to 8 billions of dollars, 74 per cent. was in the states which gave their electoral votes to McKinley and 26 per cent. in those which gave their votes to Bryan. Of the value of the farm products of the United States in 1899, 67.8 per cent. was produced in the states which gave electoral votes to McKinley and 32.8 per cent. in the states which gave their votes to Bryan; while of the total value of farm lands, including buildings and improvements, 76.9 per cent. was located in the McKinley states and 23.1 per cent. in the Bryan states. Of the 13 billion dollars' worth of manufactures produced in the United States in 1900, 87.2 per cent. was produced in the states which gave their electoral votes to McKinley and protection, and 12.8 per cent. in the states which gave their votes to Bryan and low tariff; while 79.2 per cent. of the mineral products of the United States in 1900 was produced in the states which gave their electoral votes to McKinley, and 20.8 per cent. in the Bryan states. Of the savings bank depositors in savings banks, 98.9 per cent. were located in the McKinley states and 1.1 per cent. in the Bryan states; and of the money deposited in savings banks, 99.5 per cent. was in the McKinley states and 0.5 per cent. in the Bryan states.

Conditions in States carried by McKinley and Bryan, respectively, in 1900.

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WORK OF THE 58th CONGRESS.

The following summarization of the work of the Fifty-eighth Congress, covering the special session called by President Roosevelt to consider the Cuban reciprocity treaty, and the regular session which closed on April 28, 1904, is from the New York Tribune of April 29, 1904 :

Two great achievements have marked the first two sessions of the Fifty-eighth Congress, which is likely to go down in history as a business Congress, characterized by economy and strict adherence to business principles. The consummation of the policy of reciprocal trade relations with Cuba, outlined by McKinley and faithfully adhered to by Roosevelt, by the enactment of an enabling law which put into effect the provisions of the Cuban treaty ratified by the Senate last spring in special session, constituted the chief work of the first session of the current Congress, which met on November 9, although the final vote was not taken until December 16.

Of not less importance was the ratification at the regular session of the Panama treaty, negotiated under the direction of President Roosevelt, which paves the way for the great interoceanic highway designed to stand throughout the ages as the greatest monument to the United States, as well as to the fearless and energetic President who, overcoming all obstacles and quick to perceive a favorable opportunity, recognized the Republic of Panama, negotiated a treaty giving to the United States complete control over the canal zone, and received the hearty indorsement of Congress in his course.

Both of these measures were contested inch by inch by Democrats in Congress, who, bereft of any issue on which to appeal for support to the voters of 1904, thought they perceived an opportunity to create partisan capital. Under the rigid rules of the House little difficulty was encountered in passing the Cuban enabling act, but in the Senate persistent antagonism was met, and Senators Teller, Patterson, and other Democrats labored continually to rally their colleagues in a determined opposition to the policy of the Republican administration. The result was the postponement of final acton until after the beginning of the regular session, but the final vote was 57 to 18 in favor of Cuban reciprocity, this being the first indication of that Democratic lack of harmony and that disintegration which have characterized the opposition throughout the session.

Immediately after the Christmas holidays the discussions of the Panama treaty began in earnest. The Democrats, seeking to make capital, introduced various resolutions, which they were able to discuss in open sesion, thus avoiding the "closed doors" which are the usual order when a treaty is under consideration. In this debate Mr. Gorman believed that he saw an opportunity to establish beyond peradventure his right_to lead his party, and made Herculean efforts to solidify the Democratic opposition and to create the impression that President Roosevelt was an unsafe man. Days were spent in denunciation of the President's policy.

The President cheerfully forwarded to the Senate every document asked for, thus laying open to the most careful scrutiny every act in connection with the recognition of the Republic of Panama and the negotiation of the canal treaty. No impropriety was revealed, and no ground of criticism could be discovered, and gradually the Democrats in the upper chamber, who were daily hearing of the displeasure of their States at their unreasoning opposition, lost confidence in the leadership of Mr. Gorman. At last, on January 27, Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, felt compelled to speak in favor of the Panama treaty. He was followed by Senator Clark of Arkansas, and by other Democrats, and then the Republicans, perceiving their advantage, followed it up. Senator Gorman found himself deserted by his party colleagues, and on February 23 the Senate, by a vote which, including pairs, was 72 to 17, ratified the Panama treaty. Sixteen of the thirtythree Democratic Senators repudiated Mr. Gorman's leadership and placed themselves on record as indorsing the policy of President Roosevelt.

With the Panama treaty disposed of, an early adjournment immediately became the subject of discusion, and the leaders of both Houses determined to accomplish all necessary legislation with unparalleled expedition, setting April 1 as their goal for adjournment.

The Post-Office Scandals.

One more energetic effort was made by the Democrats to create campaign material. The report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow, giving every detail of the Post-Office investigation of last summer, had been called for by a committee of the House and had been made public. It clearly demonstrated the thoroughness with which every clew to dishonesty in the postal service had been followed, and the unremitting and inexorable character of the inquiry which Mr. Bristow had conducted. Thirty indictments had been procured and eight convictions

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