Not to touch upon the familiar subject of the probabilities of the election, it may yet be remarked thst the whole method of the election is curious and undesirable. So
"may be: chosen as President, though having much 60 that it is quite possible that Bryan large minority of the actual votes cast. Such an/anomaly actually happened in both the Hayes and the Harrison campaigns, and is still more likely to occur in the one now about to close. It is well known that the President is chosen not directly by the suffrages of the people, but by a college of electors, Ives chosen by the individual States. Each State has as many electors as it has Senators and Representatives in the national Congress. But as no State, however small, can have less than three (two senators and one Representative), it follows that the smallest members of the Union have more electors in proportion than do the larger. And just hero isthe chance for a national minority to overthrow the will of the majority. Six of the "Silver States," Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and North Dakota, have altogether eighteen presidential electors, while Maryland, a state one-fifth larger than all of them combined,
even be s0 arranged that Bryan would be tas bat eight. The voting factors might chosen by the will of a section havin; million and a half less population than that of the defeated States. It goes without saying that here is too perilous an anachronism to be perpetuated longer.
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