Virginia * 92,953 93,424 95,558 [11] 139,670 West Virginia... 42,698 [5] 56,455 * 32,323 20,533 Wisconsin....... * 104,942 86,477 [10] 130,668 123,927 Total...... 3,597,070 2,834,079 4,033,950 4,284,757 1872. The total scattering vote of 33,293 was nearly all for Charles O'Conor. Grant received 300 electoral votes, States marked *, Greeley would have received 60. 1876.-Cooper (Ind.) received 83,561 votes, Smith (Temperance and Scattering), 10,988. The electoral votes of each State, see figures in ( ). Total Hayes, 185; Tilden, 184. Total......... ..... 4,450,921 4,447,888 307,740 10,305 The figures in parentheses () indicate the Electoral Vote of each State and Party. Scattering, 1,696. Garfield's Plurality, 3,033. All, over Garfield, 316,708, JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, the Twentieth President of the U. S. A., was born on November 19, 1831, in the township of Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, about fifteen miles southeast of Cleveland. The story of General Garfield's life is peculiarly interesting. Careers like his are possible in no other country than this. Foreigners cannot understand how they are even possible here. HIS PARENTAGE. He comes of plain New England stock. * His father, * The answer to Dr. Draper's letter of inquiry if Gen. Garfield was of German descent will be found on next page. |