Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

A vigorous campaign with plenty of money and numerous speakers will be undertaken by the Republicans in Virginia. The division of the Democrats leads their opponents to hope for success. Congressional candidates will be run in every district, and perhaps two of them will be carried. We print below the electoral vote ot the different States of the Union : Alabama 10; Missouri 15 Arkansas <1 Nebraska 3 Ca’ifornia 0 Nevada 3 Colorado 3 New Hampshire 5 Connecticut 6 New Jersey 9 Delaware 3 New York 35 Florida .' 4 North Carolina 10 Georgia 11 Ohio 22 Illinois 21 Oregon 3 Indiana 15 Pennsylvania 29 lowa 11 Rhode Is'and 4 Kansas 5 South Carolina 7 Kentucky 12 Tennessee, 12 Louisiana 8 Texas 8 Maine 7 Vermont 5 Maryland 8 Virginia 11 Massachusetts 13 West Virginia 6 Michigan 11 Wisconsin , 10 Minnesota 5 ■ Miseiwippi 8 . Total 369 The number necessary to a choice is 185 During the passage of a Democratic parade in Wilmington, Del., it was fired upon from housetops, and six persons were seriously jvounded. The fire was returned and the building gutted, and several of the first assailants wounded. The Legislature of Oregon has adopted a resolution submitting the question of female suffrage to a vote of the people of the State.