Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1882 — OCTOBER ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

Ohio] \ Civdnnati dispatch of the 12th says: Detailed returns ere coming un but slowly, hut oepagh is known to say that the Demoorrtic majority in the State will he likely to overrun "o,('-00, with probably fifteen of the twenty-one Congressmen. A ppec'al telegram from Columbus to the Chicago Timex says: "The Democrats claim that the plurality will not be less than 20,000 and may reach 30,000, while the Republicans admit that it will not fall much if any be'ow the first figures. The result is a surprise to the Demooratsas well as Republicans, and on all K ilos the question being asked is, How did it happen? The Democrats attribute the result to superior organization on their part, Republican dissatisfaction with the national administration, and local quarrels, of which there were more than tho usual number in the Republican ranks. They also argue that tho action of Congress at its late session had a tendency to disgust Republicans and destroy their confidence in the honesty of tho party leaders. “Gov. Foster says the result is due partly to apathy on tho part of Republican voters and part y to tho Organized and persistent efforts of the anti-temperance element in bohalt' of tho Democracy. Secretary Townsend, the Republican candidate, attributes his defeat to a 1 ght vote in part, but ifiain'y to tiie war made on the party by the brewers, distillers and Saloon-keeiaers. He claims that iboy not only spent over $200,090 in the State to secure the defeat of the Republican ticket, but succeeded in effecting and operating in the interest of the Democratic party the most perfect political organisation eVef known in the State. Tho organization, it is claimed, extended throughout all sections, an i succeeded in controlling almost the entire floating vote. “ Capt. J. C. Donaldson, Secretary of the Republican State Executive Committee, gives it as his opinion that the result demonstrates clearly that the majority of the people of the State are not in sympathy with the radical moral-reform measures upon which the Republican party has staked and lost everything in the campaign just ended. While the State issues have played an important part in the canvass, it is probable that the death of Garfield and the installment of a new administration with ant.'igonisfcte tendencies, anil the dissatisfaction consequent upon this change, has been an important factor in bringing upon the Republican party in Ohio its defeat. The bickerings between the factions of the party in New York and Pennsylvania have also had their influence in Ohio, and that influence has been detrimental. The Garfield Republicans aparently mistrust the national administration, and were not particularly interested in giving it the same indorsement they gave Gartield last fall in the election of Gov. Foster. By far the most unfortunate feature of the disaster for the Republ can party in this State is the loss of nine Congressmen, .among them Butter worth and McKinlev, the two ablest members of the present Ohio delegation.” A Cincinnati dispatch says that returns from seventy-nine of the eighty-eight counties gives Newman a plurality of 15,426. It is now estimated that the Democratic majo; ity in the State wi 1 be between 17.000 and 20,(XK). A Columbus dispatch- states that McKinley, Republican, is elected to Congress in the Eighteenth district by eight votes, according to the official returns, which reduce 1 his opponent’s majority in Stark county from 837 to 804. The Democrats arc considerably stirred up over the matter, and charge fraud on the part of tho Republican clerk. Chairman Thompson states that the case will be contested The successful candidates in the three close districts—the Seventh, Twelfth and Eighteenth —we re elected by a total of 62 votes. Should McKir ley take his seat the delegation will stand eight Republicans and thirteen Democrats. WEST VIRGINIA. A Wheeling dispatch says: “Tho election of Goff, Republican, over Goode, Democrat, for Congress in this district is beyond a doubt. His majority will be over 1,300. The district has been Democratic since 1872. Gen. Goff was Secretary of the Navy under Hayes for a short time. Ihe three other districts return Democratic Congressmen, Wilson in the Second, Kenna in the Third and Gibson in the Fourth.”