Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Two hundred and twenty-five women, including many negresses, voted at the school election in Lansingburg, N. Y. The women’s poll-list contained 1,000 names. Montana desires to become a State. On the 6th of next month an election will be held for delegates to a State constitutional convention. Party candidates are in the field. The convention will meet in Helena in January, and the constitution to be framed

will be submitted to the people in November, 1884. The Woman Suffrage National convention, in session at Brooklyn, N. Y., adopted resolutions that Congress and the State Legislatures be petitioned for constittional amendments granting suffrage to women. May B. Clay, of Kentucky, was elected President. A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the 12th inst., says of the election in that State: Complete but unofficial returns from all of the eighty-eight counties of the State show Hoadley’s plurality over Foraker to be something over 13,000, but the rest of the ticket is less than 12,000. Hoadley has not a majority of all, as the Prohibitionists cast more votes than his plurality. Tho Prohibitory amendment got over 300,000 votesBoth of the Temperance amend, ments, however, are defeated. The Legilsature is Democratic beyond a doubt, thus securing to that party the United States Senator who succeeds Mr. Pendleton. The Senate stands 32 Democrats to 11 Republicans; the House, 63 Democrats and 42 Republicans, being a majority of 33 on joint ballot for Senator. A public meeting of Democrats at Philadelphia favored the renomination of Tilden and Hendricks. They resolved to call themse ives the “National Army of Retribution.” A Cincinnati dispatch says: Only tbe figures on the Prohibition amendment have been gathered completely from all the counties. These are not all official, but mostly so, and are reliable. The total vote cast was 709,335; for prohibition, 309,413; majority against it, 90,509. Forty-six of the 88 counties gave majorities ranging from 12 in Wyandot to 2,397 in Columbiana, in the Western Reserve. Forty-two counties gave majorities against it, ranging from 73 in Alleu to 13,484 in Cuyahoga and 41,957 in in Hamilton, the latter estimated. It was lost by a majority of about 14,000 votes outside of tho five cities of Cimggpati, Cleveland, Dayton, Toledo and CoWUjbps. Hon. Neal Dow fS&ta Portland, Me., that, the trouble Kn Ohio grew entirely out of a blunder of the Republican leaders in refusing to submit the constitutional amendment to the people. He says that the temperance people of the Stato have a settled determination to accomplish their purpose, and that in all the canvas there Was no Republican speaker who did not repudiate prohibition and advocate license.