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

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS. fflie Democrats Carry Ohio anti tlio Republicans lowa. OHIO. A heavy vote was polled at the election held ip Ohio on Tuesday, Oct. 0. Hoadley the Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected liva majority estimated, at this writins, at about 10,000, and the Legislature is in all probability Democratic. A dispatch from Columbus says: “Returns from 622 wards and precincts give a net Republican gain of 3,507; total vote, 182,618; first amendment, 20,166; second amendment, 92,450. The first temperance amendment is hopelessly in the minority.” A dispatch from Columbus at 2 a.m. Wednesday morning says: “Gen. B.li. Coward, managing editor of the Ohio State Journal, at this hour concedes the State to the Democrats by 12,000 as well as the Legislature. 2:45 a. in: “The last bulletin read 6howed a net Republican gain of 3,110 in 575 precincts, at which 163, 908 votes were polled. On the basis of 700,000 votes being cast, the State will only be Democratic by 5,813. The Republican Committee claim at this hour the election of thoir candidate for Governor by a few hundred. Chairman Oglevee announced that no further reports would be received.” 3 a. m.: Chairman Bargar, of the Democratic Committee, at this hour claims that the Democrats have carried the Legislature, and that it will have a majority of eleven on joint ballot, and that Thompson in Knox, Retallle in Perry and Welby in Hocking, close counties, are elected. He also concedes the election of three Republicans in Hamilton county and one in Cuyahoga county.” A special dispatch to the Chisago Times, dated 3:20 a. S. Wednesday, says: “The returns indioate e election of the Democratic State ticket by 4,000 or 5,000 majority, jfnd of the Legislature being Democratic In both branches, with the vote on the Prohibitory amendment close. Contrary to all expectations, the cities show Republican gains and tho Democrats hold their own in the rural districts, due to the Republicans in the country sacrificing their tickets for the amendment. While the vote will be closp, the Democrats have everything, and the Republicans concede that in submitting the Prohibitory amendment they armod the temper nnce element whose ingratitude turned on them.” A Columbus dispatch of the Xlth inst. to the Chicago Times says: “With returns from eighty counties and the other eight estimated, it is conceded at Republican headquarters this morning that the Democratic majority will be over 12,000. The Democrats do not claim tho State by rnoro than that. The be3t information is that the Legislative tickets at Cleveland and at Cincinnati are divided. On the proportion mutually claimed the Senate stands 21 Democrats and 11 Republicans. The House, Cl Democrats and 44 Republicans, giving' the Democrats a majority on joint ballot for Senator of 26.” Tho Chicago Tiitrunc’s special of the same date says: “The revolution is complete. Hoadley is Governor by IU,OOO majority. There is a bare hope that the Republicans may get the Legislature. It la not probable. The Democratic majority on joint ballot ought not, however, to be more than four or five. It will take a day yet to decide the point. From this it is seen that for the first time in nearly thirty years the Democracy have obtained control of the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of tho State Government of Ohio. It is believed the Prohibitory amendment has been defeated ”