Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Gov. St. John was burned in effigy in front of a newspaper office at Cedar Rapids, lowa, in presence of five thousand persons. The country is evidently ready for a new system of electing its President. The New York delegation in the next House will be evenly divided—seventeen Republicans and seventeen Democrats. It costs each of the leading political organizations of New York from $12,000 to $15,000 to get wbat is called the general tickets printed. One of the most remarkable losses in New York State is in Albany County, where Hancock had 3,060 plurality. Cleveland has only 640. Oneida County, N. Y., the home of Roscoe Conkling, gave Garfield 1,948 plurality. Cleveland carries the county with a plurality of 28. In New York City there are 712 polling places, to each of which were detailed on election day four inspectors at $l5O, two supervisors SSO, two clerks sls, two marshals slo—total $225, amounting to $160,200 for the entire city; there was, it is estimated, paid for printing tickets $500,000, and to political workers fully $1,000,000; 3,560 booths at $5 each—sl7,Boo; circulars SIO,OOO, and SIO,OOO for postage on the same, making the cost of election In New York City alone $1,698,000. A Presidential election is a luxury, financially at least. With one county to hear from Nevada gives Blaine 7,689; Cleveland, 6,303. Blaine’s majority so far, 1,386. Complete returns not yet obtained from Oregon, but it is known that Blaine's majority in the State will bo fully 2,003. With three counties to hear from, California gives Blaine 89,665: Cleveland, 77,503; Butler, 946; St. John, 897. Blaine's plurality, 10,319. The Republicans elected a full Congressional delegation of six. Cleveland’s majority in North Carolina is 25,000. The result in New York is the closest ever known in any large State. The official returns from fifty-nine of the sixty-seven counties of Pennsylvania and an estimate of the remaining eight counties give Blaine a plurality in the State of 78,493. The counties from which the official vote has not yet been received are Allegheny, Butler, Carbon, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Sullivan, and Tioga. Philadelphia City gave Blaine 29,542 majority. Four years ago it gave Garfield 20,889. Allegheny County, containing Pittsburgh, gave Blaine 18,634, to 13,443 for Garfield; and Lancaster County gave Blaine 9,895, against 8,700 for Garfield. The complete vote of Massachusetts for President is: Blaine, 143,416; Cleveland, 119,241; Butler, 23,866; St. John, 10,200. For Governor the vote stands: Robinson, 155,037; Endicott, 103,260; McCafferty, 23,552; Seelyo, 8,241. Robinson's plurality is 46,837.