Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah, says: “Returns from tho election are not all in, but the gentiles elect two, and perhaps three, members of the council branch of tho Legislature in a total of twelve, aud three, perhaps, four, members of the lower house out of a total of twenty-four. The gentiles consider this a victory, being far tlie best they have ever been able to show. ” A Lexington (Ky.) dispatch says that “W. O. Bradley (Itepubhcan) claims to have been elected Governor of Kentucky. Reports from seventy-three counties show 24,000 gain for him, and the Democrats have cut their estimated majority for Buckner to between 8,000 and 12,000.” Galveston dispatch: “Returns from 450 polling precincts dearly indicate tho prohibition amendment is defeated by 50,000. It will bo impossible to give exact result until the official count is made. Tho results indicate that all the other amendments except the one extending the time of holding the Legislature have been carried.” A J out Worth (Tex.) special to the Chicago Tribune says: Compieto and official returns received from eighty nine counties in tho Stnto give a majority .of 56,422 against prohibition. Only ten counties of tho eighty-nine show 11 prohibition majority. Th ,‘se eiguty-nine counties Include all tho cities andiuostof tho large towns. Tnore are ninety-two counties yet to bo heard from, but most of them poll less than 200 votes. It is probable that the remaining count.es will swell the anti-prohibition majority to 75,000, but it is not likely to go beyond that. The returns are complete enough, to show that all the amendments are defeated by large majorities.