Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — OCTOBER ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

FOUR TERRITORIES ADOPT STATE CONSTITUTIONS. Republican Victories Assured in North and South Dakota and in Washington Montana Close, but Probably Democratic—The Successful Tickets. Elections were held on the Ist inst. in the four new States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Montana. Beautiful weather was enjoyed throughout the Northwest, and the vote was a full one. The capital fight in l South Dakota and Washington called' out the few voters who might otherwise’ have been classed as stay-at-homes, while the closeness of the State acted in a similar way in Montana. Work was not 1 by any means abandoned for votes, the’ Sunday-school children in Aberdeen,’ S. D., marching in procession during the' day to influence the vote on the prohibition amendment. Those towns in South Dakota which were not themselves capital aspirants were filled with workers for the contesting cities. In South Dakota the questions to be decided were: State and legislative offi-! cers, two Congressmen, and judges; also, voting on the Constitution, on a prohibition clause, a clause for minority repre-' sentation in the Legislature, and on the temporary location of the State capital.! North Dakota voted for the same officers,! and also on the Constitution and a prohibition clause therein. In 1888 South Dakota gave 19,869 ReSublican majority; North Dakota, 9,509 .epublican majority; Montana, 5,134 Republican majority; and Washington, 7,371 Republican majority. The results, briefly stated, are Republican victories in the two Dakotas and Washington. In Montana the Republicans appear to have elected the State officials and the Democrats the Congressmen. Both parties claim the Legislature. The tickets elected are as follows: NORTH DAKOTA. John Miller.. Governor Alfred Dickie Lieutenant Governor John Flittle Secretary of State John P. Bray Auditor Ij, E. Booker. Treasurer George F. Goodwin Attorney General William Mitchell m Superintendent Public Instruction H. T. Helgesen. . .Commissioner of Agriculture A. L. Carey Commissioner of-Insurance G. 8. Montgomery... ) T. 8. Underhill -Railroad Commissioners David Bartlett.... ) Alfred Wallin) 9 DY 2;®' Corlihs .-Judges Supreme Court J. M. Bartholomew... ) H. C. HansbroughCongressman SOUTH DAKOTA. A. C, Mellette Governor J. H. Fletcher Lieutenant Governor A. O. RingsrudSecretary of Htato W. F. SmithT’reasurer L. C. Taylor Auditor Robert DollardAttorney General G. L. PinkhamHunt, of Public Instruction O. H. Parker... Commissioner of Public Lauds Dighton Corson, I G. E. Bennhtt, rSupreme Court Judges A. G. Kellam, ) O. 8. Gifford, I J. A. Pickler, j Congressmen WASHINGTON. J" Ferry Governor C. E. Laughton Lieutenant Governor Allen Weir Secretary of State A. A. Lindsley .Treasurer W. C. Jones Attorney General Thomas M. Reed,Auditor R. B. Ryan Supt. of Public Instruction W. T. Forrest Land Commissioner John. L. Wilson Congressmen Tho election of Republican Legislatures in the four new States, in case Montana is Republican, means eight new Republican United States Senators in the Fifty-first Congress, increasing the Republican strength in that body to fortyseven, against thirty-seven for the Democrats. Should later returns Change the legislative result in Montana the Republicans would still have forty-five members of the Senate and tho Democrats thirty-nine. With five new Republican Congressmen from the new States, the Republicans will have 169 members jof the House in tho Fifty-first Congress and the Democrats 161, the delegations by States being as follows: State. R. D.l State. R. D. Alabama B(Nevada 1 Arkansas 5 New Ham shire. 2 California 4 2'New Jersey 4 3 Colorado 1 ..INew York 19 15 Connecticut.*.. 3 I;North Carolina. 3 0 Delaware .. 1 North Dakota.. 1 Florida 2 Ohio 16 5 Georgia lO'Oregon 1 Illinois 13 7;Pennsylvania.. 21 7 Indiana 3 10 Rhode Island... 2 lowa 10 1 South Carolina. .. 7 Kansas. 7 .. South Dakota.. 2 Kentucky 2 9 Tennessee 3 7 Louisiana 1 5 Texas 11 Maine 4 . ..(Vermont 2 '.. Maryland 2 4Virginia 2 8Massachusetts. 10 2i Washington.... 1 Michigan 9 2 West Virginia.. .. 4 Minnesota 5 .. Wisconsin 7 2 Mississippi 7 Missouri 4 10 Totall69 161 Montana 1 .. Republican uaNebraska 3 .. jority 8