Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — STATE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

STATE ELECTIONS.

All Seemed to Go Pretty Much One Way. THE REPUBLICANS WIN M’KINLEY CLAIMS OHIO BY FIFTY THOUSAND. lowa, Massachusetts, and New York Post to the Democrats—Populists Claim One Supreme Court Judge in South Dakota —McKinley’s Contest Ignorad State Issues and Was Conducted on the Tariff—lowa Republicans Claim a Clean Sweep —Returns from Many States. McKinley Wins. With a plurality claimed to be 75,000 and two-thirds of b ith branches of the Legislature McKinley has won the most decisive victory recorded in Ohio since the civil war. It has been won on national issues. Although McKinley was running for re-election as Governor he made State affairs secondary to protection and honest money in all his speeches, numbering 110. It would not have been a surprise two weeks ago, but after the action cf Congress there seemed to have been such a reaction that the overwhelming vote is a surprise. The Democrats did not allow the coctest to go by default, but made a mOst vigorous fight with harmonious working forces. The voters were out all over the State, and McKinley has a majority over all, with and Populist tickets opposed to him. This is the first majority over all any State candidate has had since Foster’s election, just after Garfield’s death in 1881. Blaine had a majority in 1884, but the Republican State ticket then had only a plurality. Last year the Democrats elected one Presidential elector, and the Republican plurality was then 1,072. McKinley’s plurality in 1891 was 21,511. In 1890 the Republicans had 10,000 plurality, and in 1889 the Democrats elected Gov. Campbell by 10,872, when there was a small vote. Jackson in lowa. A De@ Moines dispatch says: The election of the entire Republican ticket is beyond any hope of recall. The Republican gains that Jackson made over last year's vote for Harrison averaged six to the precinct. There are 2,000 precincts in the State. The Republican plurality last year was 21,000, so at this rate Jackson will have 35,000 to 40,000 plurality, and the rest of the Republican ticket will run ahead a few thousand. How much cannot be stated with any degree of exactness yet. j The reports are very slow to i come in. and have been incomplete on everything below Jackson and Boies. But the general report is that the Prohibition vote has been far below what was expected, even by the Republicans. National issues and the calamity cry raised by the Republicans were strongly fought to pull all the Republicans into support of the local option platform. The. Republican Prohibitionists have voted the Republican ticket, too, as they promised to do. The populist vote has fallen somewhat belcw what was expected. The Legislature will be strongly Republican in both branches, insuring the election of a Republican United States Senator. The vote has fallen off probably 10 to 15 per cent., but the Democrats have lost more than the Republicans.

Bay State Slides Back. A short and sharp campaign, fought almost entirely on national issues, the tariff and the currency. pas resulted in a very decisive Republican majority in Massachusetts. Gov. Russell’s declination of a fourth term removed from the front rank of the Democracy the most popular man and the strongest vote getter in New England, and though the standard brarer, the Hon. John E. Russell, is a man of great cultivation, wide experience in diplomacy and statesmanship and, moreover, a man of great strength with the agricultural population, the verdict at the polls has shown that Massachusetts cannot yet be accounted a Democratic State on national issues. The city of Boston has given the Democracy only 9,700 plurality, against 13,0C0 last year, while in the country the Republicans have made gains proportionate to this loss. The entire Republican State ticket is elected by substantially the same figures as Mr. Greenhalge. A conservative estimate founded upon the returns from small cities and towns gives the following result: For Gover-. nor,. Greenhalge (Rep.) over .Russell (Dem.) 18,000; for Lieutenant Governor, Walcott (Rep.) over Carroll (Dem.) 23,0G0; for Secretary of State, Olin (Rep.i over McDonald (Dem.) 26,000; for Treasurer, Kimball (Rep.) over Hall (Dem.) 24,000; for Attorney General, Knowlton (Rep.) over Lilley (Dem.) 17,000. The Senate and House will both be Republican by slightly increased majorities. New York Not Democratic. A year ago the Democrats made a clean sweep in New York. Tuesday the Republicans had their day and it was another runaway race. Richard Croker said: “It looks as if the Republicans had carried the entire State ticket, including the Legislature.” In the contest for the most important office, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Bartlett, is elected over Maynard, the Democratic candidate, by at least. 30,000. Maynard was cut all over the State. He ran behind Bartlett in King's County by 12,0C0. In Brooklyn, for the first time in years, the Republicans elected their mayor. Kan pas Re tar ns. Returns from Kansas admit a great falling off in the Populist vote. Cherokee County, which gave 1,700 majority for the Populist - in 1892, and Sumner County, another Populist strong? _ hold, have been carried by the Republicans. Crowley County, in which the vote was very close in 1892, has, also gone Republican. The Republicans will probably have a plurality of the votes cash They have carried Miami, Harvey and Montgomery Counties. The Demobrats carried Leavenworth County. Republican Losses In Nebraska. Returns from Nebraska came in slowly, and indicate Republican losses on the head of the ticket and Populism gains. Judge Holcomb (Pop.) is probably elected Supreme Court Justice bv 10,000. The Usual Majorities. The returns from Kentucky are incomplete, but enough have been received to indicate that the Legislature will be Democratic in joint session by about four to one. About 60 per cent, of the Representatives are pledged tc William Lindsay for United States Senator, and a majority are also said to be favorable to Senator Blackburn.