Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

COLD COMFORT. The ability of republican journals to extract com Li t from the r->“ cent election returns entitles tin in to high rank ns ontcmists. If the democrats do not control the Ohio legislature it vill bo. by a very close margin, and under very suspicious circumstances. And ns to the general result in Ohio just consider the vote of that btate for a few years past. In 1893 McKinley was elected governor bj a plurality of 80 995 over Campbell. In 1891 Toylor, the republican candidate for secretary of side, was elected by a plurality -'f 137,087 over Turner, thj demociatio candidate. In 1895 Bushnell was el c-ted governor by a plurality of 92,022 over Campbell.

in 1890 Kinney, the republican candidate for secretary of state, waj elected over the democratic candidate by a plurality of 51,549. and at the same election the McKiuley vote was officially declared to be 51,109 in excess ot the Bryan vote. In the Ohio legislature elected in 1893 the republicans had a majority of eighty-four oh joint ballot In the Ohio legislature elected in 1895 the republicans had a majority of eighty-ei ht on joint ballot.

Republicans seek consolation in the defeat of Gorman in Maryland. But they owe that to Mr. Gorman, who has himself to blame. However, in 1895 Maryland went 18,» 767 republican for governor, and in 1896 it went 32,224 republican for president. The Maryland legislature is now made republican by an official recount which elects four members fiom Talbot county f>y majorities ranging fr&m sixteen to nineteen, one member from Prince George’s by Four majority and one. member from Carroll by twenty-three ma*jority. In New York state the great republican majority of 268,469 of last year is converted into a dem ocratic majority of 56,058.