People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Nelson Claims Eighty-Eight Votes. [ARTICLE]

Nelson Claims Eighty-Eight Votes.

St. Paul, Minn., Jan,'22.—The Nelson men say they will; show up with more than seventy votes in the ballot for United States senator! in the legislature to-day. Sixty Nelson caucus votes are counted onto begin with, and with tbym it is affirmed there will be half a dozen republicans from the Washburn column, making sixty-six. Ten democrats, says rumor, are depended on for Nelson,,making seventysix, and twelve populists, giving a total of eighty-eight, or three more than the necessary majority.