People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — THE LATEST RETURNS [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST RETURNS

COMPLETE NEWS OF TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS. Republicans Elect Governor and Leela* lata re In Kentucky—New York State Legislature Is Republican—Tammany’s Victory In New York City. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 7. —Republican claims and Democratic concessions show that not only has Kentucky elected the full Republican state ticket, but that the complexion of the legislature assures a Republican successor to United States Senator Blackburn. One hundred and five of the 119 counties give Bradley for governor a majority over Hardin of 3,965. The other fourteen counties, estimated according to the vote cast at the last gubernatorial election, will swell this majority to nearly 5,000. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 7. —“If W. 0. Bradley is elected governor in Kentucky,” said John C. New, proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, this afternoon, “it will probably make him the Republican nominee for vice president next year.” FORAKER TO SUCCEED BRICE. Ohio's Ex-Governor Likely to Go to the Senate. Columbus, 0., Nov. 7.—At the Democratic headquarters the total vote of the state is estimated at 853,000, divided as follows: Bushnell (Rep.), 442,853; Campbell (Dem.), 346,000; Coxey (Pop.), 42,161; Ellis (Pro.), 18,864, and 2,500 scattering. It will be seen by the estimate that Campbell polled 6,000 less than in 1893 and 70,000 more than the Democrats had one year ago. The Republicans polled 23,000 more than in 1893 and about 10,000 more than in 1894. It is believed the Populist vote will exceed the Democratic estimate. As to the legislature, the best estimate gives the Republicans a joint majority of 85. Among the state senators elect is James R. Garfield, son of the late president United States Senator Brice will be succeeded by ex-Gov. Foraker March 4, 1897.

NEW YORK STATE REPUBLICAN. Majority of More Than Two to One In the Legislature. New York. Nov. ,7. —Later returns from all sections of the state do not lessen the extent of the Republican victory in New York. The total vote unoffic:"lly compiled gives Palmer, the candidate for secretary of state, at the head of the Republican ticket, a total of 572.525, while his Democratic opponent, King, polled 505.590, making the Republican plurality 66,935. Both branches of the state legislature will be Republican by a majority of more than two to one. The Tammany victory in the city is not greatly changed by the complete returns from the estimates of Tuesday night. The head of the Tammany ticket, Purroy, candidate for county clerk, has a majority of 16,429. New Jersey I* Republican. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 7.—With but three precincts to hear from in Mercer county, and these estimated, Griggs’ (Rep.) majority for governor is 3,500. The Democrats have elected but one senator, Daly in Hudson county, while the Republicans have elected senators in Atlantic, Cumberland, Mercer, Morris, Ocean and Bergen counties. This will make the senate stand eighteen Republicans and three Democrats. The assembly will stand forty-two Republicans and eighteen Democrats. The election of Mr. Griggs is the first time in thirty years that the Republicans have elected a governor and they are now in control of almost every department of the state government. Republican Plurality in lowa. Des Moines, lowa, Nov. 7.—lowa is Republican from 60,000 to 80,000 plurality. Complete returns are in here from seventy-five counties. They show a net gain of about 23,000 votes. The same ratio means a net gain of 29,000 in the entire state. Drake will have 62,000 plurality over Babb, the Democratic candidate. The general assembly is Republican on joint ballot by ninetysix. There are only 150 members. The Democrats will have seven out of fifty senators and twenty out of one hundred representatives. It is by the vote on joint ballot that Senator Allison will be re-elected to the United States senate. Is Kansas Weary of ProhlbltlonT Topeka, Kas., Nov. 7.—Ex-Chief Justice Albert H. Horton, a steadfast Republican and high in the councils of the party in Kansas, leads a revolt against the rule of prohibition. He Is a prohibitionist, and as chief justice regularly sustained the constitutionality of the law when it was brought before the supreme court, but he sees in the defeat of so many Republican candidates in various localities on account of the law yesterday, and in the unexpected vote polled for an obscure young man who was in the ballot as resubmission candidate for chief justice, signs that the people are weary of the strife engendered by the liquor question and want it resubmitted. Incomplete Return* from Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 7.—Returns from the state upon the vote cast for judge of the supreme court are being received with unusual slowness. The best indications are that Norval is elected by over 10,000. The vote of the administration or “sound-money” wing of the Democratic party is four-fifths of the entire party vote of the state, probably 25,000. The silver element of the Democratic party is urging that the entire Machinery of the federal government in

the state was used to secure votes for Mahony, the “sound-money” candidate. Mahony’s personal popularity contributed largely to his success. Maryland Legislature Republican. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 7. —Not only have the Republicans elected their entire state and city ticket, but they have carried the legislature, which, according to figures at hand now, will stand in the lower house sixty-eight Republicans to twenty-four Democrats, and in the senate fifteen Democrats to eleven Republicans. Candidates for the seat of Senator Gibson are already springing up, and among those prominently mentioned are Charles J. Bonaparte, the reform leader of this city, and Congressman Wellington, who is the hero of the hour, because of his successful campaign. < Full Returns from Massachusetts. Boston, Mass., Nov. 7. —The full returns of the state given Greenhalge (rep.), 185,893; Williams (dem.), 121,404; Kendall (pro.), 8,766; a plurality of 64,489 for Greenhalge, as against a plurality of 65,377 last year. The vote on the woman’s suffrage referendum was: es, 107,870; no 184,810; the majority against suffrage being 76,940. The complexion of the senate is: Republicans, 33; democrats, 7; a democratic gain of i. In the house are 188 republicans and 52 democrats, a democratic gain of 6. Returns from Utah. Salt Lake, Utah, Nov. 7. —The Republicans have elected the state ticket and carried the legislature by a safe majority. The Republican state central committee has received returns from 163 precincts, covering portions of twentythree counties and the most populous parts of the territory, giving Allen (Rep.) for congress 16,363; Roberts (Dem.), 15,712, being a majority of 651, which, it is claimed, will be increased to 1,000. Wells’ majority for governor will be considerably larger.