People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1896 — OHIO IN THE NEXT CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

OHIO IN THE NEXT CONGRESS.

Seventeen Republicans “Get There” and Two Democrats, Columbus, 0., Nov. 4.—At 1 a. m. the returns indicate the election of seventeen Republfcans and two Democrats to congress and two districts in doubt. In the Fifth district David Meekison, (Dem.), and F. E. Dewitt, (Rep.), both claim their election, in the Thirteenth district James A. Norton, (Dem.), and S. S. Harris, both claim their election. The Democrats elected- J. P. Mac Lean, of Greefiville, in the Fourth district, and James,McDowell, of Millersburg, in the Seventeenth district. A. S. McClure, the Republican candidate in the Seventeenth district, was a pronounced free silver man and failed of re-elec-tion. The Republicans elect the following: First district, W. B. Shattuck, Cincinnati: Second, J. E. Bromwell, Cincinnati: Third, R. M. Nevin, Dayton; Sixth, Seth W. Brown, Lebanon; Seventh, W. I. Weaver, Springfield; Eighth, Archibald Lybrand, Delaware; Ninth, J. H. Southard, Toledo; Tenth, I. J. Benton, West Union; Eleventh, C. H. Grosvenor, Athens; Twelfth, D. K. Watson, Columbus; Fourteenth, W. S. Kerr, Mansfield; Fifteenth, H. C. Vanvorhis, Zanesville; Sixteenth, Lorenzo Danford, St. Clairsville; Eighteenth, R. W. Taylor, Lisbon; Nineteenth, S. A. Northway, Ashtabula; Twentieth, C. B. Beach, Cleveland; Twenty-first, T. E. Burton, Cleveland. When the present Ohio delegation in congress of 19 Republicans and two Democrats was elected the state gave a Republican plurality of 137,000.