People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — VOTED FOR JEFF DAVIS. [ARTICLE]

VOTED FOR JEFF DAVIS.

The Dead Confederate Received Eljfhtysix Votes For Presidential Elector. Jeff Davis, although gone, is not forgotten by some of bis former adherents in the south, as shown by the returns for presidential electors at the election held on Nov. 8, 1896. According to the provisions of an act of congress, the secretary of state has filed the certificates of the governor of Arkansas showing that he basoanvassed and added up the votes oast for the office of presidential and vice presidential electors at the election in the several counties of Arkansas on Tuesday, Nov. 8. After the names of the eight electors who received the highest number of votes oast, giving the state to Bryan, there appears the name of Jeff Davis, with 86 votes to his credit as an elector for president and vice president. It has been a matter of current history for many years that some of the old dyed in the wool Democrats are still voting for Andrew Jackson in the baokwoods of Kentucky and Tennessee, but it remains for Arkansas to take a new departure by casting votes for the alleged president of the defnnot Confederacy.—Ghioago Tribune.