Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1858 — Ninth District. [ARTICLE]

Ninth District.

Mr. Colfax arrived here Saturday night, bringing the official vote with him from nearly all the counties in his District. He runs ahead of the State tickot in every county, and has majorities in ten out of the eleven Representative Districts. The State ticket has majorities in eight lout of the eleven: but unfortunately only six Republican Representatives are elected to the I Legislature from that Congressional District, as we lose tfie Benton and White, the Porter and the Cass members, carrying one in Miami county, where our State ticket is I behind. The vote will be found in our Congressional table. The Republican majority o i the State ticket is 1516 in this District, and on Congress 1930. Harper, for State Treasurer, runs ahead of the ticket, and has about the same majority as Colfax.— lndiana State Journal. The same paper of Monday last says: “The hardest fight in the whole State during the recent canvass was 1 in the Ninth i District: and there, as might have been expected. the Republican State ticket gains handsomely, even over the triumphant vote ! of 185-L It had 1,300 majority in that District then, when we carried the State s<> overwhelmingly, and-now has over 1,500, being the only District in which the Sta’e ticket gains over that contest, although both wings of the Democracy were heartily united there. Had there been as hard a fight throughout the State we should have elected all our State officers by a large majority. The whole State was filled with predictions by our opponents that the Ninth District would certainly be redeemed, but while tliey were boasting Mr. Colfax was speaking every day without cessation, except Sundays, from July till October, making in ail one hundred and one sneeches in the canvass. The Republicans there, too. were all thoroughly arouseij and at work earnestly and efficiently; Mr. Harper, ; our candidate lor State Treasurer, labored there as in other parts of the state incessantly, and the result is seen in the brilliant victory which they Avon, despite hundreds/ of imported voters, and the doz.en Democratic speakers who were constantly speaking through the State.