Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1881 — Garfield's Plurality. [ARTICLE]

Garfield's Plurality.

PAKTIXO tSALCTK TO MAC. Fur tome time past many of the Democratic paper* of tlie state ami country bare kept conspicuously displayed at the head of their editorial columns,<a (able giving Genera! Hancock a’ popular majority of B,lob votes in the recent election, ba iug the same on the following table: r General Garfield .....4 Gen-ral liaaco. k 4 424*1'90 Mr Weaver 'blasts D '"' : 10,701 S* altering \ 2 ,r, Total 9,169,213 The above calculation, however mar the truth it might have been when first made, was the result of figuring before the returns were all in. Later returns, for instance, the official votes of Nevada an J Texas, together with a revision of figures in Louisiana, give a net gain to General Garfield of 3,600 votes and a not loss to General Hancock of 1,702. Making these coirectiena, ihe totals stand, aa between General Garfield and Hancock, as fellows: General Garfield..., 4 4 r >4 421 Gen-r»! Hancock. 4,446*421 GarfieldV plurality 8,236 Tlje total vote previously quoted is increased by the Inter returns, by 1,798 votes, an* it reaches sn aggregate of 9,220.848. In making up these table-, General Garfield is credited wltfi nil the vole* ca>t for the two electoral tickets in Louisiana, as Geneml I! ncoek is credited with all those oust |t.r the two Hancock electoral tick-ti- in V r- | giuia, aud with all the** cast,for the *'fu»i. p” electoral ticket in Maine. Granting everyflilfrj to General Hancock which ern be dawned lor hioi, he is in a minority of over 8,000 voies.