Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — OCTOBER ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

OCTOBER ELECTIONS.

OHIO. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 12th savs: Detailed returns arc coming un bat slowly, but enough is known to say that the Democratic majority in the State will be likely to overrun 30,000, with probably fifteen of the twenty-one Congressmen. A special telegram from Columbus to the Chicago Timex says: "The Democrats claim that the plurality will not be less than 20,000 and may reach 30,000' while the Republicans admit that it will not fall much if any below the first figures. The result is a surprise to the Democrats as well as Republicans, and on all sides the question being asked is. How did it happen? The Democrats attribute the result to superior organization on their part. Republican dissatisfaction with the national administration, and local quarrels, of which there were more than the usual number in the Republican ranks. They also argue that the action of Congress at its late session had a tendency to disgust Republicans and destroy their confidence in the honesty of the party leaders. "Gov. Foster says the result is due partly to apathy on the part of Republican voters and partly to the organized and persistent efforts of the anti-temperance element in behalf of the Democracy. Secretary Townsend,,the Republican candidate, attributes his defeat to alight vote in part, but mainly to the war made on the party by the brewera, distillers and saloon-keepers. He claims that they not only spent over $200,000 in the State to secure the defeat of the Republican ticket, but succeeded in effecting and operating in the interest of the Democratic party the most perfect political organization ever known in the State The organization, it is claimed, extended throughout all sections, an i succeeded in controlling almost the entire floating vote “ Capt. J. C. Donaldson, Secretary of the Republican State Executive Committee, giVes it as his opinion that the result demonstrates clearly that the majority of the people of the State are not in sympathy with the radical moral-reform measures upon which the Republican party has staked and lost everything In the campaign just ended. While the State issues have played an important part in the canvass, it is probable that the death of Garfield and the installment of a new administration with antagonistic tendencies, and the dissatisfaction consequent upon this change, has been an important factor in bringing upon the Republican party in Ohio its defeat The bickerings between the factions of the party in New York and Pennsylvania have also had their influence in Ohio, and that has been detrimental. The Garfield Republicans aparently mistrust the national administration, and were not particularly interested in giving it the same Indorsement they gave Garfield last fall in the election of Gov. Foster. By far the most unfortunate feature of the disaster for the Republican party in this State is the loss of nine Congressmen, among them Butterworth and McKinley, the two ablest members of the present Ohio delegation.”

A Cincinnati dispatch says that returns from seventy-nine of the eighty-eight counties gives Newman a plurality of 15,426. It is now estimated that the Dem *ratic ma--lo<ity in the State wid be between 17,000 and 20,000. A Columbus dispatch states that McKinley, Republican, is elected to Congress in the Eighteenth district by eight votes, according to the official returns, which reduced bis opponent’s majority in Stark county from 837 to 804. The democrats are considerably stirred up over the matter, and charge fraud on the part of the Republican clerk. Chairman Thompson states thai the case will be contested The successful candidates in the three close districts —the Seventh, Twelfth and Eighteenth —were elected by a total of 62 votes. Should McKinley take his seat the delegation will stand eight Republicans and thirteen Democrats. WEST VIRGINIA. A dispatch from Wheeling says “the latest returns confirm the election of John W. Mason to Congress in the Second district over Wilson, the Democratic candidate, by a majority of twenty-five to fifty. Tin's makes the delegation m Congress from West Virginia stand two Democratic and two Republican. The Democratic majority in the State on Supreme Judge is about 2,000. ”

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