Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1883 — ELECTION ECHOES. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION ECHOES.

Great Rejoicing in Massachusetts and Virginia Over the Downfall of Ben Bntler and Billy Mahone. Journalistic Views of the Result of the Elections. ELECTION ECHOES. New York. The plurality of Carr (Republican) for Secretary of State, is 18,000, and Chapin (Democrat) for Comptroller, has 15,000 plurality. Maxwell, Treasurer, runs 5,000 behind Chapin. The pluralities of the other Democratic candidates range from 12,000 to 14,000. In twenty-six counties Maynard Tan behind his ticket 28,000. He was especially slaughtered in Now York and Kings counties op account of his positition on tbe question of a uniform liquor law in the State. In New York city the Democrats elected sixteen Aldermen and the Republicans eight. The fight in New York city was very bitter. Tammany secures three Senators, the country Democracy one, Irving hall two, and the Republicans one. Thirteen Democratic Assemblymen were elected and eleven Republicans. The total vote polled was 155,000, of Brooklyn polled 97,000 votes, of which Low, the present incumbent, received 48,320 for Mayor, and his Democratic opponent, Joseph C. Hendrix, the Sun reporter, received 46,791. The vote was very close, Low pulling through on 1,529 majority only. A Democratic County Auditor, District Attorney, County and Supreme Court Judges, and a Republican Supervisor were elected.

Pennsylvania. Official returns from fifty-seven of the sixty-seven counties in the State and estimates of the others give Niles 16,261, and Livesay 17,501 majority. Nebraska. Returns from three-fourths of the counties in the State nnd unofficial estimates from the remainder Indicate tbe election of Reese (Republican) for Supreme Judge by 8,000 majority. The Board of Regents are elected by 15,000 majority. Crawford (Democrat) is elected Judge of the Seventh district. The others, except Broaty in the First district, are Republicans. There is a Republican gain over the last election of nearly 10,090, taking the vote forjudge as a basis. Virginia. As the returns come in from Virginia the Democratic gains increase, and Mahone's defeat becomes more overwhelming. The Democratic majority in the Senate is at least eight, and in the lower house of the Legislature twenty-seven, and on joint ballot thirty-five. The popular majority against Mahone in the State will reach 30,000. Mississippi. A Jackson telegram to the Chicago Tribune says: The Democrats have swept the State, losing only three or four counties which wore contested by Independents. In many counties there were fusions between Democrats and Republicans, all of which were successful except In Panola county, which'was carried by the Chalmers element by some 300 majority. Chalmers is buried beyond political resurrection. The estimated political status of the Legislature is thirty-five Democrats and two Republicans iu the Senate and 108 Democrats and twenty Republicans and Independent Democrats in the House, which includes Fusion Republicans.