Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — OHIO. [ARTICLE]

OHIO.

The Republican Majority of 20,000 on Congressmen. [From the Chicago Tribune.? The Democrats are trying to pick up a crumb ot comfort from the fact that the Republican ma jority in Ohio on the State*ticket is not so larg • as reported the night of the election. They still feelthepain and mortification of the knockdown and Nack eye they received, but congratulate themselves that the eye is not so blacK as they feared it would be when the blow was first strtick. It is a pity to deprive them of such poor consolation, but we invite their attention to the majorities ill the Congressional districts, which represent popular sentiment on national issues mu<Jt more faithfully than the vote on the State ticket, which was influenced enormously by the local liquor issues. The Republican majority for Secretary of State and Supreme Judge may not exceed 12,000, The coolest and carettilest calculators before the election had estimated the average majority on the State ticket at 10. but bn Canal Commissioner, an office that caused no scratching on either side, and, therefore, is the fairest and best test, the Republican majority is about 15,000, which is a gain of 27,500 on last poll. But the oggrgate Republican majority on the Congressional vote is from 13,000 to 30,000. Official majorities in every case have not yet been ascertained, but the reports from the various districts warrant the following estimate of the Congressional majorities on both sides: DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS. District. Majority. District. Majority. 3. Campbe11.....417,15. Wi1kin5........ 3,544 4. Anderson 317.16. Geddes 724 5. Le Fevre 4,51Qji7. Warner 221 6. Hill ~...3,600 21. Foran 1,407 7. Seney..., 3,965 11. EUeberry 1 . 415 Dem.Cong.maj’s.24,o96 13. Outhwaite 4,976 REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS. District. Majority, District. Majority. 1. Butterworth.. 1,565i19. E. B. Tay10r...14,506 2. 8r0wn..., 2,098’20. McKinley 2,031 8. Little 7,562 9. Cooper., 1,8381ßep. Cong, ma'j5..44,104 10. Romeis.223 Dem. Cong, may 5.24,096 12. Thompson.... 2M45 14. Grosvenor 5,726 Net Rep. Cong. is. LH. Taylor... 6,098 maj’s ..20,00* It is obvious that the vote for Congressmen reflects far more nearly the popular preference as between the Democratic and Republican national tickets than does the vote for a candidate for Supreme Judge who has passed on the valid - ity of a severely contested State liquor law. “I shall cast my first Presidential vote next month;" said a young man as he stood in the depot at Quincy, Mass. “And you will cast your first vote for Cleveland,” said an Independent. “My father was killed in the war,” responded the young man in a tone which caused the Independent to slink away. The Democrats are saying that they did not expect to win, Ohio. Neither did th® ’ fox expect t j reach the grapes—because they were sour. , , , . ■ ; ~»' • Let it be understood. This is a defensive” campaign.