Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The official majority for Cleveland in West Virginia is 4,203 Complete returns from Michigan show a plurality for Blaine as 2,839. The St. John vote is 18,163.... Official vote of Minnesota: Blaine, 111,923; Cleveland, 70,144; St. John,. 4,691; Butler, 3.587.. . .It is stated that the alleged shortage of the Republican National Committee reached $68,000, instead of the much larger sum at first reported, and that Chairman Jones and Mr. Elkins paid it out of their own pockets and put the committee out of debt The total amount received by the Democratic National Committee during the campaign is said to $333,000... .The Presidentelect, in assuring an interviewer that the negroes of the South could be robbed of no rights acquired by the war, remarked that the efforts of the Democracy to benefit the whole people would be rendered easier if mischievous croaking should cease. Albany (N. Y.) special: The State Board of Canvassers has completed its labors and adjourned. The proceedings throughout the sessions were harmonious and without a ripple of excitement. No questions arose that were not easily, properly, and satisfactorily settled. Thestechnical errors in several of the counties Were rectified by general consent, and the best of feeling prevailed among the members of the board. The result as declared verifies the official figures heretofore published, and shows them to have been remarkably accurate. The footings of the tables are as follows: Highest Democratic elector. Priest 563,154 Highest Republican elector, Carson. 562,005 Plurality 1,149 Lowest Democratic elector, Ottendorf er... 563,048 Lowest Republican elector, Harris.. 561,971 Plurality.. " 1,077 Highest Prohibition elector. Miller 25,006 Lowest Prohibition elector, Ellsworth.... 24,948 Highest Butler elector, O’Donnell. 17,004 Lowest Butler elector, Campbell 16,751 Official vote of North Carolina: Cleveland, 142,905; Blaine, 125,068; St. John, 448.. .Returns to the Secretary of State show the vote in Georgia, to be: Cleveland, 94.567 ; Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125 ; St. John, 184 Forty-four Counties in Dakota give Gifford for Congress 40,000 majority, with thirty-five counties to hear from. His majority will reach GO.OOO. c Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch: The business men of Montgomery this evening passed resolutions protesting against the “unfair, untruthful and partisan statements” in several papers in the North in reference to the Southern people. Southern white people, the resolutions say, propose to protect the negro in all his "right#. “We lock not back to Appomattox, bnt forward to the great future that awaits our common union. ” M. H. Kidd, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eleventh Indiana Dm-

trict, has served a notice of contest upon Congressman Steele, his Republican competitor, and has already obtained a recount of the vote of Howard County Whitelaw Reidl deems it necesssaiy to write to a Rochester newspaper that he declines to be a candidate for the United States Senate. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean telegraphs that journal as follows: :r ’ A gentleman who saw Gov. Cleveland several times last week, and talked with him at length on the subject of civil service, returned to Washington to-night, and sags the next President’s policy will work no harm to public interests, whatever it may do to individuals. Gov. Cleveland frankly said he should make no removals for political reasons, except so far as to secure an administration that would wdrk harmoniously. No man in any subordinate position need fear displacement if he does his work faithfully. But the whole question of removal and appointment will be subjected to the simple employment of the spy system to tell who shall stay and who shall go. There will be at least one Democrat in every branch and office of the Government- It will be the duty of this Democratic monitor to report as to the promptness,,industry, capability and faithfulness of Republican officials, and removals will follow in every case where an adverse report is made. A special correspondent of the Chicago Times telegraphs the following from New Orleans: "V The excitement reported among the negroes in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and other Southern States, in consequence of a belief that the Democratic administration means a re-establishment of slavery, does not exist in Louisiana. In interviews held with them nearly all the negro leaders here express their belief that the election of Cleveland will break up race lines and be to the benefit and advantage of their race. Ex-Gov. Idnchback, now Surveyor of the Port, and /he most prominent colored man in the State, declared that while he voted for Blaine, and while he would have been personally benefited by his success, he thought the election of Cleveland would do more to destroy race prejudice than ten thousand civilrights bills, and that it would result in a political revolution that would completely destroy the color line and develop new parties composed equally of whites and blacks. A number of other prominent colored leaders are reported by the Times correspondent as having expressed similar views. The total vote of California was 193,738. Blaine received 100,810; Cleveland, 88,307; St. John, 2,640; Butler, 1,975. Blaine’s plurality is 12,500... .Official vote of Virginia: Cleveland, 146,189; Blaine, 138,474. Cleveland’s -majorityyVpfiS—... A Columbiji dispatch says the State Board of Canvassers have completed the tabulation of the vote in South Carolina for Presidential electors. The highest Democratic elector received 69,890 votes, and the lowest 69,764. The highest Republican elector received 21,733 votes, and the lowest 21,551.... Blaine’s plurality in lowa is 19,803. St. John received only 2,000 votes.