Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

A Cincinnati. dispatch of Oct 23 says: “The official count of the vote of Hamilton County has been completed, but is liable to change at the hands of the courts. The complexion of the Ohio Legislature hinges upon a decision in two cases. ,If given the five precincts in dispute,--the Democratic legislative candidates will receive the certificates; if , the Republicans win in the courts, they will have all the Representatives but one. The unofficial footings complete make Hoadly’s plurality 686. Kennedy (Republican), for Lieutenant Governor, has a plurality of 734. M. F. Wilson has the highest vote for Senator on the Democratic ticket. 34,872, and Richardson the highest on the Republican ticket, 34,401. Hardacre is the lowest on the Republican ticket, having 34,118, and Brashears, on the Democratic ticket, 34,584. For Representatives the variance is not so great, but the Democratic figures are all higher than the highest Republican vote." A Colcmbvs (Ohio) special says that the returns from all the counties of Ohio have been received. They, shew that 731,732 votes were cast, of which Foraker

(Rep.) had 359,538; Hoadly (Dem.) 341,380; Leonard (Pro.) 28,054; Northrup (Greenbacker) 2,760. Foraker’s plurality, 18.158. The total vote in 1883 for Governor was 721,310, of which Foraker had 347,161 Hoadly 359,693, arid Schumacher (Pro.) 8 3.32. Hoadiy’s plurality, A number of Virginians have attempted to secure the removal of Fred Douglass, Register of Deeds at Washington, and the President is reported to have said that if the Democrats would suggest the name of a good colored man he would appoint him. Senator Sherman, on being serenaded in Washington, made a speech, in 4 which he proposed a reduction •of thirty-eight Representatives in Congress and the Electoral College because of the disfratichisemenf of negroesln regard to the relations between President Johnson and Gen. Grant, it is believed by Gen. Sherman that the controversy would have been settled by the appointment of Gen. J. D. Cox as Secretary of War. Y’ice President Hendricks suggests that President Johnson believed iu restoring and not in reconstructing the States; Gen. Sickles states that Grant said enough to him to reveal his alarm for the safety of the Government during the reconstruction period. Senator Arkell, of New Y’ork, reports Grant assaying that he had personally been the means of preventing a second civil war of a menacing character.