Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Official vote of Ohio: Robinson, Republican, 340.895; Mcßride, Democrat, 329,314; Smith, Prohibitionist, 28,657; Bonsai. Greenback. I,9®L....There were elected to the North Carolina Legislature 81 straight Democrats, 77 Republicans, and 12 independent Democrats. ~ ~ Speaker Carlisle, being interviewed at Wichita, Kan., said that he did not consider the re6nlt of the late elections'damagThe revenue reformers, he had been informed, would be stronger, numerically, in the next Congress, in proportion to the total number of Democrats, than in. the last Congress, and the policy of tariff reform, he thought, mast and would continue to be pressed. ‘ Mr. Carlisle contradicted the report that- he contemplated removing' from Kentucky....

Washington telegram: “The Attorney General said to-day that tho resignation of District Attorney Delon f of Wis-tjusin i had been accepted in good fatth, \v,.eh the . latter was nominated for Congresa, to take l effect on the appointment of hi* successor, and the fact that he’fyul been defeated in . the canvass woaldjaot make the (lightest 1 difference. He would be relieved from duty very aooo. ——— .. _ j Official returns from sixty-five out of eighty-six* counties in Michigan give Luce, Republican, 188,405; Yaple, Fusion, 159,I 729; Dickie, Prohibition, 24,759. Luce's plurality, 8,7(18. There iA little difference i in the totals for State officers.... Official i returns have been received from all the 1 counties in Pennsylvania except eiirht. The ; aggregate vote for Governor thus far is: Beaver, Republican, 379,9(12;, Black, Derno- * crat, 330,900; Wolfe-.Prohibitionist;-28,224; • Houston.Greenlauker and larbor, 3,(585.... ITailev, the Democratic nominee for dele- , gnte to Congress from Idaho, was defeated 1 on account of his partiality for the Mormons. { Sei KETAKY Lamak says the reason why J Gideon Tucker wrote such a high-sounding' : letter when offered the office of Commis- ! sinner to examine railroads is that the place i was tendered to Mr. Tucker bqcauao he hail j repeatedly and persistently applied for • some office. The Secretary says he told I him that some little position under the ; Government • would be very agreeable to | him, and he made the same remark to other * mem bora of the Cabinet. - j Francis A. Hoffman, Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago, has been npi pointed Appraiser of the Port, and Chas. I W. Irish, of Ipwa City,. Surveyor General !of Nevada. The following appointments ! have also been made by the President: United States Attorney for the Southern District of .Ohio, William D. Burnett, of Cincinnati; Uu;ted States Consul at Clifton, Canada, Amos A. Brown, of New York; United States Consul at Asuncion, Samuel A. Walton, of Kentucky; Commissioner tp examine a section of the Oregon and California Railroad. William H. Bowman, of Rochester, N. Y'., vice Gideon Tucker, declined; Agent -for the Unitah and Ouray Ind ; ahs in Utah, Timo,thy A. Byrnes, of Atlantic City, N. J. James . G. Blaine* Jr., says his father will be nominated and elected iu 1888.... Judge C. P; Ferguson has ordered a recount of the ballots cast in Clark County, Indiana, to determine whether Dr. McClure. Democrat, or Dr. Taggart, Republican, shall be the next joint Senator for the counties of Clark and Jeffer*on.... The official count of the vote in Connecticut has been cqmplet ul, but as none of the lending candidates received a clear majority the election of a Sjjls ticket goes to the Legislature, which is Republican.