Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — POLITICAL.. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL..

The Chicago municipal election resulted in the success of the entire Republican ticket, headed by Roche for Mayor. Four Democrats, thirteen Republicans, and one Socialist were elected to the City Council. There were but two tickers in the field. Republican and United Labor. The Democrats generally voted the Republican . ticket: John A. Roche, Republican, 51,2G8; Robert Nelson, United Labor, 23,410. Roche’s majority, 27,858. Returns from Kansas indicate that the municipal elections in general passed off quietly, and, as far as can now be judged, the introduction of female suffrage dot's not work a great change in the character of results. At several points women were elected. The women generally voted as their husbands did. James G. Blaine recently expressed to Senator Hiscock his preference for the Presidential nominee in 1888 who can carry New York, or on whom the delegation from that State can unite. ...The New Jersey House adopted a vote of sympathy for Gladstone and Parnell in their struggle against coercion in Ireland. The Democrats of Springfield, 111., elected their city ticket. The Union LaborDemocratic ticket was elected in Elgin, 111. The municipal election was hotly contested by the Liberal and Temperance parties at Galesburg, 111. The former elected 1). \V. Aldricn Mayor by about 110 majority. The Liberals gained one Alderman, giving them a majority in the Gouueil. The Republicans of Denver, Col., elected their candidate for Mayor bv 1.000 plurality. At the tjuinov (111.1 municipal election the issue was whether cows should run at large. The contest was a hot and exciting one, and resulted in the triumphant election of Bishop, anti-cow candidate, for Mayor. In St. Louis, Mo., the election for members of the Board of Aldermen resulted in the I choice of six Republicans and one DemoCra J’ . ' . . .

The Senate of Pennsylvania has passed a bill providing that murderers of the first degree may be put to death by electricity. .... The Republicans of Kansas City elected tbeir entire ticket, headed by Henry C. Kumpf for Mayor. The Democrats of Minneapolis captured the Council A Washington special says: “A friend of Murat Halstead in this city is authority for the statement that Mr. Halstead has lately received a letter from Whitelaw Reid a let-, ter asserting that the time has come at last for Mr. Blaine to let go his grip upon the Republican party, as far as the Presidency is concerned, aud for all hands to turn in and nominate John Sherman.”. .. Rhode Island held an election for State officers and members of the Legislature on the 6th inst. A dispatch from Providence says: Although the full returns, are not yet in, it is pyohablo that the TleinoCrats have ’cameit the state by about .’,OOJ majority. The State has given Davis, the Democratic nominee for Governor.ja majority of 2,060. There are a few towns yet to be heard from, but their vote is so close that they will not materially alter the result as indicated above. The probability is that the entire Democratic ticket has been, elected. The Legislature will probably continue to be Republican, but tho men who voted last spring to.elect Brayton Chief Constable have generally been left tit home. The fight has never been exceeded in bitterness in this State. The enactment of a prohibitory liquor law last year was the beginning of the contest. The election of Brayton to enforce the law precipitated things, and since May agitation has progressed, constantly growing more violent. Michigan Prohibitionists claim that their recent defeat at the polls was accomplished by fraud. A Detroit telegram says: The prohibitionists are working vigorously to establish their claims of fraud at the polls. A new tack was taken this morning in the matter of accumulating evidence of fraud. The foliowih* sign posted on the front of headquarters ex- , plai ts itself: “Wanted—The names and adureaaea of *H • yea’.yot tb ou fhe.amendmeut. ” It is proposed to'take tile names of all persons in Detroit who voted “yes” and corn pare tho number with the official- returns. It is be- , lieved that this method vvißroveai a large discrepancy.

The Legislature of Rhode Island Comprises fifty-six Democrats and forty-six Republicans.; A Providence telegram says: The Democrats.carried the new elections for Scmu. rs and Representatives iu Newport ami Ka-st Greenwich Saturday, and the Republicans sec .red one member iu Warwick. The Legislature now stauds : Senate—Republicans, Id; Democrats, IS; no election, 'JL. House—Republicans, r-- ; Demin: rats, 4! • no election, a. On ■joint ballot—Repubiu-ans; -•+?; Democrats. 56-; no election, 5. The Democrats have already one more than enough members to elect their candiuate& for Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of Mate, Sheritfs, State Auditor, District Judges, etc. The result of the Rhode Island election, held-on Wednesday, April-6, -is as follows; John W. Davis (Dem.) is elected Governor bv 973. majority. There is no election for Lieutenant Governor or Secretary of State. Ziba O. Slocum i Dem.j is elected Attorney General by 2.518 majority, and J: G. Perry (Dem.) General Treasurer by 2,609 majority. The majority against the womansuffrage amendment’ is 15,123. The vote for Lieutenant Governor was: Honey (Dem.*, 17,265; Darling (Rep.), 15,915; Kimber (Pro.), 1.858. The Senate stands: Republicans, 19; Democrats, 12, and there was no election in five cases. The House will comprise 27 Republicans and 33 Democrats, with twelve districts yet to be heard from.; The “vote on the prohibition amendment in Michigan waa very close. A Lansing dis-

I patch says; “The exact figures on the proI hibition amendment are still unknown. Published reports give the majority against !it from 1,550 to about 6,000. From sevenvl counties the reports are conflicting, in some esses varying from S(H) to 6(10 votes, and the official returns will W needed to settle which is correct. The prohibitionists do uot yet concede their defeat.” Another dispatch from Lansing says: “The returns unuoubcing the defeat of the prohibitory amendment are generally accepted' as correct 1 here, and measures to regulate the liquor traffic will be brought forward in the Legislature. One of these measures is copied from the local option law of Georgia. Another is a copy of the Ontario Brott act. It is Wlieved that no legislation will W accomplished except such as will perfect the existing tax law.” The high license bill was defeated in the New Jersey Assembly. Tho election in Rankin County, Mississippi, wns carried by th 3 Rrohibitionists.