Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — Election Returns. [ARTICLE]

Election Returns.

The result of the approaching election, writes the New York correspondent of the Troy Times,will be known a day or two after the close of the polls. In old times, however, weeks elapsed before it was known. Just fifty years ago, for instance, Jackson’s first election took place, and I find by reference to Niles’s Register that the details were uncertain so late as the 24th of the following December. The fact is given in the following paragraph: A letter from a member of the committee of Pittsburg, dated December 24tb, to a friend says that a reply has just been received from General Jackson. He states that it would give him great pleasure to accept our invitation, but he thought any arrangement relative to it should be deferred until the result us the election was perfectly ascertained. Then if the circumstances permitted he would be happy to become the guest of bur city, “j? The above paragarph appeared “in Niles’s Register of January 10, 1829, more than twu months after the election. The result, however, had been conjectured as early as the 22d of November, and the Register of that date says: “Not heard from—Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri, all of which but Rhode Island and Louisiana, are conceded to Jackson, so that he will be elected by a very large majority. We shall st some future period present a full tabular statement showing all the votes in the several States.”