Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1889 — Official Return from Montana. [ARTICLE]

Official Return from Montana.

The Montana official board has finished the counting of the returns of the constitutional <jonveutLon election. The democrats have elected thirty-five. Breed, a labor candidate, is an old democrat, and the political preference of the one independent candidtate elected is unknown. Putting the independent in the republican and labor candidate in the democratic column the totals would be 39 to 36 —no change in tho majority ol 3. The total vote polled, taking the highest figure for each opposing candidate, was 10,597, of which tiio democrats polled 5,386 and the republicans 5,211. The labor candidate received 288 votes and the independent 360, making the full vote 11,425.