Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1889 — ELECTION NOTES. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION NOTES.

The plurality of Boies (Dem.) for Governor of lowa is 5,804. Governor Abbett’s (Dem.) majority in New Jersey is 14,552. A lively fight is already in progress for the Speakership of the Ohio House. Calvin S. Brice announces that he will be a candidate for the Senate from Ohio to succeed Payne. New York’s Democratic majority may reach 20,000 to 25,000. The Democrats gain ten members of the Legislature. Campbell’s D., official plurality in Ohi* is 10,876, Lampson, R. for Lieut Governor, 41; Brown R. for State Treasurer, 3,636, and other Republican State officials about the same plurality as Brown’s. After the jollification in Augusta, Ky., Saturday night, some young, enthusiastic Democrats swung to the breeze asurej enough rebel flag. It was put on the high pole used by the signal service. It was beautifully made of silk, two red bar* on either side, with a white bar on the middle. A blue corner, with thirteen star* inclosed, made it complete. There was no wind Sunday and it did not Unfurl, but since it has been as a red garment before a maddened bull. About four o’clock Wednesday it was torn down by members of the Maj. Harris Post, G. A. R., who were loud indenouncing the outrage. There came near being serious trouble over the affair. The post accused a well-known tailoring establishment of having made the flag and the accusation was personally resented by the proprietors.