Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — THE OFFICIAL VOTE. [ARTICLE]

THE OFFICIAL VOTE.

The full official returns sis the vot of Jasper county is given in this issue, excepting that on the State ticK- t, only tin- vote on Secretary of State is given. The total vote polled in the county is 2328. V T"; Y X The total vote hi 1888 was ‘2705, This falling is off since 1888 g§ votes 077. The Republican vote has fallen off 416 votes since 1888. But the Democrats did not get the votes the Republicans lost, for their vote also is short of what it was in 1888 by 160 votes. The Peoples’ vote is 202 larger than the National vote in 1888. A comparison of the votes of Milroy, Union, and West Barkley, the strong-holds of the Peoples movement, with the same precincts 2 years ago, shows that the Peoples’s party drew about equally from both the old parties. From this it follows that 100 Jasper County Republicans this year voted the,peoples’ ticket and 815 did not vote at all. Also 100 democrats x-oted the peoples’ ticket and 60 stayed at horne. It is therefore sate io say that with a full vote out, both Democratic and Republican, that the Republican majority would have been 601. or the same as it was j txvo years ago, These stay-at-homes tell the story of Republican defeat this.] year, all over the state and all j over the country. There are p!eh ' j tv of Republicans in the country j to carry the elections, but it seems j that nothing less than a presidential campaign can get them to thud polls. The Prohibition x*ote is exactly the same as it was two years ago and 20 less than in 1884. The Peoples’ party is a local and a temporary affair and there is no good reason to apprehend that it will cut any important figure in 1892. Ju age Hammond has the largest vote in the county of anyone, and . th<_- largest majority except the' State ticket

The largest mi jority for any strictly county office is for Mark Hemphill for treasurer. The smallest majority are for Coover for clerk and for Blue for sheriff, but these are' to be account- j ed for by the fact their Democratic! opponents wore also the candidates of the peoples’ party. J. C. | Thrawls, for surveyor alto labored 1 under the same disadvantage. It will be noticed also that Messrs Coover and Blue did not fall behind on account of unpopularity in their own party. Their votes are actually the largest polled by any county candidates except by Mr. Thrawls, the “old reliable” surveyor. : John Nichols, bolting candidate for Treasurer, may find some food for reflection in the analysis of his vote. His total vote was 812. Of these, 223 were from the Peo- • pies’ party, 58 from the Bepubli-

can party, ns Mr. Hemphill’s yote shows, and 582" from the Demojcrata. More than one third of the Democrats Who voted.at the elec- ! tiou thus refused to vote for Nichlols. Here is g -O-Taut confirma- ! tion of what Tuk RkruBUCAN as- | serted l>efore the election, namely that the Democrats were, using | Nichols and his personal following to help Patton and Bates alopg, but that they cared nothing at all for N ichols.

The latest summing np of the congressional result gi ves the Democrats “5 : aji ril y in the next House. Tills lacks considerable of being so large as first reported How astonishingly popular Dr. j Patton must be in his own county ! He actually got ten more | * *' '■ votes in the county than did Un- : ({ertaker Zimmerman in 1888-. • Thpre arc plenty of Republicans in the country yet, just as many as ! there ever were in fact, and enough j if they will take the trouble to 33 E, and they usually do that at a presidentlalel'-ction, to elect the ficst president, but in this state, at least, the Republicans' have given into the hands of theo-op-ponents the power to fasten the iniquitous Gerrymander upon them for another six ye £ ars, and the same evil result will follow in other Republican stajtcs that have lisdw passed temporarily under the rule of the Democrats. The Dems had a jamboree in Remington Monday- night in celebration of their victory. Dr. Patton was forced on the stand to try to make a speech. He talked for a few minutes in a hesitating, incoherent manner, with his periods much longer than his sentences, and branching off on new subjects, before be had completed what he was trying to say on the other. Among his auditors was the Hon. Rufus Magee, bf Logansport, and one of the ablest Democrats in the district, and close to Mngae stood a Republican observer, and from the depths of Magee’s bosom the Republican heard the heartfelt ejaculation, “0! Hell.” The words were few, but they meant volumes. . . ♦ . _i;~ -■ . .. The Patton boot-lick that runs the Refit ingfon Press, and assumes to be so righteously indignant because The RErniUCAN very justly, as we believe, characterized Dr. Patton as a political non-en- j tity, lias had no words of rebuke for ! "the constant stream of vulgar and; outrageously false abuse .that the ! Democratic papers of the district 1 have poured upon Mr. Owen, all | through the canvass, and persisted in by some of them even after the j election. As. for example, the Pu- ; htskt Crntniy Democrat in its last! issue calls Mr. Owen.a liar and all dude, while the Monticeller Dem- , ovrat, one of the most prominent j and influential Democratic papers | of the district, speaks, also since the election of ‘‘the demagegery and absolute dishonesty of the congressional xvart, Billy Owen.” As before stated the Press has no] fault to find with such utterances j regarding Mr. Owen. The boot! ] is on another foot in those cases -a-differ<.mtVsx is being gored.