Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Pattison’s Pennsylvania plurality is 16,554. The Republicans of Peru have organized a Wiliam McKinley Club. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, expresses confidence of his re-election. Col. E. W. Hutchins, a leading Alliance man in the Southwest, announces himself a candidate to succeed Ingalls. He has quite a following aronnd Wichita. The returns show that W. M. Magiey, Republican, was elected Clerk of Whitley county by four majority, but Harrison, his Democratic competitor, has filed notice of contest. W. J. Buchan, chairman of the Kansas Republican State Central Committee, in an interview said: “I have no doubt that Senator Ingalls will be ro-elected I could, were I so inclined, give the names of the men who will vote for and elect him.” Democrats of the First Maine district have decided not to contest Reed’s seat in the next House of Representatives. For a while there was some talk that this might be done if thpre was a good Demo’ cratic majority in the House. The leaders now contemplate an appeal to the House that a committee be sent there to inquire into election methods. The Chicago Tribune Trursday published interviews with the three members of the State Legislature elected ou the farmer’s ticket at the late election, who hold tho balance of power on ballot for United States Senator. They declare that they are unpledged to any candidate for the position, and they propose to use their present advantages only for the benefitof the constituency which elected them -the Farmers’ Alliance. The Democrats in the Rock Island legislative district now claim that W. C. Collins (Rep.), of that city, who received a major ity of the votes, is ineligible, not having been a resident of this State for the statutory time. If this claim should prove correct, it would reduce by one the number of Republicans on joint ballot and give the Democrats a majority on a ballot for United States Senator.

In many of the counties the election on members of the South Dakota Legislature has been so close thht the official canvass was necessary to determine who was elected. Corrected returns have been received from about all tho counties in dokbt and it is beyond question that the Legislature is lost in both branches to the Republicans. The House will probably give four majority fSr "“the “ Democratic Independent Fusionists, while the Senate will have not less than three, giving them seven majority on joint ballot to elect a United States Senator. One of tho duties of the Federal Supervisors of elections was to report to Chief Supervisor Van BureiPthe num ber of ballots thrown out of each pre» cinct. Supervisors served in 900 of the 2,989 precincts in the State, and reports from nearly all the 900 have been received by Mr. Van Buren. The reports show that the average number of ballots to the procinct thrown out were between six and seven. Basing an estimate upon tho reports from his deputies Mi\ Van Buren places the number 6f thrown out ballots at 20,000. This is exclusive of the protested ballots, which the law requires to be placed in the sealed bag and returned to the county clerks, numbering about 6,000, ur 26,000 in all.