Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1891 — THE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTIONS.

The vote in New York city was very light. Jt*had been expected that, out of the registration of 261,532 at least 210,000 votes would be polled, but only about 220,000 persons voted. In the Hill-Miller campaign more than 270.000 votes wore cast. Comparatively, Flower ran as well as Gov. HUI, whose plurality was 69,000, and who was elected by 19,000. Flower will take to the Harlem river 75.000 plurality. It is doubtful if Fassett will bring down 50,000 to meet it. The Democrats are gaining Assemblymen in the State. Sheehan is not doing as well as Flower, but his election is assured. The Republicans carry South Dakota and Colorado. Chicago was carried by tho Republicans by a surprising majority. The Republicans gain a Congressman in Michigan in an election to fill vacancies. Dispatches received from all parts ol Kansas indicate Republican* success in most of the counties. These dispatches are from about sixty-five of the 1O’» com-ties-in the State. The People's party was successful in not more than six of the counties reported, and throughout the State there are large decreases of the People’s vote, while the-Republicans made heavy gains. In most.of the counties the Democrats had tickets in the field, and in a tew instances they increased their strength over the vote of last year. A dispatch from Columbus says thal Governor Campbell takes the situation phnosophically, and says that the Democratic party was laboring undes too great a handicap in Ohio because o! lack of funds to pay the legitimate expenses of the campaign. Ho says they have jnade the best fight they could in face of a Republican majority of 11,000 to starton and the combined opposition of the manufacturers and capitalists. Besides all this, it was a life and death struggle with the Republican narty. To defeat Major McKinley, one of its national leaders and the representative of its chosen idea of protection, meant thp downfall and disintegration of the party Itself. Party liner were closely drawn. STILL LATER. Flower's plurality in New York is given at 46.446. The Legislature is claimed by the Republicans by a small majority on joint ballot. Russell’s plurality In Massachusetts Is i 5.5,429. „ Boies will probably have 8,000 or 10,000 plurality in lowa. The Democrats have the Senate by two and the Republicans the House by 4 plurality. The vote was the largest ever polled. McKinley’s plurality in Ohio Is 20,480. The Republicans claim from 40 to 50 on joint ballot in the Legislature, The Republican plurality in Pennsylvania exceeds 56,000.