Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — THE ELECTIONS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE ELECTIONS

A Republican Landslide McKinley Elected Governor of Ohio by 80.000 Majority. Ohio Legislature Will be TwoThirds Republican. BOIES DEFEATED IN lOWA BT 30,000 VOTES New York, Massachusetts. Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the Same Column. onio. A Columbus, 0., dispatch Nov. 8 says: With a plurality of 70,000 to 75,000, and two-thirds of both branches of the Legislature, McKinley has won the most decisive victory recorded in Ohio since the civil war. It has been won on National

issues. Although McKinley was running ‘for re-election as Governor, he made State affairs secondary to protection and honest money in all his speeches, numbering 110. At 9 p.’m. Chairman - Bick, at {Republican headquarters, said if the average gain of 22 per cent, kept up McKinley would have 63,000, but that the rural districts would not keep up to this average. He feels confident McKinley’s ‘plurality will be more than double that of 1891, and a gain of 40,000 over last year’s vote. Chairman Seward, of the Democratic (State committee, was seen after midnight He had no statement to make except that if the present rate of Democratic losses continued the complete returns will show a plurality of 70,000 for McKinley. Later.—Republican estimates at Columbus, Wednesday night, show that the Legislature will stand twenty-five Republican Senators to seven Democrats and eighty-three Republican Representatives to twenty-four Democrats. The Populist and Prohibition votes were reduced as well as that of the Democrats. Tabulated returns on Governor show that McKinley’s majority will probably reach 100,000. Chillicothe, the home of Neal, went Republican for the first time. NEW YORK. It is believed that the Republicans have elected their entire State ticket and will have a majority tn the legislature. Isaac H. Maynard, the Democratic candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals, ran behind the ticket 85,000 in New York city, 18,00'0 in Brooklyn, and in Erie county several thousand. Maynard is believed to have been beaten by 100,003 majority. In New York city the balance of the Tammany ticket is electbd by majorities ranging from 07,000 to 68,(03. Lateb—Latest returns received at New York, Wednesday night, from all parts of the State, show the Republican victory is fully as great as the most enthusiastic of the party’s leaders have claimed. Bartlett’s majority for Judge of the Court of Appeals, over Maynard, is, in round numbers, 89,703. Gen. Palmer’s majority for Secretary of State is 35,000. Of the sixty counties Maynard secures a majority in only seven. MASSACHUSETTS. The result of the election in Massachusetts can only be described as a huge political landslide. For the first time in three years the State will have a Republican Governor, and his plurality is 30,000 at least. The whole ticket is fleeted with him and the Legislature is solidly Republican in both branches. Candid Democrats had conceded the defeat of John E. Russell, their candidate for Governor, by

• small majority, while oven tho most sanguine Republicans would not claim over 14,000 for Greenhalge. PENNSYLVANIA. The election in Pennsylvania was very quiet. Returns received at Philadelphia up to midnight indicate a big Republican majority. Later. Latest returns received at Philadelphia up to midnight, Wednesday, show that Pennsylvania is tho banner Republican State, The majority will reach at least 130 OX). Great Republican enthusiasm prevails in that city. NEW JERSEY. At midnight at Newark, the indications ‘i were that the Republicans had carried tho Legislature. Some claim that every Republican Senator has been elected. CHICAGO. At midnight Tuesday, the returns indicated the election of Judge. Garey, and the entire Republican judicial ticket Tho Democrats have secured the county com■iiurioncrs. The general result snows

Republican gains over the Presidential election of a year ago. SOUTH DAKOTA. Information received from both Republican and Democratic sources indicates the election of the Republican candidate for Judge. Not over a one-half vote was cast. COLORADO. The election was for county officers only. So far asxeceived returns show a Populist loss. KENTUCKY. Incomplete returns received at Louisville show that the Legislature will be Democratic 4to 1. The only Issues in this election were factional, the dominant faction of the Democracy being the Cleveland party, as opposed to the wing supported by Mr. Henry Watterson in his opposition to Cleveland's administration. Taylor (Dem.) was re-elected Mayor of Louisville by 3.500 majority. NEBRASKA. Returns come in slowly at Omaha. Those received up to midnight, Tuesday, indicate Republican losses and Populist gains. DETROIT. The Free Press (Dem.) concedes the reelection of Pingree (Rep.) for Mayor by 1,000 majority. “ KANSAS. The Australian ballot was used for the first time in Kansas. A light vote was polled. Incomplete returns indicate that the Populists failed to hold their own. On account of a split but few Democrats voted. Republicans have won in a majority of cases for county officers. It is regarded as an “off” year and no particular importance is attached to the result by any party. lOWA. A Des Moines dispatch, midnight, Nov. 7, says: The election in this State closed without any trouble or excitement as far as heard from at either headquarters. Chairman Blythe, of the Republican, and Chairman Fuller, of the Democratic committees. are both here to-night. First returns show both Republican , and Democratic losses, but the latter in larger ratio than the former, on which the Republicans claim the election of their ticket. As later returns came in they indicated the election of the Republican ticket by 30,000 to 35,000 plurality. Later.—. Jackson’s friends claim that his majority over Boles will not be be less than 40,000. The Legislature will bo

overwhelmingly Republican. General Weaver lays Boies’s defeat to tho straddle on the silver question. MARYLAND. A Baltimore dispatch, Wednesday night, says: The Democrats have carried this State by 20,000 plurality. They also elect sixty-eight of the ninety-one members of the Rouse of Delegates, and twenty out of twenty-six Senators. The Republicans gained heavily in western and southern Maryland. In this city the Democrats elected eighteen of twenty-two first branch councilmen, and eight of ten in the second branch. Mayor Latrobe, Democrat, ran behind bls ticket. VIRGINIA. About half the State is showing a Democratic gain of 5,000. The Democrats have elected a majority in both houses.

The Populists elect Delegates in two counties and Representatives in one. Later.—Tho Democratic majority in Virginia continues to grow and will probably reach 50,003. An examination of the returns sb jws that the Democrats did not poll their usual strength and that tho Republicans did not support the Populists. The Democrats will have ninety out of the one hundred members of the House. ELECTION ECHOES. McKinley’s net plurality is 80,405. McKinley received 600 telegrams of congratulation. The New Jersey legislature will bo Republican by a two-thirds vote. Tho Republicans mado largo gains in Utah. The Republicans carried Philadelphia by 52,000 plurality, a, Jacknon’s plurality in lowa over Boies will probably reach 40,10 J. The entire Rupublican State tjcket was elected in South Dakota. The Democrats will have 10S members of the Kentucky legislature out of a total of 138. Tho Democratic* plurality in Virginia continues to increase as the full returns come in, and will probably reach 50.0U0. The unofficial returns show that the plurality of Greenhalge, the Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, is 32.353. The Republican majority in Pennsylvania is over 130,000, and exceeds the estimates of the most sanguine Republicans. Levi T. Griffin, Democrat, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Chipman,of the First Michigan district, by a plurality of 1,700. 5 Several women were chosen superintendents of public schools at the election in Kentucky, Tuesday. In Crittenden a Republican county. Miss Mina Wheeler defeated George Perry, Republican, by a majority of two votes.

WILLIAM M’KINLEY. Governor and Governor-elect of Ohio.

FREDERICK T. GREENHALER. Governor-elect of Massachusetts.

FRANK D. JACKSON. Governor-elect of Iowa.

CHAS. T. O’FERRELL. Governor-elect of Virginia.