Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — ELECTION ECHOES. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION ECHOES.

Belated Paragraphs Pertaining to the Great Landslide. Governor Waite denies the report that he will remove to Illinois. Complete returns from all precincts of San Francisco give Adolph Sutro, Populist candidate fpr mayor, a plurality of 18,000 in total vote of 60,003. The Alabama congressional delegation is solidly democratic, with the exception of the Seventh, which elects Howard (Pop), Several contests are probably R. E. Caruthers, chairman of the Kentucky State Republican committee, says six Republicans have been elected to Congrese from that State without counting Denny in the Ashland district. The official count for the Eighteenth Ohio district complete gives Taylor (Rep.). 20,835; Ruff (Dem.) 10,006; Coxey (Pop.) 8,918. Coxev’s vote exceeds the estimates of Republican and Democratic committees by 5,000. “Tom” Johnson, the millionaire Congressman from Cleveland, who was defeated, will start a daily paper at Cleveland to further his interests two years hence, when he expects so again be a candidate. J The Republican and Democratic candidates for Prosecutor in Knox county tied —each receiving 2,915 votes. Goodman, the Democratic candidate, has appealed to the Governor to appoint him. Keith, the Republican candidate, demands a new election. Govornor Matthews has the ease uuder consideration. The candidates may draw lots. Congressman Bynum in an Interview at Indianapolis, the day after the election, reflected severely upon candidates who made life a burden to him and Indirectly accused the aspirants to the position ol collector of customs at tho capital wlti) attempting to bribe him. The several candidates are now coming to the front demanding that Mr. Bynum name the man who desired to bribe him, and are indignantly denying tho aspersions cast upon them by their Representative. The admission of Utah as a State.' and the probable admission of New Mexico and Arizona, may add six more Uni? ted States Senators, by the time tht next Senate organizes. The admission ol these new States, if it is accomplished would make a total of ninety-four Senators. and any party to control would need forty-eight for a majority. With th« Vice-President tho Democrats could control the Senate with forty-seven Senators. Fifteen women of Hobart, who were refused a vote at Tuesday’s election, engaged attorneys and will bring a test case against the election officer. Holcombe (Pop.-D.) is elected Governoi of Nebraska by 2,800 plurality. The Committee of Seventy, of New York City, will be made permanent. Congressman Springer, oi Illinois, is defeated by a plurality of 2,938, a Democratic loss from 1892 of 5,190. The official count in the Lexington (Breckinridge) district gives Owens (D.) a plurality of 101 over Denny (R.) The Shelby County Democracy propose holding a jollification over the fact tliaj Shelby is the only county in the Statj that did not elect a Republican officer. The Manson Club, a political organization of Crawfordsville, has voted to continue permanently, and branch clubs will be organized throughout Montgomery county. The club is Democratic in politics. The Democracy at Winchester are raising the point that Judge Williamson, of the Circuit Bench, was appointed to fill out the term for which Judge Monks was elected, and that lie has yet two years to serve. If this view >f tho easels sustained, the Hon. A. O. Marsh, of Winchester, recently elected to the position, will be delayed that length of timo in securing the place. Tn 18$2 New York went Democratic by 193,000 majority. The next year the Re publicans carried through the head of their State ticket by a majority of 18,000. The Populists in New York city polled fewer votes on Tuesday than they did a year ago. Perhaps some of them voted the Democratic ticket. Tho income tax was expected to secure their support. The silver men of Colorado and other mining States are maturing plans, it is said, for launching a “silver party.” They will co-operate with the bi-metalists of the South and East and a call will be issued for a meeting to effoct an organization. The election of Evans (Rep.) for Governor of Tennessee, is now conceded. Chairman Wilson, in a letter to the New York Press, gives his ideas about his own defeat and the astonishing results of the November election. He explains that bard times is always disastrous to the party in power. Mr. Wilson Still oppose! the protective system, holding that it discourages individual thrift, and thinks that the people have not rebuked tariff reform, but rather shown tlisir disapproval of the Senate’s inexcusable delay, and of that body's tampering with the Wilson bill. Senator Peffor arrived at Washington Sunday, and gave his views on the result. He claims that the Populists held their own in Kansas, and feel greatly encouraged, although he admits that the Pop* have lost a number of Congressmen. Mr. Peffer claims that the returns will show an increase in the Populist vote of ovei 1,000,000.