Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — Republican Gains in Kentucky. [ARTICLE]

Republican Gains in Kentucky.

With all the adverse influences brought to bear to keep Republican voters from the polls, or to induce them to vote the Democratic ticket, the returns so for received indicate substantial gains to Republicanism. These gains are not temporary in their nature, but are decidedly permanent, for if Republicanism has, in the face of the tremendous amount of passion, prejudice, threats, insults, money, and social proscription, brought to bear in the late contest, to say nothing of the mass of illegal votes polled by the Democracy, succeeded in obtaining a lodgment in the various counties, it will not be shaken off with the return of sound reason and wisdom to the minds of the people. It will grow in strength and popular favor bx the use of such prudential and ill ffl(Hsi nas will serve to show the people ttSF ßepublicanism has bean greatly slandered by Democratic orators and press. " „ Let ns look over tho returns before us. We find the counties of Jessamine, Garrard, Christian, and Monroe redeemed from the Democracy. Thcso counties were all carried by the Democracy in the last county elections. Fayette was only lost by the exclusion of hundreds of oolorad voters from the polls. In the November election the Republicans will carry

Fayette by at least a thousand majority They will carry Bourbon, Menmr, Woodford, make a close contest in Frdhklin, Scott, and Clark counties, and carry Jessamine by a good msjority. This will give ns the Seventh Congressional District. Thay may carry Madison by 800 majority in November, and Christian by 800 to 1,000. We have elected every candidate in Knox county, the home of Hat Adams, but one, ana that is the candidate for coroner, who ie beaten only three votes through divisions in the contest A Republican clerk is elected in Grant several Republican officers in Adair. Russell, Cumberland, Clinton, and Washington counties, that heretofore have been thoroughly Democratic. Josh Bell, that gavo Hugh Tork a Democratic majority of fifty, is again redeemed. Clay ana Laurel elect the Republican ticket with only one or two exceptions. Pulaski stands that by her old fafth, as does the sentinel Whitley. In the local elections we were even more successful. Lexington is carried by 800 majority, and Danville, Harrodaburg, Bowling Green, Greenville, Paris, Cynthlana, and other cities follow salt. Frankfort would have gone Republican bv two hundred majority, if the officers of election had allowed the Republicans the opportunity to exercise their suffrages.— Louisville Commercial.