Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1875 — THE ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE ELECTIONS.

The papers last night contained dispatches from political headquarters Jn Ohio* lowa and Nebraska, where elections were held on Tuesday last, but they are so meagre that the result can not be given. However, enough is known to give an approximate idea of how thosp States have gone. In Ohio tbi Democrats throw up the sponge and acknowledge Allen’s defeat by a small majority. The Republicans claim the election of Hayes by a majority of from 10,000 to 15,000, but the official returns will probably reduce these figures about one-half. The Democrats gained largely in many of the interior counties that have heretofore been strongly Republican, but the Republican gains in the more densely populated counties were much larger. In lowa the Democrats concede the State to the Republicans bv about 25,000 majority, but they hoped for nothing more than a reduced Republican majority in that stronghold of Republicanism. The returns from Nebraska indicate a Republican majority in that State, and that the new constitution has been adopted.