Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-12-02
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POLITICAL. 1858 u.,a
A we'll informed gentleman in Florida
says that there is no doubt that Provision
al Governor Marvin will be elected United
State Senator from that State.
Jim Gillette offers himself, through the
Springfield Republican. as a 'cheap Mayor
for that city. He will also serve as Treas
ursr-salary, $3.50 for both offices.
The legislature ofIowa, which meets on
the second Monday of January, will stand
as follows; Senate, Union, 43; Democrat,
3. House, Union, SO; Democrat, Is.
Union majority on joint ballot, LOG.
The Republican State Convention of
New Hampshire is called to meet at Con-
cord, on Wednesday. January Sd, 1865, to
nominate candidates for the March cleo
ton.
The official vote of New York for Secre-
tary of State is as follows: Barlow, Gun
ionJ 292,O85; Slocum, (Dem.) 264,826i
Union majority 27,259. In 1864, for
President, the vote stood: Lincoln, $685.
1876; Mcclellan 361, 9S5 Union majority
6,749. The decrease in the total vote is
1850; the increase in the Union ma
jority is 2O,5lO.
At last a rebel military candidate for
Congress has been beaten in the South by
an opponent upon the open platform of
ability to take the oath, and the Hunts
vile (Ala.) district has that honor. Col.
James NJ. Shield, heretofore reported cho-
sen, is found by the official returns to be
beaten by. thirtY-two majority. and BIT.
Pope is elected. The vote stood Pope,
3,2Is; Shield, 3,Is6; Morris, l,62O.
The Trenton Gazette says that Col. Haw-
kins, of Tennessee, has prosecuted the edi-
tor of the Somerset, IN. j. Messenger for
libel, laying his damages at $4,000. The
Messenger published an article accusing,
Col. Hawkins of cowardice, corruption
and treason, in delivering up a post to an
inferior force of rebels, and in comment
ing on this statement, abused Col. Haw-
kins without stint. Before the election, a
contradiction of the charge brought
against Col. Hawkins was published, while
he was stumping New Jersey in the in
terest of the Union candidates.
The Hon. n. G. Mcfarland was elected
Senator from the district composed of But
Ter and Warren Counties, by a majority of
two hundred and ninety-eight votes. The
Clerk of the Court of Warren county sent
the returns to Butler county, and the Ham
ilton Telegraph says that when the returns
of the tive counties came before Mr.. Dali
ton, Clerk of the Court of Butler county,
he "threw out the votes of Warren, and
declared Mr.. Campbell elected. Mr.. G.
had the good sense to decline to accept a
certificate that he was elected, and Mr..
Dalton refused to deliver a certificate to
Mr.. Mcfarland"
The full official vote of Minnesota for
Governor is; Marshall, Union 1884;
Rice, (Dem.,) 1854; Union majority,
3,49O. In 1864 the vote stood: Lincoln,
$4,000; Mcclellan, 1875; Union major
ity, 1885. This shows a decrease in the
total vote of 1899, and in the Union ma
jority of 3,l95. The vote on the consti-
tutional amendment extending the suffrage
to the negroes is: ayes, 1874; noes,
14,sO7 majority against extension. 2,613.
The vote for the amendment is about
5000 less than the Republican vote, and
the vote against it 1000 larger than the
Democratic. In other words on thousand
Union men-one in seventeen-voted
against the amendment, while about four
thousand failed to vote on it at all.
Kenneth Raynor is reported as having
stated that President johnson had told
him that he would not remove the military
government of North Carolina, IN
til the expiration of the official
term of the recently elected Governor of
that State. Upon which the Wilmington,
North Carolina Herald which assisted to
defeat Holden and to elect Worth, the
champion of the rebel war debt, INDUCES
in the bitterest complaints. Strange to
say, the very people who agonize at the
Freedmen's Bureau and the suppression of
the writ of habeas corpus are doing their
best Tor rather their worst) to prove the
necessity of maintaining both these parts
of the Executive policy.
The vote before published as the official
result of the New Jersey election was not
official, nor even correct; Mr.. Wards ma
jority for Governor is several hundred
greater than therein represented. This
leads us to mentiontha it is the firm de-
termination of the Republicans to avail
themselves of their majority in the Legis-
lature to enact a stringent registry law to
prevent bogus voting. The passage of a
registry law will put an end to this source
of Copperhead strength in New Jersey.
Another important result affects the SEN
atorial representation in Congress and SO
firm is the belief that Stockton was not
legally elected last winter, and hat he will
be ousted from his seat, that the names of
prominent republicans are being discussed
for the succession. Governor elect Ward
has already received from Secretary Sew
ard a certified copy o theproposcd amend
ment 70 the Constitution, which there will
be no time lost in ratifYing.