Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-10-15
THE ELECTION BUCHANAN
COUNTY.
Republican Ticket Elected With tho
Exception of Auditor ana Sheriff

The returns from most of the townships
of this county indicate a very full vote al
the election, which occurred on Tuesday
The Democracy especially, with their nat
ural allies the saloon men, never did
harder or dirtler work, nor resortcd to
more INSCRIPTIONS means to accomplish
their ends They concentrated their forces
on one candidate, in which the allies afore
said had peculiar interest, and by Il
superhuman effort elected him by about
so majority. With the other exception Of
the Auditor, who had the advantage of
the precedent of second term to an
Republicans carried all the balance of the
ticket, State and county, by majorities that
compare favorably with those of last year.
That the maiorities are not large is due
solely to the lack of work and energy on
the part of the Republicans Some towns
show large Republican gainc, with cores
ponding Democratic loss, others gain,
with the Democratic vote stationary, while
some of the strongest Republican towns
show large falling off without, however,
Il Democratic gain to correspond Tie
voters simply stayed at home, and nobody
made the effort to get them out But for
this kind of detection in Fremont, Byron,
and Fairbank, the Democracy would not
have won point despite their hard work
and INSCRIPTIONS tactics. The reader
will find some significant indications in
the returns from the former Anti Monopoly
strongholds. Sumner, from SO ma iority
against Carpenter two years ago, is reduc-
ed to nine majority for LETTER Homer,
which gave 46 majority for Vale at the
same election, now gives nine majority
for Kirkwood; Jefferson was 80 against
Carpenter, but now gives Kirkwood, the
salary grabber," - majority. These
show the returning tide, which will re
ceive added impetus next year. In Wash
ington township, including this city, where
the whisky element put forth It's mightiest
effort, Kirkwood's vote was II more than
the Republican vote of last year, but the
Democratic vote, by aid OF tricks that
were dark, including some fraudulent
voting,-and ways that were vain, was
boosted to 400, or 100 more than Aims
worth's vote of last year. Tie measure
of Democratic success in the county is
due alone to this questionable increase,
but even this might have been overcome
if the Republicans in the county had all
been got out to vote.
Our friends will naturally regret that
we have not elected our entire ticket, but
there is enough TO feel good over. We
know that we have the county on fair
vote and square issues and the election of
our Legislative ticket is Il source of con
graduation We have received returns
from II townships, and partial returns
llOil an INC 'lilCiS, tANtl't -hdNllHpit.
From these we estimate the majority for
the Republican State ticket at about the
same as last year, 225. Harmon, for Sen
ator will have something over 300 ma.
iority. The majority fer Calvin, Repre-
sentative, will probably reach l25. Nc
Leish, Dem, for Auditor, will have about
115 majority; and Van Orsdol, Dem, for
Sheriff, in the neighborhood of % ma
iority. The other candidates on our
offices, including members of the Board
of Supervisors, are elected by good ma
joritics. We have no means Of estimat-
ing the vote on the Stock Act, but presume
it is carried by small majority Below
we give the returns 50 far rs they have
come to hand We do not include the
vote for County Treasurer, which was
practically unanimous, Mr.. Poor'S name
being on both tickets: