Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-10-13
Yesterdays Elections.


Ohio. Indiana and West Virginia voted
,esterday and the news received up to
Wednesday noon is of very favorable ma
nre to the republicans. If the returns TO
come in prove as favorable as those al
ready received the October elections have |
resulted in substantial republican VIC
tory that points directly to success in the
great November contest.
West Virginia has been for years hope
,essly democratic; the only question about
IN election there is that of the size of the
democratic majority. This has been cut
down several thousand. Sturgess, repub- |
lean, gains heavily in Wheeling and
elsewhere over Jackson, his democratic
competitor. Jackson's election promises
to be secured by the smallest democratic
majority known in West Virginia for
years.
In Indiana the most exciting campaign
ever known there has been going on for
weeks. Mr.. English was nominated at
Cincinnati so AS to secure Indiana. 1t Was
made an October state by democratic
supreme court last summer and democrat
ie assertions as to Indiana have been plen-
tful. 1t seemed hopeless task to think
Of carrying it for Porter, especially since
Barnum has gone into the "steel rail"
business This branch of industry he has
taken up in stead of mule buying.
Iii atpresent too early to predict whether
her Barnum' 5 investment in steel rails has
saved the state to the democratic ticket
1t is slow state to hear from, and the
laying of steel rails does not seem to have
had the effect of facilitating communica-
ton with the back towns. But certain it is
that the returns received show handsome
republican gains, and while nothing abso-
lutely decisive of the result has come to
hand, cool republicans in Indiana, New
York, and Boston are this forenoon claim
ing the election of Porter over Landers by
plurality of from one to three thousand.
Should Porter be elected the republicans
90 from the October to the November cleo
tions almost certain of success. And the
handsome gains already sure in Indiana,
even if they are not crowned with COM
plete success in the election of Porter, give
bright promise of victory on the second
day of next month The republicans Of
Indiana have made vigorous campaign
and have driven the enemy whether they
have routed him or not. The substantial
results are with us-and the vote shows
that MIR. Barnum cannot dam the tide Of
northern sentiment with all the rails in the
market If it should turn out that Lam
ders is actually defeated, Mr.. Barnum and
his committee will feel much as though
they had been hit by forcible gesture Of
one of his 1876 mules.
In Ohio no governor WAS voted for
The republicans claim to have elected
their candidate for supreme court judge by
10000 majority, an increase over the re-
markable vote by which Foster was cho
sen governor last year. The democratic
dispatches do not adm t that the repub-
licans have any such majority but the
returns in detail so far as seen here are
indicative Of an overwhelming republican
victory. The chairman of the republican
state committee claims the election of
sixteen Of the twenty congressman
chosen. The Ohio returns do not read
much as though they came from doubt
full state.
A city election in Newark, New Jersey,
confirms the claims made by republicans
of great tide in that state against the
democrats. The city gave yesterday
$500 republican majority in place of one
of $500 for the democrats last year.
Altogether yesterday appears to have
been a very good day for the republicans
but we shall be able to give the exact facts
much better next week than now.
Dispatches received Wednesday after
noon are that the republican majority in
Ohio is twenty thousand, and fifteen out
of twenty congressman. Porter, repub
lican candidate for governor Of Indiana
telegraphs the national committee that h'
is elected by 5000, and that the repub
licans have eight of the thirteen con
gressmen. George II. Bigelow telegraphs
that Porter's majority is $500. Mr.. Bar
mum, chairman of the democratic nationa
committee, claims the democratic ticket i.
elected in Indiana, except governor
which is in doubt He also claims sever
or eight congressman.