Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-12
UNITED STATES OF OHIO
hsA6Re REPORTS FROM THE BUCK
EIEElECTION YESTERDAY.
A Light Vote ETso~here-A Large
Amount Of Sera.ehing-Ths Temper
ancs People ensrgstic-Ehat the
Chlhmsn S1y-Ihs ekc'
ton in Cincinnati.
FOSTER VERY PROBABLY ELECTED.
THE oaIo ELECTION.
The Afternoon Dispatches.

Tne Afternoon Dispatches.
CINCINNATI, October 1.-THE election
10 quiet. The weather is fair and the
vote light, bat carriages are out every
where. The afternoon vote will be
hrxsr than that Of the forenoon. It is
impossible TO say how it will result.
Both Of the prominent parties are active
in rAllying voters and the Temperance
party is working energetically.
CoLUNsUS.-The election is going very
quietly. The vote will not be more than
seven eighths as great as that Of a year
ago. The Prohibition vote will be
light. The scratching on the Republi-
can and Democratic State tickets is
about equal.
CLEyBLASD-The election is progress.
ing quietly. Very light vote polled so
far.
Later From Columbus.
CoLUNBCs, October ll.-At 3P. n.
TO day from one-half to two-thirds of
the votes OF this city had not been cast,
IL is known that aheaYy vote was polled
from 3 10 3 P n. This, however, will
nOA UEtik NAlC iO(AA NOkC w IO Oh
1850. The falling of in the city and
county is estimated at nearly one-fourth.
Sufficient is not known at this hour to
determine which party will gain. on &C.
count Of the falling of,except one ortwo
isolated cases. These were in the town.
ships and will be against Book walter.
The returns will come in slowly, on ac-
count OF heavy scratching on the local
ticket, In some quarters there was
enough scratching, both Of Foster and
BookEalter, to make the result looked
for here with considerable interess.
Some wellknoWn Republicans and
AeIhodisis scratched Foster, ,and 7 erhaIs
q corresponding number Of Democrats
failed 70 vote or scratched Bookwalter.
The Temperance Vote.
COLUMBUS, October ll-Fourteen
townships show q net Democratic gain
OF s. and q total temperance vote of PAT.
At the same rate the Temperance vote
will be about 1000. The comparisons
10 these returns are based on the elee.
ton Of 1880 for Secretary Il State.
BookWAlter Gaining Slowly.
COLUMBUS, October ll-l0:l0 p. NJ
One hundred and sixty.six wards and
precincts show q net Dsmocra attic gain Of |
2I3 There are 2,232 wards and precincts
in the State. At this rate of gain, Book. !
walter will gain IN the State less than
1000, which leaves Foster q majority Cf |
$4,000. The total vote OF Foster ami
Bookwalter in the 1876 precincts is ,292
Temperance vote, $50.
The Election in Cinctnnau
CISCISArI, October ll.-Taere is
small prospect OF hSipg able 10 give the
returns from Hamilton count tonight.
At hsli-pas ten not one precinct had
been heard from in full, and only three
or four had given reports as TO the head
OF the ticket. These all indicate falling
OF in the total vote Of fifteen or twenty
per cent. with slight Republican gains
There is nothing whatever at this hour
TO base the estimate Of the result in the
county ticket on, except that more
scratrl ing was done by Republicans
than emocrats.
What the Chairmsn Gay.
COIUNBCs, October II, l:+5 p. N
George K. Nash, Chairman OF the State
Republican Central Committee, declines
TO claim anything yet except that the
have carried the State. He
says returns have not come in sufficient
10 Justify him in fixiug the estimated
Clark Irvine, chairman OF the
State Ceairal Committee,
says the indications are that Fosters
plurality will be about : .0C0. and that
the complexion Of the Legislature will
depend upon the result in Cincinnati
and Hamilton county.
CLEVELAND = Beiurns come in slowly
on account OF scratched tickets. Is is
estimated that Foster will have four
thousand majority in the county, and
that the county ticket will be lected by
an average r publican msjJrity Of two
thousand FIVE hundred.