Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-10-18
FALL ELECTIONS.
lows Goes Safely Republican by 80, 900 Majority.
Ohio elects Hoadly Democrat Governor by
About II, 200 Majority.

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About II, 200 Majority.
The elections last Tuesday passed of
quietly. The weather was beautiful and
favored large vote. and Republican
victory, but in Ohio the omen proved a
false one many Republicans refraining
from voting and the Democrats and sa-
loon men taking the advantage and
working as they never did before. In
Iowa the republicans fought under no
endorsements having made an open
fight against the liquor interest in Ohio
they did. In the sixth Iowa district to
fill the vacancy in Congress caused by
the death of Cults, Stiles, the Republi-
can candidate, is probably defeated by
Judge Cook, although the vote is SO
close it will take the official count to
determine. The contest was very de-
termined and aggressive on both sides
but in the actual results in Iowa as COM
pared with last year, the result is not
materially different. Weayer's vote
the full returns show is much larger
than was first expected. Sherman
majority will reach $4,000. Complete
returns from fifty-nine counties, give
him Is, 800. Partial returns from the
remaining counties give him $4,000.
His plurality will not be less than
1900.
The Senate will stand-Forty Repub-
licans, nine Democrats, and one doubt
full, the latter from Linn county.
The House on complete and bedrock
figures, stands as follows: Republicans,
so; Independent, /; Democrats, 80;
Greenbackers, z; doubtful, blank.
Washington county /, Republican ma
jority on joint ballot, "a.
IN OHIO
with returns from eighty counties and
the other eight estimated, it is conceded
at republican headquarters that the
democratic majority will be over u 900.
The democrats do not claim the state
by more than that. On the proportion
mutually claimed the senate stands 81
democrats and IL republicans. The
house, 81 democrats and A republi-
cans, giving the democrats majority
on joint ballot for senator of 26. The
amendment got $4,000 votes, and its
advocates still claim its adoption. The
greenbackers cast about 1000 votes.
The state ticket, and even the legisla-
ture, were lost sight of in the election,
and all interest conferred on the prohibit
tory amendment, for which the temper
ance republicans in the rural districts
fairly traded their whole state and
county tickets. On the other hand in
the cities the liquor element Germans
and others snapped the democratic
ticket for votes against the amend
ments. In the general stampede and
Generalization the republicans got the
worst of the bargain. This trading is
what accounts for the republican gains
in Cincinnati, Cleveland and other cities
The republicans also lost some in the
country on account of the reduction of
the tariff on wool. On the Western
Reserve many republicans have quit
voting since Garfield's death, thinking
the present administration has not
revered him or duly treated his friends.
The people of Ohio also voted on the
adoption or rejection of three amend
ments to the constitution as follows.
The first of the proposed amendments
is intended to reorganize the judiciary
of the state. The other two proposed
amendments relate to the liquor traffic,
and are in the following language:
First. 1.-The additional section in and
with section Is of the schedule shall be
repealed, and there shall be substituted
for it the following: The general as
sembly of the state of Ohio shall regu-
late the traffic in intoxicating liquors so
as to provide against the evils resulting
therefrom; and its power to levy taxes
or assessments thereon is not limited by
any provisions of this constitution -
The other proposed amendment is as
follows:
Second. 1.-The additional section in
and with section Is of the schedule shall
be repealed, and there shall be substi-
tuted for it the following: The manu-
facture of and the traffic in intoxicat-
ing liquors, to be used as a beverage,
are foreS er prohibited. and the general
assembly shall provide bylaw for the
enforcement of this provision. -
Amendments to the Ohio constitution
to carry, must receive majority of all
the votes cast for governor.
The vote for the Prohibition candi-
dates will not exceed 10000 votes out Of
a total vote of about 100000, while the
Prohibitory amendment made sort OF
Jay-Eye-See race, and polled over 300,-
900 votes. Indeed. the vote was so
large that, it was thought that at one
time that that amendment to the consti-
tuition had been adopted, but further re-
turns show that it had been defeated by
$4,000 votes. Next, the vote on the
First amendment, for the taxation and
regulation of the traffic, was as supris-
ingly small as the vote for the Prohibi-
tory amendment was surprisingly large.
The total vote on this amendment is set
down at 100000, which would seem to
indicate that there are three men in
Ohio who favor the utter extinction of
the traffic to one who believes in license
high or low. The result may be roughly
stated as follows.
For the Prohibition amendment aoo ooo
Against the Prohibition amendment - as 200
Necessary TO carry it.............. 262 slso
Hence defeated by about .... az sn0
For the first amendment, taxation and reg
uiat1On.. 100 90
The election of Democratic legisla-
ture insures the election of Pendleton TO
the U. S. Senate, and the contest for
that Office promises to be as warm as the
one just closed, but it will not effect the
political complexion of that BODY. as
Pendleton, whose term expires is a
Democrat. Both political parties in the
State seem to be dazed by the peculiar
ity of the result of Tuesdays election.
What puzzles the Democrats is that they
have lost where they should have rained