McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-23
The following counties give del

| UAdding to the above the maiorities of 1888
| in the five counties unheard from gives net
republican plurality of 10, SG5. The five coun-
ties will probably increase the majorities of
1888, so that the plurality will reach about r.
200. Republican congressman have been elect
ed in the First Second. Eighth, Ninth, Tenth,
| Twelfth, Fourteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth
| and Twentieth districts, a total of ten Demo-
| cratic congressman have been elected in the
Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh. Thir.
! teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and
| Twenty-first, a total of ten. The eleventh dis
| trict is still in doubt.
| A prominent democratic politician reasons
as fol OwS over the election 1.-The heavy re-
publican gains have been in the city, whereas
the democratic gains have been in the coun-
try. Thus, i'll Columbus, the republicans gain
ed; but in The back townships we gained
where it was This is the case in townships
in other strong democratic counties not yet
heard from. The republican majority will he
reduced below 10000. The republican leaders
do not concede this, but expect a reduction
below the high figures heretofore claimed"
COLUMBUS, Oct. 16.-The official returns from
Tuesdays election are coming in slowly at
both state headquarters and final estimates
are made with difficulty on the figures re-
ceived subject to revision. The democrats
concede on the state ticket 1851 majority,
while the republicans estimate their majority
at 101H. The democratic committee claim
eleven of the twenty-one congressman, while
the republican committee still consider the
Eleventh district doubtful and say it will re-
ureS are given on this district for either place.
LATER.-Ofcial returns were received at
republican headquarters tonight from Ash
tabula and Ward counties, these being the
last to report, and the completed list of revis-
ed figures give Robinson plurality of 1.42l.
This show republican gain of 2,lOs. In six
ty-slX counties the republicans made all their
gains and the democrats in the rest. The re-
publican gain in the rural districts is equal to
their plurality. Chairman Oglevee comedies
the election of Elsbury in the Eleventh dis
TsIP will sto md
eleven democratic and ten republican.
WEST VIRGINIA.
The election was for governor and full list
of state officers and the legislature. The ques-
lions of taxation by the dominant party and
the course of the supreme court in The Intel
Ggercer contempt case were the chief state
issues. Two of the members of that court are
on the democratic ticket. The campaign was
an unusual one. The weather was fine and
heavy vote was polled; The Wheeling Regis
ter (dem.) claims the election of Wilson (dem.)
for governor by 1000 to 10000. kanaw:iiIa
county gives Maxwell, republican for COVER
nor, between 300 and 500 majority. In Brooke
county incomplete returns give Wilson (dem.)
for governor, 153 majority, democratic gain
of 400. Sumner county is democratic by 35G
majority.
The following maiorities have been report
ed to the republican state committee: Lewis
70 democratic, repub lean gain of 6G; Bar
bour 100 democratic, q republican gain OF .3f;
Brooke 81 democratic. republican gain of So;
Pleasant 143 democratic, republican gain of
IS; Summers 200 democratic, republican
gain of POI; Greenbbrier, $50 democratic, a
republican gain Of ;2s223; Monroe, 300 democrat
ic. The republican majOrities are: Berkely,
IS, gain Of 240; Marion, 100, a gain of $50;
Preston, 1,40O, gam of 403; Taylor, 351. gain
of 161; Richie, sos, gain of 216; Mononga-
hela, 500, a gain Of 81. Advices from Charles
ton, Kenawha county, place Maxwelrs gain
at 1,1OO The entire republican county ticket
is elected by rnajorities ranging from 900 to
100. Six out of nine voting places in Tyler
three to be heard from will increase it $50.
The republican state committee cOncede the
election of the entire democratic state ticket
by 5000 to 5000 majority. Democrats claim
the state by 12,CO0 to 15,0OO majority.