Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-06
THE OHIO

Legislative Ticket Very Close, and the
Result Still In Doubt-Thc Prohibitions
lists Poll 23, 600 Votes Views of Governor
HOadiy and DIR. Leonard.
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 15.-Unofficial re-
turns received up to two a. IN. from nearly
all the precincts canvasscd since midnight
make Foraker's plurality touch $1,000,
with the rest of the ticket likely to ex-
ceed that, and give the Prohibitionists
$4,000 votes and the Greenbackers
1000, on a total vote Of over 7O0,-
900. The State Committee claims that
the Legislature is Republican OF joint ballet
without the fourteen members from Hamil-
ton County by at least five and probably
nine. Ii Hamilton County is Democratic
the Senate would likely have one Demo-
cratic majority. With Hamilton County
the Republicans would have a strong ma
jority on Joint ballot and a working ma
jority in each branch.
There are strong Indications that there
| will be trouble and attempts at fraud in
correction with the majority in tile next
Legislature. Both the Democratic and Re-
publican State Executive Committees have
been at their respective headquarters all
day, each claiming that they have a
majority on joint ballot. The Dem
| ocratic committee claims fifty-siX men,
bcrs in the House and twenty-One in
the Senate sure, while the Republican com
nhttec says it has positive information that
its party has fifty nine in the House and
seventeen in the Senate, not counting Ham
ilton County and a number OF other doubt
full counties and districts.
1ntthe scheming Which is going on in re-
gard to the Legislature. the State ticket has
been lost sight of, though there seems to
be a general agreement between the COM
mittees that Foraker's plurality will be
somewhere between $4,000 and 10000,
| while the Prohibition vote will probably
reach %, 900 i'll the State.
The following Senatorial Districts Eave
been carried by Democrats: Second,
Fourth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, Fifteenth
and Sixteenth (two); Seventeenth and
Iwenty-eighth (one); Eighteenth and
Nineteenth two); Thirtietl,, Thirty-first,
.Thirty-second (two); Thirty-third (two);
Total sixteen. The Republicans have car
ried the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth. Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Twentieth. Twenty-first, Twenty-second,
T~wenty-third, Twenty-fourth (two): Twen-
ty-fifth two); REIMBURSEMENT and Twenty
ninth (one). Total seventeen. Doubtful:
Hamilton County, four.
CINCINNATI, o., Oct. 15.-The Times
STIR claims the county for Foraker, and
places the totals OF ali precincts, save four,
as follows: Foraker, 32,4S7: Hoadly, 3d.
5S4; Leonard, SS6; making Foraker's plural-
ity 1.9O3. 1t is claimed by the Republicans
that they have elected all their Legislative
candidates save, possibly, Robert Harlan,
Int thnv pp,caIn that fla Ion,nnrotc bo,,n
elected taeir candidates for County Clerk,
Prosecuting Attorney and member Of the
Board OF Control.
CLEvELAND, Oct. 15.-The result in
this city gives the election of a full Re-
publican county ticket by an average ma
jority of +, 900. The State ticket carries
about the same vote. An analysis of the
figures shows why the Democrats were
beaten, and il the same thing holds good all
through the State some new light is let in
OF the subject. In 1883 Foraker received in
this county 1866 votes. This year he re-
ceivcd 1887, a gain Of twelve. In 1888
Hoadly received ~, 726, and this year 49,
SOB, a loss OF 1881. OF those registered in
this city, 1884 did not appear at the polls
at all.
TOLEDO, O., Oct. 15.-Thirty-seven of
the forty three precincts in Lucas County,
'hNiuuillG lllS Guy, dliu IcilldlllluS SIN cStl-
mated at the vote of two years ago, give a
200 to 300. The Republicans elect one Rep
rcsentatlve, the Democrats the other. The
Senatorial ticket has about the same ma
joritY as the State ticket.
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 13.-In an interview
last night Governor Hoadly stated that he
felt proud of the vote he received, and he
by no means considered the result as a re-
buke of his course. The Governor said lie
would be inclined to charge the result
chiefly to the fact that Ohio is a Repcb.
lican State, and that it was the History Of
political contests that a State generally
goes the next year after a Presidential
election the same as it had gone before.
IN the second place he considered one of
the principal causes which led to Demo
cratic defeat the fact that the Republicans
had this year nominated in nearly all the
counties containing cities men who were
friendly to the liquor interests, and,
IN a great many cases, saloon men
had been named by the Republicans
for the Legislature. Two years ago the
Democrats had this element with them, and
a large percentage of the Republican liquor
men voted with the Democrats for the rea-
son that they feared prohibition or Il high
tax. Ibis year the force of this argument
was taken away by the fact of the peculiar
nominations which were made, And the sa-
loon men could not be made to believe that
these men would work against their interests
A third element OF defeat, the Governor
thought, was the general apathy on the
part OF the Democrats and the detection Of
Democrats to the prohibition cause. THIS
latter he considered one of the most re-
markable features of the vote. To prove
that there was a large stay-at-home
Democratic vote, he cited the falling off
from his handsome majorities in Cincin-
natl, Cleveland, Dayton, Columbus and
other cities of the State two years ago. The
Governor was asked il he thought Cleve-
lal'd's civil-service policy had anything to
do with the result, and he was emphatic in
the statement that 1t was the least of all
the causes, if it had anything to do with it.
In his canvass there was nothing which he
could say that would meet with SO much
favor and applause as an Endorsement of
the Administration of President Cleveland.
The Governor said that, personally, he
did not care anything about the office, but
felt that it was his duty to accept the nomi-
nation Wien it was protfered him and make
the canvass, and, OF course, he wanted to
make as good a showing as he could. He
did not think the plurality of his opponent
would be more than 1000 OF s. 1000.
SPnlNGFlELD, o., Oct. l5.-Dr. Leonard,