Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-03
PENNSYLVANIA.
The keystone State Turns Up with Repub-
Hcan Gains

The keystone State Turns Up with Repub-
Hcan Gains.
PHILADELPHIA, November 2-The
election in Pennsylvania was for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Auditor, General
Secretary Of Internal Affairs and % Con-
gressmen. One of the latter selected by
the State at large. The other % by the
Districts; twenty FIVE members of the
State Senate, one-half of that body and
all the members of the Lower House of the
Legislature, POI in number. The new
Legislature will elect a Senator to sue
eeed Senator John /. Mitchell, whose
term will expire March 18th, 1887.
The Republicans have majority of SO
ON joint ballot in the present Legislature.
The Prohibitionists, with complete
ticket in the field, made an active canvass.
Through disSensiOns in the Republican
Ranks in 1882, the Democratic party elect
ed Pattison Governor, the total vote being
PattisOn, Democrat, $50, 79l; Beaver, Re-
publican, 315, $50; Stewart, Independent,
437, 43. The State, however, gave Blaine
4 plurality over Cleveland of 81, ,019, and
in 1885 elected Quay, Republican, State
Treasurer, by plurality of 43, 5l6.
The present Congressional delegation Is
composed of eight Democrats and twenty
Republicans, including Brennan. Republi-
can-Greenbacker.
In the Sixth District which usually gives
a decided Republican majority. Eek
hart, thepresent member, entered the field
rs an Independent candidate against Oar
lingtOn the regular Republican nominee,
aud Dickinson DEM. In the Twenty
first District, there was another three sided
contest in which the campaign was an ac-
tive one. The District is Mt present rep
resented by Boyle (DemOcrat) who was
elected by "a 500 majority. Three candi-
dates were in rhe field, Rafferty, Regular
Democrat), Mccullough, Republican, and
DOnnelly, independent Democrat).
PTrrsBURG, PA, November 1.-The re-
turns from Allegheny county are coming
in slowly and are badly mixed, owing to
the unusual amount of scratching" I"
The indications, however, at 10 o'clock
tonight, are that the entire Republican
State and county ticket, with
the exception possibly Of the
Judge of Common Pleas Court, is
elected by a larger majority than the
combined vote of Beaver and Stewards,
the Republican and Independent candi-
dates of gubernatOrial ticket in 1872, which
was over 5000. John Balzree and ThOs
NJ. Bayne, Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the twenty-second and twenty
third districts respectively, are elected by
good maiOIities. The streets are filled
with enthusiastic partisans, and the noise
from tin horns, etc, is deafening.
Special Telegram to the Register.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, 1:3O A. NJ, NOvem-
Der --latest bulletin from Philadelphia,
gives Beaver 10000 plurality there, and
says he has carried the state.
PHILADELPHIA, November 2.-The
gains noted in the following Pennsylvania
county estimates are derived from COM
parison with the gubernatiOnal vote OF
1882, when PattisOn, Democratic, defeated
Beaver by by plurality of 40,2O2: Syn
der county, estimated, Beaver, 600 plu-
rality, Republican gain of 173; Columbia
county, Blacks plurality, estimated,
/ $50, Republican gain of 453; York
county, Blacks plurality, 800, q Repub-
lican gain of 1,791. The election of 4
Democrat State Senator is doubtful. In
Butler county, Beaver estimated 800
plurality, u Republican gain of S73.