Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-09
A Summary.

hN ASeoeO hShSO 10 oieO COuIOSio liSj
nut the Republicans gain a Congress-
nan. Kansas gives the Republican
andidate plurality of 10000, Iowa
If 1900, Minnesota of 5000 to 10000
excepting the Governor who barely
yets in,) Massachusetts, of 5000, Win.
,onsin $4,000, Michigan of 1000
Ind California elects Bartlett, DEM,
Governor by 300 majority. Indiana
has gone Republican by about 1900,
but the Democrats will control the
Legislature. Pennsylvania gives the
Republican candidate for Governor a
plurality of over $4,000, a gain OF
about 10000 votes over the vote of
four years ago, but falling off from
the Blaine vote. Illinois rolls up
plurality ofbetween 10000 and 10000,
and Ohio about $1,000, all of which
indicates that these States are not
yet 10 be placed in the doubtful col
umn.
The Democrats have lost nothing
in the South, though in the North
they have been less fortunate, They
have carried their State ticket in New
York by about 5000, but have not
secured the Legislature, which has a
Republican majority on joint ballot
of 2S and will elect United States
Senator. In New Jersey the Demo-
Gratis elected their State ticket by
1000 plurality, and the Legislature
by 2 majority, which assures the
election of a Democratic United States
Senator. The Democrats carried two
Of the New England States-New
Hampshire and Connecticut-by a
plurality of the popular vote, but as
he constitutions ofboth States re-
luire an actual majority, the Legisla-
.ure of each being Republican, will
,lect Republican Governors and 9TH
II State officers, and United States
Senator's. The Democrats have car
led one Republican State, Colorado,
,lecting both the State ticket and
Congressman, and lost heavily in
both Virginia and West Virginia.
The labor vote manifested itself in
! strictly partisan form only in New
York City, where Henry George re-
,eived the unlocked for vote for6S, 900;
n Wisconsin, where they elected one
delegate to Congress, six members
If the Legislature, and the local tick
It in Milwaukee; in Illinois, where
hey elected six members of the Leg
stature and defeated Morrison for
Congress; and in Virginia elected
me Congressman. But the working
mems power was felt in a significant
legree in several other States.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Congressional election presents
ome interesting phases. Congress
'emains Democratic, but the Demo,
ratio majority of At has been consid-
,rably reduced. One of the most
events is the election of a
'trcly partisan labor candidate and
he narrow margin by which Speak
II Carlisle was reelected over his la
Dor competitor. VIM. Morrison was
also defeated by the labor vote. His
district is strongly Republican, and
MS election was always a personal
victory. The great gain of five Re-
publican Congressman in Virginia
may be attributed partly to the labor
vote in that State, but more to gen.
ersl apathy; and the latter cause
doubtless accounts for the election OF
3 Republican Congressman in Ken
lucky. The Republican gain of two
and possibly three more Congressman
in Illinois, is probably due to revi'
val of Republican spirit in that State
while the gain of four Republican
Congressman in Indiana is to be &C.
counted for by the general dissatis.
faction with the Democratic party
and gerrymander of the
State. The Republican gain Of one
Congressman and one Democratic
Congressman in Pennsylvania, ap.
pears to have no significance further
than the decadence of the Greenback
The Republican loss Of
three Congressman in Minnesota is
probably to be attributed to the emf
grafton of Republicans to Dakota
and further west, and the immigra-
ton of Democrats and workingmen
from the Eastern States and Europe,
The Republican gain of four Con-
gressmen in Winconsin is apparently
the result of Democratic dissatisfac-
ton and an increased Republican
interest. The greatest Republican
gain in Congressman was in Ohio