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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-11-10

The defeat CT Morris Thomas, IN
Baltimore for the clerkship of the new
Circuit Court il that city is one of the
most gratifying results of Tuesdays
election, and is singing rebuke of
President Cleveland by the people for
such an appointment to an important
Federal position. AS contemporary
well says, ''to nominate Thomas under
such circumstances for one of the most
important offices of trust in the city
was an insolent defiance OF a dlgnifed,
self-respecting and conservative COM
nunity, which could only be aggravated
by the speeches clarifying his peculiar
qualifications with which the nominal
ton was heralded to the public For
this brazen effrontery the Democratic
party has received a singing rebuke in
this city, if not a mortal hurt in the
state. Decent people have notified the
politicians that there is a step beyond
which 1t will be dangerous to tamper
with public obligations and a popular
confidence.
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plurality will be below that of 1884. He
will probably have three thousand five
hundred to four Thousand more votes
than Harrison. The Prohibition vote, as
heretofore predicted III these despatc hes,
1000 votes, from present appearances.
The Rhpubhcans expected 10 get this,
but, curi"nSly enough, the Democrats
were aided as well. This looks as Though
the Prohibition party had drawn almost
equally from each of the other parties.
Cleveland made all his gains III Hudson
AMI Essex counties. He cut Blaine,
plurality of /. 200 in Essex down 10 800;
in Hudson county he got the enormous
plurality of 900. This was, urques-
tionably, largely due to fraud. In every
other county Of the state the r publican
gains We're very large, but not enough to
offset Hudson. Fuller returns will reduce
Clevelaad's plurality still further.
The Republicans carry five congress
sional districts and the Democrats two
| This leaves the representation the same
as before. The Third district goes Gem
ocratic instead of Republican, as it has
been, and the Fourth districts, always
Democratic, elects Republican by q
small plurality.
The Democrats have carried the legIs
lature, thus insuring the re election o.
Senator John r. Mcpherson. He was
booked for a cabinet position in the even
of Cleveland having a second term. TIT
Republican Safe Committee refuse tt
concede the Legislature. If the Demo
Gratis carry it, the high license and loca
option measures will be repealed.
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What A Thanksgiving!

What a day of thanksgiving that
should be, to which President Cleve-
land himself invites the people on
Thursday the goth inst With the
great principle OF protection to Ameri-
can industries probably secure for the
next fifty years against the successful
attacks of its enemies. With a Chris
tan gentleman in the Presidential chair
and man whose philanthropy has en-
deared him to the American people to
preside oyer the Senate, who can fore
tell the future OF the Nation, when on
the fourth of March next will dawn a
new era of prosperity for our people.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-11-10
CALIFORNIA,

SAN Francisco. Nov. THE return s
throughout California are coming in very
slowly, and as there are 10 complete city
or county returns, no basis of comparison
with the vote of 1884 is possible. The
Republican and Democratic State Cen
trail Committees both claim the State, the
former by from 1000 to 5000, while the
latter claim to have major ity of 1000 TO
5000. The city of San Francisco has
been carried by the Democrats. The
Erening Post, Rep, says Cleveland's ma
jority III the city will be 1900 while the
Democrats claim 5000 to 5000, and that
the Republicans will not come to the
city with a sufficient vote to overcome
this. The entire Democratic city ticket
is elected in San Francisco.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 7.-Out of 1896
precincts outside of San Franci SEQ, CO.,
give Harrison 47,004; Cleveland, 4l,211.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 7.-Ninety-
three out of l3l pre- ciIcts in this city and
aud county give Harrison 10,3lS; Cleve-
land, sos.
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The Result in Maryland.

If any one has heretofore entertained
a doubt that Maryland was gradually
becoming "doubtful' state, and would
ultimately take her proper place in the
ranks of certain Republican states, that
doubt must be dispelled by the results
of Tuesdays election. This assertion
is amply sustained by comparisons of
majoIities in recent years in Presiden-
tial years. In 1876 Mr.. Tilden carried
the state by majority of Io,799. Four
years later in 1880, Genl. Hancock re
ceived majority very much lower, viz ,
15,1oI, while in 1884 Mr.. Cleveland's
plurality fell to II,I84, his actual ma
jority over all only being 1919. This
year Mr.. Cleveland's plurality in the
state is only 5,SoI, loss of 5,29S COM
pared with 1884. What other conclu-
sion can be drawn from these figures,
than the fact that Republican sentiment
is gradually gaining the ascendancy in
the state, and that too at such a rapid
rate that the opinion is almost general
that had there been a thorough organ
ization of the state this fall, 1t could
have been carried for Genl. Harrison
and protection. Without going into a
review of the causes of the decadence
of the Democratic party in Maryland,
suffice it to say, that as now organized
and managed it does not command the
confidence of the people OF Maryland.
But short time ago the editor of the
Cecil Democrat while laboring under
spasm of truthfulness, declared, "that
Maryland Democrats had not risen
above the subserviency that praises the
bridge on which they safely ride into
the carnival-(meaning Sbolls)-no
matter how rotten the planks may be,
or how treacherous the timbers.
We cannot for the life of US see
where the Democratic managers have
replaced rotten planks with sounder ones
in their party structure in the state, or
in what respect the party management
or party leadership, commend them
selves to intelligent sentiment, any
more now than wien Mr.. Crookshanks
uttered his denunciation.
Commenting upon the relative
strength of the two parties in Maryland
contemporary very forcibly says that,
at will be easier next year for the
Republicans to knock off the entire
majority given for the Democrats on
Tuesday than it was some years ago to
make the slightest impression upon
their raunks. The preliminary steps
have been successfully taken, and what
remains to be done can be accomplished
without difficulty if the Republicans are
true to themselves.
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DELAWARE'S REVOLT TON

REPUBLICAN UNITED STATES SENATOR
sAULsBURY,S REVENGE.
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. IA p1ac-
tically complete canvass of yesterday S
ballot in this state gives the electoral
ticket to the Democrats and the entire
legislative and county tickets i'll the two
lower hundreds to the Republicans. A.
P. Robson, chairman OF the Sussex
County Democratic Executive Commit
tee, comedies that county to the Repub-
licans by an average vote of about 50
majority on the Legislative ticket. The
Repu bllcans carry Kent County, which
has been under the domination OF the
salisbury family tor more than thirty
years, by a majority of about $50 on the
Legislative ticket. ln New Castle County
the entire Democratic ticket was elected
by majority sufficient to re-elect John
z. Pennington to Congress, and carry the
state Tor the Democratic electoral ticket
by about 1000 majority.
The political significance of gaining
two counties III Delaware is OF vastly
more Importance to the Republicans than
could accrue from similar gains i'll any
other state. The victory carries with it
a majority of two votes in the General
Assent bly,, which elects a United States
senator III December TO succeed Eli Sauls
bury. Yesterdays election gives the
Repu bllcanS two state senators and four
teen representatives, while the Democrats
will have six holding over senators, one
from this county, and seven members of
the Lower Huuse-tourteen i'll all.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-11-10

rotary Mcpherson, of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee, rs
Inmates that the House will consist OF 10
Republicans to 155 Democrats, aud claims
that he has made liberal allowance III
his allowance in his calculations tor all
claims. Representative Breckenridge, of
Kentucky, comedies that the R"puubIl-
cans will have IA slender majority III the
House, but he will not allow more than
ten. Other estimates reduce NJ, PnerSon :
figures somewhat, that is, give all the
five congressman in Arkansas to the
Democrats, claim only one in North Crr-
DINA, only fifteen i'll Ohio. But, on the
other hand, we may safely CLAIM three III
Connecticut instead OF two, and five i'll
Minnesota instead of four, and ten in
Michigan instead of nine. The Senate is
possibly Republican by majority of
four, for there is very good reason to be
lieve that the venerable Senator SauIs-
bury. of Delaware, and the brilliant
! Senator Keuna, of West Virginia, will
each be succeeded by Republicans.
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"Collector Groome returned at late
hour Tuesday night from his home at
Elkton, where he voted, and went to
bed shortly after midnight with heavy
heart, but still hopefIl."-7he SIN,
Baltimore.
Don't be heavy hearted Governor.
You had your whack at the other fellow,
tits only fair, that the 'tother fellow
shall whack you back.
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The Result in Cecil County.

Cecil County has just been lost to
the Republicans by the narrow majority
of ninety-one votes.
1t should have returned a majority
of one hundred and fifty votes for the
Republican Presidential nominee, and
under any other than the present man.
agement would have done so.
Why is this2
Simply because Republican unity,
harmony and success, have again been
sacrificed, to crafty the petty personal
enmities, and miserable resentments of
an individual or two in the town OF
Elkton, who aspire to party leadership,
and to whose hands has been unwisely
committed the machinery of the party
organization.
When the nomination of General
Harrison was announced at Chicago,
there was not a Republican in Cecil
county, who questioned the wisdom of
his party's choice. There was an earn
est of victory in the very name of Har-
rison. The enthusiasm awakened by
his nomination needed only sensible
direction to certain victory. The Re-
publican party of Cecil county as an
organization, every element of it, and
every voter in it, only waited the signal
to begin the earnest and successful
work of the campaign.
To them as an organization that
signal never came.
Instead, there began at Elkton the
petty maneverlng, and the whispered
conferences twixt those whose painful
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MINNESOTA
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND FOR HARRISON |
ANDA CLEAN SWEEP PROBABLE.

TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND FOR HARRISON
AND A CLEAN SWEEP PROBABLE.
MINNEAPoLIs, MINI, Nov. THE R.
publican State Committee claim a plur-
atty of %, 900 for Harrison, 10000 for
Merriam, Republican candidate for gov
ernor, 20, 600 Tor the balance on the ticket
and the election OF five Republican con-
gressman-a clean sweep. The Democrats
do not coucede the ell, cbion of all the
Repu blican congressman, however, chair
man Lawrence, of the Democi attic State
Committee, gives the following as his
estimates:
First District very close. Chances
favor Dunnell.
Second District, John Lind, about
1000.
Third District doubtful, Hall probably
elected.
Fourth, Snyder elected, about 1900.
Fifth, Comstock elected, not TO ex-
coed 1000
Returns coming in very slowly Ipdi
cations that Republican national ticket
will have q, 900 majority"
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GEORGIA.

Augusta, Ga, Nov. 6 The Democra
tic, Republican and Prohibition partie,
have nominated tickets for Presidential
Electors in Georgia. There is no State
ticket to be elected, and although can
didates for Congress from all of the dis
tricts are to be voted for, little interest is
manifested in the election except SO far
as it relates TO the Presidential ticket.
While the r ;publicans have nominated
candidates for Congress, and the Prohi-
bitionists have an electoral ticket, it is
believed that their votes will be small
and without effect.
The only change in the Democratic
Congressional nominations is IN the sub
stitution of Rufus F. Lester, the present
Mayor of Savannah, tor Thomas NJ. Nor
wood, as representative from the First
District.
ATLANTA Ga Nov 6 The indications
are that Clevelaud's maj nrity in Georgia
will be at least 1000. A solid Demo
cratic Congressional delegation is elected
by from 5000 to 5000 majority. The vote
was light.
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= PUBLISHED GvE'U SATURDAY. MORNING AT ELSTos.
oEoiL COUNTY, MAINLAND.
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OHIO.
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS NEARLY COMPLETE
GIVE THE STATE TO HARRISON BY OVER

UNOFFICIAL RETURNS NEARLY COMPLETE
GIVE THE STATE TO HARRISON BY OVER
100000
COLUMBUS, Nov. All the counties
in the state except SIX show plurality
(unot1icaD for Harrison OF 20, 331 The
six counties not rep@rIed gave Foraker,
Republican, for governor, in 1887, plur-
alIty of 436.
The two State Committees are still re-
ceiving returns from the state and fgur
ing up the gains and losses. The Repub
licanS are claiming ii plurality OF from
20, 900 to % 600, aud place their estimate
on more or less complete returns from
about half the counties i'll the state. On
the other hand tue Democratic Commit
tee says that complete or coDservatively
estimated returns from % out of IS couu
ties give evidence of Democratic gain
of a little over 5000, aud that if this rat o
of gain continues, which they scarcely
dare hope, they will carry the s5ase.
The Republicans gain two congress
men. Morey in the Seventh and Burton
i'll the Twenty first, and lose one, Romeis,
IN the Tenth.
Congressman McKinley's plurality in
his district will be about 1000. He
shows good gains in all of the four coun-
ties in the district.
The Republicans have probably gained
two congressman In the state and the
Democrats one, making net Republican
gain of one. Tue delegation, from pres
ent indications. will stand: epublicans,
Is; Democrats, 5.
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FLORIDA.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Nov. 6.-The
Dsm"cratic and Republican parties have
full tickets in the field this year, includ-
ing nominations for Presidential Electors
Congressman, State and county officers,
except in the First District. where Dav-
idson, the Democratic candidate for Con
gress. is unopposed.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Nov. 6-Vote in
the city light; in the State, heavy. Re
turns show nothing of Importance. Elem
ing, Democrat, is undoubtedly elected
Governor. The Second Congressional
District is very close.
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MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS BIG REPUBLICAN VICTORY
GAINS IN CoNGREssMEN.

ST. LOUIS BIG REPUBLICAN VICTORY
GAINS IN CoNGREssMEN.
ST Louis, November 7.-Returns of
the vote OF this city SHOW most extra
ordinary and altogether Surprising vote.
lIarrison's majority Is over 6,00O. Kim
bali (Rep.), for governor, has over 10000
majority, anG the Republican city ticket
will range from $500 majority Tor sheriff,
to S, 900 for other candidates. In the
Eighth Congressional district, John j.
. Neil (Dem.) present incumbent, is
beaten by Henry F. Niedriug haus, (Rep.)
by 1,S00, and in the Ninth district,
Nathan Frank (Rep.) who was beaten
two years by John NJ Glaver, is now
elected over Castleman (Dem. } by 81, 900.
lu the Tenth district, which Is composed
o. several OF the southern wards of the
city, and nine outlying counties, sutfl-
Gent returns are received to indicate the
election OF Kiusley (Rep,) over NJ. L.
Clardey (Dem.) present incumbent, by a
handsome majority.
Ldter-The Democratic State Commit
tee has returns from about fifty of the
ia counties IN this state, which indicat @
that Cleveland will have a plurality of
30, 600 i'll the state, and that Francis
(Dem.), for governor, will have plural
lsy of IA. 600. These returns embrace the
vote OF St. Louis, Kansas City and all
the other large cities III the state.
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sense of incapacity for successful lead
ership, resented contact with ADLER
men.
The line of policy was to place every
Republican of any prominence in the
county of whose subservency to their
personal plans they were not assured,
in position if not of possible hostility,
at least of apparent indifference to Gen.
Harrisons election. This was to be
accomplished by excluding such men
from the party councils. By discourag-
ing invitations to such men to address
public meetings, and by organizing
Harrison and Morton clubs differed
| by men selected beforehand in Mr..
Warburton's office, and who were to
assume their automatic roles at the nod
and wink of some one of his trusted
followers. Such attempts were only
partially successful in several districts
of the county. AS was to be expected,
dissatisfaction, distrust and apathy pre-
vailed everywhere. And so the cam
paign lanquished with periodic meet
ings noticeably splritIess and tame, un-
til the twenty-nlnth day of Septic mber,
when at the invitation of Ex-Post Mas
ter General Creswell and number of
prominent Republicans, Senator VIM.
P. Frye of Name made his ringing
speech at Elkton. The inspiration of
that grand defence of protection, and
the beautiful and timely display at that
meeting of the Harrison and Morton
Club of the Sixth district, and the pres
ence Of so many representative Repub-
licans from all sections of the county,
awakened general enthusiasm through
out the districts, and infused new life
into the canvas. 1t was the real open
ing of the Harrison campaign in Cecil
county.
From that day until the close of the
campaign, the displaced and embittered
managers, were the handed OBJ
structionists of every movement IN the
interest of our Presidential candidate
except such as they themselves per.
sonally projected.
We need not now recite the story OIL
, the colossal falsehoods by which they
sought to turn to individual account the
,, prestige of Senator Frye's meeting
Their unparalleled audacity stands, the
monumental evidence of modern poll
teal mendacity.
Neither need we for present pur
poses do more than refer to their or
ganized but unsuccessful opposition tc
the Grand Republican Rally at the
Rising Sun. Suffice it to say, that thei
reckless and maligna1t attacks right or
the eve of a Presidential election
through the columns of their weekly
organ, upon large and influential ele
ment of the party, and which they
vainly sought to drive into obscurity II
this campaign, have earned their jus
reward-the universal denunciation o
every influential element of the Repub
:, lican organization in Cecil county.
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CONNECTICUT.
DEMOCRATIC BY ONLY 1874,

From the Hartford Couranfs returns
the total vote OF the State is 153, go for
President. Cleveland has IA S54; Harri-
son, IA 500. Prohibition, 4l05; Labor,
1871.
This makes Cleveland's plurality only
1884. A change of l63 votes would have
given the State to Harrison.
If Miles, Rep, is elected by s majority
as latest returns indicate there will be a
gain of two Republican Congressman
from Connecticut instead OF one as at
first reported.
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KANSAS.

TOPEKA, KS, November 7.-Returns
have been received from every county in
Kansas. An estimate by Chairman
Booth from the reports received gives
Harrison "a, 900 majority over Cleveland,
and 65, 0G0 for the entire Republican state
ticket. The Legislature is almost solidly
Republican. The Republicans have
elected all but four members. and two of
the districts are in doubt. Every Repub-
lican senator is elected but two, one in
Leavenworth and one in Labelle county.
There are thirty eight opposition mem
bers in the present legislature.
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RHODE ISLAND.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 6.-At 3 p.
m. the city vote, with one ward lacking,
was: Harrison, 1854; Cleveland, 1863;
FISK, 332. Fnur years ago. at this hour,
the vote Was: Blaine, 5G19; Cleveland,
339S; scattering, 3O6
PKoYIDENCE, November & - Rhode Is
laud gives Harrison over 1000 majority
A close computation of the vote is as fol
lows: Harrison, 81 96S; Cleveland. H.
1876; Fisk, 1876. The vote of the city is
as follows: Harrison, 69S3; Cleveland.
Gl95; Fisk. 1S9, The Congressional dele.
patluu in reelected.
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Our Second AppOmattOX.

As IN 1861 it was the grand and
glorious destiny of the Republican party
to save this country from political dis
ruption, SO in 1883 it has fallen to its
lot, to save the country from industrial
disaster and commercial ruin. Politi-
cal supremacy was attacked then, in
dustrial supremacy was assalled this
year. 1t is SAID that God helps those
who help themselves. The X epublicans
were certainly as active twenty-eight
years ago as they are now. At that
time there came forward in the hour OF
their country's peril great men, chosen
examples of patriotic devotion to the
glory of National Unity. Lincoln,
Grant, Sheridan, Garfield, Sherman,
Thomas and Mead are all illustrious
names on the role of distinguished
Americans. They were the neil whom
a benefcent Providence raised up to
glory the American name, and who
saved for US and for the world political
union IN America.
When industrial supremacy, COM
mercial freedom and workingmen's
homes are attacked, there again comes
forward a worthy champion, under
whose leadership the working-men O.
America, standing shoulder to shoulder
have just achieved victory no les:
renowned than that of civil war.
His name is Benjamin Harrison. He
had marching behind him granc
army, not of soldiers, but of artisans, y
farmers, OF wage-earners, who think
and observe, who forge as well as the.
fought, and who charged the enem,
who attacked their wages, as vigorously
as they did the enemy who attacked
their homes. They organized unde
the banner of protection with the bes
of leadership.
They have won the victory, and HI
whom they on Tuesday elevated to th'
highest office within their gift, will no
disappoint the Nation in the great trus
reposed IN him.
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WISCONSIN.

MILWAUKEE, WIS. Nov. Van Scha,
icks, Rep, majority over Henry Smith,
Dem, Labor, in Milwaukee, the Fourth
Congressional District, is about 1900.
The Repu bliclns elect the entire county
ticket, with the exception OF tie Treas
urer. Eugene Carey, the present iDcum-
bent, was re elected by Democratic and
Labor coalition.
Nothing additional has been received
in regard to the re- ut in the 5 ale. Bar
wig. Dem. is elected to Congress over
McFetridge, Rep, in the S, cond District
the Bragg Delaney lighting grouud.