The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-12-13
Political Points.

Tile official vote of Michigan gives Harrison
- 'Gti plurality.
The official vote of Indiana gives Gen IIar-
ri>on plurality Of 23iI.
lIarri~on's plurality in Maine, according to
the Official figures, was 49,.
Gen. COT insist, that he has been elected
Governor "f West Virginia by li> plurality.
The next New Hampshire Legislature will
contain nn unusually large number of new
men.
The Demo, ratio legislators of Alabama have
elected senator Morgan To lie his own sue
ceS-or.
Henry X. Barker, Republican, was elected
Mavor Of Providence recently hy a majority
of 2512.
The Republicans made almost Il clean sweep
in Chelsea. Mass, the Democrats cleetin@ only
two touncilnlen.
The state Board Of Canva>scrS of Tennessee
cannot agree on the Third District contest. ana
GOV. Taylor indor>e> the claims OF III. Evans.
the Republican candidate.
The Democrats at New Haven We're put to
rout last week. the Republicans c!ectine their
Mayor for the first time In eight years and
securing "a majority in the City Council.
The board OF tanVaSscrS or Louisiana mas
compiled the votes cast at the election, and
credentials were issued to all the congressman
elected, including II. Dudy Coleman. Rcpubli-
can, in the second district.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland. will issue
certificates in accordance with the face of the
returns. This gives certificates to Henry Stock
bridge. Jr., Republican, In the fourth and
Barnes Compton, Democrat, i'll the third dis
trict.
Congressman Oates of Alabama thinks that
the only way to divide the solid South, will be
to disfranchse the blacks by requiring an
educational qualification. He forgets that the
same law would di>franchise many southern
whites.
Recently we We're visited, says the Bath
Times. by a delegate who voted on every ballot
from the very beginning Of the Chicago con-
vention for Benjamin Harrison, while his asso-
ciates We're scattering their votes. That dele
gate was nlai. +. ID. Haley, Of Gardiner.
Florida, with her 2G6000 Inhabitants and
$3.50. .94S appropriation for schools, forms a
part of the solid South which has been instru-
mental in keeping out OF the Mon Dakota,
with a population of over 100000. over 1000
miles of railroad and S2,0O0,OoO appropriation
for schools.
The canvass in California, shows the election
of II. J. Canic, democratic congressman from
is the district now represented by Charles n.
FELTON,. republican. The congressional repre-
sentation of the State in the next Congress
will be four republicans and two democrats
the same as now.
During the campaign the Roach cruiser At
lanta was described by Democratic orators a>
a crazy miserable craft not tit to navigate Il
duck pond. This is the same ship which now
that the campaign Is over Secretary htney
has selected to make Il three years cruise
around the world. to show foreigners what
Americans are doing In the way of modern
naval architecture.
In 1854 the old town of rttston before i!
was divided gave Blaine and Logan 800 votes.
In September, 1SSS. what was left OF Pittston
proper gave the Republicans 10 and Randolph
gave l3O, making 300 from the territory of the
old town. and i'll November the vote in the
order above named was $50 and 125, making
the nyinciblc Republican vote 800 usual.
notwithstanding the change in the vote of each
division.
Among the numerous other letters answered
hy General Harrison Nov. 25th, were forty
four replies to parents who had Informed him
that they had named their babies ''Benja
Harrison" With one or two exceptions these
namc>akes We're all born since General llarri-
sons election. The exceptions are two sets of
triplets, boys, born shortly before the election,
the parents in each case nariiug one for Cen
eral Harrison. one for President Cleveland anl
one for the father. Acknowledgment to the
parents of third set Of trplets similarly nam
ed was made a couple OF weeks prior to eleo-
ton