Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-11-15
Harrison Elected President
With Votes to Spare.
A SORE TIME FOR DEMOt,-
RACY-FULL RETURNS
FROM NEW YORK
AND INDIANA.
Missouri Stays in the Ranks Man
fully for Cleveland, but Loses
Democratic Congressman
"a Summary.
The Latest Raturns.


-Complete returns from Illinois
give Harrison the State by good
plurality. Fifer will likely carry
the State.
The Democrats elsct Congress-
men in the Second, Twelfth, Thir-
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and
Nineteenth districts. The Eigh-
teenth, Jehu Bakers district, is in
doubt. The Republicans have
elected fourteen Congressman.
CONCEDED TO HARRISON.
Chairman Brice, of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, con-
cedes Harrison's election.
TWO DOUBTFUL STATES.
California and Indiana are still
claimed by the Democratic man.
ayers, but the general opinion is
that they will give moderate Re-
publican majorities.
THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS.
The Fifty-first Congress il yet
unsettled. 1t is safe to say that
it will be very close when the
slain on both sides are counted.
4:3O p. m.- A reliable private
telegram from San Francisco says
the Republicans have carried Cali
fornia by 5000.
4:3Op. m.-94S precincts in In
diana give Harrison $50, ,5SS; ;Cleve
land, IA, ,413. In 1884 these pre-
cints gave Blaine 136,S95 Cleve-
land, 1877, ,613.
NORTON ALL SAFE.
Latest returns from all over the
district are as follows: Norton has
these majorities: Pike, 500; Mont
gomsry, 27O; Rails, 1000; Audrain,
500; Lincoln, LOCO.
Edwards majorjties are: Frank
lin, 76e; Warren, $50; St. Charles,
500.
This gives Mr.. Norton a clean
over 1000.
MISSOURI ALL RIGHT.
The latest returns from this
State give Francis about 14,OO0l
plurality. Cleveland will carry
the State by 25, 900 easy.
New YORK, Nov. 1.-THE opin-
ion formed last night which gave
the State of New York to Harrison
for President and Hill, DEM, for
Governor is confirmed by later
scattering returns. The districts
yet to be heard from cast In 1884 a
total of 364, $40 votes. Report by
including Allegheny,
Catteraugus, Courtland, Delaware,
Ontario, Onondaga, Putnam,
Queens, Rensselaer,, Rockland,
Rockland, Seneca, Schuyler,
Suffolk, Tompkins, Ulster, Wayne,
and Yates, indicate a /
further gain of s, 200 for Harrison.
If the scattering precincts not
heard from, and not in the counties
above named, keep up the drift
shown in adjoining precincts heard
from, Harrison's plurality will be
from 5000 to 10000 and Hills
about 10000.
New YORK, Nov. S.-The sam OF
this morning will say that Harri-
son haa 11,762 plurality in New
York State and that Hill has 49,
952. 1t says that the next House
of Representatives will be evenly
divided between the two parties
that the official count will be ne
cessary to decide which is in the
majority. Its figures show that
Indiana gives Harrison plurality
of about 1900. Connecticut is
Democratic by 494.
The election tables in the latest
editions of the evening papers give
the following estimates of Harri-
sons plurality in New York State:
Evening Sun, 1922; Evening Post,
II 3O1 Commercial-Ad dvertiser,
7 ,631; Mail and Express, 12,O73 ;
Euening Telegram, 1854; Daily
Ne,ps, S,252; Evening World, 1913.
THE REPUBLICAN WAY.
Col. John w. O'Connell, who
knows more about st. Louis poll
tics than most any other man in
the city, said: "The money rails
ed by the manufacturers and spent
by the Republicans to colonize s.
600 negroes in the city, and the
scratching of about 5000 Democrats
from the registration lists, is the
cause of our defeat in st. Louis
and the cutting down Of the ma
jority for the national and State
tickets. The saloon men spent a
great deal efthe Republican Doodle
on election day. 1t was left with
them in unlimited amounts. They
got the men in their places on cleo
ton day and filled them up with