Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-10
ELECTION ECHOES.
C0ngratulating Successful Candidates.
Delayed Returns, Etc.


Both President-elect Harrison and Mr.. Nor
ton have as much e. they can do to read the
kilograms Of congratulation that are pouring
in ON them. Delegations called on Mr.. Harri-
son all through the day yesterday and last eve
ming. In thanking one Of them for their at
tention last night, he said that the time for
speech-making had passed; the debate had
closed
WEST vIRoINIA's GOVERNOR AND coNeREssMEx
STILL UNDECIDED.
Forty counties of West Virginia, polling 49,
l6S votes for President in 1884, show net re-
publican gain of 4,0A6. The remaining four
teen counties, polling 1888 votes, WILL at the
same ratio Of gains. give the republicans
plurality of 1000 in the state. The state is
claimed for Fleming, democrat, for governor
by IT'S The legislature is one republican ma
jority on joint ballot. they having two majority
In the Senate, and the democrats one in the
House. Indications are that Atkinson. Flick
and Smith, republicans. are elected respective
" in the first. second and fourth congressional
districts. Wilson, democrat, claims to have 425
majority, but in the third district there will
not be 100 difference between Anderson, demo-
crat, and McGinniss republican, and both par
ties claim the district
vIRaINIA's CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
Virginia democrats claim the state by 1000 to
5000 majority and that they have eight out Of
ten Representatives in Congress- These are
Geo. D. Wise, third district; E. C. yenable,
fourth; Posey Lester, fifth; Paul Edmunds,
sixth; c. T. O'Ferrall, seventh: W. H. F. Lee,
eighth: Jas A. Buchanan, ninth; Henry st.
George Tucker, tenth. The republicans have
elected two-T. H. Bagly Browne in the first
district and Geo. E. Bowden in the second
wise's majority in the Richmond district is
only about 200. Ex-Judge Edward Waddill
his republican opponent. will contest Wise's
seat on the ground that 600 colored voters were
not allowed to vote in jackson ward, the col
ored ward of Richmond.
CALIFORNIA coNaREssMEN.
The latest congressional returns from Cali
fornia last night indicated that McKenna, rep,
and Vandeveer, rep, are undoubtedly re-elec-
ted in the third and sixth districts, respectively
There is also little doubt that Morrow, rep, is
reelected in the fourth district. Biggs, DEM,
has a plurality of nearly 200 in the second
district In the two remaining districts, the
first and fifth. the contest is very close, but De
Haven. rep. in the first and Clunie, dem, in
the fifth, appear to be elected.
TWO DEMOCRATIC ooNaREssMEN.
Harrison's plurality in Indiana is about 8, 43S.
Dispatches last night announced the election
of Brookshire. DEM, over Johnston, rep, in
the eight Indiana district
special from Nashville. H., says: Forman
dem, for Congress in the eighteenth district Of
Illinois, has a majority of II over Jehu Baker,
rep.
CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Chairman Mosby, of the republican state ex-
ecutive committee of South Carolina, announces
that he will contest the election of congressman
in the first, fourth. sixth and seventh districts
of that state. He asserts that he can prove
fraud at the polls and will be able to seat the
republican contestants.
HARRISON TO MILLER.
President-elect Harrison has sent dispatch
to Warner Miller, the defeated candidate for
am greatly grieved at your defeat. If the in
trepid leader fell outside of the breastworks
the column, inspired by his courage, went on
to victory"
''MAGNIFICENT BUT NOT POLITICS"
In long editorial in the Louisville Courier
Journal blaming the defeat of the democracy
on President Cleveland, Henry Watterson SAYS:
ITO all approaches for help, which the Presi-
dent thought he had no right to give. his one
answer that this was not the Administra-
tons, but the peoples battle. When he was
asked directly from national democratic head
quarters whether he was Tor us or against us he
smiled pleasantly, and considered that which
was only half jest as a tribute to his integ-
rity, as indeed it was. though at the expense of
his wisdom. 1t is true to say of him that he
did not raise his hand to help himself from the
beginning to the end of the campaign; that he
did not encourage anybody else to help him,
and that i'm many cases he did not permit his
official subordinates to help him. This was
magnificent, but it was not politics"