Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-04
THE ELECTIONS.

THE ELECTlOSS.
Elections were hed yesterday II eleven
ststes. Though ;he democrats los: the
Governor of o 1io the result ia moss enoou,-
sgng to that party aud ppts than in good
trim for the election ic 1892. The follow
Jog slows the retu,rs up 70 b early hour
THE morning.
Virginia
The election Ia Virginia for cHe.hslf of
the S ats Ssna oEs and full membership OF
the House OF Dsiega.es ys9ulsed j1 demo
cratic s1eep Tue Ssnste will probably
sand 3S democrats TO Q republicans, while
the House wli! be overwhelmingly demo
cratic. In the Elghth congressional district
every msmbsr of the Legislature will Re q
democrat. Tee republicans seemed 80 have
oheYed Gen. Mahone's request and refrain
ed from voting. The democrats have made
gsins in the black counties They e'eotsd
,heir csndids:es 10 Prince Eigasd, Motto
9ay, King George, Brulssink. Charles
City, New K mr., Appomattox. Naneemond,
| Halifax, e zsbsih City, Southampton.
Prince Geoyys srd ether of the largest negro
counties 10 thp S:asa. NJ Henry 2. WICK
ham, agsinet II hom ;ha alliance Dede de
termiped fight, ia elsc cd ia the senatorial
district composed Of Hanover and Cn-oline
| Poodle. independent ALLIANCES candidate for
tbs Hcnse, In W-ckienbu.c, is e!eoted, cut
Scots. the democratic S3netcr, ls CHOSEN
from that district. I is slraesf oertHin that
| the democrats will hsyo from 10 to 80 OF the
| 100 members OF the q 1usa. Ti'msn and
Parrish; Ism ,cra.ic nominees for the Hou:e
of Delegates, csrrief Aloemsrle unty By
mej1rjty Of about LOCO over john s. Harris,
boiling Democrat. There we5 5o;iceable
falling eff ir the colored vote, the colored
| people apparently taking but Iitt!e interest
In the election.
The victorg In the Stats Is almost as COM
plete as 1t Was isss year when ten congress
men were elec ed Il is beloved that ont
of 100 mer hers 81 tbs Rouse OF Delegates rs
ere certain to gn iato TIE democratic caucus,
In the senstorial die.rcts where there
were contests, 90 far rs hessd fraD, the fol-
lowing regular democratic ncmiEess ere
| elected Washington, of Westu1orsiand !;
Tyler, OF Cherries City; Wickham. Of Han
over Barnes. OF Naoeemond Watson, OF
Dlnwiddis Flood, Of Appomato1 South.
all, of Amelia. and Hurt. of Pi tsyIvsnia /;
Walton, OF Page, wss also elected.
For the House. Hudglns, of Carollne !;
shacselford, OF Orange Howe, of Pulaski;
caster Chambers. OF Northu n berlend; Ker-
foot, of Clarke end IPsrren; Gibson, OF Gull
pepper BrowDirg, Of RappshsnDook Ma
gruder, OF Shenandoah Graves, of Page, all
democrats, were electeo. Richmond, Peters
burg. Norfolk, Portsmouth, fredericksburg,
and Alexandria elect democrats without
opposition.
Neap York.
Hon. Boswell P. Flower, democrat. wss
| elected Governor of Nsw York over ]. Slost
Fassett by about 10000 plurality. The com.
pexiop OF the LeRisature is IL doubt. Fas-
sett's lossee Ia The Stale ore attributed to
Plett's effort to seya the Legislature. The
Times tote figures give The republicans 8
| bare majority In the Senete, eight msj ority
| 10 the Assembly. and several districts In
| doubt. Last nights returns indicate that
the republicans gain two in the Senate and
four in the Assembly. The falling off of
Flowers majority in the city lie attributed to
| county democracy treachery. Mr. Sheheo,
| the democratic candidate. for Lieutenant
Governor, ran behind the head Of the ticket,
but not enough to endanger bis election.
BE ran nearly even with Flower In New
York city and BROOKLYN. Mr. Flowers ma
jority In New YORK. city is s5oB' SO 000 and
Kings county gave him over Is 600 msj ori-
ty, The republicans information led them
to believe that Fassett would run very cloee
TO Harrison In the rural dlstr'cts, end they
believed that he was sure 90 come down to
Harlem river with at leaqt $4,000 plurality,
bot In this they were muoh mistaken.
Bourke Cochran, deu., !s slscted to Con-
gress TO fill the vacancy caused by General
Spnole's death. Elk Mayor Chopin, dem.
Is elected to Congress from Brooklyn. N
NJ. Curtis, rep, il elected TO Congress from
the TWENTY second district ia plaza Of Rus.
sell. rep. joe. J. Little, dem, was elected
to Congress In che IL b district 10 take Mr..
Flower'e place. To tee Assembly the Tamma-
ny democrats made En- almost clean sweep of
New York CITY. the republicans gaining ooe
district. The T4mmsuy candidates 70: the
Judiciary were elected by large msjorities,
and the board of aldermen was swept By
Tammaay Hall as completely az in it's can
dida;es for the Assembly. At BiDghamton
Lieut.-Gov, Jones voted for Fessett, aud it
IL believed thai he also voted the complete
republican ticket. The Sun says: "The
Senate is redeemed, and Lieut. Gov. Shse-
han will preside over Senate with friend.
ly msjorl;y. The vote 10 the Oyux Cham
Der will be 16 democrats to 16 republican,.
The Assembly is democratic by 60 out of
votes out Of 160.
Ohio.
Msjor Mckinley is eIec'e ed governor OF
Ohio by maj 'ri'Y of from 10 600 TO Ii. 900,
his plurality In Hamilton county exceeding
5000. The republicans ceim the egisa-
| ture. bat owing to The slow couut--it being
the first election hello under the Australian
ballet law in Ohlo-no definite estimate of
how the GeDe' al Assembly will stand had
been made up to midnight. Mr.. Neal, the
chairman Of the democratic State comini.-
tee, teIegrsphed Lac. night that Mckinley
had big plurality, and the Indications were
that the Legislature is republican. Governor
Campbell made gsiDa III the m manufacturing
cities. but the countgy districts soow gains
for Mckinley.
Maryland
The democratic plurality 10 Maryland is