Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-16

New York, Nov. 13.-Otficial figures
from counties in New York in which
the total vote for secretary of state
and judge of court of appeals has hith-
erto oeen estimated, makes the total
plurality of Palmer, republican, over
Meyer, democrat, 24,76S, and OF Bart
lett, republican, for judge, over May
nard, democrat, 100,1+6. There are
still Il few districts in Erie. Queens.
Kings and Monroe counties which have
not been filed with county clerks
These Will not change the result ma
terially. The entire vote of Grave
send may be thrown out by the board
of canyasSers and there Will be contests
in Oneida, Rensselaer, and Erie coun-
ties, and irregularities and fraud are
charged. The republicans viii have q
majority of six i'll the senate and 20
in the houSe-lot Il tWo-thirdS ma
jority necessary to pass legislation over
the head of the democratic governor
The republicans will control by a very
large majority the constitutional CON
vention which opens in May. They
will have 10 out of the 115 delegates
Some important question will come up
for consideration, among them that of
woman suffrage, reforms in the tax
system home rule for cities and
changes in the Judiciary system.
Philadelphia, Nov. 13.-Complete re
turns from the siXty-seven counties Of
Pennsylvania give Judge ID. Newlin
Fell foi justice Of the supreme court,
Il plurality Of 13S,0S4, and Colonel
Samuel NJ. Jackson. for state treasurer
Il plurality of 135, 766. These figures
are republican high water mark notches
in Pennsylvania elections. They
have never been exceeded.
The democrats were not voting Ola
Nov {. They carried but twenty-one
counties, and with the single exception
of Greene county, which gave OSburn
1880 majority, nothing like the nor
nal vote was out. Berks county's reg
ulauon 400 dropped down to 1904.
and York's 3,4O0 followed to 651.
There seemed to be a contest as to
which of the democratic counties could
do the worst, eleven turning entirely
over to the republican column. while
other strOnghoids tried very hard to
get there. The republican vote was
out everywhere.
The republican pluralities aggregate
152, Philadelphia leading with 81
Zo2, Allegheny coming next with 81
164, and then Lancaster with S,063 the
latter in Il total vote Of 16,160. These
three counties gave Fell 81, 40 Of the
mountaineering 13S,0S4 plurality to his
credit. The democratoic plurality is
1857.
With four counties missing Arm
strong, Bucks, jefferson and Monroe
the total vote in the state will be very
c-ose to 100000. 1t was 711,614 in
1891.
Des MoineS, Nov. 13.-Unofficial re
turns from all but two counties III
Iowa, with eleven counties reported
by pluralities, give Jackson Tep.l, 1885,,
800; Boies (dem.), 152.273; Joseph
pop.), 1000; Mitchell pro.), 7,745;
Jackson's plurality over Boies, 31,567;
majority over all, 1872. Jackson ran
nearly 5000 behind his ticket.
Trenton, n. J., NOV. 13.-Tbe next
New Jersey assembly will be heavily
republican, the figures standing: Re
publicanS, 40; democrats, 20. The SEN
ate will be made up of eleven repub
leans and ten democrats. The COVER
nor is Il democrat and holds office till
90
The terms of six senator's, all demo
Gratis, expire next year and the repub
licanS are sure to elect the successors
in a number of instances. If their OPP
pOnents re-elect all six the republicans
will still retain the senate. A republi-
can successor to Senator Mcpherson,
whose term expires in 1895, will be
chosen by the next legislature.
The corrected returns elect five more
rpublicanS assemblymen than were an
nounced yesterday. These are: G. w
Harding in the fifth district Of Hudson
county, instead Of Oscar Kreig, DEM;
D. B. Zabriskie in the second district
of Bergen county instead of c. Y. B.
Demarast, dem; J. 7. Edwards in the
seventh district of Essex county, in
stead of w. J. Kearns dem; John
Kerr in the seventh district of Hudson
county, instead of JOS. Carney, dem;
John n. Burger in the first district of
Union county Of Timothy ]. Kelly,
dem
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. Ex-Governor
McKinley's plurality is placed at 49,
90. The senate will stand-republcans,
70; democrats, ); house republicans,
Sc; democrats, p.
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