The Indianapolis journal., 1894-11-07
10000 IN ILLINOIS.
The State and Cook County Carried
by Republicans.

by Republicans.
CHICAGO, Nov. 6-The work of counting
tickets in the various precincts in this city
was very slow, and, acting under the in
structions of the chief of police. the officers
detailed at the various polling places began
to bring in bulletins on the head of the
ticket only. In consequence the general
drift of Me vote throughout the city on
the State Treasurer result was apparent
long before any figures were received OH
any of the other offices. The fact that at
the outset Claggett was slowly dropping be-
hind Wulff on the State ticket did not bring
the dismay to the little squad headed by
Mayor Hopkins, and sitting in the chiefs
Office, that might have been expected. They
declared that the vote on the county Off
GERS would show a very different result
AS the evening wore on considerable crowds
gathered in the corridors of the City Hail.
impatient to learn something of the COM
plexion of the vote. Still nothing tangible
excepting Oh the State treasurership was
obtainable. and the crowd began to grow
impatient. Earnest workers for the various
candidates hovered around for hours, and
a times the excitement found vent in i'm
patient cries for news which, owing to the
necessarily slow work at the polling places,
was not to be had The vote throughout the
city was very heavy.
At IL o'clock tonight the Tribune says
that the Republicans will come up to Cook
county with majority of $1,000 to 200.
1t appears that in the State sixty Repub-
lican members of the Legislature have been
chosen. Unless returns in Cook county are
changed. the Tribune says. the Republic
have carried it State and county
tickets, and have made such legislative
gains that it seems safe to claim that body
for the Republicans. 1t also looks as If
Cook had elected five out of seven Repub-
ncan Congressman.
At 10:30 tonight, John r. Tanner, chair
man of the Republican State central COM
mittee, said: lone hundred and twenty-five
precincts outside of Cook county show
Republican gain of 40 to the precinct. This
may not hold good in the agricultural
townships. but sufficient has been received
to justify the claim of 1900 majority or
plurality in the State. We have sixteen
Republican Congressman and both branches
of the General Assembly. Cook county has
gone at least 1900 plurality for Republic
anism.
At n:3o p. M, the Record Qnd.), says:
Cook county seems TO have gone Repub-
lcan by 1900.
'It is our opinion that the State has gone
Republican. Cook county is yet in doubt"
125,OOO Claimed by Republicans.
CHICAGO Nov S6.-Never in the history
of Cook county were election returns so
slow, difficult to obtain as to-day.
The county ticket was very long, and the
vote on County Commissioners compli-
Gated, making the count exceedinly slow.
Nof he hoe 70
come in with any regularity whatever. and
then the figures obtainable were only on
the head of the State ticket. Beyond gen.
eral deductions, from this unsatisfactory
source, there was at midnight practically
nothing to indicate with any certainty as
to the result of the vote in the county.
The Republicans, at midnight, were claim
ing the county by anywhere from 1900 to
10000 The Democrats conceded that the
State ticket was beaten in Cook county.
but claimed thab the latest returns would
prove that they had carried all the county
offices. Chairman Tanner, of the eRpub-
lican State central committee, claimed the
county by at least 5000 and the State by
5000. The vote on Congressman and men,
bers of the State Legislature was so slow
and scattering as to forbid
any accurate estimate as to the
gressional district; in the Second White,
Populst; in the Third McGann was slight
ly sahead of Belknap. Republican: in the
Fourth Foodman, Republican, was ahead.
and in the Fifth White, Republican, led
by few votes only. In the Sixth Goldzier,
Democrat, led by a narrow margin, and
Foss, Republican, had strong lead in the
Seventh. William NJ Springer wired at Il
D.. m. that the returns indicated his defeat.
Chairman Tanner, of the Republican
State committee. said at 1:SO a. m: I'VE
will have fopty-four majority in the Leg
islature on joint ballot Cook county by
10000 and Illinois by 125,00O' He claims the
election of Lorimer to Congress from the
Second district.
405 precincts in Illinois outside of Cook
county give Wulff, 65.797; Claggett AZ 190
The same in 1892 gave Republicans 62 699;
Democrats, 56S67. If this ratio of gain
is maintained the Republican majority will
exceed 10000 ~
Hits Plurality 1000.