The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-16

The congressional congress il b odis-
triet orerths river hasopened up brisk.
ly for 50 carly in the season and 4. 10
very evident sha. there will DO a no.
ooatssl In BeInon. county Col Poor
maE and hi, friends have begun active
movements looking toward the solidif-
cation Of that county on the terms pro-
pesed-that the highes. man in a pri-
mary contest take the =hole dAiega-
ton. With this in view the colonel has
made astudy Of the Ohio congressional
elections two years ago and will say in
his paper .to-d4y: An examination
OF the election returns in Ohio in the
last Congressional election disc!oaes the
fact THAI the Democratic party threw
away tho electoral vote Of the state in
the anxiety 70 gain q few congress men.
II Tas we'll known that in the Bel.
mont-Jef!erson. or Observation-Disclosures,
iriends OF the Democratic candidate for
congress worked actively at the trading
business. freely offering the state ticker,
the electoral votes. or candidates on
the local ticket, for Republican yotes Tor
congress, and in that way secured more
votes than made up his meagre major
ity Of foty-one.
The same kind Of work wGs done in
nearly every dIs!F!c. in the state whe:e
there was a possibility Of success. Is tho
following vote for presidential electors,
and the aggregate vote for congressman
clearly indicate:
Republican. Democratic.
Vote for PEesident---.46j51 +oI,lo
Vote Tor ELECTROMAGNETIC N.59
The average majority for Republican
electors for President WIS 1000, and the
Democratic majority on the vote for
congressman was 10.3i9, making q diff
ference Of II ,3SG, or an average Of 542 10
each congressional district.
When the new apportionment for
congress was made in 1896 there were
fifteen districts that we're considered
Republican, when the state went Re-
publican, By average majorities ranging
from 500 to 5000. The seventeenth dis
trio. had the smallest average majority
OF any OF these. At the election Of 1892
five OF these thought-to-be safe districts
were carried by the Democrats. as fol-
lows: The ninth with over 1000 aver
age Republican majority went Demo
cratic by II majority; the fourteenth.
with over 1000 average Republican ma
jority by 1889 majority; the eighteenth
with nearly. 1900 average Republican,
by 1,2l1 majority; the twenty-irst with
an average Republican majority OF 600.
by SPA, and the seventeenth district
with an average Republican majority OF
700. by Al majority. The average loss
in the four district was over $500 10, tine
diltrict, while the loss in the seventeenth
was but 74l.
From the Mckinley majority OF 81
oil, in 1891, 10 the Democratic ma
iority OF l0,3i9 in the congressional
election in 1892, there was aRepublican
loss OF 1880. an average Of l,5l7 to
each congressional district, which was
but l,2i0 below the higher, evor given
in the district, and bnt sbou. SIC below
the majority OF 1889.
These figures disclose the fact that
the Republican candidate in the Seven
teenth district, Colonel Poorman, made
6 better run in that district, run less
behind the presidential vote, and lost
LEES compared with previous results
than either OF the candidates in the
other Lost districts, and better COMPARE
tire results were attained in but three
Republican districts in the state.
And this. too, in the face Of the fact
that the Democratic Congressional com
mittee made n liberal contribution TO
carry the Seventeenth district, and the
National and State Republican commit
tees insisted upon the services OF Col
Poorman for four weeks in New York
and Indiana, aud in Ohio. outside OF
this district. insisting that the district
was safely Republican. The conditions
are very different now and the result
will be very different il he is again C
candidate or the returning tide.