Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-09
THE ELECTIONS.

MCAeHucys OohioCi> Az Az 49,
trict, and Gen. james A. Walker, re-
publican, in the Ninth district. The
other eight districts elect democrats,
making the delegation stand nine dem
ocrats to one republican.
At the very lowest estimate the dem
ocrats have upon the total vote FOR
Congressman carried Virginia by 2o,-
600 majority. From official returns
and estimates these figures are given
for the various districts. 1t some OF
them these pluralities may be reduced
by the official figures. Iu the First,
Jones, 443333;; Second, Tyler, 275O; Third,
Elicit, 1000; Fourth, Mckinney, 1000;
Fifth. Swanson, 5000; Sixth, Otey, 2476;
Seventh. Turner, 1000; Eighth, Mere
dith, 23OO; Ninth, Walker (rep), 1880;
Tenth, Tucker, $500.
The republicans will make contests
in four of the districts of the State.
These are the Second, Fourth, Sixth
and Tenth. They base their contests
upon the operations unde the new Wal
ton election law. Under this many
votes were thrown out on account OF
being improperly prepared. In one
county as mary as five hundred and
in another as many as seven hundred
votes were rejected on this account. 1t
is probable that the number ofvotes re-
iected in the State on this account were
several thousand.
The democrats concede that then orth
Carolina fusionists have elected their
candidates for State treasurer and
Judges by msjorities of about 10000.
Latest figures indicate fusion major
ity on joint ballot in the Legislature of
about thirty.
Only three democratic Congressmen
are certainly elected, Woodland in the
Second district, Shaw in the Third, and
Lockhart in the Sixth.
The returns from Missouri indicate
that the republicans have elected their
State ticket, a majority of the legisla
ture and II of the 10 Congressman.
The returns from Texas show great
gains for T. L. Nugent, the populist
candidate for Governor. The State last
night was claimed by both parties. The
populists claim a plurality of 10000 for
| Nugent, while the democrats only
claim the State for Culberson by 10000.
The democratic strongholds have been
heari from, while the populists are yet
to receive returns from the country dis
tricts. The democrats have lost two
and possibly four Congressman.
Returns received from the democratic
strongholds in west Tennessee continue
10 swell the plurality for Governor
Turney. and it is possible it may go
over 900.
On the strength of returns received
in Washington up to nine o'clock last
night, chairman Babcock, of the repub
lican Congressional committee, figured
that the republican representation in
the next House will be at least 25S
members. The changes from the after
Moons statement, when 254 were claim
ed to be elected, is made by one add
tional from Illinois and three from
North Carolina. The dispatch thai
caused the greatest surprise was one
stating that Representative McMillin
of Tennessee, was possibly defeated. i
came from the chairman of the State
central republican committee of Ten
the district were not all in. Chairman
Babcock also said that from present in
dications the republicans will have a
least II members in the next Senate
and in this number is included Senator
Jones, Of Nevada.
The indications are that the 54tt
Congress will open with numerous con
tests for seats in the House of Repre-
sentatives from the southern States
Reports received at republican head
quarters make it plain that unless there
Is change either of mind or conditions
there will be at least three contests
from Louisiana, of three from Mary
land. of one or two from Virginia anc
of some from North Carolina and Ten
nessee, with possibility of such con
tests from Alabama, Kentucky and Ar
kansas. Secretary Ferris, Of the Louis
lana republican committee, claims in 8
telegram to Chairman Babcock, of the
national committee, that the democrats
have been defeated in three of the con
gressional districts, but expresses the
conviction that they will be counted
out, and says that contests will be made
for the three seats in the House. He
adds that fraud, intimidation and vic.
lence Can be proven. The republicans
in the Seventh Virginia district assert
that the democratic candidate in that
district is defeated by majority of at
least 900, but claim that they have evil
dence that the count is being so manip
ulated as to reverse the result, and say
their candidate, Walker, by name, will
contest.
A dispatch from Washington says
Scarcely second to the deep satisfaction
with which the overwhelming victory
of the republicans is received is the
qualification at the complete extirpation
of the populists by the voters OF the
West and of the South. True, it is that
in Alabama, and possibly in Texas,
there have been elected so-called popu-
lists, but it will develop when these
gentlemen reach Congress that they are
in no respect to bs regarded with appre-
hension. In the complete defeat of
Waite, the populist governor of Color
ado, the populist party, as MIR. Waite
himself said, received its death-blow as
a national party. The sporadic cases of
populism that will appear in the next
House will never replace in ability aud
brains land consequent power for eviD
the populists in the present House who
have been defeated. Simpson, of Kan
sas, and LATE Pence, of Colorado, are
both men of real and acknowledged
requirements. Nor were Kern, Of
Nebraska, Bryan, ofNebraska, BoeD, of
Minnesota, and Harris and Davis, of
Kansas, men of less attachments than