Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-11-22
Political Notes.

Governor Hastings will be lndueted
into Office January 15. Governor Pattison
was inauguarated January 20, and will
have served five days less than four years
at the close of his term.-There is no doubt
the Inauguration of the incoming Governor
will be the most imposing ever seen IN
Pennsylvania.
It will be thirteen months before Tom
Reed can get his hands on the Speaker $
gayel. unless ClevelaI d calls the oath
tn Congress in special session, and he Is
not likely TO do that.
The defeat OF Estee, the Republican eau
didate for Governor of California, while the
rest of the State ticket was successful, was
due to the fact that it was claimed be was
the special candidate Of the Southern Paci-
fic railroad.
The next Legislature OF PennsylYania
will be divided politically as follows;
Rep. Dem.
co,a.a
House .--...----..----.-
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T0tals--. -.zio q"
Republican majority, ls3 1t was SO in
the general assembly of 1892. Republican
gain OF 95.
1t was stated few days ago that it
seemed probable that Governor Hastings
cabine. will be made up as follows: Secre-
tary Of the Commonwealth, Gen. Frank
Reeder, of Northampton county; Attorney
General, Henry C. Mccormick, OF Williams
port, ex-Congressman from the Sixteenth
district; Adjutant General, Thomas j. Ste
wart, of Montgomery county, now closing
his second term as Secretary OF Internal
Affairs. The two principal appointments
remaining, those Of Commissioner oil lnsur-
ance and Superintendent of Banking, Will
be filed by b. Frank Gilkeson, OF Bucks
county, chairman Of the Republican State
committee, and ex-State Treasurer John
W. Morrison, of Allegheny county.
Nearly million ballots were cast in Penn
sylyania at the late election. the official
figures being 953,O13, of these Hastings
received 574,s01; Singerly 333. .404; Hawley
Pro-. g, ,443; Altman, Pop, 19, 464; Grundy
Soc. Labor, ], I,733, and there were some
scattering votes. Lyon was cut about TO-
900 in the State.
The result of the election in Minnesota
is perhaps the most significant of any in
the trans-M Mississippi River States The
State has been strongly Republican, but
for some reason bitter fight was make in
the party against the candidate for Gov
ernor. Every Swedish newspaper 10 the
State bolted his nomination, although ne
ia Of that nationality himself, and the
Swedes have been almost unanimously
Republican. In this situation the success
of the fusion ticket nominated by the
Democrats and Populists seemed certain.
But prominent men in both the RepuD-
lican party and the Democratic party
fore saw the injury and disgrace that
would come to the State from Populist
victory, and they united in one supreme
effort to save Minnesota from the fate OF
Kansas and Colorado. TEey succeeded in
turning the tide and in rolling up big
majority against advancing Socialism. IL
is instructive to remember that Grover
Cleveland, in 1892, struck hands with this
same crowd Of Socialists from whom the
men OF Minnesota have just saved their
State.
The total vote of this Congressional dis
trict was IS, ,9S3, Of which Phillips received
%, 2,l56, vanderlin 10, 435, White l,473 and
Kirker I,919. Phillips plurality over
Vanderlin Is IL, 72l. which is very heal
thy Republican plurality.
The vote in detail was: