Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-09-14
AS IT WAS EXPECTED.
State for Governor by an
Increased Plurality.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. S--A special to
the Post-Dispatch from Little Rock,
Ark, says that p. J. Carroll Armstrong,
chairman of the Democratic state cen
trail committee, says the indications are
that 10000 votes were cast at yester-
days election. The combined vote of
the opposition reaches $4,000, giving
majority Of $4,000 for the Democratic
state ticket.
The campaign was fought on financial
lines, the Democrats standing for free
silver and the Republicans for the single
gold standard. This is double the ma
jority the Democrats received at the
elections two and four years ago.
Additional returns received up to noon
indicate that Col. Dan w. Jones and the
remainder of the Democratic state ticket
won by $1,000 or 10000. This beats all
former records in Arkansas. If the same
vote was cast in other counties as was
polled in the counties on the line of the
railroads the falling off was not more
than 10 per cent. of the registered vote.
In that case 10000 votes were polled.
Of this number it is generally believed or
about 10000; Files Pop) $4,000 and
Miller (Pro) 1000. At the highest fig
ures three of the candidates received ST.
600 or $4,000 votes. This would leave
Col. Jones with 100000, or $4,000 ma
jority over all, greater by over $4,000
than it was claimed he would get prior
to the election. Two years ago when
Gov. Clarke was elected 10000 votes
were polled. Yesterdays vote exceeded
these figures by about $4,000.
In Little Rock interest in the election
conferred on the liquor license question.
Never before in the history of the city
had there been such a campaign against
Nbo Iirr;o oil 10
G. L. u. and the ministers especially
have been busily engaged for more than
month in the effort to vote license and
were joined in the movement by the Re-
publicans, who hoped in defeating
license, to break up the so-called Pulaski
county Democratic ring. Two big mass
meetings were held by the Prohibition
people. Yesterday and prayer meetings
were held every hour in all the city
churches today.
At p. m. enough returns have been
received from city polling places to in
dictate that license has carried by small
majority and that the regular Demo
cratic ticket in this county has carried
by about the usual majority.
Elections in Former Years.
In the state elections Arkansas has
always gone solidly Democratic, and
only once did it give Republican ma
C.
was in 1872, when Gen. Grants person
atty won him votes in the bear state.
Ever since then it has always been one
way in presidential years, the majority
increasing generally. Votes have fuc-
tuated in Arkansas during the last TWEEN
ty years, all the new movements gaining
considerable strength, but nothing could
beat the Democratic. organization, though
it's majority in gubernatorial elections
has been pulled down repeatedly.
In the greenback fight in Arkansas in
1878 the Republicans did not even put
up ticket for congressional candidates.
The vote in that year was the ightest
ever known, the greenbackers polling
1S,967, against the Democratic 2,652
1t was not until ten years later that an
other movement gained Roadway in the
state and the supremacy of the Demo-
Gratis threatened. In 1888 the union la
Dor party took away all the Republican
votes for governor. In fact only two
tickets were in the field, the Republicans
fusing with the labor party to defeat the
Democrats. The latter polled 1929
votes. while their opponents got 81, 225.
The Republicans broke away in the
presidential election the same year, and
the Democratic plurality again climbed
up.
Fusion was tried with the Union Labor
party in 1890, during the gubernatorial
campaign, but the election resulted in an
increased majority for the Democrats
over that of 1885, It was not until 1892
that the Populists began to show
strength in Arkansas. At the presiden-
tial campaign in 1892 they polled II 1881
votes, drawing most of them from the
Republican party. In the gubernatorial
election in 1894 the Republican vote was
considerably lessened by the vote cast
for Barker, the Populist candidate
Kennel, the Republican candidate, re-
ceived only 26,055 votes, against %, 54f
for Barker and 74,8O9 for Clarke, the
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