Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-11-11
A DAY OF ANXIETY.
Counter Claims by Republicans
and Democrats.
The Majority In the LegIsIature-Ths
Choice of United States Senator to Sue
coed Hanna-Republican Chances
Improve as the Day Advances.

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COLUMBUS, O.. Nov. A-Yesterday
was day of anxiety with the Ohio
| politicians. It opened with the repub-
| licans and democrats both claiming
the election of their state tickets and a
majority of the members of the legis-
| lature. Before noon the democrats
| conceded the election of the republic
can state ticket by larger pluralities
than were given Tuesday night in the
earliest of these dispatches as the
claims OF the republicans.
Last night the democratic state COM
mittee announced no definite claims on
the legislature and the republican
| state committee raised its claim to
majority of five on joint ballot, as fol-
lows: Senate, II republicans, 10 dem
ocrats; house, So republicans, 81 demo-
Gratis. Total, rs republicans, 20 demo-
| Gratis.
| Wood county had been conceded to
| the democrats until last night, when
the complete returns caused the re-
| publicans to claim it.
On the returns, complete, at repuo-
| lican state headquarters, the demo
Gratis will have a majority of two in
| the senate and the republicans of
| seven in the house. In these claims
| the fusionists from Cincinnati are all
counted as democrats.
The republicans can organize the
house without fusion. There is only
one of the four senators, elected on the
| fusion ticket in Cincinnati, who is a
republican, and he now becomes a fac
tor. If Senator Voight. of Cincinnati,
who is a republican elected en- the fu-
sion ticket. should vote with the re-
| publicans on the organization of the
senate, or on anything else, that body
will be a tie with Lieut.. Gov. Jones
(rep.) having the deciding vote.
If the democrats had secured a ma
| jority of the legislature, or the fusion
lists held the balance of power, it is
said that the fusionists would have
voted with the democrats.
The republicans now expect two or
more of the fusion republicans to vote
with them for senator, in which event
they claim q majority of seven on joint
ballot, with n republicans and 6S dem
| ocrats.
None of the fusion votes for senator
were counted on by the republican
managers in the event they would be
needed by the democrats to elect their
nominee, but now many speculations
are made about the fusion votes.
When it was thought yesterday that
control of the legislature might de-
| pend upon one vote, there was appre-
| hension of trouble in some counties.
| Emissaries were sent out from state
| headquarters to close countie to watch
| the counting. The Ohio law provides
| that Not less than one nor more than
| five days from the day of election dep
| uty state supervisors in each county
shall begin the official canvass of the
vote and continue from day to day I'M
| til completed"
In the event of protracted coz tests in
the close counties, the suspense might
have continued until the legislature
met next January. Since the change
of claims at the democratic state head
quarters last night on the complexion
of the legislature, two important ru-
mors have been vigorously circulated.
One is that John r. Mclean will be
| democratic nomination for president IN
| 1900 and that Senator Hanna will have
opposition in his own party for
| election to the senate. 1t is
| claimed by those advocating Mclean
for the presidential nomination that
he deserves credit for the reduction of
the republican plurality to less than
half of what it was last year and of
the republican majority in the legis-
lature from so on joint ballot to five.
And the democrats claim that the ma
| jority on joint ballot would be five the
other way if they had an equal chance
| on contests. There are Sc members of
| the state senate, and only one or two
of those districts that are so close or
| oubtful as to admit of contests on
which republican senators could be
| unseated.
On the other hand there are 100 mem
| bers of the house, in which the repub-
| licans claim majority of seven, while
| the democrats have a majority of two
in the senate. There are several coun-
| ties SO close on the vote for representa-
| tives that several seats could be
changed in that body. In the settle
ment of contested seats the republi-
cans would have such an advantage in
the house over the democrats in the
senate that it is not likely that the
latter will be aggressors in the mat
| ter. And this may allow the close
margin of the repu blicans on joint bal
lot for senator to go uncontested in
any of the close counties or before the
committees on elections in the general
assembly.
There is another alleged movement
| which is causing much more comment,
and that is the rumor that Gov. Bush
mel will be brought out for senator
against Marcus A. Hanna.
Gov. Bushnell and all others involved
in this movement deny any knowledge
of it or that they would have anything
to do with it.
Secretary Sherman Satisfied.