The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-11-11
IAE RESULT IN OHIO.
THE REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET
ELECTED AND MORE THAN
LIKELY A REPUBLICAN
LEGISLATURE.
CLOSE RACE IN MARYLAND
LEGISLATURE STILL IN DOUBT.
REPUBLICANS SEEM TO HAVE
THE BEST OF 1T.
The RESULT IN NEW YORK STATE
DEMOCRATIC JUDGE ELECTED.
GREATLY REDUCED REPUBLI-
CAN MAJORITY IN LEGIs-
LATURE.
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC BY LARGE MAJORITY
II Will Reach Over 2O,OOO-There Are
Already Combines Against Hanna
Should Official Returns Show
Republican Legislature.
Republican Victories In
Kansas.
DEMOCRATIC JUDGE ELECTED.
GREATLY REDUCED REPUBLI-
CAN MAJORITY IN LEGIs-
LATURE.
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC BY LARGE MAJORITY

Columbus, Nov. 3.-Ths has been n
day of anxiety with the Ohio politi-
clans. 1t opened with the republicans
and democrats both claiming the cleo
ton of their state tickets and the ma
jority of the Legislature. Before noon
the democrats conceded the election of
the state ticket. Tonight the republican
state committee raiseG it's claims to a
majority of five on joint ballot in the
legislature as follows: Senate. II repub-
leans, 10 democrats; house, So rppubl-
cans, 81 democrats. Total, IS republ-
cans, 20 democrats.
In these claims the fuslonists from
Cincinnati are all counted as democrats.
Since the change of the claims NJ dem
ocratic headquarters tonight on the com
plexion Of the legislature, two important
rumors have been vigorously circulated.
One is that John II. Mclean will be
pressed by the Ohio democracy for the
democratic nominee for president In
1900 and that Senator Hanna will have
no opposition in his own party for cleo
ton, II is claimed by those advocating
Mclean for the presidential nomination
that he deserves credit for the reduc-
ton of the republican plurality and of
the republican majority in the legislas
turc from 8 on joint ballot to ). And
the democrats claim the majority on
Joint ballot will be five the other way
II they had an equal chance on con-
tests. There are thirty-six members Of
the state senate, and only one or two
On these districts are so close or doubt
full as to admit of contests On which re-
publicans senators could be unseated.
On the other hand there Are 100 men,
beers Of the house In which the repub-
leans claim n majority of 7, while the
democrats have a majority Of 2 in the
senate. And there are several counties
50 close that several seats could be
changed In that body. In the settlement
of contested seats the republicans 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 that matter.
There Is another alleged movement
which Is causing much more comment
and that is the rumor that Governor
Bushnell will be brought out for sena-
tor against Hanna. Allen y. Meyers,
one of the managers at the democratic
headquarters, announced tonight that
Mr.. Hanna would never be elected to
the senate on the close joint majority
that Is claimed, although Hanna had
been edorsed for senator by the last re-
publican state convention the same as
ers said that If the close call on the leg
islature went against the democrats in
the official count that the democrats in
the legislature would joint with a dozen
or more republicans In the legislature in
eecting Bushnell instead of Hanna to
the senate. Governor Bushnell and all
others involved in this movement deny
any knowledge of it or that they would
have anything to do with 1t.
hn -
complete returns from eighty-six counties
tonight and two other counties, Stark and
Vincent are estimated. The plurality
for Bushnell for governor and the rest
of the republican state ticket is placed Mt
26,520. The plurality in Ohio last year
for Mckinley was 1.10S. Hamilton
county gave Mckinley last year plu-
(repD this year plurality of only 1910,
republican loss in the county of 1920,
while the republican loss in the whole
state on pluralities is 24,5S9. Chairman
Nash says there were factional troubles
in other cities than Cincinnati. notably
Columbus and Toledo. and that the rainy
weather and other reasons Tuesday
caused an unusually large stay-at-home
vote. lie states that the official count
will show that the vote was much smaller
in the rural districts than expected.
While the republicans carried Hamil-
ton by 1910 on the state ticket, they lost
their. county ticket, including fourteen
members of the legislature, by several
thousand. The republicans claim their
legislative ticket suffered defeat in Ham
ilton county because of the fear by the
reform republicans or the fusionsts that
strong republican legislature would re-
organize Cincinnati or some of her mu-
nicipal boards and take from Mayor Tafel
(dem.), recently elected as fusionist,
some of the powers of his office. The
democrats state that the results in Cincn-
natl and other cities were due to the feel
ing against bosses. of whom Senator
Hanna was considered the chief. and to
fractional fights that will be carried into
the next session of the legislature on the
selection of senator and other matters.
Free silver was freely discussed by BRYAN
and Others in the campaign, but neither
national nor state issues cut much of a
figure. The most prominent issue was
Hanna.