The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-11
LOYAL TO DEMOCRACY.


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the State aud Congressional Tickets
Legislature safely Democratic.
St Louis, Nov. 1O-The Missouri
delegation in the next congress will
stand just as it did in the last, IL DEM
ocrats and 3 republicans, and there
will be no change as to the districts
The democrats, as before, have carried
all the districts outside of st. Louis,
and the repu blicans carried the Tenth,
Eleventh aud Twelfth districts, re-
electing Congressman JOY, Pierce and
Bartholdt. The Eleventh and Twelfth
districts are solely within the city of
st. Louis and the Tenth district con-
sists of south ST. Louis, st. Louis and
Franklin counties. The vote in the
Tenth was Bartholdt, tl,SG4; Gill,
S,019. In the Eleventh the vote was
Noonan, DEM, 49, 1875; JOY, rep, 2l,3G5.
In the Twelfth the vote was Kern,
dem, 49, 41; Pierce, rep, 1880.
In the First district Lloyd, dem, has
a majority of about 1900. In the Sec
ond Rucker, dem, has a majority of
4 500. In the Third DouRherty has a
majority of 5000, and Cochran in the
Fourth will have about the same The
state committee places Cowherd's ma
jority in the Fifth at 5000. De
Almond in the Sixth is elected by p
500. Benton's majority In the Fiji
teenth was reduced, but he is
elected by something near 1000
Champ Clark in the Ninth will
have over ,, 600 majority and Bland in
the Eighth at least 2, 500. Robb in the
l.. Ia -, -.
1000, and Vandiver, in the Fourteenth
will have at least 1000 majority.
Cooney is elected in the Seventh by
over 5000.
In the Ninth congressional district
Clark carried Audrain by 1884 Pike
by 1880, Montgomery by $50, Rails by
i.400 and Lincoln by 1850. Shackel-
ford (rep) carried ST. Charles by 900,
Warren by 925 Gasconade by 1850 and
Crawford by 40.
In the Sixth district DeArmond. DEM,
had the following majorities: Bates,
700; Cass, 1000; Henry, 100; Johnson.
$50; st. Clair, 300. His republican op-
ponent, S. w. Jurden, received 800 ma
jority in Dade and 200 in Cedar.
In the Twenty-ninth judicial dis
trict W. w. Graves (dem.) has a ma
jority of s37 over C. A. Denton.
In the First congressional district
Lloyd (dem.) carried Clark, Knox,
Lewis, Marion, Macon, Schuyler, Scot
land and Shelby counties. Seaber car
ried Adair and Putnam.
In the Fourth congressional district
Congressman Cochran's majority over
Brewster is about ., 600. This is 40 per
cent less than his majority of two
years ago, but it is accounted for by
the popularity of the republican can
didate.
Emert A. Dowell (dem.) was elected
to state senate, Twelfth district, to
succeed Powers (rep.) by plurality OF
about 1000. Dowell carries every
county in the district, except Clark
and Putnam.
In Pettis county the democrats made
clean sweep. Vernon county gives
the democratic ticket a plurality OF
over 600.
Marion county shows average demo
cratic majorities of about 1000.
In Caldwell county the entire repub-
lican ticket was elected by majorities
ranging from 25 to 500.
Saline county rolled up l. 900 major.
ity for the democratic state, congress
sional and county tickets In Clark
county the county ticket is divided be.
tween republicans and democrats. In
Miller county the republicans have a
majority of ISL. The republican tick.
ct is also elected in Carroll county.
Greene county, which gave fusion
ma iority in 1896 this year elects the
entire republican ticket. Robertson
(rep.) for congress has a majority OF
$50 over Cooney. Ramp (rep.) for
Twentieth district senator in Greene,
Polk, Dallas and Dade counties is
elected by 400 over Hamlin (dem)
In Boone county the repu blican
county ticket had been ruled off the
ballot and the democratic ticket was
elected without opposition. On the
state ticket democrats had a majority
Of about 2,700.
James Z. Neville (rep.) defeated A.
II. Wear for circuit judge by l, 400 in
the district composed of Greene, Chris
tian and fancy counties. In 1896 these
counties gave Bryan majority. In
Wright county republicans elected
their ticket except county clerk.
James Goodrich, republican candi-
date for congress in the Third district,
ran about 200 votes ahead of his ticket
in Clinton, his home county.
Complete returns from Monroe coun-
ty show a democratic majority of 3,
100 in the county.
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