The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-11-08
REMARKABLE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS
IN MARYLAND.
STATUS OF THE LEGISLATURE
Majority In seuate and Re-
publican In House, With Democratic
Majority on Joint Ballot. which Re.
pubiicans Can Overcome by OustfnR
Deihocratic Representatives - Lows
Majority I'm New York-The Figures
From ohio-Big Democratic Majority
In Virginia

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ceived In this city up to midnight and
including every county in the state. |
partly official n partly estimated. in |
dicate a result in the legislative contest |
which is almost without parallel in
Maryland. The most careful TINA
and calculations give the democrats 4s
delegates and Z newly elected senator's,
which combined with the ten who hold
over in he senate assures the friends
of Nj. German a total of 63 on Joint
ballot. The republicans, it appears,
have elected 40 delegates and 6 senator's.
which added to their 3 hold over SEN
ators, gives them a total of IS on joint
ballot.
These figures indicate that the repub-
Hcans VIII be able to organize the house
of delegates in which event it is believ-
ed that they purpose to unseat sufficient
democrats in the lower branch, substi-
tuting for them members of their own
party in order to procure a majority on
joint ballot. Democratic leaders freely
assert that this is the intention of the
republicans, and they do not hesitate to
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their power to prevent such a step.
The situation in Baltimore city is a
peculiar one, in that the returns from
the second legislative district are in
such an incomplete state as to make
the result there uncertain as 20 two
legislative candidates. The election
Judges in two precincts became invol-
we'd last night in a controversy over
the rejection of several ballots and
finally locke the ballots and the poll
books in the ballot boxes and turned
them over to the supervisors Of the
election with the statement that they
declined to sign the returns. One of
the democratic candidates lacks but 81
votes Of election and another needs but
103. The republicans seem inclined to |
concede the election Of the first men
toned When the returns are in from the
two missing precincts, but assert that
the other will be beaten. The ballots
will not be counted until loon tomorrow
until which time nothing definite can
be known
One of the surprises of the day was
the close vote in Allegheny county,
heretofore safely republican by major
tiles ranging from 1000 to 1000. The
democrats nave elected their senator
and one representative in that county
and the result as to the remaining our
delegates is close.
81. Mary = COunC| WHICH ndQ D06u
considered doubtful has gone .solidly
democratic, and Washington Wilkinson,
one of the picturesque figures on the
republican side of the senate is relegat-
ed to private life.
OHIO.
Columbus, Ohio, November Slate
tonight Chairman Dick, of the republic
can state committee had the returns
from the eighty-siX counties in Ohio
with only two missing and the two
missing counties were estimated from
the PAL reports with the fol-
lowing results: Sixty-two counties
have republican pluralities, aggregating
O $40. Twenty-six counties have DEM
ocratic pluralitieS aggregating 23,179,
making the plurality of Nash over Kill
bourne for governor 67,661, and approx
imating $4,000 plurality for other can
didates on the republican state ticket.
| The republicans elected 6S representa-
tives and the democrats AZ. The state
senate stands Fl republicans and IL
democrats. The republican majority on
Joint ballot for United States senator
is So.
Cleveland, November 6.-Complete
election returns from this, Cuyahoga
county, give Nash republican, for gov
ernor, 81, IA: Kilbourne, democrat, 3d.
O1O: Kilbourne's plurality 269. The
democrats elect their entire legislative
ticket.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville, KY, November 6.-Returns
from every precinct in Louisville show
the majority of Granger, democrat, for
mayor to be 6,62S. The democrats
made a clean sweep of all the ofhces In
Louisville and Jefferson county.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Lancaster, Pa, November 6.-Burd
Co--4l mo- n10nfod RI Rnn.
gress in the Tenth congressional dis
trict comprising Lancaster county by
about $500 plurality, He succeeds the
late Merriot Brosius.
NEW YORK.
New York, November 6.-Complete un
official returns from every district o.
Greater New York give Seth o
fusion candidate for mayor, 294,9 9 AND
Edward NJ. Shepard, democratic candl
date, 265. lbs, making Lows plurality 70,
S64.
Edward M. Grout. fusionist candidate
for comptroller, received 299, 713 votes
and William Ladd, his Democrat,
rival. 254, 1877, making the plurality o
the %fusionist A,976.
Unofficial returns from every election
district in New York county, give Will
liam Travers Jerome, fusionist, a lea
of 1880 over Henry w. Unger, dem
ocrat, in the race for the district at
~torneyskip. The vote of the two fol
. lows: Jerome 163, $50, Unger 14S,079.
Complete revised returns gathered un
p officially show the election Of the fol
: lowing justices of the supreme court
Morgan J. O'Brien, democrat and fu
r sionist; Samuel Greenbaum, fusionist
James a. Blanchard, ~fusionist; job
Proctor Clarke, f~usionist. Clarke, VIII
got the smallest plurality Of any of tn
; men elected headed Charles w. Day
e ton, the nearest man to him on the 5u
s dicial ticket b. 6,116 votes and bea
n Robert A. VanWyck, the present mayo
by 29,0S0.
i Mayor-elect Low was the recipient {
scores of con~gratulatory messages.
The following dispatch was receive
from President Roosevelt: 1 congra'
d ulate the city, ever more than L do vol
upon the overwhelming triumph OF IN
forces Of decency."
I'll Mr.. Low replied as follows: You
d hearty congratulations nave done m
i good"
Mr.. Low sent the following reply I