The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-11-07

tcEAEOAs 6OotGl SpIEGCLGl a. - - JIG
entire city give Bates. repcnli an. Ss.S7:
tGaston, democrat 45.s2S a plurality Of
l12,S41 for CASTOR Vote last year was
Crane, republican. 3i.ts5; Qaincy, DEM
iocrat, 3e,0T3.
New Jersey.
Trenton. ". J.. November AT $50
lo'clock Chairman Stokes. % the repub-
liican state committee claimed h his
party had elected nine C{ re ten con-
lgressmen.
Chairman Gourley. of the democratic
state committee. claimed four congress-
men.
New Jersey. November Republican
candidates for congress ST" elected in
the First. Second. Seventn and eighth
districts: a democrat !n the Tenth.
There are not as yet enough returns
from the other districts 20 -stimate.
Trenton, y. J.. November The re-
lpublicans Will again control both houses
of the New Jersey state legislature by
heavy maSorities.
Toledo. o., November A. Complete re-
TURNS from Z Of the los precincts show
n net republican gain OF - TO the pre-
lcinct. This indicates 4 REPUBLICAN ma
Ijority Of 5000 in the city. a light vote
was polleS.
Cleveland. O.. NoycInb.r 4.-On ac-
count OF the almost universal cratch-
ms oi JULIUS, Oily cIf lTtNaIlCl OUT OF
ECO in this city had reported up TO $50
-, m. Returns Will be very late.
Columbus, O., November AT 9
O'Clock the republican state committee
ESTIMATED their plurality in Ohio at
more than loo, 600, a gain OF between So
1000 and 40. 700 over last year. The dem
I%ocratic central committee made no
Iclaims on the state ticket but claimed
a gain in congressman.
Cincinnati, o., November 4.-City re-
turns complete giving Laylin, republic
lcan. secretary Of state, 24.094 majority.
Indicates republican majority in Ham
lilton county nearly 80, 900.
Columbus. o., November AT 10
O'Clock Chairman Dick. of the republi-
can state committee, CAV out a state
ment claiming a plurality OF more than
100, 900 on the state tickle and Il and
possibly IS of the y Ohio congressman.
In his statement he claimed the cleo
ton of Congressman in the Third.
Twelfth and Thirteenth districts. none
of which were at that hour conceded by
chairman CARRIER, OF the democratic
Estate committee.
Columbus. O.. November 4.-The re
Ipublicans carried Ohio by next TO their
highest plurality on record. Nothing
tabove 0.000 had been predicted, but
partial returns indicate that it will
greatly exceed that figure. AT the same
time the republicans on returns up to
ImlQnlSnt maze no gam IN ONO COn-
lgressmen and are likely to lose one.
The present Ohio delegation in congress
consists of republicans and
four democrats and the returns show
sixteen republicans and four democrats
detected with the twelfth district IN
doubt.
At midnight Chairman Dick said:
l"ReturnS TO this hour do not change
our estimate of 100, 1000 republican plu-
lrality. We have carried all districts
now represented in congress by repub-
IlicanS with the possible exception of the
twelfth and in its place we have prob
ably carried the thirteenth district.
During the campaign it was said that
any reduction of the republican plurali-
Ity in Ohio will be considered a prelimi-
nary victory for Mayor Johnson over
Senator Hanna in the senatorial con-
test of next year. Last year the repu5-
Ilican plurality was 67,567.
jacksonville, Fla, November "A
7 light vote was polled throughout the
! Estate today Congressman Sparkman
and Davis were reelected from the
First and Second diStricts. respectively.
without opposition. Attorney General
wv. 3. Lamar was elected in the new
Third district. There was no OPPOSITION
Ito the democratic ticker, SKATE or con-
Igressional. The legislature elected to-
t day will r~e-elect United States Senator
/ mallory to succeed himself, he having
lalready been nominated b. primary.
THE proposed constitutional amend
: Iment, providing for three extra mem
, Ibers of the supreme court bench was
1 carried.
: Delaware.
Wilmington. Del, November 4.-The
polls closed in Delaware ~ 5 O'Clock p
:. m. Indications are that the vote in the
ictnfa u-nc linhtnr than tH-n NaarC on
. The contest for the legislature is ap-
!, Iparently close and the result probably
> will not be known until the full vote Is
: counted. The election of Henry A
Houston, democrat. for congress is in
dictated.
= At 8 o'clock D. M, The returns were
c being received slowly, with no legisla-
q tive returns completed.
\ Wilmington, Del, Novem Der 4.-Re-
a ports from over one -h1lf Il the pre-
= Icincts in the first legislative district Of
Wilmington indicate thu election of DR.
: H. @. Buckmaster, denCC1at, over
. James Kitchen, republican This is Z
= democrat gain and codnts AGAINST Ad,
. dicks. Kitchen was o of two
previous sessions Of the legislature and
q the last term voted for Addicks fol
a United States senator. A warm fight
g was made in the distri
- In addition to the evident election OF
Buckmaster in the representative dis,
- trfct. tn democrats also have elected
q their candidates in the Fourth and
Fifth representative districts. Botf
= districts were represented ty demo
!. icrats in the last Legislature. This give:
= the democrats three Of the i've repre-.
sentative districts in Wilmington.
y Democratic State Chairman Willard
salisbury made the following state
q ment at Il y. n. Returns show Hous.
|. ton democrat. elected TO congress By
- fro,,- . nln 70 : 900 N i0ritv The dom
locrats gain at least five members o
- the legislature in New Castle county
This gives the Legislature to the demo.
lcrats of Ken and Sussex countie!
!simply hold their own. Partial returns
from these counties show democratic
gains. but nothing conclusive yet.
Wilmington. Del, November 9Th,
y complexion of the next Delaware gen
n ieral assembly is in doubt. At this hour
Ie Ills a. m. il is apparent that a deaC