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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1897)
I 0 Til 1 t if l t f H i i 1 s l it J awmSBGmitunmuBimi - Kwwwapww i i in RESULTS IN THREE STATES Figures Show that a Lighter Vote than Usual Was Polled Tuesday IOWA NEBRASKA AND SOUTH DAKOTA Shaw Republican Elected Governor of Iowa by 20000 to 32000 FUSION WINS IN NEBRASKA try1 South Dakota Republicans Elect Six of Eight Judges Iowa Des Moines Nov 8 Chairman McMil lan of the republican state committee has complete returns from 94 counties and lias estimated returns from the 5 remain ing counties By this means he has figur ed that the plurality forShaw republican is about 31782 He thinks that these fig ures will vary but little as the corrected returns for the five estimated counties come in The plurality may be set down at about 81000 and below 82000 Chairman Walsh of the democratic com mittee thinks that errors in the returns may reduce the plurality for Shaw lo 20 000 The senate has 50 members of which 38 are republicans and 12 populists and dem ocrats The house has 100 members of which the republicans have elected 61 and the populists and democrats 39 These figures are subject to slight variations probably to the advantage of the demo crats The republicans lost 4 members in the senate and 17 in the house compared with the last legislature Ueturnsfrom Iowa counties are given below Plymouth LeMars Nov 8 Complete returns from the entire county give Shaw 2043 White 2026 Leland 55 Lloyd 79 Cliggitt 29 The entire republican county ticket ex cept county superintendent is elected by from 50 to 79 plurality Gibson repub lican for representative has 2120 Han nan fusionist 1993 Lee Keokuk Nov 3 Complete returns from all precincts in Lee County give White 4622 Shaw 3527 The democrats elected the entire county ticket by ma jorities ranging from 450 to 1485 electing Representatives Power and Hazen by largely increased majorities Hon D A Young for state senator has a majority of 655 over Dr S W Moorhead editor of the Gate City White carried Keokuk and Fort Madison the two cities of the county Cherokee Cherokee Nov 8 Cherokee County cast a large vote Full returns from the county give Shaw 1695 White 1186 for the legislature Beat republican 1780 Parker democrat 1240 Cherokee Couuty in 1895 was -republican by 751 and gave McKinley 888 majority Dcs Moines Burlington Nov 3 Complete returns from Des Moines County give White dem ocrat 3510 Shaw republican 3265 Clig gitt 159 For senator Koestner demo crat 3279 McArthur republican 3559 For representatives Hunt democrat 8460 Jaeger democrat 3513 Miller repub lican 3262 Stephens republican 3305 Both representatives with the full county democratic ticket have been elected by from 50 to 250 majority Ida Ida Grove Nov 8 The returns from the different precincts in the county give F E White a majority of 78 Shaw ran behind and it is believed the rest of the republican state ticket received a small majority Last year McKinley carried the county by nearly 100 Hathaway the fusion candi date for representative carried the county by 13 The county ticket is elected as fol lows Treasnrer democrat superintend ent democrat sheriff republican sur veyor republican supervisor republican coroner republican Wapello Ottumwa Nov 8 Wapello County with one precinct estimated gives the follow ing Governor White 3873 Shaw 3660 Cliggitt 93 Lloyd 209 Leland 55 Representative Wapello district La fayette Dudgeon democrat 3345 Geo W Dickens republican 3681 Senatorial District W A Mclntire democrat 3571 P L Waterman repub lican 3550 L M Morris populist 176 The balance of the republican county ticket is elected Scott Davenport Nov S The republicans carry everything in Scott County by plu ralities of 500 to 800 The republicans hold all the county offices except those retained by holdover democrats Lyon Rock Rapids Nov 8 Complete un official returns from all the precincts in Lyon County give Shaw 1178 White 1185 Democrats elect their candidate far senator Osceola Sibley Nov 8 Osceola County gives White 791 Shaw 766 On the county ticket the democrats elect treasurer sheriff supervisor and coroner The republicans elect superintendent of schools surveyor and supervisor Dubuque Dubuque Nov 8 Dubuque County -with two precincts estimated gives White 5650 Shaw 8850 Cliggitt 120 Lloyd 80 Leland 40 Kramer 28 The repub licans elect the sheriff The democrats get the rest of the county offices Marshall Marshalltown Nov 8 Complete re turns from Marshall gives Shaw a plural ity of 1102 The republican county ticket leads the state ticket over 100 votes except on sheriff Mills being defeated by Mc Pherson Linn Cedar Rapids Nov 8 Full returns show that the republicans have elected their entire ticket Dows for representa tive gets but 65 plurality but all others are elected by pluralities ranging from 800 to 1000 Monona Onawa Nov 8 Whitegets g05plurality Bolter 91 Hathaway 295 The repub licans get three county officers Willey treasurer republican has 360 plurality Fessender surveyor republican 46 Lark superintendent republican 288 Zurns sheriff fusion 171 A Lamb supervisor fusion 46 Minthom coronor fusion 16 Sac Sac City Nov 8 Returns from all pre cincts in Sac County give Shaw 1767 White 1234 a net democratic gain over 1896 of 634 For senator Garst republican is elected Charles E Stallcuh repub lican is elected representative The en tire republican county ticket is elected by decisive majorities Dickinson Spirit Lake Nov 8 All the precincts in Dickinson County give Shaw 886 White 398 Milliman 835 Plumer 391 Shaws plurality 488 Clay Spencer Nov 3 Clay County official and complete gives Shaw 1400 and White 764 Anderson democrat has a majority in this district of 452 Page Clarinda Nov 8 Shaw has 93 majority in Page County Woodbury Sioux City Nov 3 The entire state and county renublicau ticket is elected in Woodbury Coufity Buchanan Independence Nov 2 All outside pre cincts are yet to be heard from but the en tire republican county ticket will be elected Five precincts heard from give Shaw 447 White 414 Crawford Denison Nov 2 Indications are that White will carry the county by from 300 to 400 Buena Vista Storm Lake Nov 2 Storm Lake gives OBanion democrat candidate for sheriff 348 Donaghue republican 141 Six pre cincts give OBanion 251 majority His election is conceded by republicans OBrien Sheldon Nov 2 In the three wards of Sheldon Shaw had 83 majority A light vote was polled Black Hawk Waterloo Nov 2 Eighteen out of twenty four precincts in Black Hawk County give Shaw 2499 White 1544 The full republican county ticket is elected by 1000 majority C W Mullin republican is elected senator from Black Hawk and Grundy Counties The repub lican loss is about 1600 from last year Sioux Orange City Nov 2 Returnes from 15 townships give White 1099 Shaw 1649 There are 7 other townships to hear from The whole republican county ticket is probably elected SOUTH DAKOTA Republicans Elect Six of the Eight Circuit Judges Huron Nov 3 Returns from jrester days election from the eight judicial cir cuits show the following results First Circuit E G Smith republican of Yankton Second Circuit J W Jones republican of Sioux Falls Third Circuit Julian Bennett fusionist of Watertown Fourth Circuit Frank B Smith repub lican of Mitchell Fifth Circuit A W Campbell repub lican of Aberdeen Sixth Circuit L E Gaffey republican of Pierre Seventh Circuit Levi McGee fusionist Eighth Circuit W G Rice republican of Deadwood First District Yankton Nov 8 Returns from the First judicial circuit are incomplete and very slow This city the home of both candidates R B Tripp non partisan and E G Smith republican gave a small majority for Smith while the country pre cincts changed this and gave the county to Tripp by a small margin Upon es timates Clay County gives Smith 150 ma jority Bon Homme 150 Turner and Hutchinson each 800 while Douglas goes for Tripp by 132 Charles Mix and west of Missouri river not yet reported Last night the republicans claimed a majority for Smith of 1000 but tonight the claim is reduced to possibly 500 Tyndall Nov 3 Bon Homme County republicans elected one out of two county commissioners and gave Smith republican candidate for judge of the circuit court 150 majority The other commissioners are populists Armour Nov 8 The election in Doug las County outside of two districts which elected commissioners was very quiet and but a small vote was cast Robert Tripp the non partisan candidate for judge car ried the county by about 100 majority A combination of Johnson republicans pop ulists and democrats probably elected both commissioners It will require the official canvass to decide the contest between J Engelland the republican nominee for commissioner in district No 5 and G Wenzel the fusion nominee Second District Sioux Falls Nov 8 Returns from the counties comprising the Second judiciary circuit are yet incomplete but they indi cate a majority for Jones republican of about 600 Jones carries every county in the circuit except Lake which gives Wilkes a majority of 29 Jones largest majority is in Minnehaha County where he has 850 The majorities in the other counties range from 50 to 100 A hard fight was made this year in the First com missioner district of Minnehaha County against the re election of Commissioner Lee The democrats and populists com bined against him and before the election were confident they had him beaten but it now transpires that he was elected having nearly 260 more than the fusion candidate Canton Nov 8 Jones republican car ries Lincoln County by about 90 majority Nelson populist is elected commissioner from the First district by 19 majority Elk Point Nov 8 Judge Jones ma jority in Union County is 53 Dodd com missioner in the Third district is elected by 26 Third District Watertown Nov 3 Complete returns from Clark Codington Deuel and Brook ings counties give Bennett fusion 600 ma jority over Whiting republican This it is believed will be reduced 100 by returns from Kingsbury and Hamlin Party lines were not drawn Bennett receiving a large republican vote because of his residence in the most accessible city in the district Fourth District Mitchell Nov 8 Full reports from the outside counties in the Fourth circuit have not been received but sufficient results have come to show Frank B Smith will have a plurality of between 500 and 600 Sanborn County gives Smith a plurality of 65J Fellows receiving but 85 Nine pre cincts of seventeen in Miner County give Smith 280 Goodykoonlz 104 Fellows 482 Lyman County gives Smith 74 Goody koontz482 Hanson County Judge Smiths former home gave him 86 plurality Jerauld Countys vote is said to be aboul an even thing between the leading candi dates Howard Nov 8 A very light vote was polled Nine precincts including How ard Carthage and Canova give Smith re publican 280 Goodykoontz populist 104 Fellows democrat 48 The same pre cincts last year were Republican 418 fusion 416 Full returns from the county will not reduce Smiths majority below 100 Fifth Distriot Aberdeen Nov 3 Brown County complete with the exception of one pre cinct gives Campbell republican candi date for judge 1189 and Wells populist 825 The populists elect two commission ers in this county Returns from the cir cuit at large show Campbell will have a majority of 1200 Huron Nov 3 Campbells republi can election as judge of the Fifth judical circuit is conceded Aberdeen Nov 3 Thirty two precincts in this the Fifth judical circuit give Crmpbell republican a majority of near ly 1300 The populists concede Campbells re election in this district In this county the republicans elect one commissioner and the populists one Sixth District Pierre Nov 8 The returns which are coming in slowly from counties over this circuit show that the average vote is from 8 to 1 to 10 to 1 for Gaffey in the different precincts and while the vote will be much lighter than that of last year Gaffey will raise the republican majority of 500 to over 1000 Miller Nov 3 Out of 400 votes re turned Gaffey republican for judge gets 280 Fisk populist 120 Gaffey in the county will have 150 majority FUSION WINS IN NEBRASKA Triple Alliance Carries the State by 500O to 20000 Lincoln Nov 3 Nebraska republicans find nothing but gloom in the survey ol the state field For twenty four hours after the closing of the polls yesterday evening returns during the day and early evening simply confirmed what was evi dent at midnight last night that the fusion state ticket had been elected by a plural ity fully as large as that given Bryan last year if not larger Early in the afternoon it was generally admitted at republican headquarters that the state was lost and Secretary Sizer oi the state committee emphasized the com mon belief at 9 oclock tonight when he authorized the following statement to be made Returns thus far received by the re publican state committee point to the elec tion of Sullivan fusion for supreme judge by a plurality of 5000 to 10000 Returns show that republican candidates for regent of the university ran ahead of Post for judge and we will not yet concede their defeat Chairman Edmiston of the fusion com mittee said he had no reason to change his estimate of last night of 20000 plurality for the entire fusion ticket Neither of the political headquarters had returns today or tonight in any quantity and their estimates were in a measure sur mises Newspaper returns up to 10 oclock to night comprised 31 counties complete and 4 incomplete Every populous county but 2 of these 35 show a fusion gain warrant ing the declaration that fusion has carried in the state by 12000 Omaha Nov 3 At midnight returns have been received from forty six of the eighty eight counties of Nebraska casting more than half of the vote of the state These give Post 53748 Sullivan 60183 Last year the same counties gave McCall 61457 Holcomb 74648 Loyalty in England A British journal tells a queer story connected with the Queens jubilee A Londoner was reproaching the owner of a house on the route of the great procession with having let it for the day to a citizen of the United States It is disgraceful he said indignant ly The Queen graciously offers to show- herself to a certain number of her London subjects and they promptly lek their windows and go to another part of the town It is disloyal 1 Disloyal replied the house letter Just the contrary We do it for the purpose of having as many portraits of our sovereign as possible and all ia gold To be popular with some people all that Is necessary is to say ThanH you in 3 very loud voice p i mmT n nn tiitt nrnn IJftill II llll U A I I lllBV I MllLJjUr MLLU10 Results of the Elections Various States wr z in APATHY ISAFEATUEE Contest Hottest in Ohio Iowa and New York City Van Wyck Given 84000 Plurality in New York City- Bnshnell and His State Ticket Associates Claim Vic tory Senator Hanna in a Close Fight Shaw in Iowa Is Given About 25000 Plurality Democrats Have Maryland Virginia Ken tucky Nebraska Colorado for Silver The elections held in the year immedi ately following a presidential contest are almost invariably marked by a lack Of in terest and the chief feature of the contests in the various States Tuesday was the apathy manifested by the electors There is a falling off in the vote of both parties and while the Democrats show relative gains when compared with the phenome nal presidential vote of last year the stay-at-home vote is made of nearly an equal percentage of both parties Though the elections were for the most part for offices of little national impor tance the result was awaited with con siderable interest In Ohio Virginia Iowa Pennsylvania Kentucky New -York Nebraska and Massachusetts the fight waged fiercely Ohio and Iowa elect ed Governors In Maryland and Ohio a special national interest was involved on account of a United States Senator ttOBERT A VAN WYCK Chosen Mayor of Greater New York ing to be elected from each of those States Great interest attached in Ohio Maryland and New York In Ohio the Democrats endorsed the Chicago plat form and the silver forces contended for the establishment of their doctrine and the election of a Senator The Republi cans made a fight for the present gold standard for Republican principles and for the election of Mark Hanna to the Senate In Maryland the important fight was over the senatorship In New York where interest centered almost solely in the Greater New York mayoralty fight the situation was badly mixed The Dem ocrats were divided into silver and gold factions Tammanyites and The Repubiicans had to con tend with a division of their forces on account of the independent nomination of the Citizens Union in New York City and with a small fragment of the anti Platt Republicans Then the dramatic death and the funeral of Henry George the nominee of the Democracy of Thomas Jefferson and author of Progress and Poverty on the eve of the election an unprecedented event in the political his tory of the country if not of the world and the selection of his son Henry George as his political heir brought ahout com plications which had never before been encountered in a municipal campaign In Iowa very important local considerations entered into the fight The Democrats in addition to making a fight on the other Bryan lines attacked the record of the Republican State officers accusing them of extravagance etc and a hard fight was made by both parties In Nebraska the Democrats Populists and silver Republi cans were united In Kentucky it was a struggle between Blackburn and the Carlisle-Lindsay gold Democrats In Penn sylvania there was a fight between the Quay and the anti Quay elements in the Republican ranks In Virginia the Re publicans had no regular ticket and Dem ocrats will elect a Governor In Colorado there was a great mix up among the sil ver forces New York The State of New York has reversed a plurality of 208409 for McKinley to a Democratic majority of 84000 for A B Parker as chief judge of the court of ap peals The Republicans may also have lost the Assembly in which last year they had seventy majority New York City has elected Robert G Van Wyck the Tammany candidate as Mayor by a plurality of 82000 Setli Low the Citi zens Union nominee finished second in the race while General Benjamin F Tracy Republican and Henry George Jeffersonian Democrat follow in the or der named In the State the Republican landslides of the past two years have been reversed by the changing of something like 240000 votes Gov Blacks plurality last year was over 200000 John Palmer the Re publican Secretary of State won the year previous by over 100000 The indications are that these enormous pluralities have been swept away and a reverse plurality of between 30000 and 50000 is given The greatest surprises of the returns are the great gains made in the Assembly by the Democrats many of them being in counties and districts where there was no expectation on the part of the Democratic managers of winning Republicans ex plain these gains by attributing them to the heated municipal campaigns and the trading of votes Early returns indicated that the Republicans will still control the Assembly by a largely decreased majority More surprising perhaps than the re turns on the State and Assembly district tickets were results of the riunicipal cam paigns in the large cities New York Buffalo Rochester Binghamton Syra misp TItiea Albany Troy and i tady elected Democratic Mayors In Al bany the conditions were very simuar xo those in New York Two Republican can didates split up the vote of that party and allowed the Democrats to win The com bined Republican vote was 2000 in excess of the Democratic vote In New York City such a rush to the polls has never been known except in pres idential years The registration was ab normal The total of 567256 was only ASA S BUSHNELI Republican Claimant of the Ohio Gubernatorial Offlce 11452 behind that of 1896 Last year only 6G6 per cent failed to vote for Pres ident and the estimated total vote this year of 528000 shows that the faUing off does not much exceed that of 1896 The vote for Tracy the Republican mayoralty candidate was divided by the candidacy of Seth Low upon a Citizens union ticket Low was second and Tracy third in the contest The George vote was inconsid erable The death of its leader evidently disintegrated his following and thousands evidently voted for Tammany candidates It is claimed that young George lost many votes through the failure of inspectors to affix his paster to mayoralty tickets The inofficial vote for Mayor follows Van Wyck 235800 Low 149873 Tracy 101833 George 20386 Gleason 521 The vote for Van Wyck is about 4425 per cent of the total vote cast or less than the 4521 per cent cast for Bryan in 1896 in the same territory The united vote for Low and Tracy shows 14127 more than Van Wyck received The metropolitan district is normally Democratic and the plurality for Van Wyck is a return to nor mal conditions in an election not influ enced by national issues Ohio In Ohio the official count will be neces sary to satisfy the contestants At the time this is written the more the respec tive parties figure on their returns the smaller their pluralities seem to become while their claims increase in opposite di rections The closeness of the vote has caused intense feeling and the usual cry of fraud When the result was in doubt in 1S85 it was discovered that the tally sheets were forged Tuesday night the Republicans telegraphed to all their coun ty committees to beware of the frauds of 1885 And when the Republicans were claiming the Legislature by only one or two majority on joint ballot the Demo crats telegraphed their county committees to beware of all sorts of fraud and to re member that it was a majority of one by which the great crime of 1877 was com mitted that defeated Tilden The State headquarters will be kept open until the official counts are made in all of the 8S counties of the State Meantime the managers at both the Democratic and the Republican State headquarters claim the State The Dem ocrats claim the election of Chapman for Governor and their State ticket on such a close margin that it will require the offi cial figures to determine the plurality Chairman McConville claims that the Democrats will have a majority of seven in the Legislature on joint ballot for Sen ator He says the Republicans are claim ing counties that are doubtful and others that the Democrats have carried by small pluralities The Republicans claim that Bushnell for Governor and the rest of the Republican State ticket has been elected by a good 8000 plurality and that the Re publicans will have a majority of two on the joint ballot of the Legislature for Senator The Republicans concede that they will not have a majority in the State Senate The Republicans claim 17 of the 36 Senators with IS conceded to the Dem ocrats and one doubtful They claim that LESLIE M SIIAW Kepub ican Governor Eiect of Iowa 57 members of the House are theirs con ceding 4S to the Democrats with four doubtful Iowa Iowa elects L M Shaw and the Repub lican State ticket by about 25000 plu rality The Republican State committee claims 30000 or more The Legislature is overwhelmingly Republican It is fig ured that the Republican vote in tne State fell off 25 per cent while the fusion vote is only reduced about 10 per cent The fusionists admit their defeat by an ad verse plurality of 15000 McKinleys plu rality last year was 65552 but it included the votes of many thousand sound money Democrats who scattered this year Chairman McMillen Republican con tends that Shaws plurality will reach to more than 30000 Chairman McMillens estimate of vote follows Republican 230000 Democratic20000G Prohibi tion 7000 gold Democratic 5000 Pop ulist 3000 The Democratic State com mittee concedes Shaws election by 15000 but claims gains in Legislature Demo crats concede 39 Republicans in the Sen ate counting newly elected members and hoId oveW Democrats claim 38 members of the House Republicans concedethem 37 Republicans claim 63 in theJjQnse out of 100 and 40 out of 50 in the Senate South Itakota South Dakota polled a light vote ocrats joined with the Republicans against the Populists Of the eight Cir cuit judges the Republicans elect five In the second district a Populist majority of 1000 was overturned Republicans winning by 500 Later returns may add to Republican victories Nebraska Nebraska has gone Democratic Ab midnight the fusion State chairman claimed the State by from 20000 to 25 000 plurality The Lincoln State Jour nal Rep at that hour conceded the de feat of the Republican State ticket Th chairman of the Republican State commit tee made no statement Massachusetts Massachusetts re elects Wolcott Iw publican Governor by 168000 votes against 80000 for Williams Democrat and 17500 for Everett gold Democrat The lower house of the Legislature will stand 200 Republicans to 40 Democrats while the Senate will stand 33 Republi cans to 7 Democrats Maryland Maryland returns up- to midnight Tues day leave it a matter of doubt whether the Legislature which will choose a suc cessor to Senator Gorman will be Demo cratic or Republican Both parties claim it Gormans friends claim that it is reasonably certain he will be returned Colorado Colorado has probably been carried by the silver men although the resultils in doubt owing to the delay in gettiij re turns from outlying districts Violent storms kept many voters indoors Wom en counted upon to help the silver men were unable to get to the polls Kentucky Kentucky has gone Democratic The returns up to a late hour indicate that Sam J Shacklef ord the silver Democratic candidate for clerk of the Court of Ap peals has from 5000 to 7000 plurality Louisville has elected a Democratic May or by at least 4000 Virginia Virginia has elected the Democratic State ticket headed by J Hoge Tyler for Governor by a majority exceeding 50000 Returns indicate that not a Republican or Populist has been eleeted to the Legis lature There was a very small vote Pennsylvania Pennsylvania held its quietest election in many jears The feature was the ex HORACE S CHAPMAN Ohio Democratc Candidate for Governor tensive scratching of the name of James S Beacon candidate for State treasurer Returns indicate a substantial Republi can majority POSTAL BANKS NEEDED Indiana Financier Tells Why They Would Be Popular with the People At a recent meeting of the Indiana Bankers Association at Indianapolis Mortimer Levering of Lafayette recog nized as one Of the best financiers in In diana made an address on postal savings banks in which he said The government is in a position to manage this thing through its present postoffice system and will scarcely increase the expenses of that department while it will enhance the ac cumulated wealth of the peoplethrough out the whole United States It wa3 thought that building and loan associa tions would care for the savings of the masses but people have become suspi cious of them It is well known that law yers in Indianaare making as much as 10000 a year out of these institutions and officers are making much money out of them We all know that trust com panies are not organized as eleemosynary institutions We want a system of savings banks that are for the poor people What greater pride could a man have than to think himself a depositor of the United States Telegraphic Brevities Gaston Bethune the well known French artist is dead Carl Gerber a 4-year-old boy of New York is dead as a result of eating jimsori weed A young lady in Emporia Kan re cently stabbed a young man with a hat pin He was quite stuck up by the oc currence Lady Rachel Charlotte Wyndham Quin eldest daughter of the Earl of Dunraven -was married in Limerick to Fitzgerald the Knight of Glyn - The case of ex Treasurer Baftley under a twenty year sentence for stealing 500 000 from the Nebraska State treasury -will be heard in the Supreme Court Thurs day The jury in the Kansas City case of Dr Jefferson D Goddard for killing Freder ick J Jackson with whose wife it wa alleged Goddard had been extremely friendly reported for the fifth time that they were unable to agree upon a verdict and were discharged Chief Moore of the United States weather bureau in his annual report tc Secretary Wilson calls for an appropria tion of 1044050 for the next fiscal year and tays this will admit of the establish ment and equipment of new stations ia important centers of population A statement prepared by the bureau of statistics at Washington shows that the number of immigrants arrived in the Uni ted States during the first three months of the present fiscal year was 49298 which is a decrease of nearly 11500 as compared with the same period last year I V V IIM H X a V K
