1890 VOTING RESULTS IN CORTLAND COUNTY

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The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 7, 1890.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, November 7, 1890

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   The exceedingly questionable methods resorted to by certain parties during the [Cortland County] campaign just closed deserve to be investigated, and there is not much doubt but that they will be. The purity of our elections should be preserved if possible and every respectable, law-abiding citizen has an interest in preserving the same. Each elector should appoint himself a committee of one to ferret out any fraud committed or attempted to be committed in the last campaign. If any bribes were offered or taken, the person who offered or paid the bribe should be informed against. The person who takes the bribe is excused by the law if he informs against the person offering the same. The air is full of rumors of bribing voters, not only to vote for certain persons, but also to remain away from the polls. Any person who knows of an instance of the kind should make the facts known at once, that the guilty party or parties may receive that punishment which the law meets out to the offender. It matters not who the guilty party may be, if the laws have been broken, he deserves to be punished.

   There are hundreds of people in this county who will read Peck's affidavit of expenses in the late campaign with a good bit of interest. The last day to file the affidavit will be Nov. 14.

   Peck's reasons for being a candidate for a third term was that "the people wanted him." He evidently didn't refer to the Republican people.

   Major McKinley, the author of the infamous McKinley Tariff Bill, is elected to remain at home. The people didn't want him.

   President Harrison went from Washington to Indiana to vote and as a consequence Indiana was carried by the Democrats by a majority of 16,000,and the Democrats have a majority of the legislature and have elected eleven of the thirteen Congressmen. Good for Indiana.

   In this State the Democrats elect 32 of the 34 Congressmen. In the present delegation the Republicans have 20 and the Democrats 14. The Democrats have elected 68 Members of Assembly and the Republicans elect 60, which gives the Democrats a majority of two on joint ballot and insures the election of a Democratic United States Senator. Pile on the tariff.

Hugh John Grant

NEW YORK STATE.

   ALBANY, NOV. 5.—In the returns from the Assembly districts of this State the Governor's tables show a majority for the Democrats of eight in the House, or a majority of two on joint ballot, thus insuring a Democratic United States Senator. The tables are completed from special advices which give the Democrats 68 in Assembly and the Republicans 60. In the present State Senate there are 19 Republicans and 13 Democrats, and a Republican majority of six, and that body holds over. In the present Assembly there are 72 Republicans and 56 Democrats, a Republican majority of 16.

   NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—In the city election yesterday Tammany made a full sweep. For Mayor, Grant's majority was 23,257; Gorman's for Sheriff, 19,000; Nicoll, District Attorney, 20,000. The vote for the balance of the county offices, Controller, President of the Board of Aldermen, and County Clerk will be very close to that of Grant. The Tammany nominees for Superior Court Judges and for city court will be elected by not less than 20,000 majority.

   The vote of the city for Mayor, complete, is: Scott, 90,068; Grant, 114,415; Demorest, 864; Delabar, 2,898; Redpath, 754. Grant's majority, 28,857. The entire Democratic Congressional delegation from this city was elected.

   BROOKLYN, Nov. 5.— In Kings County, Courtenay, Democrat, is elected Sheriff by a good majority. The latest returns from the Third Congressional district indicate the election of Coombs, Democrat, by a majority of 14. It is believed, however, that the official count will be necessary to decide the question. Wallace, Republican, the sitting member for this district, was elected to the Fifty-first Congress by a majority of 2,448.

   NEW YORK, NOV. 6.—The Times estimates the Democratic majority in the next House at 51, the Tribune at over 50.