Waterbury Evening Democrat

MARK HANNA-ENDORSED.
Ohio Republicans Elect Herrick By Over 100,000.
Columbus, O., Nov. 4.—The Republicans broke their record in Ohio in pluralities for governor by electing Myron T. Herrick (Rep.) over Mayor Tom L. Johnson (Dem.) by considerably over 100,000. The plurality on joint ballot of over 100 in the legislature for the re-election of Senator Hanna more than triples any previous record. On account of the vote on five constitutional amendments the counting was delayed all over Ohio, and when returns were secured they could not be compared with those of any preceding state election, as the seventy-one municipalities with 5,000 population or over had been redistricted under a new municipal code that went into effect this year and changed the voting precincts in those reorganized municipalities. Almost all the returns received were from the cities on which the usual rate of gains or losses could not be definitely determined, but most of them made such Republican gains over their vote last April with which comparisons could be made as to indicate that the drift was with the Republicans in the towns even greater than in the rural districts. There is much talk among state leaders of both parties about "McClellan going up in New York and Johnson going down in Ohio" having some effect on the Democratic possibilities for next year. There has been a precedent in Ohio for the Democratic candidate for governor the year previous to national conventions being made one of the delegates at large to the Democratic national convention, and it is evident from the talk that the Democrats who opposed Johnson will continue their organization to prevent him from controlling the next Democratic state convention or naming the Ohio delegates at large to the national convention. Ohio has exceeded 100,000 plurality only twice. In 1863 John Brough (Rep.) was elected governor of Ohio by 101,098, when his Democratic opponent, Clement L. Vallandigham was an exile in Canada and the soldiers were voting outside the state. The only other time when the plurality exceeded 100,000 in Ohio was in 1894 for secretary of state. Chairman Dick's latest announcement is that the Republican plurality will exceed 125,000; that the Republicans have elected twenty-six and the Democrats four state senators, with three districts not heard from; that the Republicans had elected eighty-seven representatives and the Democrats eleven, with twelve counties not heard from, assuring a Republican majority of eighty-five on joint ballot for senator, with fifteen votes not yet determined.

MYRON T. HERRICK.