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Shaw Elected In Iowa

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Day
5
Month
November
Year
1897
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Public Domain
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Des Moines, la., Nov. 3.- Returns are late in the reaching headquarters of the state central committees. Chairman McMillen of the Republican committee corteñas Shaw's plurality wIU reach more than 30,000. Reports received from fifty counties give Shaw a plurality. of 20,320 and the estimates of the Republican committee is that the other fortynine will not do so well. Republicans claim sixty-three in the house out of 100, and forty out of fifty in the senate. Chairman McMillen's estímate of the vote is as follows: Republican, 230,000; Democrats, 200,000; Prohibition, 7,000; gold Democrats, 5,000; Populist, 3,000. Returns from the firrt forty-three counties show 19,000 plurality for Shaw, an average Democratie gain of 400 to the county. This was reduced later to 307 to the The Democratie state committee concedes Shaw's election by 15,000, but gains are claimed in the legislature. Walsh admits thirty-nine Republicans In the senate. ccunting newly elected members and hold-overs. Demccrats claim thirty-eight members of the house. Republicans concede them thirty-seven. Dubüque, Ia.. Nov. 3. - Dubuque county will give "White, Dern., for governor, 1.700 majority; Bryan had 1,322. For the first time in thirty-six years the Republicans elect a sheriff. Democrats elect all other officers.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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