ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1619 - 1685
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS - State (Cont'd)
1619 - H&G Aug. 16; ed:2/2 - The southern mail brings meagre election
returns. In Kentucky the Locos have carried their ticket, but by reduced
majorities. From Indiana we have a few returns and the "Hooshers"
have done their duty. In Dearborn county the Whigs have gained two
members in the Legislature. The first gun from Missouri is a favorable
one, and it is reported that the Whig's have carried the strongest Van
Buren post in the State. The Whig candidates for Congress have a majority
of 30, and the Whig candidates for the Legislature, a larger one.·
"Keep the 'ball rolling. '" (4)
1680 - H&G Aug. 11; ed:2/2,3 - We have no definite returns from Illinois.
The Detroit ADVERTISER gives a report that the Locofocos have carried
Chicago. "This was to have been expected, as the Chicago DEMOCRAT
boasts that 5,000 workmen on the Canal in Cook County had been secured
to the Locofocos." (1)
1681 - H&G Aug. 18; ed: 2/3 - "We copy the returns so far as received from
Missouri. They indicate a glorious triumph for the Whigs in that state.
St. Louis, the home of the Expunger, has 'drawn black lines' Benton
wi II remember.
"G I ory enough for one day!" (1)
1682 - H&G Aug. 20; ed:2/2 - "Illinois. - The Loco Focos appear to have
swept every thing before them in the prairies of the North. Cook county
(including Chicago) gave about 800 majority for the Locos.
"Whig accounts may change the. aspect of things, as we certainly trust
full accounts from the State will. If beaten, the Whigs will not despond,
but rally more vigorously to other contests." (9)
1683 - H&G Aug. 20; ed:2/2 - "Missouri - The 'corporal's guard' allotted
to the Whigs by the Loco Focos of Missouri, previous to the elections,
seems likely to take the whole company.
"The legislative returns are truly cheering, and if complete returns
do not give the Whigs a majority, the Locos can hardly make good their
boast of re-electing Thomas H. Benton unanimously!" (2)
1684 - H&G Aug. 24; ed:2/5 - The Alton, 111., SPECTATOR claims a locofoco
Governor and Lt. Governor, all three members of Congress, and a locofoco
majority in both branches of the Legislature.
"The returns so far make a good case in favor of the claim, and unless
the eastern side of the state has done better than the Western and Northern,
the Whigs have again lost the whole battle." (2)
1685 - H&G Aug. 27; ed:2/1 - The Vandalia FREE PRESS publishes the names
of 59 members elect, including both branches. Of these, the Whigs have
39, the Conservatives, 5, and the "Loco-Focos," 15. A belief is expressed
that the Whigs will bave a majority in both houses. It is reported that
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