Although Mr. Smith was elected by a plurality of 6,137, the Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction was elected over Mr. Strattan by a plurality of 2,869. There were three causes which contributed to the defeat of Mr. Strattan. He had been a minority member of the Thirty-second General Assembly, and had voted in favor of a bill in which it was proposed to submit to a vote of the people an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of spirituous or malt liquors as a beverage. This he had a right to do, but it lost him the vote of many German Republicans. While on the other hand the Prohibition Republicans were displeased because the Republican State Convention had voted down a resolution which proposed to allow the people to vote on the question of amending the Constitution, as herein before expressed, and they voted for Mrs. Brown, as a matter of principle, utterly regardless as to what might be the result of the election. The third and last cause was, that very many Republicans who were identified with the school interests, assumed that Mr. Strattan had not been sufficiently associated with the school work, and a large per cent. of them voted for Mr. Raab, who was known to have made education his study and practice; and when Mr. Raab was inducted. into office he recognized the fact that it had not been a party victory by appointing W. L. Pillsbury, a Republican, his assistant. Mr. Pillsbury had held the position under Superintendent Slade, and whatever may have been the party prejudice to his selection, we doubt if Mr. Raab could have made a more fitting appointment.

The aggregate vote for Congressmen, by districts, is as follows:

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS-FIRST DISTRICT.

Vote of the States-Number of Electoral Votes of all the States in 1884Official Vote of Illinois for President and State Officers, by Counties— Congressional Vote of the State, by Districts, for 18-2-Official Vote of the Senatorial Districts, for 1880, in which Senatorial Elections Take Place in 1884.

PRESIDENTIAL VOTE OF 1880-ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1884.

The following table shows the result of the Presidential vote of all the States in 1880, and the number of electoral votes each State will be entitled to in 1884:

The following table shows the official vote of Illinois. for 1880, as printed and published under the authority of the Secretary of State. We give the vote by counties for President and for the three opposing candidates for Governor, and the aggregate vote of the candidates of the respective parties for all the State officers voted for at that