No official publication contains abstracts of the votes cast in the several counties of Ohio at the Presidential elections of 1860 and 1864. No elections were of greater importance and the statistics of none are more interesting, except perhaps those of the Gubernatorial election of 1863. The tables reprinted here are copies of those furnished the newspapers in the years named, and are worthy of preservation. This is true of 1860, because of the division in the Democratic party that year throughthe Nation. While this breach in the ranks of the opposition rendered the election of Abraham Lincoln possible, it had but little perceptible effect in the Buckeye State. Unlike the conditions existing in several of the other Commonwealths, Ohio would have given Lincoln a majority over a united Democracy. The schism in the party was undoubtedly a factor in the turning over of ten counties which had given Democratic majorities ranging from less than a dozen to about 900 votes the previous year. While this was the case, there was a decrease in these counties of but 823 in the Democratic (Douglas) vote with an increase

for the Republicans of 4,653 votes. At the same time they gave Bell 5,732 votes and only 3.625 to Breckenridge.

The chief interest in the table for 1864 centers in the votes cast by the soldiers in the field. These changed the political complexions of but six counties as compared with the election of 1860. Ohio cast the largest soldier vote of any State in the Union, and at the election of 1864, notwithstanding the Democratic Presidential candidate was a Federal General and the frantic demands of the Democracy for "peace at any price," over eighty per cent. of the veterans voted for Abraham Lincoln. Of the nearly 51,000 soldiers thus participating in the election, Hamilton County, which at that time cast about one-twelfth of the vote of the State, is credited with 3.789, Cuyahoga was next with 1,344 and Franklin third with 1,001. No other county had as many as a thousand, Adams, one of the smaller border counties, being fourth with 900 soldier votes. Only six others had from 800 to 860. Lincoln had a majority of the home vote in forty-eight counties and of the combined vote in fifty-four.

man; Jacob C. Donaldson, of Columbus, Secretary; Thomas Ewing Miller, of Columbus, Treasurer; John F. Oglevee, of Springfield; E. L. Taylor, Alexis Cope and David K. Watson, of Columbus.

STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1882.

George K. Nash, of Columbus, Chairman; Jacob C. Donaldson, of Columbus, Secretary; Charles Foster, of Fostoria, Treasurer; John F. Oglevee, Alexis Cope, David K. Watson and E. L. Taylor, of Columbus; William S. Cappellar and Henry Schlottman, of Cincinnati; and David Morison, of Cleveland.

STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1886.

William S. Cappellar, of Mansfield, Chairman; Joshua K. Brown, of Cambridge, Secretary; George W. Sinks, of Columbus, Treasurer; Charles Foster, of Fostoria: Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland; Asa S. Bushnell, of Springfield; Andrew Hickenlooper, of Cincinnati; Charles L. Kurtz, of Athens; James E. Lowry, of Ada; and William G. Deshler and Jacob C. Donaldson, of Columbus.

STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1888.

William S. Cappellar, of Mansfield,

Chairman; John M. Doane, of Cleveland, Secretary; George W. Sinks, of Columbus, Treasurer; Smith L. Johnson, of Columbus; Marcus A. Hanna and Jere A. Brown, of Cleveland; Charles Foster, of Fostoria; Asa S. Bushnell, of Springfield; Charles P. Griffin, of Toledo; Thomas W. Graydon, of Cincinnati; Louis W. King, of Youngstown; Leroy W. Brown, of Wauseon; and T. H. Anderson, of Cambridge.

STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 1895.

Charles L. Kurtz, of Columbus, Chairman; William S. Matthews, of Columbus, Secretary; George W. Sinks, of Columbus, Treasurer. Charles P. Taft and Jacob H. Bromwell, of Cincinnati; J. E. Lowes, of Dayton; J. E. Breaden, Jr., of Greenville; Alonzo B. Holcombe, of Paulding; N. A. Fulton, of Xenia; John F. Locke, of London; Charles S. Chapman, of Marysville; Guy G. Major, of Toledo; Samuel L. Patterson, of Piketon; Frank A. Kelley, of New Lexington; Wilbur E. King, of Columbus; Charles W. McCracken, of Bucyrus; D. L. Cockley, of Shelby; Henry C. Van Voorhis, of Zanesville; Joseph J. Gill, of Steubenville; E. C. Brown, of New Philadelphia; John H. Ruhlman, of Youngstown; John M. Stull, of Warren; Marcus A. Hanna and Theodore E. Burton, of Cleveland.