The Portland daily press., 1884-11-13
COUNTING THE VOTE.
Reports of the Canvassins Bonrds SO Far
Made.

Made.
NEW YORK Nov. v.12.-The count in New
York county was resumed today. The alder
mems room was filled with politicians and
lawyers representing the Republican and
Democratic parties. Committees on protested
and corrected returns we're appointed. The
canvass of the first assembly district was be.
gun. 1t was found after proceeding a short
way down the list that the Democratic cleo
toral ticket was not properly filed in and that
there were clerical discrepancies or omissions.
The whole district was therefore referred to
tie committee on corrected returns.
The Queens county supervisors completed
their canvass of the electoral vote this morn
ing In the return of Oyster Bay, defect
was found, but the error will not affect the
result of the vote as officially announced,
which is, Blaine 8, ,445. Cleveland 10, 1857. But
ler 27O; St. John, 201. Cleveland's plurality
IL 1872. Legal representatives OF both par
ties were present.
The supervisors of Erie county met at Buffa-
10 yesterday aud were constituted board of
canyassers. Mistakes were found in some Of
the wards as to the proper way of writing ON
the votes, bat nothing was found that would
show fraud or change single vote. The
beard will be occupied some days.
The official vote of GeDessee county gives
Blaine 4,63l, Cleveland 3.643, ST. John 1856,
Butler Al.
In Jefferson county Blaine has 9,029, Cleve-
land 7,775, st. John, 636, Butler 80.
The official canvass of twenty wards in
Kings county shows gain of 80 votes for
Cleveland and 2 for Blaine. The board of
canvassers of New York county, examiaed the
returns of the first three assembly districts to-
day. A few differences from press reports
published on Wednesday morning were dis
covered bui nothing was found that will ma
tsrrislly effect Cleveland's plurality, as pub
lished.
1t is estimated that Oswald Ottendorfer who
has fewer votes than any other Democratic
RlpctOF NAV fall a hundrad vntaa hahiud
Summary Of Yesierdas's wsrk.
(MDNIGHr)
Oticial returns of the can vassers have been
received from 45 of the go counties in this
State. But few changes of previous reports
of county clerks have been made and those
not important. The work of canvassing still
progresses in the remaining Is counties being
delayed in most instances by clerical errors
made by the inspectors. Dispatches from
Broome, Columbia, Greene and Orange coun-
ties simply state that the canvass is yet unfn-
ished In Sullivan county the board awaits
certain corrections from several towns but the
clerk states that his figures giving Cleveland
275 plurality will not be altered more than 5
either way.
st. Lawrence county is nearly completed. no
change in the previous figures having yet been
made. Several supervisors were sent honae to
correct their returns.
ia Erie county, the WORK is progressing, and
no errors have.been discovered in the presden-
tial vote. At Poughkeepsie, the canvassng
board this morning found in the returns from
the fourth district OF Fishkill an electoral bal
lot for Cleveland, endorsed President Num-
Der One" which the inspectors had retained
as defective. 1t had been cut from New
York city paper, and as all ballots outside Of
that city we're embossed ELECTORAL" a commit
tee was appointed to go before Judges Barnard
for his opinion as to that particular ballot.
Judge Barnard said:
SIT is good ticket, gentlemen. 1t would be
before jury Ii would go right to a iary, ,and
then you would get the will of the voter In
spectors return it here, and 1 suppose under
law they are bound to mark it defective. You
can count il or return to Albany but when it
gets to jury they would allow it. 1t is not
proper for it to go back ito the inspectors for
correction. The inspectors coGld not have
rejected it because the jury would have picked
it up and allowed it. say you can count it
right here. 1t is returned as Scattering" but
it is not. 1t is good. That is just what the
board is for, to allow that which, when it
comes to a jury, is good vote. | count it as
vote for whoever it was cast"
After obtaining the above opinion the board
adopted a resolution counting the vote for
Cleveland, which will decrease Blaine's plu-
rality in this county one. The pluealities in
the counties whose votes have been canvassed
are as follows: