The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-11-13
Claims and Doubts Undecided.


Up to Tuesday there was very little chane 20 in
he situation. All parties awaited the outcome
of the county canvassess of Tuesday. Lawyers'
blanks, and all the machinery of contests have
been provided, and n one can tell what the re-
suit will be, or how long it will be prolonged
REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.
The following address was issued bv the
Republican national committee this even
ing:
=. Republican National Headquarters, New York.
are taking the most careful and thorough meas
sures to ascertain errors, if any have been made,
and frauds. II auy have been committed, TN tho
York York If Mr.. Cleveland shall be found to
have plurality Of even one vote, .
81 tne GIFTED w sss The RE-
shall be found to have q plurality of only one
vote prompt acquiescence will be expected
belief of this committee. founded UPON invcsti
cation. is that Mr.. Blaine has a plurality of
several hundred votes, and If that be so every
clared. Until the official declaration shall be
made we ask the public to unite with us in an
honorable effort to secure perfectly fair count.
hcan institutions. [signedj B. F: JONES,
Chairman.
DEMOCRATIC PROCLAMATION.
AN ALLEGED REPUBLICAN sCHEME
NEW YORK, Nov 9.-Headquarters Demo-
cratic State Committee. Hoffman House. New
York, Nov. 8, 1884.-We deem it our duty to
announce to the people of the state that the
Republican managers have. within the last
torty-eight hours, conceived a new scheme
for throwing again into dispute the result of
the election in our state For many days
after the election the entire committee. in
bad faith, claimed for the Republican candi.
date several states which they knew they
had not carried In the same bad faith, when
every source of Information, includ.
ing the associated press, has DEM
onstrated that the vote of New
York has been given to the Cieye-
land electors, they still claim the state
No fact of history is now better known than
That the result OF the election. as ascertained,
dec ared and certified by the election officers.
and OF public record throughout the state.
gives New York to the Cleveland electors by
These public certified
ties by both parties with the most conscien-
hous care during the last four DAYS. until
every possible doubt as to the result has
been removed Knowing this fact they now
sEe boards as a ef essv rszo
throughout the state where controlled
by them SO many returning boards after
the pattern of those not long since
used use by them In the Southern states
Wherever boards fail them judicial orders
are to be applied for. Thus relying upon
the partisanship of the boards in the first
place. and judges of their own politica! faith
in the second. they intend and expect to
throw again into dispute the result of the
eiecuion and involve it in interminrbie llti-
cation. To this end printed papers have
been sent them to their agents anG repre-
sentatives in every county in the state of New
York, to be used with the courts whenever an
occasion can be Manufactured OF the entire
reliability OF our information as to this
scheme, there can be no question We call
on representatives of the party in the various
counties of this state to be alert. and by every
proper method to resist and defeat this last
desperate device Mindful Of the grave con-
sequences to the business interests Of our
slate which such o conspiracy necessarily in
wolves, We deem it our duty to assure our
people, who have now generally acquiesced
that by no such scheme or device win the
state be deprived of the result OF their delhi
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