Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-15
MISLEADING STATEMENTS.
The Associated Presses "Fifteen
Puzzle" Figures
THAT SEEM TO SHOW BLAINE GAINS.
The Real Condition Of the Count
and Its Results in the City
of New Iok.
VERY NEAR THE END
,Spacial % TIE Reqisler.


NEw York, November l4.-The Board
Of Aldermen made good progress to-day in
the count Of the city vote. They reached
the Fourteenth Assembly District and there
are ten more to canvass, but there will be
a motion introduced into the board In the
morning in favor OF counting the electoral
vote to the exclusion Of the city. If that
passes, the work will be completed
in few hours. The lawyers on both
sides have agreed to the motion
and it viii probably pass. If it does We
shall know the final result tomorrow night
Cleveland sustained no losses in the count
to-day, and with reports from every county
Of the State in, and eleven Assembly dis
tricts of the city, his plurality in the State
seems to be 1859. The World has insisted
all along that the plurality would be about
l,3O0. 1t has no reason to doubt the cor
rectness of this estimate. Some Of the
reports sent cut by the Republican press are
absolutely ridiculous in their absurdity.
The following is one of these
Misleading Statements
sent out today. The official canvass OF
the vote in four counties in New York
state is not yet finished These counties
are Erie, Greene, Monroe and St. Lawrence.
The vote as estimated will probably stand
as only clerical errors are in dispute. In
this city the Canvassers to-day went
through the returns from the
Ninth Assembly District. They gave
both Blaine and Cleveland an
increase over the press returns, but the bal
ance was in favor of Blaine, whose net gam
over his opponent in the district was Il
votes, which. added to his previous gains,
shows total of 42l. This the Democratic
watchers had been figured upon and did not
affect the plurality claimed for Cleveland.
The sophistry Of this statement is that the
comparison Of gains and losse, is made with
early and incorrect reports Of the
vote of the State. According to the
corrected returns published for several
days in the World, Sun,
Herald and Times no such gains are made.
1t is admitted in the last three lines Of the
statement that Democrats claimed this
would not affect the plurality Of Cleveland.
Certainly it will not. From The first day of
the canvass the Blaine people have
Failed at Every Step.
There never was complete fiasco on the
part of set of political agitators. They
charge the Democracy of the State with
fraud. Mr.. Blaine declared Mr.. Cieve-
lands plurality was dishonest one and
that he would be the one elected on fair
count. The canvass so far. shows if there
has been fraud it has been on the other
side. Cleveland has gained a few
votes almost every day. They have
not dared to even enter protest against
single vote that has been counted for him.
To-day their own Counsel George Bliss left
the canvsssing room in this city
Completely Disgusted.
The remainder of the count will not show
variation of ten votes and that probability
the Blaine leaders see and appreciate.
They are at the last ditch Democrats
here are entirely cool, quiet and
confident. The city has resumed
its wouted peaceful air and we are all get
Ting ready to g0 down to Washington to see
President Cleveland iuaugurated. The
long, wearisome fight with its alternating
hope and despair, is about over and the
tried and ever faithful Democracy may soon
throw its old hat in the air and give such
another shout as has not been heard since
the stirring times of Gen. Jackson.