The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
The Presidential Election.

The PRESIDENTIAL Election.
On the inside pages of this issue will
be found full returns from all the States.
1t is settled beyond a doubt that the par
ty which gets the vote of New York is
the victor. The New Y DIRK Tribune claims
that Blaine is ahead. The figures of the
New York Sun and Times and of the as
sociatcd press give Cleveland from 72t
to 1900 plurality. The official canvass of
the votes in the various counties began on
Tuesday. The Tribune of Wednesday
thus summarizes the results then reached
1.-The official canvass was completed
yesterday in about 30 counties of New
Y ork. No considerable change is made
in these counties from previously ac-
cepted figures. The counties in which
important questions may arise remain to
be heard from, and the final result NAV
not he determined for week to come.
In this city the canvass is expected to last
ten days, and in Brooklyn nearly us long.
st. Lawrence, Ontario. Chemung. Che
mango. Columbia. Albany. Otsego. Mag
ara, Livingston, Wayne, Ulster, Queens.
are among the others which have adj
journcd over. The figures furnished by
the associated press at half-past o'clock
on Saturday morning gave the State to
Cleveland by about 724 plurality. This
has since been reduced by the error in
New Y ork, and varied by slight changes
elsewhere, so as to leave Cleveland. on
that basis, 425. Our own table on Thurs
day night gave Blaine S4l but the figures
for Cattaraugus. furnished by our special
dispatch, and confirmed by both the as
sOciated press and the dispatch to the
State committee. contained an error as
big as the one here. and the correction
brought down that table to 40S for Blaine.
SO far as can yet be known, the truth
probably lies between the two. At any
rate, there seems to be no reason vet as
certaned for believing that the plurality
will amount to five hundred either way,
unless through unexpected action by
some of the boards of supervisors. 1t
is idle to dispute or dogmatize over
margin so narrow in a vote so large and
with so many points of irregularity or
worse yet to be passed upon. 1t is not
time either to be over-sanguine of sue
cess or to give up the case. We can only
hope for the results for which we have
been laboring."
The New York Mail and Express, also
a Blaine paper, said in its issue of
Wednesday afternoon:
1.-The official canvass of the votes of
this State is in progress to-day. Few
changes were made by the canvassers
yesterday. 1t is now conceded that the
vote of the counties above Harlem bridge
cannot be CHI nged to offset Cleveland's
plurality. An accidental error may en-
tirely wipe out the plurality, and on this
alone are based the hopes of the Repub-
licans. At midnight forty of the isixty
counties had been heard from officially.
They gave net gain of 33 for Cleveland.
leaving his plurality at 1925, according to
the claims of the Democrats. This prac-
tically ends any probability of any seri-
Gus increase in Blaines maorites in the
rural counties. although it is fair to bear
in mind that where gains are expected
the canvass is delayed, and a case NAV
yet be presented in the eight or ten coun-
ties where a case has been made up. The
real fight is in this city, and Republican
hopes were greatly dampened when Eli
hu Root announced yesterday that he
found the majority to be 43.226, wiping
out the gain of 42G votes announced on
Saturday. The total number of votes
upon which in some form or another Mr..
George Bliss expects to take exception to
the informal count already had is about
1000. About one-third of these are de-
fective or blank ballots, and the rest are
Butler, st. John and other votes which
were miscounted. excluded or otherwise
added to swell the Cleveland count"
OF the work done by the county can
wasting board on "Wednesday an associ-
ated press dispatch says:
The official canvass of twenty wards
in Kings county shows gain of 80 votes
for Cleveland and two for Blaine. The
board of canvassers of New York county
examined the returns of the first three
assembly districts to-day. A few differ
ences tfrom the press reports published
on Wednesday morning were discovered,
but nothing was found that will materi-
ally effect Cleveands plurality as pub
lished. 1t is estimated that Oswald OF
tendorfer, who has fewer votes than any
other Democratic elector, may fall hun
dred votes behind. The official returns
of canvassers have been received from
forty-five of the sixty counties in this
State. But few changes of the previous
reports of county clerks have been made,
and those not important. The work of
canvassng still progresses in the remain
ing fifteen counties, being delayed in
most instances by clerical errors made
by inspectors. There is a gain of two
votes in Lewis county, three in Allegha-
ny, one in Livingston, two in Chcmung
aud seven in Albany, total fifteen. Blaine
gains one in Onondaga, one in Steuben,
one in Cayuga, eight in Jefferson and one
in Duchess, total twelve, net gain for
Cleveland three. Should no further
change be made Cleveland's plurality
would therefore be 1888"
At st. Johnsbury, Wednesday, Simeon
Stone, while working on the skating rink,
fell and broke his back. diving soon af-