The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-27
MINNESOTA'S OFFICIAL VOTE
Blaine's Plurality ss,677, and His Majority
Over All 3O,410-Nelson Leads the Other
congressman.
Particular OF tho Canvass.

The state board Of canvassers met yester-
day in the Office OF the secretary Of state,
at the capitol. to make an official canvass Of
| the votes cast in Minnesota for presidential
electors and congressman, on Nov. last
The board consists of Gov. Hubbard and
Secretary Of State Won Baumbach; but there
were present to witness the count. Supreme
Court Judge Berry, Auditor Braden and
Attorney General Hahn The first
| package was opened at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, and the count was
concluded-with two hours intermission for
dinner-shortly before 6 o'clock p. m. The
clerks in the secretary of states Office had
the totals footed up by 8 o'clock. 1t is
doubtful if there has ever been an election
in the state at which SO many errors were
committed, the returns from almost three
fourths of the counties containing mac
curacies of more or less magnitude. This
was especially so in writing the names of
presidential electors, c. +. Kindred and L.
o. Thorpe of the Blaine ticket losing largely
Wright on the Democratic ticket, suffered a
loss Of 5000 votes, the returns being sent in
for F. NJ. Wright Thomas E. Bowen and
George A. Du Toit also lost quite largely.
]. J. Kendall, on the St John ticket, was
wit, Withdraw AVN +s shortly before the cleo
mis- substituted; Dennis and Kendall
were both voted for, and of course, Dennis
was the sufferer: G. s. Lvermore, on the
Butler ticket, lost several hundred votes, the
| election judges in the counties were Woe
fully careless or badly bungled, in which lat
ter event the county political committees are
to blame.
PRETTY LARGE VOTE THROWN OUT
No less than 20, 900 votes were returned
$o1yi fho intn
sideration This includes 5, 489 counted for
F. M Wright, 2, 1855 for L o. Thorpe, 2.664
for G. F. Kindred, 1,O1O for D. Du Toit
| 1,OO6 for Thomas E. Brown, and similar in
| stances where the name or the initials have
been Incorrectly written or printed: Not
| taking into account the dozens upon dozens
| of errors involving a loss of fifty or less
| votes-al Of which were thrown out by the
board on account of these Irregularities
the following figures will show the extent to
| which the returns were bungled The votes
thrown out were as follows, showing the
counties responsible for the errors:
| Big Stone, POI for F. NJ Wright.
Blue Earth, 2ss for J. J: Kendall.
Carlton, 655 for l. o. Thorpe
| Chisago, 40 for B. w. Dane.
| Clay, ~ for J. J. Kendall.
Dodge, 481 for F. NJ. Wright and IS for F. s..
| Livermore.
Douglass, y for J; J. Kendall, SO for M. c.
Martin dat and 1 i, for Tor f s LiveEmore.
! Hubbard. rs for Daniel Cochran.
Kanabec, 65 for B. w. Dance
Kandayohi, 229 for F. s. Livermore.
Kttson, 80 for E. H. Lienau.
Lac qui Parle, 22O for F. NJ Wright.
Lincoln, 154 for F; n Wright.
| Meeker, 294 for S. F. Livermore.
Martin, 26O for F. M. Wright.
Marshall, l57 for John c. Lennon and LAG for
= M %; H9ns1 i,o1o for D. Du roit.
| Mobiles. 246 for f. M Wright. -
0!msted, l,549 for F; N: Wright;
Polk Sc each for J. J. Kendall, J. NJ. Dunbar
Rice, 1881 for F. II. Wright and ~ for j. NJ
Rock, 143 for Heiter Rauen.
St. Louis 1899 for L O. Thorp.
Steele 1,O06 for Thomas E. Brown.
Stevens, SIS for w. B. Bean and 613 for G. D.
Perkins
Traverse, 253 for F. NJ. Wright.
Wabasha, SIS for F. NJ. Wright
Washington. So for C. A. Pierce
Winona, 1864 for g. A. Kindred.
| 1t must be borne in mind that these are
only the more important Of the errors; it
would require too much space to enumerate
all Of them Had the Minnesota election
would certainly have resulted from this
| serious complication.
TOTAL VOTE, PLURALITY AND MAJORITY.
! The total vote for presidential electors
! was Dis 1OllOWS:
Blaine-John G. Nelson, III, 6e5; John D. AL
kins, iii, 900; W. B. Dean, i1O,4 s9: L. o.
Thorpe, los, 522: G: F; kindred, lo8, 742.
| Norrish, 7O,OO4; David Cochran, 69, 1892; C. H.
Lienau, 69.779; George A. Du Toit, 69,O45:
Thomas E. Bowen, 69,926; E. NJ. Wright IS,
ssl.
The St: John electors ranged from 3,93s for E.
NJ. Dennis to 1854 for G.. R. Fix. The Butler
seven ranged from 2, 1888 for g. S. Livermore to
| 1858 for George B. Dresbach.
Adding the votes cast for John g. Nelson
and August Peterson-the candidates receiv-
ing the largest vote on the Blaine and Cleve-
land tickets-with the Butler and St. John
figures, the total vote cast in the state is
100, OF, which proves that Minnesota has a
population OF more than L. 900, 900. Blaine's
plurality over Cleveland-taking tho Kindred
and his majority over all is 80, 41C. 'Belva
Lockwood received a few scattering votes
not dozen in all. The vote cast for Judge
Berry, for associate justice of the supreme
court, will not be canvassed until in January.
In the table, which follows the vote for
Blaine, Cleveland, St. John and Butler
| is based upon the elector who headed each
ticket-C F. Kindred. ]. F. Norrish, James A.
Child and William Meighan respectively.
This serves to reduce the Republican plural
ity, owing to the throwing out of 1884 of
Kindred's votes in Winona county. The
scattering vote is not shown, but it does not
amount to more than 1 1000. Following are
the official figures by which it appears that
Mr. Blaine's plurality, taking an average OF
the electoral votes is about 40, OOO-the Pro
NEER PRESS estimate on Wednesday, the
morning after the election: