The Portland daily press., 1884-11-10
PRESS co mMENTs.
Views of she New York Journals ON the
Situation.

Views of she New Work Journals ON the
Situation.
NEW YORK., Nov. 8.-rhe Mail and Express
this afternoon says: THE situation to-day as
regards New York state has not materially
changed. The Republican managers are as
POSITIVE as ever in their claims that Blaine has
carried the Slate by q small plurality. The
figures OF the Associated Press today, with only
a few districts to hear from, officially Civ Q
Cleveland a small plurality. Districts have
been heard from unoficialy and will not in any
case, according TO Associated Press figures N a.
terially change the result. Both parties must
now await the official count as ih q poll of a
million and quarter OF votes it is quite prob
able that there may be clerical errors in the
footing OF returns from districts In the State
that NAV change the result oneway or the othe
Ihe Evening Post says the official canvass
by the, State board of canvassers which is to
take place on November 18th, or earlier, is
merely q formal revision and verifcation OF
totals sent in by the county clerks. 1t is il no
sense a soathern returning board, and can not
DO made SO. There Is no power given by the
law to go behind the returns. There is not the
slightest prot ability of any change being made
by the board which will materially alter the
figures given now in the honest newspapers OF
all parties. The law is drawn with most min
ute provisions to prevent frauds OF all kinds,
guards are placed at every stage, from the IT e.
stratlon of the voter to fual recording of tho
vote before the au horties at Albany. There
is no point un9uarded, and no fraud is possible
TIE fiLal reto os from every county In Q
| 5 ate have been made known and cannot be
altered. The Blaine organs, which are charg-
| ing fraud and lying and are gratuitously ssu-
DeriDg their own State. While doing it they
refuse to publish the manly declaration of one
| of their former allies, the Albany Evening
| Journal, that the country has elected Cleve-
| land President, and that prompt recognition
| of the will of the majority is essential to the
maintenance and preservation OF American
| institutions.
The Commercial Advertiser says 1t seems to
| be generally agreed today by law-abidiug citl-
| Zens that the official vote must be awaited be-
| fore the question who has carried New York
| can be settled. Thus far unofficial figures
have failed to satisfactorily demonstrate it.
| The question must 60 to the body that has
been legally constituted for jnst such purpose
| and happily that body is one in which every
fair and reasonable man has profoundest conf
| dence.
The Tribune says: The footings for zoos elec-
| tion precincts and for New York and Kings as,
furnished by the Associated Press, have alrea-
| dy been given. Making correction Of an error
discovered in footings during a scrutiny of the
| returns by both parties yesterday, the returns
showed plurality for Mr.. Blaine of 468 The
| returns since received from ten precincts shows
| gain for Mr.. Blaine, the vote Of these pre-
| cincts being-for Blaine, 500 622; for Cleve-
land, 568,7l6; plurality for Blaine, GOT. The
precincts not yet heard from gave 1869 votes
| for Garfield and 1915 votes for Hancock, show