Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-12
THE NEW YORK COUNT.
The Work Begun-Republicans Codndent
of a Plurality.
NEw YORK, Nov. II.

NEW YORK, Nov. IL.
The canvassing boards met in the sixty
counties OF New York, today, and began the
counting of the votes cast at the election on
Tuesday last The first vote counted will be
for presidential electors, and as the electoral
tickets contain each thirty six names and the
vote for every one of the electors must be
counted separately, it will be seen that the
official count cannot be completed in day in
New York city, which has 7l2 election dis
tricts In New York the board of aldermen
sits as a board of canvassers, with County
Clerk keenan, as its clerk. Usually tour or
five assembly districts are canvassed each
dav. The canvass in the city will occupy at
least ten days provided no legal complications
arise. In the rest of the State the count will
probably be completed III day or two unless
the courts are called on in cases where fraud
is alleged or other questions are raised.
The republican managers propose to test in
every legal way possible the question, which
candidate has plurality. To secure this end,
they have directed counsel 10 appear before
the county boards where any frauds or irreg
ularties are charged or suspected. Mr..
Evarts will have charge of the cases in New
York county. H. will ask for the correction
of number of alleged errors, and. in case
of refusal by the board, will take each in.
whether the board shall not be compelled to
reciify the alleged error. 1t is said that. in
making uu the count for the city of New
York, considerably more than 1000 votes
were thrown out, upon the ground that they
were either defective or blank Ii is proposed
to investigate each individual rejection, to see
whether these ballots have been purposely
thrown out. On account of the determination
Of the republican managers to make test
cases of all irreguarui:s that the county
boards refuse to recognize, 1t is question
whether the announcement of the final official
count may not be delayed indefinitely, al
though there ought TO be no long delay in
footing up the face of the returns as they now
stand, so as to make out prma facie case
for either Cleveland or Blaine. There are
quite a number who are confident that, in
view of the possibility of tedious legal dis
putation, the vote of New York will never be
counted at all by Congress. The effect of
this would be TO throw the election into the
House. As the House is democratic it would,
"a matter of course, elect Cleveland. The
inference is plain that the republicans are
not pursuing their present policy for the pur-
pose of throwing the election into the House,
but because they believe, upon the facts in
their possession, that they stand a chance of
drawing a plurality out of the lottery of cor
rections.
The republican managers in Brooklyn
assert that they have discovered cases of
illegal voting in the town of New Utrecht.
They assert that the national committee has
positive information that 800 Italian laborers
employed by a sewer contractor at Bay Ridge
vote in that place. The laborers are all
said to live in Mulberry sHeet in New York
The returns from New Utrecht have not
been handed in to the chief supervisor of
elections.
1t is also said in Brookon that the federal
authorities discovered before election that
there were about 2000 cases of fraudulent
registration in Kings county. Warrants were
issued for the arrest of the persons, but so
much publicity was given to the matter that
only l40 persons who had registered fraudu
lently attempted to vote.
John |. Davenport's agents are said to be
very active in Suffolk. Richmond, Queens,
Kings, Westchester, Putnam, ROcklaud and
Ulster counties.