Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-11-12
THE NEW YeRk wore.

distinctly changed for tho better IN ,the
opinion of those best able to3udge. Thls
does not meau that the national refab.
licau committee, Its counsethere, OF! the.
republican lawyers retained thrOughOuk
ate and decisive action az WI instaxtly
demonstrate upon it's disclosures th1ts
the plurality claimed for Grover Clees-
land is vaiueless. This is q later sfan
still iu the future, but enough hes o.
come known to-day and enough se0l6S
certain to be ascertsined to-morro1sSOi
offer full and sufficient ground for 4ds.
manding in TuesdAy' 9 CANVASS the t6RAl
interference which the Law contemplates
Whenever the inspectors OF election bss6
wandered from their lawful duty throo2h
guilt, through Ignorance, or throAssh
curelessness. Friuay there existed hist
ground for entering upon this contest In
The character OF this result, which SA1
left great election decided by piUrat-
lty 30 small that it WIS tit that eEepe,
sure TO exist, should tie ellmluxted sG4he
laws of the state provide.
Yesterday 1t became clear, first. thas1r.
| rOrs existed even III this city; seCe&d,
that they wele sufficiently large s1fr
| ously to reduce Clevela0d's piurality,
aud, third. that their amendment oof4d
ouly be secured when the supervlil1s
| meet. Such errors doubtless exist -.
where, aud are known in Kings cuupty,
To day information has reached the com.
mlttee of several serious cases of allshbl
fraud, of . number of instances Of he
gal votes and incorrect returns, an6sSe
| numerous illegal, imperfect, and paeted
recor1s OF the vote sctualy cast Tuesasy
Some of these are SO Well substAq1ia:
ted that their proof appears as certain q
convection on good indictment d1wu
against an old offender and habiknal
criminal. Some are supported by cUnu
lstive evidence which will need only to
be atrayed to command attention. The
case against the fact of the returbE il
rapidly and swiftly shaping itself, vitt
every prospect that when the
proper time comes Tuesday it win b
possible to demonstrate to the satileao
tion Of the court and prove to the cSan,
try that the vote of New York lelAlly
canvassed and officially counted will re.
turn plurality for James q. Bsiin1
Meanwhile the actual vote and tho1sa
plurality awaits the action otthe can4sal
BY counties Tuesday. On that deNsi
a &etQek. Nxty hosEas 81 epaatf sSs
visors, toiey.tbree Of which ore repu6H
can aud seventeen democratic, meet t
open and canvass the returns by election
districts. Legal knowledge of the vote
begins when this is done. and legal rene
dies tor wrongs done then commence
Officially it is not known what the plu
railty on the face of the returns actually
is until the canvass is made, much lesl
whether the plurality rests on accurat,
returns. Nor is this canvass less neces
sary to attest the accuracy than to com
piete the legality of the election.
As mere matter of sober care, the
same care with which bank balance II
drawn or an inventory checked, even
minded and just men will suspend thei
final opinion on the result of the face o
the returns until this canvass is made
Nest of all will men practically famllia
; with the errors, omissions, and tn
carelessness of polling officers awaits thi
canvass before asserting a plural
lty of few hundred in this Just vote
No one who has ever handled lection
returns In contest or by way of record
whether in determining the size OF
majority or in trying the issue OF con
tested seat, can have the slightest ques
J tion that hundreds of errors, large an,
small, are scattered through the returns
made last Wednesday,.
These errors may balsnce as error
sometimes do. they may wipe on
the apparent plurality for the .ticke
hended by Owsald Ottendorfer:" the,
may not; they may result in contes
IN which both sides will be 80 evenl,
matched in their legal struggle that thi
issue in New York will not be concluded
iu time for either board Of electors t,
act.
These contingencies are all within tn
bounds OF possibility, the last least o
all likely, but still possible. In view Q
all these contingencies aud possibilities
in view of the manifest doubt possible
. in counting votes in 5000 polls, addinl
/ the resulting totals in sixty county seatt
and bring these totals to one form il
, two days by wire aud mail. plain. practi
/ cal business men, fair, candid men, al
!: citizens with no desiee, now that th
election ls over, but to see an homes
l vote honestly counted, will busy them
r selves to arouse public opinion read,
+ to seat any man. be he whom he may. b
r his plurality what it will, when the vot
shalt have been legally declared an,
!. judicislly determined. instead of appeal
+ ing from this sober work OF Law aud G
/. | fiouraR Of the c0nrfa and the ca vaaa Z