Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-11-28
MINNESOTA's OFFICIAL VOTE
Blaine's Plurality ss,677, and His Majority
Over All 30,410--Nelson Leads the Other
congressman.
Particulars 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 cost 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 lie forenoon, and the count was
| concluded-with two hours interntssion 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 It 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
| cur cies Of more or less magnitude This
was especially so in writing the names OF
! presidential electors, G. +. Kindred and L.
o. Thorpe of the Blaine ticket losing largely
on account Of errors in the initials. e NJ.
Wright, on the Democratic ticket, suffered
loss OF 6, 900 votes, the returns being sent in
for r. NJ Wright Thomas E. Bowen and
George A. .Du Toit also lost quite largely:
j. J. Kendall, on the St John ticket, was
withdrawn shortly before the cleo
/; ton, and the name of E. M. Dem
mis- .hubstituted; Dennis and Kendall
We're both voted for, and, of course, Dennis
! was the sufferer. G. S. Lvermore, on the
Butler ticket, lost several hundred votes. the
| returns being made for F. s. Livermore. 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
49, le St: John electors ranged from 3,938 for E.,
N. .Depnjs to 1854 for C, r. Fix The Butler
| 1888 for George B. Dresbach
Adding the votes cast for John e. Nelson
| and August Peterson--the candidates receive.
ing the largest vote ON the Blaine and Cleye-
land tickets--With the Butler and st. John
| figures: the total vote cast in the state is
l9O,Ol7, which proves that Minnesota has a
population of more than 900, 900 Blaine's
plurality over Cleveland-taking the Kindred
| and Peterson votes as a bass=-s IS, ST..
and his majority over all is 3o,41O Belva
Lockwood received a few scattering votes,
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, J. F. Norrish, James A.
Child and William Meighan respectively
This serves to reduce the Republican plural
| ity, owing to the throwing out Of 1864 of
Kindred's votes in Winona county The
scattering vote Is not shown, but it does not
amount to more than 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
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