Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-16
END OF THE RECOUNT.
The Result In New York Now BE,
yOnd Doubt.

yOnU DOtlDt.
Yesterday was the last of the FIVE DAYS
allowed by law to the County Oanvassers
Of New York State to go over the votes
cast for President on the 4th Of November.
The work was pretty soon over in the out
side counties, but in New York City the
whole time allowed for the canvass was
consumed. Probably there was a great
deal of pulling and hauling among the
lawyers representing the Republicans and
Democrats respectively and, no doubt,
this caused the unseemly delay to get az q
result which so, 900. 900 people clamored
for. Yesterday afternoon, at 4:4O O'Clock.
the canvass of the entire State had been
completed. The chief clerk in charge
stated the plurality for Cleveland to be
l,147. This most probably involves the
calculation that the whole vote would
stand as officially csnvassed. There were
three districts only, the Seventh, the
Ninth and the Thirteenth Assembly Dis
tricts of New York City, the count of
which had not been finally agreed upon.
These had been referred to the Committee
on Corrections. which was to report at 10
o'clock last night, New York time, which
means about 7 o'clock P. M. in Eureka.
Before the time came for the sending of
the evening press report containing the
news on this point, the telegraph Office in
Eureka closed. So that while we were
within an hour or two Of getting absolute
final information Of the canvass, for which
everybody longs, we got shut off. This is
one OF the many pleasing incidents of life
on the Base Range. However, there is not
a doubt on earth of the result. There has
not really been a reasonable doubt of it
since the first full reports were received on
the third day after the polls closed. The
Republicans were eager to see the official
canvass and to have their best lawyers
present when the Supervisors were going
over the lists. This was natural and proper.
Some 300, 900 votes had been cast. Out
Va shnb iu4ulCubC uuulDCE VI UhltOtb ~
seemed easily possible that mistakes might
occur to destroy the comparatively small
plurality reported for Cleveland. Yet this
was a very faint hope, because the infor-
nation on which the report was made,
was about as good though couched in
all the form Of official returns. The first
figures which had been obtained by sew
eral different agencies correspondent almost
entirely and continued to be substantially
the same after three different revisions by
each agent. The agents we refer to, are
the great newspapers Of New York and the
Associated Press. But now comes the Off
cial confirmation of these semi-oficial re-
turns, marred only by q squabbie over
some informalities or technical objections
to q few ballots in three Assembly Districts
in New York City. There is really not a
shred for our Republican friends to
hang their hopes on for the election Of
Mr.. Blaine. Not only have their ex-
pectation Of mistakes proved vain, but
whatever chances they may have depended
on to take advantage of delay for count
ing in" their man, are also gone. They
have been checkmated and beaten. They
are gone, and they have nothing to do now
but to give up and get back to their regu-
lar business outside Of politics. There
are now five days left in which the law re-
quires the State Board Of Canvsssers to
merely add up the votes in the 60 coun-
ties of New York. That is all they have
left to do. As the schoolboy would say,
they have a sum in addition to do. That
and nothing more. They ought to be able
to do it, and do it correctly, between 10y
and the night of the 21st inst.