Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-11-13
"a MAINE, THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 49, 1884

was found after the canvass, but not an error
affecting the result of the vote as officially
announced, which is as follows Blaine s445,
Cleveland l0,367, Butler 270, ST. John POL
Clevelands plurality, 1922.
No Fraud in Buffalo.
BUFFALO, Nov. IL.
The supervisors of Erie county met yester-
day and were constituted board Of canvass
ers. Mistakes were found in some of the
wards as u the proper of writing in the
vote. but nothing was found that would show
fraud or change a single vote. The board
will be occupied for some DAYS.
No Material Change so Far-OnIy l6
Counties To Report.
NEw YORK, Nov. II.
In ~ counties the county canvassers com
pleted their work Yesterday. In these coun-
ties no material changes is made from the
figures given heretofore. The Is counties
which had not reported their count at | A.
Nj. this morning were Albany, Chemung,
Chenango. Columbia, Dutche>s, Erie, Liv-
ingston, Niagara, Ontario, Otsego, Queens,
Kings, New York. ST Lawrence, rompkins,
Ulster, Wayne, Suffolk
The count in New York county was re-
filled with politicians and lawyars represent
ing the republican and democratic parties.
Committees on protested and corrected re-
turns were appointed. The canvass of the
first assembly district was begun. L. was
found after proceeding short way down the
list that the democratic electoral ticke; was
not properly filled in and that there were
clerical di- crepancies or omissions. The
whole district was thereupon referred TO
the committee on corrected returns.
Secretary Weeks of the republican national
committee says there is no hope of a reversal
of Cleveiands plurality on the returns and
the sole reliance tor republican success is
now on alleged frauds. The committee say
they have evidencr To prove that over 2000
votes cast for Butler were countei for Cleve
land. Should tins be established by legal
proofs, the plurality now claimed for the
democratic candidate would be wiped out and
the State conceded TO Blaine by a plurality
variously estimated between 800 and 1900
votes : but 1t is GAINED bv the democrats
that these voters east ballots which they sup
posed we're for Butler, aud which were in
reality for Blaine, and they will prove that
the Butler workers distributed Blaine ballots
at the polls
The Board of TTade on the Situation.
The board of trade and transportation
adopted a resolution condemning the expires
sIOns of the in1ammatory character, INDUCED
in by newspapers and poliucians, IN connec-
ton with the close contest of the Presidential
election, and scouting the idea of fraud as
serting that every citizen will submit to the
determination of the constituted authority.
The official canvass Of 20 wards in Kings
county shows a gain of 30 votes for Cleveland
and = for Blaine The hoard of canvassers
of New York county examined the returns OF
the first and thirh assembly districts today
\ few differences from the press reports pub
lished on Wednesday forenoon, were 3scov
cred, but nothing was found that will materi
ally affect Clevelands plurality as published.
1t is estimated that Oswald Ott"ndorter, who
has fewer votes than any other democratic
elector, NAV tall one hundred votes behind
At midnight the official returns of the can
vassers had been received from - Of the 60
counties in the State. But few changes Of
the previous reports of the county clerks had
been made and thVse not important. The
work of canvassing Is still in progress. The
remaining Is counties are delayed, in most
instances, by clerical errors made by the
inspectors Dispatches from Broome, CO.
luubia, Green and Orange counties, simply
state that the canvass is in progress. In
Sullivan county the board awaits certain cor
rections frOm several towns, but the clerk
states that his figures giving Clevelaad 275
plurality, will not be altered more than five
either way. St Lawrence county is nearly /
and no change Of previous figures |
have vet been made. Several supervisors (
were sent home to correct their returns. In /
Erie county the work is progressing and no
errors have been discovered in the Presiden. /
a IL ~.
board this forenoon, found in the returns /
from the fourth district of Fishkill, an cleo |
toral ballot for Cleveland. endorsed ''Presi- |
lent number one which the inspectors had /
retained as defective. 1t had been cut from /
a New York city paper, and as all ballots
ballots outside of that city were endorsed |
Electoral" committee was appointed to /
90 before Judge Barnard for his opinion as /
10 that particular ballot.
Judge Bernard said, ATS good ticket
gentlemen, it would be before jury. 1t |
would go right to the jury and then you would |
get the will of the voter. The inspectors
return it here and | suppose under the law
they are bound to mark it defective. You /
can count it or return it to Albany, but when |
it gets to the jury they would allow it. 1t is
not proper for it to go back to the inspectors |
for correction. The inspectors could not
have rejected 1t because the jury would have /
picked it up and allowed it. | say you can |
count it right here. 1t is returned as
scattering but it is not 1t is good. That's |
just what the board is for to allow that, which, |
when it comes to the jury, is a good vote. |
count il as a vote for whoever it was cast
After obtaining the above opinion the |
board adopted the resolution, counting the |
vote for Cleveland, which will decrease |
Baine's plurality in the county one. The |
piuralities in the counties whose votes have |
been canvsssed are as follows:
Counties. Cleveland, Blame. |
Albany, 647
27s2
Broome.
1895
Cayuga. 3l65
Chsutaqua, 4S09
Chemung, 479
Chenango. 1852
Clinton, 1922
Columbia.
Cortland, 1868
Deeware,
Duichess, 1924