The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
A QUESTION OF ACCURACY.

The Result Cannot be Known Uutil the Cur
rectness of the Footinss is Established.
New YORK, Nov This morning salute
of 100 guns was fired in City Hall Park by order
of the leaders of the County Democracy, in
honor of Grover Clevelands election to the pres
idency. The booming of the guns drew large
crowd from the bulletin boards and the newspa.
per offices to the park. During the firing por-
ton of the wad from gun struck little news
boy named Jacob Simon in the face knocking
out his eye.
The Herald, Sun and Extra have withdrawn
their bulletin boards. At the World bulletin
board this morning, the crowd was quite enthu-
siastic over the announced election of Cleveland
and Hendricks, and this was increased when it
was declared that Jay Could had conceded the
State to Cleveland, and had sent a telegraphic
dispatch to the Governor congratulating him
upon his election. The Republicans continue
firm however, and still maintain that Blaine
has carried the State.
The question who has carried New York State
is now chiefly question of the accurate footings
of the long columns of figures The footings of
the county clerks, with only few missing. in
dcate that Cleveland has about 600 plurality.
The footings of election districts made in the
Associated Press office indicate that Blaine has
a nearly equal plurality Twelve districts in
the State had not, up to this morning reported
at all; some sixty others had reported, but their
accuracy questioned and they will be verified
to day The whole list of counties will be care
fully readded to-day, and the result of that ad-
dition, well the result of the compilation of
the county clerks figures, will be sent out by the
Associated Press This work will probably not
be completed before night
The Mail and Express says: Neither party
yields New York State. The contest is so close
that the official figures may Ue necessary to de-
termine the result. The returns so far received
indicate an apparent plurality for Blaine"
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have just reached the Associated Press office,
some of them coming from the mountain regions
by mail These foot up as follows: Blaine
6j4 Cleveland, 217; net Republican plurality III
these districts, 44Ip
The Post says "The adherents of Grover
Cleveland may rest confident that this State has
given him plurality, and that he has large
majority in tho electoral college"
Senator German, chairman of the Democratic
national executive committee has sent the fol
lowing dispatch to tho national committeeman
for each State:
at is now conceded on all sides that Cleve-
land and Hendricks are elected. The plurality
in the State of New York is not less than 300" "
The feeling about Democratic headquarters
was so confident as to Clevelands election that
the crowd dispersed at noon time The Repub-
lican national committee said they had no news
to-day They still state that Blaine has carried
the State and is elected.
A revision of the figures in Westchester coun-
ty shows a clerical error in the Associated Press
footings. A correction of this error gives Ceve-
land 800 more votes than the previous statement
based on election districts.
A difference of nearly AL has been found in
Cattaraugus county between the Associated
Press footings and the returns of the county
clerk. If the latters figures stand, they will in
crease Blaines plurality by AL; if not, then
there will be no change.
An effort has been made to get election dis
tricts repeated separately. The footings Of the
districts as received in the Associated Press
Office are correct. and the only possibility of
error is in the returns having been incorrect at
the frst-namely, too favorable to Cleveland.
The situation at 3 p. NJ is this: Several errors
have been discovered which, except as to the one
in Westchester county, very nearly balance.
Indications growing stronger that the vote
will be nearer even than any estimates have
yet conceded Many counties yet to be re-
vsed, however, and the work will be slow and
tedious. 1t is necessarily so, since in every case
where discrepancies are discovered or doubt is
raised, the election district returns are inquired
for, and at this late hour it is not always easy to
secure them promptly.
Complete Associated Press returns by election
districts from Cattaraugus county have been re-
peated by telegraph, and show that the county
clerk overstated Blaines plurality by 452 and
that the Associated Press returns from that
county and the footngs thereof correct as
first published. The discrepancy, therefore,
does not disturb the figures originally given.
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