Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-08
INDIANAPOLIS IN A FERMENT.
Hilarious Republicans and Hopeful Demo
crats-COnfiictinp Reports


crats-Confiicting Reports.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. S-There was no lack
of noisy enthusiasm at the home of Gen.
Harrison yesterday. By o'clock in the
morning the streets were pretty well cleared
of the sc, 900 men and boys that had been
creating pandemonium from dusk of the
evening before, but by O'Clock goodly
number of them were out of doors again,
apparently fresh, and certainly ready for
the fray The rain which fell almost with
out cessation throughout the day did not
dampeu their ardor a whit. They sur
rounded the newspaper offices, packed into
the political headquarters. blockaded
the street corners and paraded in
mud ankle deep. The prevailing
boutonniere was paper flag with the figures
"544, ~ in bold type, representing the number
of votes that G en-. Harrison received on the
decisive ballot in the Chicago convention.
About everybody that wore a Derby" had
@Ben" inscribed upon its front in white
chalk: others had the cabalistic figures
chalked on the backs The inevitable rooster
could be counted by the thousand. The tin
horn brigade was out in force, and up town
| and down town, and from one end Of the
| city to the other, the pedestrian could not
| 60 block without being greeted with the
| refrain "Bye-bye, old Grover" or being
asked TO respond to the chestnutty
| query, whats the matter with HarrisonT
| New York being considered as tolerably
| safe public attention was more directly GEN.
| tered upon this state Tuesday night it was
claimed by both parties the Democrats, of
the two, being the most confident The re-
turns were remarkably slow in coming in,
but almost from the start they indicated Re-
publican gains. At the Republican head
| quarters, in addition to the reports collected
| by the Western Union, Chairman Huston
received special bulletin from the chair
man of each county committee, while at the
| Democratic headquarters special reports
from the principal election officers in each
county bad been arranged for These diff
fered very widely in almost every instance
from the bulletins received through
the other channels At noon, when
the Geographic returns from 500
precincts showed net Republican
gain of over 5000, the reports to the Demo-
cratic committee indicated Democratic
loss of Is only, and upon this basis Governor
Gray telegraphed to New York that the
state had assuredly gone Democratic by at
least {, 900 Still later in the day, when the
regular returns showed steadily increasing
Republican gains, Chairman Jewett and his
associates held to their position At o'clock
| Secretary Sheerin, of the national commit
tee, said emphatically that the party had
carried the state.
I'VE are paying no attention he said, ito the
| Western Union reports. ! do not consider them
| reliable. Our reports ara special, coming to us
over our own wire When we had returns from
only ten or twelve precincts last night the West
| ern Union report covered returns from nearly
900, do not believe they could have possibly oh
| tanned authentic reports in that time We have
| carried the state from 800 to 5000 We expect
| ed a loss Of $40 10 St. 10 county, and find it is
only so. Allen county indicates Democratic
majority Of 400. and we expected n loss there.
late last evening Mr. Sheerin, on the
strength of previous returns, reiterated tness
opinions
At the Republican headquarters, upon
comparison Of the Western Union bulletins
with the private reports, it was claimed last
night that Republican plurality of 5000
was absolutely certain. As computed by
the United rress tho returns from SIS out of
the 80 counties received up to 8 p. m. show
Republican gains to a total of 1870, and
Democratic gains 705; net Republican gain,
5,7S5 Such Democratic strongholds a.
Allen. Clark. Dubois, jackson, LaPorte,
Posey, Warwick and Scott counties were
however, not included, no reliable returns
from those points having been received.
Numerous dispatches from the national
headquarters at New York were received a
the committee rooms during the day. W.
w. Dudley wired Editor Halford that tn