Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-08
RECEIVING THE RETURNS,
he President and President
 Elect Both Calm.
WASHINGTON AND1NDIANApo11s

WASHINGTON, Nov. s.-The president and
 Mrs. Cleveland remained at the White House
 Tuesday night. Just before noon Mrs Cleve-
 land drove out to Oak View The president
 remained ill and received several callers He
 held his usual reception in the East room
 He was agreeable to about sixty people there.
 Col Lamont seemed to regard the thing as
 settled He was not especially disposed to
 speculate on the cause of the result Money
 he mentioned as one thing. He was surprised
 at Kings county. He declared that Governor
 Hill had done all he could for the tick.t. and that the votes he got that Cleveland did not
 were from the Republican liquor interests, and not to be controlled by any one He did not think that the result in the city pointed to much trading
 Associate Justice Lamar was seen soon after leaving the White House. The pres ldent, he said, admitted that the news thus far received looked very unfavorable
 Do you think the tariff issue is responsi- ble for the Democratic defeat?n
 'No, do not" said Justice Lamar, land l do not know to what to attribute this de feat"
 A special dispatch to The Star from Co., lumbus quotes Mir Thurman as follows: If the national committee had listened to Br1ce and Townsend and me and given us the aid we asked, we should have carried the state On the contrary, they not only gave us no ald but took the money we raised | We could not organize Cincinnati because | we had not the means. If the committee had taken our advice they would have car rled the state; as 1t is they have lost it and the election"
 "Do you then give up the entire election! g was asked
 "We must. Harrison is undoubtedly | elected"
 The president and Col Lamont left the executive mansion early in the evening and drove to Oak View where the colonel re- malned until late in the evening. The bull letlns and press reports were not sent to the mansion after $ o'clock The president talked quite freely yesterday about the re- turns and the increased Republican vote, but expressed not the slightest regret in the world at any action be had taken during his administration. He is willing to admit that his position on the tariff and the decided stand he took in favor of revenue reduction may have lost him good many votes, but he still maintains that if it were to do over again he would follow the dictates of his con- vlctlons. President Cleveland received no telegrams from New York city later than early in the afternoon. From what he has heard, however he comedies that he is de- feated No man ever took defeat more philosophically He lays his defeat on no one. Hill and Tammany Hall, he says, treated him perfectly square, and he has no fault to find against them at all
 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 we'll cleared of the 5O,0OO men and boys that had been creating pandemonium from dusk of the evening before, but by o'clock a goodly number of them were out of doors again. ap- parently fresh and certainly ready for the fray. The rain which fell almost without cessation throughout the day did not dampen their ardor a whit. They surrounded the newspaper offices, packed into the political headquarters, blockaded the street corners and paraded in mud knee deep. Fortunately for his own comfort, the noisy adherents of the prospective presdent-elect kept away from the neighborhood of his residence New ! ork being considered safe, public at tentlon was more directly centered upon this state. It was claimed by both parties the Democrats of the two being the more confident. The returns were remarkably slow in coming in, but indicated Republican gains.
 At the Republican headquarters, in addition n. Chairman Huston received a special bulletin from the chairman 0f each county committee. while at the Democratic headquarters special reports from the principal election officers in each county had been arranged for These differed materially.in almost every instance from the bulletins received through the other channels
 At the Republican headquarters, upon comparison of the Western Union bulletins with the private reports it is claimed that a Republican plurality of 5000 is absolutely certain. As computed by the United Press the returns from fifty-six out of the ninety l two counties show Republican gains to total of 2, ,490 and Democratic gains 7O5; net Republican gain, 6,7S5. Such Democratic strongholds as Allen, Clark, Dubois, Jack son, Laporte, Posey, Warwick and Scott | counties are, however, not included, no re- liable returns from those points having vet been received.
 The result in Marion county was a genuine | surprise to the Republicans It was carried | by Blaine in 1884 by 22s plurality, although two years ago it gave Nelson, Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, a plurality of S97. But as the home city of the Repub- ican nominee for the presidency was a part of this county, it was confidently expected that it would come to the front with rous- ing plurality for Harrison and the entire ticket; but the conditions are exactly re- versed. With eighty-six out of the ninety eight precincts officially reported, and five of the six missing being strongly Democratic, Gen. Harrison's plurality is g. while the state and county Democratic tickets are elected by majorities ranging from 800 to 500 If the returns from the precincts yet to be heard from are on the basis of those of 1884, it is conceded at Republican headquar- ters that Gen. Harrison will lose his own county by 400 to 500.
 In his own precinct the vote was liar rison, 345; Cleveland, S4, while the ward was carried by 730, Republican gain of 800 Mahlon Floyd, candidate for county treas urer, ran ahead of him in the ward by nine votes.
 Congressman Bynum, who was visitor at the committee rooms, was warmly congratu- lated upon his reelection. Two years ago his majority was 1,774. This time, notwith- the bitter fight against him, it will be over 2,000
 Gen. Harrison remained in his house dur. ing the entire day. He received the press returns from the various states, together with a large number of congratulatory dis >f% II