St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-08
INDIANA.
ON THE RAGGED EDGE.
Hoosiers Are Specializing as t
the Result in Their Own State.

Special to the Globe.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Nov. ~7.-There
was no lack of noisy enthusiasm at the
home of Gen. Harrison to-day. By 4
o'clock this morning the streets were
pretty we'll cleared of the $4,000 men
and boys that had been creating pande-
monium from dusk of the evening be-
fore, but by 8 o'clock goodly number
of them were out of doors again, appar-
emily fresh and certainly ready for the
fray. The rain, which fell almost with
out cessation throughout the day, did
not danpeu their ardor bit. They
surrounded the newspaper offices.
packed into the political headquarters,
blockaded the street corners and
paraded in mud ankle deep.
The prevailing bontonierre was paper
tag with the figures '.544" i'll bold type,
representing the number of votes that
Gen. Harrison received in the decisive
ballot in the Chicago convention.
About everybody who wore ''Derby"
had ben" inscribed upon its front in
white chalk: others had the caba ,tic
figures chalked on their backs. The
inevitable rooster could be counted by
the thousands. 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 go a
block without being greeted with the
refrain
BYE BYE. OLD GROVER"
being asked to respond to the chest
nutty inquiry whats the matter with
Harrison?" Fortunately, for his own
comfort, the noisy adherents of the
prospective president elect kept away
from the neighborhood of his residence.
Probably this was fully in accord with
his own wishes, but, nevertheless. it,
has been commented on as singular
that, amid all the demonstrations of
last night and to-day there was not a
move-as there was at the time of his
nomination-toward giving him an i'm
promptu reception at his own home.
New York being considered as tolera-
bly, safe, public attention was more di-
rectly centered to-day upon this
state. Last night it was claimed
by both parties, the Democrats
of the two being the most
confident. The returns were remark
ably slow in coming in, but almost
from the start they indicated Repnb-
lican gains. At the Republican head
quarters, in addition to the reports col
lected by the Western Union, Chairman
Huston received a special bulletin from
the chairman of each county committee,
while at the Democratic headquarters
special reports from the principal cleo
ton officers i'll each county had been ar
ranged for. These differed materially
in almost every instance from the bull
letins received through the other chan
nels. At noon when the Geographic
returns from $50 precincts showed net
gain of over 5000, the reporters to the
Democratic committee indicated DEM
ocratic loss of twenty-five only. and
upon this basis Governor Gray tele-
graphed to New York that the state
had
AsSUREDLY GONE DEMOCRATIC.
by at least 6,G00. Still later ON, when
the regular returns showed steadily i'll
creasing Republican gains. Chairman
Jewett and his associates held to their
position. At o'clock Secretary
Sherin, of the national committee, said
emphatically that the party had carried
the state. 1--WE are paying no atten-
tion," he said, "to Western Union re-
ports. do not consider them reliable.
Our returns are special, coming to US
hod
turns from only ten or twelve precincts
last night the Western Union report
covered returns from nearly 200. do
not believe they could have possibly OBJ
tanned reports in that time. We have
carried the state by from 5000 to 5000.
We expected a loss of 500in st. 10 county
Can find it is only 200. Allen county
indicates a Democratic majority of
1000, and we expected loss there.
Late this evening Mr.. Sheerin, on the
strength of previous returns, reiterated
these opinions. At the Republican
headquarters, upon comparison of the
Western Union bulletins with the pri-
vate report, 1t is claimed tonight that
Republican plurality of 5,oG0 is abso-
lutely certain. AS computed by the
United Press the returns from fifty-six
out of ninety-two counties received up
to 8 p. m. show Republican gains to
total of 1880, and Democratic gains
705; net Republican gains 6,795. Such
Democratic strongholds as Allen, Clark,
Dubois, Jackson, Laporte. Possey, War
wick and Scott counties, are, however,
not included. no reliable returns from
those points having yet been received.
The result of Marion county was
genuine
SURPRISE TO THE REPUBLICANS
1t was carried by Blaine in 1854 by
22S plurality, although two years ago it
gave Nelson, Democratic nominee for
lieutenant governor, plurality of 397.
But as the home city of the Republican
nominee for the presidency was part
of this county, it was confidently eX-
pected thas it would come to the front
with a rousing plurality for Harrison
and the entire ticket. But the condi-
tions are exactly reversed at o'clock
tonight; with eighty-six out of the
ninety precincts officially reported and
five of the six missing being strongly
Democratic, Gen. Harrlson's plurality
is three, while the state and county
Democratic tickets are elected by ma
jorities ranging from 800 to 500. If the
returns from the precincts yet to be
heard from arc on the basis>of those of
1884 it is conceded at Repub-
lican headquarters that Gen. Har-
rison will lose his own county
by 400 to 500. In his own
precinct the vote was Harrison 345,
Cleveland 81, while in the ward was car
ried by $50. Republican gain of 300.
Mahlon Floyd, candidate for county
treasurer, ran ahead of him in the ward
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