Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-26
HOW cLEyELAND LOST OHIO.
IL IL Claimed That Voters Voted for the FIr~s
Democratic Elector. Thinking That Was
for

IL IL Claimed That Voters Voted for the Fir~t
Democratic Elector. Thinking That Was
for All.
CLEVELAND. Nov. 26.-It now appears ss
though Ohio may have intended 70 have gone
for Grover Cleveland by a slight margin. Last
night the state statistician in Columbus COM
pleted the election count upon individual presi-
dental electors. 1t shows that Lorenzo ID. Wick
ers, the republican elector for the eleventh
district, is defeated by James r. seward, whose
name appears first on the list Of demo-
cratic electors. Seward received s0hIl5
votes and Nickers only 4O2. .399 II 10
thought the reason why Seward obtained
80 many more votes than his demo-
cratic feliow-eectors lie. IN the Australian plan
OF ballotng IN Use in Ohio. To vote n straight
democratic ticket under this plan. formerly,
II was necessary only 20 place a cross
opposite the name democratic ticket" at
the head OF the list OF candidates. This
year, owing 10 the tendency of voters
20 drop down one line in their marking and
designate the name of the first candidate, thus
erroneously voting only for him, the law was
amended TO direct that the crosses
for straight tickets must be placed
in circles printed for that purpose
at the tops Of the ballots. II was feared from
the first that many would neglect TO comply
with the new regulation and would place their
marks at the side of the ticket. at the top.
thinking TO vote it straight
Stewards election l. taken as an evidence that
this error was made by many voters in Ohio.
Ii is argued that the cross was placed beside
his name by many who supposed they weGe
voting the straight democratic ticket
whereas they were voting only for him. IL
this be the fact. though il can never be proven,
enough voters in Ohio desired 10 vote for Clc,e-
land to carry the state by the plurality that Sew
ard got.
The abstracts Of five counties have been sent
back for correction. and il il possible that they
may imperii two other republican electors, l..
NJ Stark of the twentieth district and Luther
Allen of the twenty-first. whose margin Of plu-
rality is slight.
VOTERS MAKE A SIMILAR MISTAKE N INDIANA
INDIASAPoLIs, IND. Nov. 26-The official re-
turns from the last county in Indiana have
been received at the state house. The footing-
shOw that Bracken. the first eloctor ON the
democratic ticket, received @62.700 votes
Pierce, the first elector ON the republican
ticket, received 255.6l5. Bracken's plu-
rality, which is in effect Cleveland's plurality.
l. 7.0s5. None of the electors on either
ticket receive rs many votes as the
first. The democratic elector receiving
the smallest number of votes fell
2, 2,l67 behind Bracken. The republican elector
receiving the smallest number Of votes fell
l,s45 below Pierce IL is believed by those
who have investigated the returns that the diff
ference ia the number Of votes received
by the first electors and those follow
ing was cased by mistaken opinion
which many voters had that by stamping op-
posite the name Of the first elector they voted
for all the electors on the ticket. The demo-
Gratis lost 322 more votes through this mistake
than the republicans did
The average vote received by the fifteen
electors on the democratic state ticket
was 260.720. Claude Matthews ran only
ll9 behind the average electoral vote,
receiving 2G0. .60l. The average number Of
votes received by the republican electors
WIS 253 $40. Ira j. Chase received 25S, ,625. thus
falling 295 below the average electoral vote.
The average plurality OF the democratic elector
vote is 6, 500, while the plurality Of Matthews s
6.955.