The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-07
HOW THE RETURNS GAME IN.
The Morning News Furnished Complete
Reports, but the Majorities Were on
the Wrong Side.

The Morning News Furnished Complete
Reports, but the Majorities Were on
the Wrong Side.
There has probably never been an cleo
ton of so wide a range in which so much
local interest was taken as in that held
yesterday.
All day long people were discussing the
prospects on the street, and bettors were
looking for people on the other side of
the question who wanted to place their
money with their judgment
All Of this made the returns last night
exceedingly interesting but this did not
relieve the disheartening feature, and
before all the states had been heard from
definitely conclusions were jumped at and
the weary and not enthusiastic watchers
wended their way homeward.
The bulletins began to pour into the
office of the Morning News shortly be-
fore o'clock last night, and about that
hour there were fully 500 people gathered
on the sidewalks to gather in the results
But there was no enthusiasm in the
crowd. Anti-Tammany and anti-Hn
movements seemed to have got in their
work here as well as elsewhere, and when
the figures began to tell that this work
had been effective there was no shout in
the crowd
The Morning News furnished a complete
and detailed service, the bulletins being
posted for several hours. Among quite
a number an interest was kept up until
after II o'clock. The Morning News had
a double-barreled wire furnishing the
news from all sections of the country The
Western Union bulletins were posted
along with those sent out by the Associ-
ated Press, but those of both were of
oh tf,s.
ing picture was the fading of democracy's
hope, which impressed itself more and
more on the minds of those watching the
returns until they could not even raise a
cry for Lester. when his large majority
was thrown in large figures upon the
screen.
The bulletins came fast enough for
time, keeping two operators and two men
busy transcribing the votes upon the
slides, but they were not of the right sort
The two wires covered every obtainable
return, but there were very few of them
that did not show majority the wrong
way.
The posting Of returns seemed to be a
popular feature, and wires were busy In
many of the downtown resorts until the
crowds around them became tired and
left.
The Commercial Club was brilliantly
lighted up and large number of its mem
bGl . anu Nltll lAiGllhS were OA manu- TO
hear the reports. One crowd would sit
around the wire for a time until it be-
came weary Of hearing of democratic
slumps, and another would take its place
A lunch was served in the club rooms and
a very pleasant evening was spent
About a hundred members of the Guards
Club gathered at the arsenal to receive the
returns there. They watched the reports
eagerly, but as well as Others with lack
of enthusiasm when it was seen how
things were going, until about 10 o'clock,
when the crowd commenced to grow con-
siderably less.
At the Hussars Club there were about
forty members watching the returns until
a late hour. The Harmonic Club was en-
livened for a while with the presence OF a
large number of members and their lady
friends, and like the others the members
Of the Oglethorpe Club sat and heard the
returns in silence. So it was everywhere
At 10 o'clock clubmen and others could be
seen trying to find their way home. The
Hibernian Hall entertained about flfty
members of the ancient order with election
returns at the beginning Of the evening
and an hour later there were about fifteen
left.
The election returns threw a decided
damper over most of the bettors Hill
hackers have been hard to find here for
the last two or three days, because Of fear
that the anti-Tammany cry would be an
effective one. A good many bets were
taken, however, especially when heavy
ODDS were offered on Morton. The odds
went from 2 to / to 4 to ! during the morn
ing and quite a little money was placed at
this figure. 1t seems, however, that there
was no particular luck in accepting heavy
odds. The crowd was a pretty sick one
before the evening was over, and disgust
was written on more than one countenance
They would not have minded so much the
loss of a few dollars that may have been
put on the election, but he chagrin Of los
ing the Money and the election too. was
entirely too much.
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