Arizona republican., 1894-11-08
THE DAY AFTER, How the Result of the Election Looks. Democrats Claim Only
 Two Offices. But Think They May Be Good
 for two More. A Variety of Causes Assigned by the Defeated for the Un-
 expected Calamity.

the city yesterday partially obscuring
 the field and preventing a completely
 satisfactory view Of the situation. Re-
 turns from outside precincts were very
 meager and in many instances in which
 the sealed official returns were brought
 in, the messengers forgot to bring un-
 official returns and could give the re-
 suits in their precincts only as to the
 heads of the tickets.
 The apparent situation yesterday
 morning was therefore unchanged ex-
 cept in the matter of the candidates for sh erlff and treasurer. It appears that Orme has defeated McNulty by an ex- tremely slender majority, and Murray's election over Messenger also by small
 majority was conceded by the county central committee. The rest of the Re.
 pu blican ticket on the face of returns and taking account of precincts not vet heard from is considered safe. Early
 yesterday morning the Democratic com mittee claimed the election of one as- semblyman and George for supervisor. After carefully canvassing available re- turns which showed a majority against them and cons dering that the precincts yet to be heard from, though mostly Democratic, were small and likely to be cut up by the Populist vote, were al- most ready to concede last night the defeat of both candidates.
 The vote though between the lowest Repu ublican candidate and the highest Democratic candidates for the assem blv and board of supervisors is so close that the result may be affected by innac- curaces in the unofficial returns.
 The election of Marshall Wildman and Hinton, the Repu blican candi- dates for the assemb ply is certain. Johnson is the lowest man. Peterson appears to lead Dalton on the Demo- cratic ticket. Parker, Repu bican can- didate for supervisor leads George, Democrat, by from six to twelve votes.
 Delegate N. O. Murphy's majority in the county now appears to be 232.
 Yesterday was devoted by leading Democrats to making calculations and inquiring how and why it had hap pened. Repu blicans also spent some time in this latter and interesting di- version. They agreed that it was be- cause the Democrats didn't have enough votes. This explanation was practically and theoretically correct but IS always vague and unsatisfactory to the defeated party. The Democrats therefore looked deeper for underlying causes. They agreed on several ex- planatlons of the disaster. The first was fashionable tendency this year on the part of the masses regardless of party to vote the Republican ticket. A part of the calamity was also charged to the PoDulists. Suspicion was directed against this misguided party, by the fact that wherever there had been ex- tensive losses heavy Populist vote had been cast. This was notably the case in Ei4t Phoenix and most of the south side precincts. In less conspicuous degree the same thing had happened all over the county. It appeared, too, tn at large majority of the h4avy, new and 1nconsidered vote was Repu blican.
 Ltstlv they thought the plan of the territorial campaign was wrong. Not that the campaign had been badly or negllgently managed, for it had not, but that tho D~i1",r'9 oe < WIS wrong. The insertion Of that plank ID the ter. rltorial platform relating to the affairs of the late loan commission was ill-advised and too con- stant atanding on that particular plank had had reactionary effect. All these things were agreed upon as con- trl hutory to the sloughing off and it looked as if all the alleged causes had been worked for all they were worth to create change equal to more than five per cent of the voting population
 In this issue of THE REPUBLICAN is published revision of the vote in the tabulated form which appe ared yester- day. It will be further revised from day to day until all official returns are in, or the official count is made probably next week.