Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-07
STILL MIXED.
Later Returns from Kentucky Compli-
 cate the Situation Very Much.

Later Returns from Kentucky Compli-
 cate the Situation Very Much.
 Louisville, Ky, Nov. 6.-As the official returns come in tonight the statement is confirmed that the electoral vote of the state is going to stand twelve to one. In some counties the head of the electoarl ticket leads the other twelve by more than 100 votes. It will take the official count to satisfy both sides. The last newspaper figures place McKinley's plur- ality in the state at 633. The official count of is about complete outside of this Uef- ferson) county, which will not be finished for four or five days owing to the large vote. The state returning board will meet two weeks from Tuesday to pass on the count by counties.
 Rash and Smith, the first electors on the republican and democratic tickets, re- spectively, are running ahead of the oth- CT electors on the official count, and no matter which way the state goes the elec- toral vote Is going to be divided-that is, if the republicans carry the state, they will get twelve electors and the demo- crats one, and vice versa if the demo- cratS win. This results from the fact that large number of voters placed the cross opposite the name of the first elc- tor instead of under the party device. The canvassing board has ruled in these cases that the vote should count only for nOLlL0SldIluJDH intention of the voter. This raises an in teresting question in regard to the votes. Chairman Roberts, of the republican state committee, said tonight: We have trustorthy returns from the missing ones, however, and the 119 counties of the state show 435 plurality for Mckinley. We are perfectly satisfied that we have carried the state. l am waiting on further off, cial returns, and expect to send Maj. Me Kinley telegram before night I con cede the democrats one e1ector owing to the failure of voters to stamp their bal lots correctly"
 Mai H. F. Johnson chairman of the democratic state central committee, said tonight that from information in his possession he believed the state had giv- en Bryan 1000 plurality.
 Urey Woodson, member of the demo- cratic national committee for Kentucky, made the following statement: 'I am more confident tonight than have been at any time since the election that the democratic electoral ticket was elected in Kentucky, but l nave an abundance of evidence that the republicans of the mountain counties, where democrats are exceedingly scarce, have perpetrated the grossest frauds both before and since the polls closed on Tuesday.
 '.The republican committee and the press of Louisville have kept up steady claim the past three days of a plurality of from 500 to 1000. During this time they have been forced to acknowledge the errors which reduced their claims nearly 5000 votes. Every time they have been forced to acknowledge the truth about one of these central and western counties, which with gocd telegraphic and tele- phone facilities were speedily covered by the news agencies, they have been able to draw on one of these remote mountain counties for q majority far surpassing anything ever known in their history and At flAxv lat f cfa fsa t.xfR nt.r people are collecting the evidence of these frauds
 MT woodson declined to give out any figures.