The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-12-26
The OFFICIAL RESULT.
Not Much Comfort for Democrats
In the Figures which Indicate Gross
Frauds.

The official result OF the vote in this
State has been prepared complete by
the Secretary of State and while IL
does not give the State to the Repub-
licans by 20, 900 as they at first claim
ed yet the figures are very large and
seemingly conclusive. The vote cast
for Mckinley is l05, 36s; for Bryan
"a, $50; Palmer, 675; lowering, 1,2l6,
making McKiniey's majority over all
s, 1897 aand his plurality over Bryan
10, SIS. These figures when we re-
member that the Democrats were
without funds and that the Republic
cans had unlimited Doodle are not at
all discouraging. But the queer thing
is the apparent enormous increase in
population which the vote cast would
show as compared with '92. The CAM
paign of that year was of sufficient
warmth and a comparatively full vote
was out and the total vote cast was
171,071, being divided as follows
Democratic, "a, 412; Republican, So
23s; Populists, 4, 166; Prohibitionist,
2, las. This compared with this year
shows that the Democrats have gain
ed TO- in the four years; the Re-
publieans the enormous increase Of
%, 1870; the Pfohihitionlsts lost 500
votes and the Populists were swallow
ed up in the two old parties the sec
tlon of the State in which they lived
determining which they gave allegi-
ance to. The Palmer democrats of
course drew their strength from the
regular party which makes the Demo-
cratic gain a trihe larger. Now the
total population is calculated by null
tiplying the total vote cast by five and
a very correct estimate Is found in
this way. Then If we take the gain
in the total vote and multiply it by five
we will have the gain In population
In the last four years. The total vote
cast this time was POI, 739, being an
increase In population of 1853, 800 ia
the four years. Now any man pos
sessed of even a 1.-THE of common sense
knows that this terrible increase has
not taken place but that like in this
county wholesale frauds have been
committed upon the purity of the bal
lot in the name of patriotism and as a
means of preserving the national hon
or. Right in this town there were
score of illegal votes cast and If the
same percentage kept up everywhere
we can readily see where the great In
crease comes from Colonies from
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other border
states were run in and voted in def
ance of the law Such shameless
prostitution OF the ballot will not be
allowed to go unchallenged by an out
ragged people but the impudent effront-
cry Of the offending ones will receive
its just reward. Compare with '94,
there is somewhat more comfort to be
found in the figures. Then the demo-
Gratis cast 76, LAG and the republicans
80, sos when the conditions for the
success of the Republicans were much
more favorable than in the last cam
paign but then they only gained about
5000 votes while the Democrats lost
about the same. Compared with this
year the Democrats gain in the State
about16, 900 while theRepubllcan gain
10, 900 showing net gain Of 3, 900 for
the Democrats since '94. The vote in
that year was very much less than in
'92 and as has been said the conditions
then for the Republicans getting their
full strength never were better while
thousands of Democrats refused to
vote and the party was very much dis
organized and discouraged. But this
year the conditions did not warrant
such an increase as the figures show
that the Republicans received and it
is plainly apparent even with a short
study of the figures that fraud was
rampant and that fraud triumphed.