The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-06

Last evening Chairman Jones of the
national democratic committee issued
bulletin conceding the election of Maj,
Mckinley. No doubt he was just as well
informed as to the actual condition of at
fairs as were the newspapers, but he con-
sidered it his duty to concede nothing as
long as there was the least hope of Mr.
Bryan's election. 1t is probable that the
ehairmen of the state democratic commit
tees of the doubtful states, buoyed up
with the hope that later returns from in
terror counties might change the story
told by the returns already in hand. mis-
led him to some extent. He was right in
holding out as long as there was a ray OF
hope for Mr.. Bryan, but it seems to US
that he should not have talked about
fraudulent efforts to change the result
unless he had evidence that justified him
in doing so. The effect of such talk from
him was to arouse passion and to bring
about dangerous state of affairs. The
whole country would have upheld him
in preventing fraud, but it would not re-
spond to cry of fraud unless fraud or
an attempt at fraud were shown by what
appeared to be good evidence.
If there had been an effort to get the
election by fraud the newspapers would
not have missed it, They are two eager
for news to miss anything like that.
Chairman Jones was so confident of sue
cess, apparently that he could not under
stand how any of the states he had
claimed for Mr.. Bryan could go for Mr.
Mckinley. He predicted that MIR. Bryan,
when nominated, would sweep the coun-
try, and he seems to have chung to that
opinion until it was clear that Mr.. Nc
Kinley was elected
OF course. Mr. Jones will not get much
glory out of his management of the dem
ocratic campaign He may have managed
it well, but the fact that Mr.. Bryan was
defeated makes the country Indifferent
as to whether he managed it wisely or
not. On the other hand, Mr. Hanna, the
manager of the Mckinley campaign, is
receiving congratulations from all
sources. And there is ground for saying
| he deserves them. He has said little, but
his vast political machine has worked
NA'AbuA q bANdh VI jar. II IS aQtQlitCO
that he organized and directed success
fully the most perfect and efficient cam
paign ever known in this country. His
work, from the time he took Mr.. McKin
| ley in hand, year or more ago. until the
close Of the polls, last Tuesday night.
shows him to be a man OF great force OF
| character and splendid executive abillt,
D.
Under the present ballot Jaw in this
state It is possible to tell precisely how
every voter expresses himself. So far
! from the ballot being secret, a carefully
kept set of books preserves a record by
which every ballot in the box can be trac-
ed straight back 10 the man who deposited
it. For instance, John Jones is the twet.
ty-seventh man TO offer to vote; his name
is entered on the poll list opposite No. %.
and the manager takes his folded ballot
from his hand. numbers il q on the back
and drops it iu the box. Thus It is ON.
cialiy recorded that John Jones voted for
the candidates whose names appear on
ticket No. q in the box.
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It IS mistake to suppose that George
Fred Williams OF Massachusetts was
drowned by the flood tide Of adverse votes
that ggcpt over Massachuestfe an ~.