Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-08
THE RESULT IN KENTUCKY Mckinley Has Twelve Electoral
 Votes Sure. BRYAN MAY GET THE OTHER. Heads of the Tickets are Running Heads
 Apart. CHAIRMAN ROBERTS MAKES STATEMENT The Eleventh District Now Remains to
 Tell the Tale, and the Vote
 Looks Favorable for Mckinley.
BRYAN MAY GET THE OTHER.
CHAIRMAN ROBERTS MAKES STATEMENT

LOulSNtlle, Ky, NOV. 1.-Mchlnley HdS certainly got twelve of Kentucky's thir- teen electoral votes. The official court by the county canvasslng boards was completed this afternoon, but the returns are slow in coming in and at this hour @ D. m.) it is impossible to get the total vote with any degree of accuracy. The totals of the official count in this, Jeffer- son county, have not been announced, but Mckinley gained about 15O votes on his plurality of 12,S11. The latest edition Of the Evening Times estimates McKinley's plurality in the state at GAS. The Post s estimate is over 100 more. The ofncial count in most every county heard rom shows that Kast, the first republican, ana Smith, the first democratic electors, lead their tickets by from 50 to 100 votes and this insures Bryan one elector. Up to J o'clock it was impossible to secure statement from democratic headquarters. The rooms were dark and the hotel clerk at the Willard said that Natlonal com mitteeman Urey Woodson had gone home. Secretary Richardson, of the state committee could not be found.
 At 5 o'clock the following bulletin was issued from republican headquarters. "Kentucky has gone republican TOT the first time in its history in a presidential |.
 and reliable unofficial returns from the other eight counties give Mckinley 4oo plurality. Four years ago the state gave Cleveland 10000 plurality over Harrison' and gave Weaver the populist candidate, 23. BOO votes. The fusion of the democrats and populists this year was complete and the victory for Mckinley means, there fore a reversal of 64,000 votes based on the figures Of 1S92.
 "Our silver friends make a great ado over 1000 republican gain in the Eleventh district, but see nothing remarkable ln a. gain of 2.O00 democratic plurality In a single county in the First district. Iney also affect surprise that the republican state committee has been sticking 10 LIS claim of 400 to 500 plurality for Mckinley in spite of the discovery of great errors against Bryan in Hardin, Fayette, Callo- way and other counties and say tnat whenever Bryan made gain in this way I sent a cipher dispatch to the Eleventh district for a corresponding addition to the Mckinley plurality.
 "These errors which the newspapers made a great ado over In each succeed ing issue were their own and not ours and explain how some of the newspapers gave Mckinley anywhere from 2ooo plo- rality when the committees figures, open to the world, stayed between 400 and 6oU for three days. "At o'clock on the morning after the election we realized that the result would be very close and wired every county chairman who could be reached to rush complete unofficial returns and to closely watch the official count. On the strength of the answers to the messages 1 issued a bulletin Wednesday evening which was published in all the Louisville papers, saying among other things, That demo- crats will go to the eleventh district With 13 600 in their favor.' Returns from one half of the counties of the eleventh dis trict already in, assure considerably over IA 900 republican plurality.
 "This bulletin was based upon actual unofficial figures from every county but five and has stood the test from last Wednesday until today in spite of errors of newspaper correspondents and the sur prising claims of free silver leaders evi- dently based upon before the election estimate rather than the returns This committee has had nothing to do with the conflicting reports of newspapers and the big gains and losses they have been find ing in unofficial returns for several days have not changed our tables at any time.
 '"The official count has resulted in oc- casional changes from our unofficial fig- ures, but they have about balanced each other and my figures of Wednesday are practically confirmed by the official count
 "At this writing our almost complete returns show that the democrats go to the eleventh district with 1892 in their favor and are met there with 14,27S re- publican plurality, giving net plurality of 466 for McKinley