The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-11-11
Kentucky's Votes Divided.

LOUISVILLE, KY, November 6,-As
the official returns come in to night the
statement is confirmed that the electoral
vote Of the State is going to stand II
to l. In some counties the head of the
electoral 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 Mo
Kinley's plurality in the State at 633
The official count by counties is about
CON p!ete outside of rbis. Jefferson,
which will not be finished for four or
Eve days. owiog to the large vote
The State returning board will meet
three weeks from Tuesday to pass on
the couot by counties.
Kash and Smith, the first electors ON
the Republican and Democratic ticket
respectively, are the other electors on
the official count. aod 90 matter which
way the State goes the electoral vote is
going to be divided, that is if the. Re-
publicaBs carry the State they will get
twelve electors aud the Democrats oue,
and vice versa if the Democrats wins
This results from the fact that large
plumber cf voters placed the crossiop-
posite the name of the first elector in
stead of under the device. The
cauvassiog board has ruled 10 these
cases that the vote should count oply
for one elector notwithstanding the evi
dent intention Of the voter. This
raises ao interesting questioo in re gard
to the votes
Chairman Roberts, of the Rspubl-
can State committee, said to nieht :
eve have received official returns
from all except twenty seven counties
We have Trustworthy returns from the
missing ones, however, aud the one
hundred and nineteen counties show
435 plurality for Mckinley. We are
perfectly satisfied that we have carried
the State. l am. waiting on further
official returns and expect to send
Major Mckinley telegram bfore mid
night. conceds the Democrats one
elecsor. owing to the failure of voters
to mark their ballots correctly
Major H. P. Joh' son, chairman Of
the Democratic State central commit
tee, said tonight that from information
in his possession be believed the State
had given Bryau 1000 plurality.
Uorey Woodsoo, member Of the
Democratic national committee for Ken
tucky, makes the following statement ::
Il aw more confident to.uight than |
have been at any time since the election
that the Democratic electoral ticket was
elected in Kentucky, but have 40
abundance Of evidence that the Repub-
licans Of the mountsiu coupties, where
Democrats are exceedingly scarce, have
perpetrated the grossest frauds both be-
fore and since the polls closed on Tues
day This information has come 70 me
from the most reputable meo at Mid
dlesborouph. Pineville, Barbouraville,
London, Somerset and other towns in
Eastern Kentucky The Republican
committee and the press of Loui.ville
have kept up steady claim the past
three days of plurality Of from 600
to 1000. During this time they have
been forced to acknowledge errors
which reduced their claims nearly 800
votes Every time they have been
forced to ackno wledge the truth about
one Of these ceotral and western coun-
ties, which With good teegraphic and
telephone facilities were speedily Gov
cred by the news agencies, they have
been able TO draw on one Of these re-
mote mountain counties for a majority
far surprising anything ever known in
their history, and still they claim the
State by 600 I am entirely confident
of the election of the Began electors
by small but safe plurality. which
will be shown on the 6nal count Our
people are collecting the evidence OF
these frauds "
Mr.. Woodson declined to give out
any figures