The San Francisco call., 1896-11-07
IN OLD KENTUCKY.
1t May Take an Official Count to
Satisfy Both Parties.


LOUISVILLE. KY. Nov. 6.-lt Will
take the official count to satisfy both sides
as 10 the result in Kentucky. The last
newspaper figures place McKlnleys piu-
rality in the State at 633. The official
count by counties is about complete out
side of this, jefferson County, which VIII
aot be finished for four or five days, owing
to tue large vote, but the figures are not
obtain a Bile at this hour. The State return
ing board will meet three weeks from
Tuesday to pass on the count by counties
Kash and Smith, the first electors on the
Republican and Democratic tickets, are
running ahead of the other electors on the
official count and no matter which way
the State goes the electoral vote is going
to be divided, that is, If the Republicans
carry the State they will get twelve cleo
tors and the Democrats one. and vice
versa If the Democrats win. This results
from the fact that a large number of
voters placed the cross opposite the name
of the first elector instead of under the
party device. The canvassing board has
ruled in those cases that the vote should
count for only one elector notwithstand-
ing the evident intention of the voter.
II
gard to the votes.
The Republicans are very chipper to-
night. Chairman Roberts said at 9 clock;
1--WE have received official returns from
all except twenIy-seven counties. We
have Trustworthy returns from the miss
ing ones, however, and the 119 counties of
the State show ABS plurality for Mckinley.
We are perfectly satisfied that we have
carried the State. | am waiting on fur
ther official returns, and expect to send
Major Mckinley a telegram about mid
night. l concede the Democratic elector
owing to the failure of voters to stamp
their ballots correctly"
Ury Woodson, me Der of the free silver
Democratic committee for Kentucky,
made the following statement:
II am more confident tonight than /
have been at any time since the election
that the Democratic electoral ticket was
elected in Kentucky, but / have an
abundance of evidence that the Republi-
cans of the mountain counties, where
Democrats are exceedingly scarce, have
perpetrated the grossest frauds, both be-
fore and since the polls closed on Tuesday
This information has come to me from
I,
Barbourville, London, Somerset and other
towns in Eastern Kentucky.
THE Republican COMMITTEES and the
press OF Louisville have kept up steady
claim the past three days of plurality of
from 500 to 1000 During this time they
have been forced to acknowledge errors
which reduced their claim to 500 in Fay
ette, 633 i'll Harding, 494 in Galloway, 331
in Kenton, 100 in Campbell, 100 in Scott,
and enough in Christian, Hend erson, Nc
Lean and other counties to still further
reduce their claims more than 5000. Thus
they have been com mpelled to scale their
calculations nearly 5000 votes, while the
Democratic estimates in these counties
have been practically unchanged, but
every time they have been forced to ack-
knowledge the truth about one of these
central and western counties, which, with
good telegraphic and telephone facilities,
were speedily covered by the news agen-
cies, they have been a ble to draw on one
OF these remote counties for a majority far
SURPRISING anything ever known in their
history, and still they claim the State by
6O0.
'The Republicans in the outset claimed
1.600 in the Eleventh (mountain) Dis
trict, and they have gradually risen TO
Ia. 800. / am entirely confident of the
election OF the Bryan electors by small
but safe plurality, which will be shown on
the final count Our people are collect
ing the evidence of these frauds"
AS the Official returns come in tonight
the statement is confirmed that the elec-
toral vote of the State is going to stand
twelve to one. In some counties the head
of the electoral ticket leads the other
twelve by more than 100 votes.
General Simon B. Buckner, the National
Democratic nominee for Vice President
spent the evening in the Courier Journal
office TO hear the political news, but he
declined to be interviewed.
Major II. P. Johnson, chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee, said
tonight that from information in his pos
session he believed the State had given
Bryan 1000 plurality.
At II O'clock Chairman Roberts of the
Republican Campaign Committee issued
tie following bulletin:
Official returns from 100 counties and
reliable unofficial returns from the other
10 counties show that Mckinley has car
ried Kentucky by between 400 and 500 plu-
ralitv. The official returns on the coun-
ties yet to be heard from will not materi-
ally change these figures. We shall be
able to announce the final figures to- Or
row.