Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-08
EEyTUCKY'S VOTES
~ CLAIMED TO HAVE
,,vr or THE THIRTEEN
REPUBLICAN, FIGURES
fgg MI UpbiVn"
nv for the Ohioan OF 400
o,t-DcIawnre's Votes AIS"
Bryan Gets One OF
Thcm'
Thern

mn KY. November INC
lo'l,' Certainly got twelve OF Ken
Ene' .-.-,.sn electoral votes. The Of
u'A' ,,ant by the county canNas' ing
t,'' ..,s completed this afternoon out
1'''D ...-rs are slow in coming H. ana
ts tn, ,,nr % p. NJ it is Impossible to
g. u' .,,.i vote with any degree OF ac-
So The totals OF the oihciai count
'-' ore. 1encrson) county have not oeeh
" but Mckinley gained about
i'l'-' -, his plurality Of SlL The last
~ the Evening Times estimates
t''..-,..... rluraity IN the state at oiS.
p,srs estimate is over 100 more The
l-' ,ornt in almost every county
'-' econ, shows that Kdst, the hrst
i'-., ,r,s, and smith. the first Demo-
". e,,.tor. lead their tickets by from
sm i.o votes. and this insures Bryan
~. election
statement from Democratic
...,r-rrs The rooms were dark, and
,,.el clerk at the Willard said Ma
'-..tcomm.tteemau Woodrow had gone
Secretary Richardson, Of the
sd. Committee. could not be found.
go o'clock the following bulletin was
,..r.f nom Republican headquarters;
N.-.--arky has gone Republican for the
49,. Dino in its history in a presidential
official returns from Ill counties.
reliable unofficial returns from the
.,.- aeht counties give Mckinley 456
...-,'fy. -Four years ago the State
~,s cleveland 5000 plurality over Har-
~ and gave Weaver. the Populist
'-Hsate $500 votes. The fusion Of
81. Democrats and Populists this year
g complete. and the victory for Nc
v-Fv means therefore reversal Of
csl votes based on the figures Of 1892.
.Ogr silver friends make n great ado
,..- the 2n0 Republican gain in the
Eleventh District, but see nothing re-
-trub'e .n q elin Of 200 Democratic
raunty in O. single county in the First
District They also affect surprise that
,se Republican state Committee has been
sticking % lts claim OF 100 TO GO plurality
f- Mckinley in spite Of the discovery
~ great errors against Bryan I'm Hardin.
Fsys-e Galloway. and other counties.
,ri say that whenever Bryan made a
sr IN This way ! sent a cipher dispatch
20 fo Eleventh District for q cores
rriug addition TO the Mckinley plural
u.s.
ERRORS DISCLAIA1ED.
chose errors which the newspapers
made O. great ado over in each succeeding
ls.re were their own. and not ours, and
explain how some Of the newspapers gave
Mckinley anywhere from 2.OO0 TO 5000
plurality. when the committees figures.
o-a. TO ,he world, stayed between 400 to
81 nr three days.
car 9 o'clock on the morning after the
election we realized that the result would
D. 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
Gus answers TO the messages, / issued a
l.ll,u Wednesday evening. which was
Published n an the Louisville papers,
nyuc mong other things. The Demo-
cats will 90 20 the Eleventh District with
r9o l 'heir favor Returns from one
tf 70 the counties Of the Eleventh
District already in assure considerably
O.r 1900 Republican plurality
"~hs bulletin was based upon actual
unofficial figures from every county, but
tga and has stood the test from last
Wednesday until to-day. I'm spite of the
s-.o. o. newspaper correspondents, and
Oh surprising claims Of free-siver lead
Cs evidently based upon before-the-
election estimates rather than election
rlus This committee had nothing to
do With the conflicting reports of news
papers and the big gains and losses
tr have been finding IN unofficial re-
trs ,or several days have not changed
orr tables no any time.
'Tha official count has resulted in oc-
Hso1al changes from our unofficial
figures iut they have about balanced
each other. and my figures OF Wednes-
day arr practically confirmed by the Of
t.sl count
IS, ,hs writing our almost complete
''l-rs show that the Democrats go 10
o. Eleventh District with 13s22 in their
Favor and are met with 1427S Republican
'y giving a net plurality Of 456 for
Mckinley
ssreD as. ]. ROBERTS.
chairman"