The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-15
WHAT THE OFFICIAL CONT OF
THE BALLOTS TO-DAY WILL
REVEAL.
M'KINLEYS PLURALITY 53,s75.
THAN LIND IN A REMARK
ABLE CONTEST.
THE TOTALS on seoNGREssMEN
Freaks of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Which Gave PIuraIities of Two,
Three, Four and Five.

The state board Of canvassers of
Minnesota-composed of the secretary
of state, two judges of the supreme
court and two judges of the district
court-will meet at 10 O'Clock this
morning at the state capitol and can
vass the votes cast for president and
vice president, governor, lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, treasurer.
attorney general, congressman and
members of the legislature. In cases
where there is no dispute this work
is rapidly done. The large envelopes
returned by the county auditors are
first placed in alphabetical order by
counties. The secretary of state then
proceeds to open them one by one,
reading aloud the figures for each of
the electors, governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, ETC., several experts tabulating
them as read Occasionally short
halt is made to discuss some peculiar
ity of the returns, or some bit of care
lessness by some county auditor. The
work, as a rule, proceeds rapidly from
Aitkin to Yellow Medicine county, the
experts make their footings, the totals
they report are made the official vote
certificates are issued to the success
full candidates, and the work of the
state board is at an end.
The G | o b e gives this morning the
figures which the state board will can
vass today. They are taken from the
returns as they were made by counties
to the secretary Of state Mr.. McKfa-
ley carried the state by a plurality
o.
The contest for governor was the only
one that was at all close, the official fig
ures showing that Mr.. Clough's title
to the position of chief executive is
backed by a plurality Of just 1886. Had
DR.. Ames remained out of the field, the
vote would have been much closer
still, as the $500 votes cast for him
would no doubt have gone to Lind.
In glancing over the vote one sees
some queer freaks of the balloting.
Mr. Mckinley received an even number
Of hundred votes in three counties
1,200 in Marshall, 1900 in Dodge and
3,400 in Freeborn. Isanti was the only
county in the state in which not a
vote was recorded for Palmer, Lever
ing or Matchett. LIE Sueur and Rice
ran remarkable neck-a nd-neck race
in their vote for Bryan, the former Civ
ing him 1908 votes and the latter 2,OO2.
The closest county in the state on pres
ident was KittSon, which gave Bryan a
plurality Of 8. The quantity of ca
loric in the gubernatorial fight is shown
by the large number of close counties.
Jackson county went for Clough by
votes. Clough has pulled through
in Pine by votes and by %
in Stevens. Mr. Lind carried Kanabec
county by votes, Lake by 4
and st. Louis by 5. This last is re-
markable in more ways than one. The
vote of the county was over 1900 and
McKinley's plurality there was nearly
2,400 The vote of Mr. Palmer and Mr..
lowering indicated bad luck at everv
turn. Mr.. Palmer received Is
votes each in Kittson, Sherburne and
Stevens counties and Mr. lowering
went him one better by getting 13
in each of Carlton, Carver, Mile Laos
and Pine.
The vote of the state on all candi-
dates from president to congressman
is given in the tables below: