The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-07
Possibility that owen County and Its
2,239 Bryan Majority Will BE
Thrown Out by the State Board.
SERIOUS ROW IN DELAWARE
COMPLEXION OF LEGISLATURE MUST
BE DECIDED By COURTS.
south Dakota Unofficial Vote Tie
Claims of Gross Frauds i'm Ten
nessee and Virginia.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Nov. Con the face
of the returns the Bluegress State has
been carried for Mckinley by plurality
of 475 votes. Reports have been received
from all the counties and, though not Off
cial, it is believed the figures are correct
Leslie county was the last 20 send in re-
turns. and il shows a plurality of A for
the Republican electors. The Popocrats
are now crying fraud and this is thought
to be conclusive evidence that the Bryan
electors were fairly defeated. AS stated
yesterday, Owen county, which gave Bry-
an a plurality of 2.239 will be thrown out
by the State canvassng board because the
law was violated by the election officers.
The Popocrats in that county, partly in or
der TO keep their men in line, held a pri-
mary election on Tuesday. and the regular
election officers in the various precincts
also aided as officers of the primaries. This
is unlawful, and the State board. if it does
it's duty, cannot count the vote of Owen
county. If the county is thrown out Col.
w. C. P. Breckenridge. the gold Demo-Re-
publican candidate, will be the next Con-
gressman from the Seventh district.
Trey Woodson. the Kentucky member of
the national Popocratic committee. is the
chief crier of fraud He gave out the fol-
lowing signed statement tonight:
Il am more confident tonight than have
been at any time since the election that the
Democratic electoral ticket was elected in
Kentucky, but L have abundance of evil
dence that the Republicans of the mountain
counties, where Democrats are exceedingly
scarce have perpetrated the grossest
closed on Tuesday. This information has
come TO me from most reputable men at
Middlesboro Pinevlle, Barboursville, Lon
Somerset in ctarp
Kentucky. The Republican committee and
the press of Louisville have kept up a
raity of from 600 to 1.oOo. During this time
they have been forced to acknowledge er-
rors, which reduced their claims 500 in Fay
cite county. 633 I'm Hardin. 4Ji in Galloway
33l in Kenton 100 in Campbell 100 in Scott
and enough in Christian. Henderson. Da-
viess. Mclean and other counties to still
further reduce their claims more than 500
Thus they have been compelled to scale
their calculations nearly 5000 votes, while
the Democratic estimates on these counties
nave been practically unchanged. but ev-
cry time they have been forced to acknowl-
edge the truth about one of these central
and western counties which. with good tel
egraphic and telephone facilities. were
speedily covered by news agencies. they
have been able to draw on one of those
remote mountain counties for a ma jority
far surprising anything ever known in
their history: and still they claim the State
by GOO The Republicans at the outset
claimed IL, 800 I'm the Eleventh (mountain)
district and have gradually risen to 1890
] am entirely confident of the election of
the Bryan electors by a small but safe ma
jority which will he shown on the final
count. Our people are collecting the evi-
dence of these frauds
Chairman Roberts, of the Republican
State central committee. issued the follow
ing bulletin at IL o'clock tonight:
Official returns from one hundred coun-
ties and reliable unofficial reports from the
other nineteen counties show that McKin-
ley has carried Kentucky by between 400
and 500 plurality. The official returns on
the counties yet to be heard from will not
materially change these figures We shall
be able to announce the final figures to-
morrow
At an earlier hour Chairman Johnson, Of
! the Democratic committee. said he was not
yet ready TO congratulate Chairman Rob-
erts He believed errors had been made
against Bryan in returns which were suffi-
cient to turn the scales in his favor on the
| official count.