The herald., 1896-11-05
Returns Very Slow and Some.
what Fragmentary
THE RESULT STILL IN DOUBT
With Returns Sent in Favoring McKin.
ley Slightly
Returns on Congressman Show the
Ele ction of Democrats in Three
Districts-Others Undecided

o<hAN L EItA&NSloSO, W. thO
sand and nine out of 2S77 precincts, in
cluding San Francisco, give Mckinley
1873. 291; Bryan. 126S21. The same pre-
cincts in 1892 gave Harrison 105,5S0 and
Cleveland 104,S07.
THE CITY VOTE.
Complete returns from every precinct
in the city except one give Mckinley
3O,S4S; Bryan, 30,452; making McKinley's s
plurality in the city S96. Four years ago
San Francisco gave Cleveland 1886 plu-
rality over Harrison.
CONGRESSMEN.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. Am the
First congressional district 31S precincts
out of 440 give Barham, Rep. 1928;
Cutter, Dem, 1887 Monteith, Pop,
552.
Second distrct-377 out of AGA pre-
cif.cts give johnson, Rep, 1s, ,781; De-
Vries. Dem.-Pop.. 21,S19:
Third district-24S out of 267 precincts
give Hilborn, Rep, 19,430; English, ,Dem.-
Pop. 1928.
Fourth district-Maguire, Dem. is
elected.
Fifth district-211 out Of 221 precincts
give LOuu. INSp., 4c,olo, 1NciiS, 1SAAA'' ~, :,
S7S; Kline, Pop, SASS.
Sixth district-260 out of 319 districts
give McLachlan, Rep, 18,301; Barlow,
Dem. Pop, 17,247.
Seventh district-Bowers, Rep, is
elected.
EUREKA
EUREKA, Nov. 4.-Complete returns
from 36 precincts out Of total of go
give the following majorities: Mckinley
5S1, Barham 173. Gillett (Republican),
senate, $50; Hill (Republican), assembly.
Second district, 276: eleventh amend
ment 440 Republican senator and two
assemblymen undoubtedly elected, as
Damon is also ahead II votes in the
Third assembly district.
OAKLAND
OAKLAND, Nov. 4.--McKinley will
have at least 5100 majority in Alameda
county. Complete unofficial returns give
Mckinley 1929, Bryan SO51, The same
count gives Hilborn a majority of 4092
over English.
Tom Wells, fusion candidate for su-
pervisor in the First district, has just
40 majority over F. c. Jarvis. his Re-
OppOueHl. Ht clSCllOItOl w Clis
was conceded in advance, butt when it
was seen that there had been McKin-
ley wave, it was thought that Jarvis
would pull through with the rest of the
ticket The rest of the candidates are
elected by either sweeping or safe ma
jorites.
The defeat Of the fusion Legislative
ticket was overwhelming. Frederick s.
Stratton beat Henry McPike in the
Twenty seventh sena torial district more
than two to one and Howard Wright
treated DIR. A. F. Childs similarly in the
F'ifty-first assembly district. The re-
mainder of the legislative candidates all
have excellent majorities.
The defeat of the suffrage amendment
in the county was one of the surprises
of the election
NEVADA.
NEVADA, Cal, Nov. 4.-Unofficial re-
turns from all but six precincts in Ne
vada county give Bryan 213S, Mckinley
1860. Irish, Democratic and Populst
candidate for joint senator. Third dis
trict carried the county by nearly 500.
Plumas and Sierra counties will give
about 200 Republican majority, proba-
bly, increasing his majority to 800. As
semb,yman Robinson, Republican. 1886;
Eammell, Democrat, 1854; Winn, Pop
ulist 700. Ridge, Populst candidate for
superior judge. is believed tonight to be
elected by a small plurality.
SAN DIEDO.
SAN DIEGO. Nov. 4.-San Diego
4 n y
tonight is sufficiently complete to show
the following:
Bryan has carried the county by about
100 plurality Bowers (Republican) for
congress, has 600 plurality. These re-
suits are shown by complete returns
from so precincts out of S6 in the county
The missing precincts poll barely Toe
votes. For superior judge Torrance (Re-
puhlican) is elected by 200 majority and
Hughes (Populist) by 100. The count il
the Seventy-ninth assembly district il
complete and shows that Guy (Repub-
lican) is elected by 25 majority. In the
Eightieth assembly district, with siz
small precincts to hear from. Dryder
(fusion) has 1928 and Cox (Republican,
Woman's suffrage has probably carried
| in this county.
A CHRONICLE CLAIM.
! SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4.--Th,
Chronicle. will say: California is safel.
in the Mckinley column. Bryan showc'
unexpected strength in Southern Cali
| fornia and reduced the lead which Nc
Kinley had very materially, but the los
was more than made up by the gloricu
majority returned by Alameda count ts
| Alameda gave Mckinley majority O
over 5000, which is 5000 more than it CAV
| to Harrison.
| The counties of ths state so far a
heard from show that Mckinley is lead
| ing by 1000. but as some of tn
mountain counties yet to be heard fror
are expected to reduce this to 5000 Bsy
ans vote in some parts of the irtes. ,
occasioned surprise, but nothing ca
! possibly defeat the Mckinley elector:
No figures have been obtained from
number of counties in the eastern par
Of the state, but their total vote is hard
| ly enough to change the result.
The congressional situation shows