Evening star., 1896-11-05
What the Latest Returns From
States Show.
! DOUBT STILL EXISTS
! WHERE
The Mckinley Column Foots Up
264.
THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE

AS The Star goes to press the outlook Is
that Major Mckinley has received the
votes of sufficient states to give him 257
electoral votes with twenty-three still re-
manning doubtful
Bryan's strength now appears to stand at
l6, with even chance for sixteen other
votes.
Should the final count go as the present
drift seems to indicate, the electoral college
will be thus: Mckinley. 264; Bryan, 1888.
The states from which practically con-
elusive returns have not been received are
Kentucky and Wyoming In Kentucky
two entire counties and sixteen precincts
in other counties are missing, and on the
basis Of all the returns at hand and esti-
mates on the basis of the vote Of other
years Bryan has a slight lead IT. the state
The missing returns are from counties
difficult of access and beyond the reach Of
telegraph. The official count will probably
be necessary to determine the result be-
yond question.
Estimates on the state by both parties
show that majority will doubtless be un-
usually small, and the state may be car
ried one way or the other by 100 votes. 1t
is impossible to Indicate which candidate
has the best likelihood Of securing the thir-
teen electors in the blue grass state.
The situation in Wyoming is peculiar in
that the chances now seem to favor a di-
vision of the three electoral votes. The
republicans claim at least one of these, and
say they have a chance to secure two. This
indicates that they have no reason for con-
fdently claiming the entire electoral vote
of the state.
The two Dakotas are not yet sufficiently
certain to take them from the class Of
interesting points. although late returns
would indicate that both Of them WILL on
the basis of the official count, be found in
the Mckinley column. The result is much
more in doubt in South Dakota than In the
north state. and in the former the legisla-
ture seems to be controlled by the fusion
lists.
Whatever doubts may have existed as to
California and Oregon have been generally
dispelied and though the states are not
conceded by the democratic managers to
Mckinley yet the returns are sufficiently
complete and authentic. 1t would appear,
to entitle them to a place in the republi-
can column without grave question.
Washington Is considered by some a
doubtful state, but the best of the meager
Information from that corner of the Union
Is to the effect that the state Is safe for
Bryan.
The states of Missouri. Kansas. North
Carolina and Tennessee are probably DEM
ocratc, although returns from those states
are not satisfao torily complete. There is
a disposition among republicans to con-
cede all Of these four states. with the pos
sibe exception of North Carolina. which is
the most doubtful one Of them
Doubt no longer exists as to Nebraska,
which seems certain to have been carried
by Bryan by safe majority.
The majority in Delaware for Mckinley
is small. but unquestion ed, and there seems
to be no warrant whatever for its being
claimed for the democrats. The leglsla-
ture Is. however, in doubt. and the fnll
returns from Sussex county will be needed
to make the result certain.
In the table which is printed below only
those states are taken from the Mckinley
and Bryan columns that are genuinely in
doubt. California. Oregon, Delaware, West
Virginia and Indiana are therefore printed
as republican, while Missouri, Kansas
North Carolina, Tennessee and Washing
ton are given to Bryan. From this table
few changes are probable. with the excep-
ton of the final classification Of the four
states classed as doubtful.