Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-19
Election Notes.

have been received at the State Depart
ment from every county in the State.
They give Mckinley and Hobart 726,99o
votes and Bryan and Sewall 422,o54: Re-
publican plurality, 3o4,944. The Prohi-
bition electors polled 1924: Peoples
Party, 6,Io3; Free Silver, SOB; Jefferson
ian, 11,coo; Mckinley Citizens 1902;
Socialist Labor, 1858; National, $40.
The actual gain in the Republican cleo
toral vote over that of four years ago is
about 2I5,ooo. The vote of Bryan and
Sewall as cast by the Democratic and
Free Silver parties will be consolidated.
The vote for the Presidential electors IN
the Mckinley Citizens column will also
he added to the regular Republican cleo
tors. BY this arrangement the total vote
for Mckinley and Hobart is 72S,3oo
Bryan and Sewall, 427,I27; Republican
plurality. 3oI,I73.
Galusha A. Grow leads tie candidates
for Congrecs-at-Large with a total OF
7Io,716 votes: His colleague, Samuel A
Davenport of Erie, polled 7oS, Io4 votes.
Jerome T. Altman, of Mifiintown, the
Populist. Democrat leads his colleague,
Dewitt c. Dewitt, their respective votes
being 4I6, ,476 and 4I2 ,o5I. Abraham A.
Barker, Prohibitionist, polled 1886
George Alcorn, Prohibitionist, 1901;
James P. Correll, Peoples 7,4S2.
Governor Hastings issued a proclama
ton Saturday Morning declaring the ell
ection OF the twenty-eight district Con-
gressmen and two Congressmen-at-large
Of these George ]. Benner, Nineteenth
district; Daniel Ermentrout, Ninth dis
trict and William McAleer, Third dis
trict, are Democrats. The rest are Rep
ublicans. Benner and Ermentrout were
elected on free silver platform, yet
they are personally sound money men
and will vote against free coinage. Nc
Aleer was elected because he was gold
Democrat. This makes practically a
solid sound money delegation from Penn
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1t will be seen by the foregoing vote
that the Peoples and Prohibition parties
have failed to poll two per cent of the
total and will not be entitled to certify
their nominations next year.
Chief Clerk Gearhart aud his assistants
'eISctIon taDuIat1ng the vote. They used
the adding machine in footing up the big
columns and even with this wonderful
machine it was big job.
Official returns from all the counties
of Ohio make the vote of the State T.
oI5, 592. McKinley's plurality over
Bryan Is 5o,I5o. and the Republicans
majority over all in the state is 35,6oS.
Two counties Dauphin and CIear6eld
delayed the official computation of the
vote of this State by failing to send in
their returns promptly, Owing to the con-
solidation of the vote of the Peoples and
Free Silver parties in many counties with
the regular Democratic vote for Bryan and
the first two parties will lose their identi-
ty and be compelled by their failure to
cast less than two per cent of the total
vote to nominate their State ticket by
nomination papers. The Peoples party
casts about 5000 and the Free Silver
about 5,cco votes.
Counting all the votes cast for the Nc
Kinley electors, his vote in his state is
72S,3co, and counting all the votes cast
for the Bryan electors his vote is 453,-
23o, making McKinley's plurality over
Bryan in the state 275,o7o.
Perry A. Shanor formerly of Prospect,
was elected to the ". Va, legislat ure
from the Sistersville district.
Complete official returns from all the
counties of Kentucky show that Smith one
of the Bryan electors, run 2,coo ahead OF
the lowest Mckinley elector, and is ell
ected. The other IL Bryan electors run
from 800 to 100 behind IL of the McKin-
ley electors. The total vote of the State
was 444.243 as follows: Mckinley, 49,
o55, Bryan 2I7, 1877, Palmer 5,oIS, Lever
ing 1914, McKinley's average plurality
was 257 on the vote for electors.
Kentucky did nobly. There was a
change of over 81, 900 votes over the vote
for Cleveland in 1892.
Westmorland Co ga We 1000 Republican
majority, and elected everything in sight.
Clear6eld Co. dropped out of the DEM
ocratic column and is now Republican
county. At the recent election the entire
Republican ticket was elected by MAORI
ties from 600, to 1900.
The State canvassing board of Ken
lucky may refuse to count Mclean coun-
ty in the vote of the State in the recent
election, as it simply certifes that Bryan
received $3.50 votes and Mckinley e35,
without naming the electors. This de-
feet will not invalidate the election of
Smith, who headed the Democratic cleo
torial ticket, as he will still be ahead of
Mason, who was on the Republican
ticket. Smith can now only be defeated
by the rejection of the vote of Owen
county, which rests with the state Con-
test board. 1t is before the Contest
board that Col. breckenridge has begun
his fight for seat in Congress on the
claim that Owen county should be
thrown out because of fraud.