The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-07

take the official count to satisfy both
sides in Kentucky.
The last newspaper figures place Nc
Kinley's plurality in the state at 6SS.
The official count by counties is about
complete outside of this. Jefferson,
county. which will not be finished for
four or five days, owing to the large
vote, but the figures are not obtain
able ar this hour. The state returning
board will meet three weeks from
Tuesday to pass on the count by
counties. Kasn and Smith, the first
electors of the Republican and Demo-
cratic tickets, are running ahead of
the other electors on the official count,
and no matter which way the state
goes, the electoral vote is going to be
divided; that is. if the Republicans
carry the state, they will get II elect
ors and the Democrats l. and vice
versa if the Democrats do. This results
from the fact that a large number of
voters placed the cross opposite the
name of the first elector instead of I'M
der the party device.
VERY CLIPPER.
The Republicans are very clipper to-
night. Chairman Roberts said at 8
o'clock:
I'VE have received official returns
from all except q counties. We have
trustworthy returns from the missing
ones. however, and the 119 counties of
the state show 435 plurality for Nc
Kinley. We are perfectly satisfied that
we have carried the state. | am wait
ing on further official returns and ex-
pect TO send Major Mckinley a tele-
gram about midnight. 1 concede the
Democrats one elector, owing to the
failure of voters to stamp their ballots
correctly"
WOODSON CONFIDENT.
Try Woodson, member of the free
silver Democratic committee for Ken
lucky, made the following statement
tonight:
.I am more confident tonight than I
have been at any time since the cleo
ton that the Democratic electoral
ticket was elected in Kentucky, but [
have an abundance of evidence that
the Republicans OF the mountain coun-
ties, where the Democrats are exceed
ingly scarce, have perpetrated the
grossest frauds both before and since
the polls closed on Tuesday. This in
formation has come to me from most
reputable men at Middlesboro, Pine
vile, Barbourville, London, Somerset
and other towns in eastern Kentucky.
THE Republican committee and the
press Of Louisville have kept up d
steady claim the past three days of a
plurality of from 500 to 1000. During
this time they have been forced to ac-
knowledge to errors which reduced
their claim 500 in Layette, 633 in
Hardin, 594 in Galloway, 331 in Kenton.
100 in Campbell 100 in Scott and
enough in Christian, Henderson, Nc
Lean and other counties to still further
reduce their claims more than ZOO.
Thus they have been compelled to scale
their calculations nearly 5000 votes,
while the Democratic estimates in these
counties have been practically I'M
changed, but every time they have
been forced to acknowledge the truth
about one of these central and west
ern counties, which, with good tele-
graph and telephone facilities. were
speedily covered by the news agencies,
they have been able to draw on one of
these remote counties a majority far
SURPRISING anything ever known in
their history; and still they claim the
state by 500.
A DWINDLE.
"The Republicans in the outset
claimed II, 500 in the Eleventh (mount-
AIM district, ard they have gradually
risen to 1890. I am entirely confident
of the election of the Bryan electors
by a small but safe plurality, which
viii be shown on the final count. Our
people are collecting the evidence of
these frauds"
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov 6.-Major
H. P. johnson, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic central committee, said tonight
that from information in his possession
he believed the state had given Bryan
1000 plurality.
At II O'Clock Chairman Roberts of the
Republican campaign committee, issued
the following bulleSin:
Official returns from 100 counties and
reliable unofficial returns from the other
10 counties show that Mckinley has car
riedl the state 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 fig
urezs tomorrow"
As the official returns come in to-
night the statement is confirmed that
the electoral vote of the state is going
TO stand II to l. In some counties the
head Of the electoral ticket leads the
ether II by more than 100 votes.
General Simon B. Buckner, the Ma
tional Democratic nominee for vice
president, spent the evening in the
Courier-Journal Office to hear the polit-
ical news, but he declined TO be inter
viewed.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. Courier Jour
nails returns at ! a. m. give a plurality
for Mckinley of 345.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
PIERRE, S. D., Nov. 6.-South Da-