The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-07
BLUE GRASS IN THE BALANCE.
THE RESULT OF THE COUNT IN THE
STATE STILL UNCERTAIN.

Tho Latest Newspaper Advices Give
II to the Republicans-The Chair
man of the Democratic State Conn
mittee Continues His Assertion
THAT Bryan Has Carried the Conn
monyyeaIth-The Electoral Vote to
stand IL to L Either Way 1t Goes.
Louisville, KY, Nov. 6.-As the official
ra,urns come in tonight the statement
g confirmed that the electoral vote of the
state is going to stand Y to
In some counties the head
of the electoral ticket leads
the other twelve by more than 100 votes
It will take the official count to satisfy
both sides. The last newspaper figures
place NIcKinley'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. The
state returning board will meet three
weeks from Tuesday, to pass on the count
by counties.
Kash and Smith, the first electors on the
renublican and democratic tickets respec-
VI,
tors 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
p electors and the democrats one, and vice
versa if the democrats win. This results
from the fact that a large number of
voters placed the cross opposite the name
e.p md
party device. The canvassing board has
ruled in these cases that the vote should
count only for one elector notwithstand-
ing the evident intention of the voter. rms
raises an interesting question in regard 10
the votes. Chairman Roberts, OF the repuo-
ucan state committee, said tonight: we
have received official returns from adj eX-
cent twenty-seven counties. We have trust
worthy returns from the missing ones,
however, and the 119 counties OF the state
show 435 plurality for Mckinley. we are
perfectly satisfied that we have earned
the state. / am waiting on further official
returns and expect to send Maj. Mckinley
a telegram before midnight. concede the
democrats one elector owing to the tallure
of voters to stamp their ballots correctly.
Mai. II. p johnson, chairman OF the
democratic state central committee, said
tonight that from information in his pos
given 1000 plurality for Bryan.
Urey Woodson, member of the demo-
cratic national committee of Kentucky,
made the following statement: Il am
more confident tonight than l have been
at any time since the election that the
democratic electoral ticket was elected
in Kentucky, but I have an abundance
Of evidence that the republicans of the
mountain counties, where democrats are
exceedingly scarce, have perpetrated the
grossest frauds, both before and since the
polls closed on Tuesday. This informa-
ton has come to me from the most repu-
table men at Niddlesboro, Pineville, Bar
bourville, London, Somerset and other
towns in Eastern Kentucky.
''The republican committee and the
press of Louisville have kept up steady
claim for the past three days of a plural
ity of from GOO to 1000. During this time
they have been forced to acknowledge
errors which reduced their claims nearly
1900 votes. Every time they have been
forced to acknowledge the truth about
one of these central and western coun-
ties, which with good telegraphic and
telephone facilities were speedily covered
by the news agencies, they have been able
to draw on one of these remote mountain
counties for a majority far SURPRISING
anything ever known in their history, and
still they claim the state by 6OO | am
entirely confident of the election of the
Bryan electoral ticket by a small but
safe plurality, which will be shown on
the hnal count. Our people are collecting
the evidence of these frauds"
MIR. Woodson declined to give out anv
figures. '