The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-08
Count Made by the Louisville Cam
for the Sound-Money Electors.
M'KlNLEY 456 VOTES AHEAD
BARE POSSIBILITY THAT ONE BRY.
ANTE WILL PULL THROUGH.
One of the Popocratic Electors Sue
BIunder in u Republicans Name.

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 7.-Oficial returns
are now in from all but eight counties. and
McKinIey's net plurality is raised to i56.
The official returns from Greenup county
are but three less than the unofficial,
but TO the official canvass of the Tenth and
Eleventh ward of Louisville is the hand
some gain of the Ohio man due this after
noon. BY the official count Mckinley makes
a net gain of 112 votes. There remains yet
one ward, the Twelfth, to be canvassed.
and that will be completed tonight. 1t is
expected that this will also show up with
material Mckinley gain, as every ward
so far canvassed has had this result Other
official returns from the State are not ex-
pected to affect the general result, for the
reports from the twelve unofficially re-
ported counties that have been received are
considered reliable by both Republicans and
Democrats. Thus if any change at all is
made it will not be sufficient to overcome
the 45s lead of Mckinley. and his victory
I'm the State is now practically conceded,
even though it rs by the narrowest margin
that ever characterized a States vote in a
presidential year.
Tonight brings no material changes in
the situation. The Democratic headquar-
ters give out no detailed figures TO sub
stantiate their claims of carrying the State
fer Bryan, while The Republican managers
bolster their assertions of success with Ia
bles embodying the majority OF each cam
didate in all of the several counties and
districts. A call at Democratic headquar-
ters tonight found sign reading These
Headquarters closed" None of the COM
mitteemen could be found for a statement.
The following is from Republican Chair
man Roberts,:
Kentucky has gone Republican for the
first time in it's history in presidential
year. Complete official returns from III
counties and reliable unofficial returns from
the other eight counties give Mckinley 456
plurality. Four years ago the state gave
Cleveland 10000 plurality over Harrison,
| and gave Weaver, the Populist candidate.
| 235OO votes. The fusion of Democrats and
Populists this year was complete, and the
victory for Mckinley means, therefore,
reversal Of $1,000 votes based on the ng-
ures Of 1892.
"Our silver friends make great ado over
| 1000 Republican gain in the Eleventh dis
trict. but see nothing remarkable in gam
of 1900 Democratic plurality In single
| affect a surprise that the Republican State
| committee has been sticking to its claim
of 400 to 600 plurality for Mckinley in spite
| of the discovery of great errors against
| Bryan in Hardin, Fayette, Galloway and
! other counties and say that whenever Bry-
| an made gain in this way / sent cipher
| dispatch to tie Eleventh district for a cor
responding addition to the Mckinley plu-
! rality These errors, which the newspa-
! pefs made a great ado over in each sue
| ceeding issue. were their own and not ours
| and explain how some of the newspapers
| gave Mckinley anywhere from 1000 to 5000
| plurality when the committee figures, open
to the world. stood between 400 and 500 for
"At O'clock on the morning after cleo
| ton We realized that the result would be
| very close, and wired every county chair
man who could be reached to rush COM
plete unofticial returns. and to closely
1 watch the official count. On the strength
| of the answers to these messages issued
| a bulletin Wednesday evening, which was
in all the tbSSs pBpsrs
will go TO the Eleventh district with 1860
| in their favor. Returns from one-half of
ready in, assure considerably over 14000
Republican plurality. This bulletin was
based on actual unofficial hgures
stood the test from last. Wednes-
day until to-day, in spite of the err
rofs of newspaper correspondents and
| evidently based on before-the-election es-
| Inmates rather than after the election re-
turns. This committee has had nothing TO
do with the conflicting reports of newspa-
pers, and the big gains and losses they
| have been finding In unofficial returns for
several days have not changed our tables
| at any time The official count has re-
| suited in occasional changes from our un-
official figures, but they have about bal
VI
| Wednesday are practically confirmed by
| the official count
| .'At this writing our almost complete re-
turns show that the Democrats go TO the
! Eleventh district with S22 plurality in
| their favor and are met there by 14,27S Re-
publican plurality. giving q net plurality
| of 456 for Mckinley.
SAMUEL ]. ROBERTS. Chairman"
The Louisville Courier-Journal this MORN
| ing says: "a complication has arisen
that will likely divide the electoral vote on
| the basis of twelve for Mckinley and one
| for Bryan This is due to the fact that a
large number put the stencil mark oppo-
site the name of the first elector instead of
under the party device, thus causing the
head of each ticket to run ahead of their
colleagues. In this way the foremost Dem
ocratic eleceor, w. B. Smith, gets more
votes than the hindmost Republican elector
Bettors on the Bryan end say this prevents
the Mckinley men from winning and raises
an interesting point. However, all bets are
| held up until the State canvassing board s.
| count. The most intense interest is mani
| tested in the constantly changing figures.
and the situation assumes a very ludicrous
| phase"
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