Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-05
change. OF :: VOTES WOULD HayE.
kXOCkED HANNA OUT-
DEMOCRATS STILL HOLD OUT.
REFrSE TO ADMIT THEY HAVE
LOST THE LEGIsLATURE.
Charge Fraud and VIII Contest Sew
eral Sents-Republ blican. Claim a
Majority of Five on Joint
BniiOt-HushneIrs PIu-
rnlity Growing.

Columbus. o.. Nov. 4-Many talk about
crisis in Ohio. Some believe that a crisis
| is impending. The talk about combine IN
| the legislature against Senator Hanna has
| subsided, pending the interest III the official
counting Of the vote i'll close counties. AS
| the official canvass OF the vote in the
e!ghty-eight counties proceeded to-day. the
| Republican plurality on tho state ticket i'll
creased and on the legislative ticket it
| appeared to be getting toward a very close
shave.
While the Republican plurality on the state
| ticket exceeds 500, the vote on the legis-
lative ticket is almost as close as It could
be. For this reason there is still unusual
| anxiety at the respective state headquar-
| ters Of both parties.
The Republicans still claim that thelcsis-
| lature stands sevcnty-five Republicans to
| seventy Democrats on joint ballot for sena-
| tor. and that their candidates for represen-
| tatives in three of the close counties have
been elected by the following pluraiities:
Delaware county, %; Wood county, %; Nc
BILE county. So; a total of 142 on the plurali-
ties. A change Of seventy-two votes. prop
erly distributed in these three counties.
would. therefore, have turned the result in
the legislature by giving these three rep
resentatives to the Democrats. Then the
legislature would have stood seventy-two
Republicans and seventy-three Democrats
| on Joint ballot for senator.
Both Sides Watching Closely.
When it is remembered that the total
vote Of Ohio last year was over 100000. and
is almost 100000 this year. it is readily seen
that seventy-one is such small percent
age that 1t cannot be clearly expressed in
figures or fractions or language. And this
Is what makes the Democratic state COM
| mittee continue to claim the legislature
and the Republican state committee to be
closely on guard in watching the counting
of the close counties.
The official count In Delaware county is
in. but with protests and notice Of contest
from Democrats. and the same Is true Of
Noble county. The official count OF Wood
county may not be completed till Saturday,
although they expect to get through to-
morrow.
In Wood county to-day the Democrats
protested against counting the vote OF a
precinct where the place Of voting was
OUTSIDE OF the precinct, Dut Wltn1u Tue
| ward. Had this precinct been thrown out
It would have elected the Democratic can
didate fer representative by plurality Of
5 Instead of the Republican candidate by
Is. The vote of the precinct was counted
and the Democratic protest flied. Other
techricalities are expected in the progress
of the vote in that county tomorrow. In
Noble county, there was a long contest
over twenty-seven scratched tickets that
were finally thrown out because they we're
not properly marked. This was a Repub-
lican loss. Every point is being contested
in the official count of the close counties.
Republicans Claim Five Majority.
Chairman Nash said tonight that the Re
joint ballot in the legislature. He admits
that the pluralities are small in some coun-
ties. but claims they are safe. He has no
doubt OF the result In any of the counties
which he claims. except, possibly. Wood
that representative. he says the legislature
would still stand "A Republicans to II DEM
ocrats and the Republicans would have a
majority OF three on joint ballot for SEN
ator. Chairman Nash said the returns from
the Thirteenth district showed that the Re-
publicans had a plurality OF 432. so that
there is no longer any Of the state SEN
atcrs in doubt and the senate will stand
10 Democrats to II Republicans. At Re-
publican state headquarters. Summit coun-
ty is not considered so doubtful as hereto
fore. and Its two representatives are being
conceded to the Democrats. This would
mako the house SIS Republicans and 81 Dem