The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-05
APPEAL TO The COURTS PROBABLE
Frauds III the Close Counties
Charged by Democrats.
On the Face of the Returns Hanna
Has the Best of the Situation.

COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 4.-Late to-
night it became known that the courts
would be resorted to for the purpose
Of preventing boards of election from
issuing certificates to the Republican
candidates in certain counties. The
cases will be brought in the lower
courts and thence to the supreme court
as soon as possible. The Republican
state committee also has lawyers pre-
pairing cases of contest. The Repub-
licans get three representatives on the
face Of the returns from Delaware,
Noble and Wood counties, whose plu-
ralities aggregate only 142, and q
change of 72 votes would have given
the Democrats control of the legisla-
ture. The Republicans claim that the
Democrats also elected members
of the legislature on close mar
gins; that there were ten
counties In the state that gave less
than one hundred plurality each for
their candidates for the legislature and
that the Democrats secured as many
members on these small pluralities as
the Republicans. Both sides are pre-
pairing for contests first in the courts
and afterward in the legislature.
While both committees are keeping
secret any arrangements for legal pro-
ceedings, yet it is stated that the Dem
ocratic state committee will seek to en-
join enough certificates Of election
from Republican representatives to
prevent the Republicans from organiz-
ing the house and appointing the COM
mittee that will consider contests. De-
Velopments are expected tomorrow In
the policies Of both parties so far as
appealing to the courts is concerned.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 4.-Many talk
about q crisis in Ohio Some hclieve
that crisis is impending. The talk
about a combine in the legislature
against Senator Hanna has subsidized
overshadowed by the interest in the
official counting of the vote in close
counties. AS the official canvas of the
vote in the eighty eight counties pro-
ceeded today the Republican plurality
on the state ticket increased and on
the legislative tickets the result ap-
peared to be getting towards a very
close shave. While the Republican
plurality on the state ticket exceeds
$4,000, the vote on the legislative tick
ct is almost as close as it could be.
For this reason there is still unusual
anxiety at the respective state head
quarters of both parties.
The Republicans still claim that the
legislature stands rs Republicans to
70 Democrats on joint ballot for sena-
tor and that their candidates for rep
resentatives in three of the close coun-
ties have been elected by the following
pluralities Delaware county, 29; Wood
county, 2S; Noble county, So; a total of
142 in the pluralities of these three
counties. A change of 72 votes, prop
erly distributed in these counties,
would, therefore, have turned the re-
suit in the legislature by giving these
representatives to the Democrats.
Then the legislature would have stood
72 Republicans and 73 Democrats on
joint ballot for senator.
When it is remembered that the
total vote of Ohio last year was over
one million, and is almost one million
this year, it is readily seen that II is
such a small percentage that it can
not be clearly expressed in figures or
fractions or language. And this is
what makes the Democratic state COM
mittee continue to claim the legis-
lature and the Republican state COM
mittee to be closely on guard in
watching the counting in the close
ounties. The official count of Del
aware county is in, but with protests
and notices of contest from the DEM
ocrats, and the same is true of Noble
county. The official count of Wood