The San Francisco call., 1897-11-05

COLUMBUS, OHIO, Nov. 4.-Many talk
about a crisis in Onio. Some believe that
a crisis is impending. The talk about a
com bine in the Legislature against Sena-
| tor Hanna has subsidized, pending the in
terest in the official counting of the vote
! in close counties. AS the official canvass
| of the vote in the SO counties proceeded
to-day the Republican plurality on the
State ticket increased. and on the legisla-
| tive tickets it appeared to be getting to-
| ward very close shave.
While the Republican plurality on the
State ticket exceeds $4,000, the vote on
| the legislative ticket is almost as close as
| it could be. For this reason there Is still
unusual anxiety at the State headquarters
of both parties
The Republicans still claim that tn"
LEGISLATURE stands rs Republicans to 20
Democrats on Joint ball OF for Senator, and
that their candidates for Representatives
in three of the close counties have been
elected by the following pluralities: Del
aware County, %; Wood County, %; Noble
County, IS; a total of 142 on the plurall-
ties of these counties. A change OF 7Z
votes properly distributed in these three
counties would therefore, have turned the
result in the Legislature by giving these
three Representatives 10 the Democrats.
Then the Legislature would have stood Y
Renn bl leans and 73 Democrats On joint
ballot for Senator.
When it is remem bered that the total
vote of Ohio last year was over ono mil
lion and that it was almost one million
this wear. it is readily seen that II is such
a small percentage that it cannot be clearly
expressed in figures, or fractions, or lam
guage. And this is what makes the DEM
ocratic State Committee continue to claim
the Legislature and the Republican State
Committee to be SO closely on guard in
watching the counting in close count
The official count of Delaware County is
in, but with protests and notices OF con-
test from the Democrats. and the same is
true of Noble County. The official count
of Wood County will not be completed
till Saturday, although they expect to get
through tomorrow.
In Wood County to-day the Democrats
protested against counting the vote of
precinct where the place of voting was
outside of the precinct, but within the
ward. Had this precinct been thrown
candidate for Representative by plural
ity of FIVE instead of the Republican by
twenty-elght. The vote OF the precinct
was counted and the Democratic protest
filed. Other technicalities are expected
in the progress of the vote in that county
to. morrow. In Noble County there was
long contest over twenty-seven scratched
tickets that were finally thrown out be-
cause they were not properly marked.
This was a Republican loss. Every point
is being contested in the official count of
the close counties.
Chairman Nash says tonight that the
Republicans have a safe ma jority of five
on Joint ballot in the Legislature. He ad.
mits that the pluralities are small in some
counties, but claims they are sale. He
has no doubt of the result in any counties
which he claims except possibly Wood
County, aid in the event of the loss of
til at representative, he says the Legisla.
tH-e would still stand "a Republicans to
II Democrats and have majority Of three