The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-11
THE COvTE2T VERY CLOSE
Legislat 80 Will Have to Settle
.e Question.
REP ANS ARE CONFIDENT
"a
An Effort Being Made to Throw Out
the Entire Vote of Knox
County on the Ground of
Alleged Irregularities

Louisville, KY, November 1O-The official
count of the ballots cast in Tuesdays cleo
ton was begun today throughout the state.
In this city large crowd gathered at the
court house to witness the count. Repre-
resentatlves of all the parties were ad-
mitted by the commissioner and the exami-
nation of the ballots proceeded in an or
derly manner. Judging from the progress
already made the official returns will show
no great variation from the unofficial fig
ures which will give Louisville and Jeffer-
son county to the republicans by plurality
of about 1900.
There no change today in the claims
of the party managers. The democrats as
sert Goebel will have a plurality of 5000
while the nominee himself places it at 1000.
Tn republicans claim Taylor is elected by
a plurality of 4,O00
The Times IGoebel democrao has the fol-
lowing special from London, Ky: +
"The chairman of the state committee.
A. w. Young, is at Barboursville seeking
to have the entire vote of Knox county
thrown out Numbers of affidavits alleging
fraud and Irregularities are being filed with
the county board. 1t Is believed Taylor's
majority Will De cOnSluefdDiy TeuuSSa ii 'tuo
county is not thrown out entirely.
"Official returns from Clay reduces Tay-
lors majority to 907 No changes have been
made by the canvassing board of Laurel
county so far. Taylor's majority will re-
main 931, though the democrats will file
aftidavits with the state election board at
Frankfort next Tuesday asking that three
precincts be thrown out, which will re-
duce it, 5Ai
Serious Technical Error
The Times also has the following from
Bardstown, Ky, concerning the count in
progress there:
"A serious technical error in the vote
may increase Goebels Nelson county plu-
rality to 1,sb6. In the official count it was
discovered that in every precinct except one
w. P. instead of w. S. Taylor was voted
fcf and the precinct, New Hole, gives
w. s. Taylor, the republican candidate,
only 49, leaving the official vote as certified
to by the two democratic commissioners as
follows: Goebel, 1853; w. S. Taylor, 49,
William z. Taylor, Lbs The republican
commissioners refused to certify these
figures.
Reports received tonight by the Courier
Journal from counties where the official
count was completed today show in most
cases slight changes from the unofficial fig-
ures. In few important instances, now
ever the changes favor the republicans.
Leslie county, in the Eleventh district,
which was not included at all in the table
! last night which gave Goebel a plurality OF
81 in the state, is reported tonight as hav-
ing given Taylor a plurality of 1852 votes on
the official vote. Kenton county, which
figured in last nights table with 2,4s3 plu-
rallty for Goebel, is reduced to about z, lOo
Oldham county Goebel plurality ofhclal
comes 96 instead of 1855, as reported last
night In a number of counties there are
slight changes, each candidate proht1ng
Reports to the Commercial qepubican)
up to midnight show gains of 56l for Goebel
and 1868 for Taylor on changes from the un-
official returns to that paper. This leaves
Taylor's plurality, according to the Com
mercialss advices, at 3,641. Reports to this
paper from today's count cover sixty-eight
of the f19 counties in the state