The Portland daily press., 1899-11-11
Steps Taken TO Throw Out Entire
Counties.
Official Count of Ballots
Begun.
No Changes In Claims Of Party
Managers.

Louisvills, NovemLsr 10.-Ths cffioial
count Of the ballots cast on Tuesday was
begun today throughout the state. Juds-
ing from the progress already made, the
Official returns will show no great varia-
tion from the unofficial figures which
give Louisville and JEFF erson counties to
the Republicans By . plurality Of about
5000. 1h-re was no change today In the
claims Of the party managers. The Demo-
gratis assert that Gosbsl win have . p,u-
rsiity Of 5000 while the nominee himself
places it at 5uoo. The Republicans claim
Taylor Is elected By plurality of 900.
Tie Times fGoebel Democracy has tbs
following special from London, KY:
estate Chairman Young Of the Ds,no-
cratic campaign committee II ~ Bar
louisville sesking to have the entire voss
Of Knox county thrown out Numbers
Of afi1daviss alleging fraud and irrsguiAri-
ties are being filed with the county board.
IL Ii believed Tsylcr's majority will be
considerably reduced. II the county 10 not
thrown out entirely.
20 noiai retarns from Clay county re-
ducs Tuy Ior's majority to s07.
i'No changes have bean made by the
canvassing BOARD Of Laurel county SO
far. Taylor's majority will remain gi3
though the Democrats will Bls afiidavits
with the stats election board At Frankfort
next TUESDAY asking that three preuiness
b.. thrown ont, which will reduce 1t y
The qilnes also has the following from
Bardstown. KY, concerning the count In
progress there:
"A serious technical error In the vote
k.Ip- A.
plurality to 1886. In the official count IL
was discovered that In every precinct ex-
capt one, W. p, instead Of W. s. Taylor
was voted for. The one precinct. New
Hope eivss w. s. Taylor the Republican
candidate only ~, leaving the official
vots as certified to BY the two Democratic
mmiasioners - follows: Gosbei, 1859;
W. :. Taylor. IS; william r. Taylor,
l,lsS. The RspuhlicAn commissioners re-
fused to earthly 20 thess figures"
DEMOCRATs AT WORK.
Frankfors. Nsvsmbsr i0.-Ths Demo
cratic state campaign oemmitsee With .
returns a. esIee rsphsd from the various
can Wasting b1ards. several ceunttes ars
still ous and In q nunbsr Of thoss heard
from today the county boards viii meet
asnin tomorrow 10 paas on contested bal
lots which may materially Affect tbs re-
suit,
The msmbsss Of the committee claim
that 6oshsl's vote was slightly increased
by the efioial count today snd ssin clain
his slsotaon By At lsass four thousand.
The committee declines 10 give cut the
vote % resolved by 10 and On which the
olaima of Goebel's eleetlon Ii based. ID 10
oonosdsd on all hands here thar tbs rssult
will nos be definitely ascsrtstned for AZ
least two days and that no matter which
eandidsts may bs declared elected the
Legislature viii finally have to settle q
contest which lie certain to be instituted
for possession Of the Office.
CHANGES FAVOR REPUBLICANS.
Louisville. KY, October l0.-Reports
rccsived tonight by the Courier Journal
from counties where the official count
was completed today, show In most cases
slight changes from the unofficial figures.
In impoI tanoe Instances, however, the
changes favor the Republicans. Lsaiie
county which WINS not included In the
plurality Of s7l In the state, Is reported
tonight as having given Taylor q plurali-
ty Of e62 votes on the official count.
Kenton county which figured In last
nights table With s4sS plurality for
Gostsl. is reduced to about 100 Oldham
county's Goebel plurality, official. comes
81 instead of 1875 as reported last night.
In q number Of counties there are alight
changes, each candidate profiting.
Reports to the Commercial (Repubii-
can) up TO midnight show gains Of 6Bl
for Goebsl and 36S for Taylor, on changes
from the unofficial returna This leaves
Tsylor's plurality according to the Conf
merciaPs advices at s64l. Reports to this
paper from tod1y's count cover is of the
l19 counties Ia the state.
VOTE OF STARK COUNTY.
Canton, Ohio, November i0.-The
official canvass of the vote In Canton
and Stark county was completed tonight.
This returns for the city show an increased
Republican plurality of S17 az compared
with Bushneifs vote In 1887, and q de-
Grease Of 100 compared with Mckinney for
Prt sident In 1896.
The county shows m Increased Hepub-
lican plurallty Of 9e2 "a compared with
'97, and of 6z66 as compared with 70.
AT PINES ALLEYS.
At Pines alleys last evening the best