The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-11-16
By A THOUSA|l|N'D|
pietrich's Election Is Claimed BY
Tha4Figure.
REPUBLICAN, sIAII ndII IS nEeIIp
Counter Claim Mads3By F~uaioaisss, But
Figures Fail to Bear Thsn Confort
-Result Close In Third Sixth
Congressional Districts.

LINCOLN, Nov. 2.-ThlS mornings
State Journal says:
Election returns received so far in
dictate that McKinley's wajority in
Nebraska will reach the seven thou
sand mark. Returns for seTenty-six
counties have been received and tabu.
lated, and these figures bear out this
assertion. Taking the vote in the
missing counties four years ago., with
the figures so far received, the majority
for Mckinley electors is 6,ss5.
The returns on governor come I'M
slowly. This vote was much lighter
than on presidential electors and the
republican candidates on the state
ticket will not receive nearly SO large
a majority a the presidential electors.
Returns from sixty-three counties on
governor show a majority for Diet
rich of 1850. Taking the on Hay
ward and POINTER in 1898 for the
twenty-seven missing counties and
s%ubtracting P%oynter's majority from,
Dietrich's apparent majority, it still
leaves him 500 votes to the good. Are
publican gain will be shown by the
twenty-seven missing counties, and
this should bring Dietrich's majority
above one thousand.
The vote on state officers has not
been received fully enough to deter
mine the result, but it is believed that
the remainder Of the state ticket will.
make even a better showing than that
made by Dietrich.
A difference exists in return received
on the state ticket sufficient to make
q considerable change. Until all fig-
ures are verified and the result is def
nitely known, interest in the receipt
of additional returns will be taken.
be very close in the Third and Sixth
districts, and it would not be surpris-
ingif republican congressman would
be adued TO republican gains.
The personnel of the legislature has
not yet been fully determined. but the
list printed yesterday morning is be-
lieved to be approximately correct.
Fuslonists 500 Hope.
The populist state central committee
claims that the figures published by
the newspapers are not wholly reliable
as some are said to be estimates while
others carry errors that have crept in
during copying, t~elegraphing and
printing. Att o'clock this morning,
Private Secretary Jew ell said that it
would require the official figures to de-
termine the result. The populist COM
mittee has stopped taking informal
retu rms, he said, and now depends up
on the returns coming from the official
count. His claim is that forty-two
counties have been heard from in this
way, showing a majority Of 2.456 for
Poynter.
In the ~forty-eight counties not heard
from by the committee Hayward re-
ceived a majority Of TIA. .sIf Poynter
received a larger majority in the first
forty-two counties heard from, said
Mr.. Jewell ''he ought also to get a
larger majority than he did two years
ago in the forty-eight that are to come.
But assuming that it will be the same,
Governor Poynter is elected by 1000
votes"
Mr.. Jewell believes that Governor
Poynter's majority will run slightly
above that of the other men on the
state ticket. That being the case the
official count alone will settle the state
ticket in the minds of tee fusion man.
ayers.
Coneressional.