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Louisville, hy., NOV. 3.-Nltn reluThs
from all but thirty out of 1854 pre-
cincts in Kentucky, the Courier-Jour-
nal puts Bryan's majority at 5000 and
Beckham's at 5000. The missing pre-
cincts have been taken into account in
this result.
The Republicans now claim that ma
~iorities will be shown for Mckinley
and Yerkes when the returning board
%canvasses the vote at Frankfort,
which it will do three weeks from cleo
ton day The returning board is Dem
ocratic and the Legislature also Demo-
cratic.
Ex-Governor McCreery, who man
aged the Democratic campaign, to-
night closed the headquarters. He
said tonight that he a heard from
campaign chairmen in every county in
the state, and, that allowing all the
Republican claims in the Eleventh dis
trict, the Republican Gibraltar, he
placed the majorities of Bryan and
Beckham respectively at 5000 and o.
900.
The Louisville Commercial Repub-
lican) will tomorrow say the election
is very close 1t will not concede the
defeat of Yerkes and the Mckinley
electors, and will say that the official
count only can determine the result.
Chairman Combs of the Republican
state committee was quoted to-day as
follows:
while we have not the figures
thoroughly compiled. yet we are GER
tain that Yerkes carried kentucky by
a small, though safe, majority. The
result is very close. | think it will
probably require the official count TO
determine how the state goes. When
left headquarters Ierkes had n small
plurality, with seventeen counties still
to be heard from. ! am Informed that
over 300 ballots We're not counted by
Goebel election officers throughout the
state, on account of trivial technicali-
ties.
I'VE have discovered than not only
have systematic frauds been practised
all over the state, but in some counties
there was wholesale exclusion of vot-
ers from the polls. In Fayette county,
for instance, in two precincts, 800 vot-
crs were kept from voting. In Breath
lit o persons We're kept from voting.
~Challengcrs and inspectors were also
excluded from the polling booths. In
numbers of counties the returns Were
padded by the Democrats. notably in
Franklin and owen counties.
Under any fair election law McKin-
ley and Ncrkcs would have carried the
state by 5000 or 10000 majority. The
Republican vote has been whitfield in
many places by petty larceny and in
n number of precincts by highway rob
berry. Nothing but an Off cial count
will settle the election. and the count
is to he made under the Goebel law,
with which the Republicans have no
reasonable grounds TO expect fair treat
ment."
Omaha. Nov. 10.-Complete returns
from two-thirds of the counties and
scattering returns from The rest show
that Mckinley has carried Nebraska
by a plurality of at least 1000. An
equal number of returns IN h state
ticket Indicate that Nebraska has re-
elected Governor Poynter and the en-
tire state ticket by pluralities ranging
from o to 1.SOO over the Republicans,
the governor being high man.
If the balance of the state shows the
same percentage of gain and loss.
Poynter's election is certain, and the
counties to be heard from being most
ly in the western part of the state, 1t
is fair to presume that this is the case.
The Legislature will likely be de
cided by Douglass county, in which
1t will take the official count 10 deter
mine the vote.
The World-Herald Democratic)
claims the lieutenant governor will
cast the deciding vote in the upper
house, and that the lower house is
evenly divided, with two places in
doubt.
The state Republican committee,
which last night gave out the claim
that Diderich and the Republican
state ticket Were elected. with from
5000 to 1000 majority, this afternoon
scaled down CLOSE TO the danger
line" and claimed the election of the
state ticket by from 1000 to 1000.
In Douglass county the count is close.
and charges of fraud are made by the
Democrats. The Republicans concede
II state senator in Douglass to the
Democrats and one representative,
stating also that the official count NAV
be required regarding two other repre-
sentatives. This would give the Re
publicans a safe majority on joint
ballot.
The congressman in this state are:
Two Republicans, Burkett and Mer-
GER; three ~fusionists, Stark. Shallen-
berger and Robinson, with the Sixth
district represented by Neville. Popu-
list, who is n candidate for reelection,
still in doubt.
The Sixth district. so far as heard
from, gives Neville 100 lead, but he
counties of this district which have
not been heard from are likely to de-
feat him.