The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-11-16


Minneapolis. Nov 12.-Seventy- three
out Of the Sc counties in u. Minnesota,
and nearly complete reports from the
other nine, show that Van SAINT has
made a slight gain over Lind. ~: ;
The 62 precincts in the state that have
failed to report. are not supposed to be
heavy enough to seriously influence the
gain Van SAINT has made over Lind.
The former has a lead Of 2,o72. Includ-
ing estimates Of the missing precincts
the total known vote of the state stands:
Van. SAINT. @l5I,s29; Lind. 148,5s7.
The counties so far having failed to
report are Beltrami, Cass, Cook, Hen
nepin. ltasca. Pipestone, st. Louis,
Steel and Wilkin. -: - ~. z,':4.#
: Secretary c. C.. Whitney. of the Re-
publican state central committee, and
Eli Warner, called on Chairman Ros-
ing, at the Democratic headquarters in
the. Merchants hotel, St. Paul. Capt.
Whitney carried with him the returns
of the gubernatorials contest as COM.
piled by himself.
The reception accorded them was en-
tirely cordial, and compliments as TO the
conduct of the respective campaigns
were literally exchanged. Returns were
compared, and each seemed of like
mind with the other until Capt. Whit
ney suggested the situation might be-
relieved and election bets settled il Mr..
Rosing would publicly admit Gov.
Lind's defeat.
!. NMr. Rosing very promptly said for
the present at least he dla not pi .pose
to do anything of the kind. The con-
versation drifted into other channels,
both sides Fastening to state they did
not, care anyhow. The Republicans re-
inforced their indifference by expressing
. willingness in the face of certain
victory to await the report of the cam
wasting board. ~; - =, I
Mr.. Rosing seemed inclined to lay
Gov. Lind's defeat to the fact, as
alleged by him, that several hundred
votes were lost through, the candidacy
of Thomas H. Lucas, the Socialist
Democratic nominee, who drew from
fusion strength. On many ballots both
Lind and Lucas were voted for, in
validating that portion of the ballot.
cept the plurality given Van SAINT by
the Republican committee and the press.
He maintained Van SAINTS plurality
would not be more than 1900 when cor
rected by the canvassing board. IS
. Returns are coming into the secretary
Of states office very slowly. =.
; In the ~ counties which have official
ly reported. Van SAINTS lead is but
1886, but most of the strong Lind
counties are already in. and the counties
remaining may probably increase Van
SAINTS lead. ..
Mckinley simply has everything his
own way in this state. In the counties
reported at the secretary of states office
he has over $1,000 plurality, and this will
undoubtedly be increased to more than
10000. 49,. =
Hennepin county, supposed at one
time to have given Van SAINT $500,
gives him only 7o3 with twenty-nine
precincts missing, thirteen of them in
the. city and sixteen in the country. It
looks as If the remaining precincts
would still further reduce Van SAINTS
small lead. 8 IN I'm.
.McCleary gets from 1000 to 5000
plurality in the second district. g:
Incomplete returns from the fourth
district show that Congressman Stew
ems has been reelected by about 1000
plurality. =
Returns from FIVE counties in the sew
enth district give Eddy good lead
over Daily for congress, but with some
strong DAILY counties to hear from the
indications are that the result is very
close. -..-.~ :,..5. =
With twenty precincts to hear from
"Your Uncle" Loren Fletcher is lead
ing S. A. Stockwell in the congress
'sional race by 10000 and will probably
have as much at the finish. =, -
= Democrats claim that in some :n-
stances the whole ballot, including the
vote for governor, was thrown out on
account of the error in the presidential
part. It is explained that Lind lost
many votes in this way where the vot-
ers really made no mistake as to gov.
ernor. . ...tsss,s.:<: sEs "a @rS 81
In some counties Van SAINT is run.
nirg better than Clough in 1896 and in
Others he is not running so well. The
result is a toss up with the chances
still favoring Van SAINT by a few thous-
and. But it would not be surprising if.
the result should be as close as in 1906.
when Clough had only $500 over Lind.
* Washington county turned ii, sur
prise by giving Lind a bare majority
1t was. expected that Van SAINT would
carry this county BY = good plurality
u It seems, too. that Bryan lost many
votes in Minnesota on account of Debs.
social. democratic candidate for presi-.
dent. Reports have been received of
mary ballots being marked for both
Bryan and Debs electors. ss. { s .ssss