The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-11-13

New York, November S.-AS a result
OF messages received at republican Ia
tionaI headquarters today by n. b.
Scott from doubtful points. Mr.. Man
ley gave out the following statement:
Full returns today leave the situa-
ton 6s il was yesterday. We have
won By 3O8 electoral votes. We have
carried every northern state, but Colo
RADIO, Nevada and Montana, with ten
votes. We have carried Kentucky,
Maryland, Delaware and West Vir-
GINA AS we predicted during the en-
campaign, they are attempting TO
.ob us of the electoral votes in Ken
lucky under the power of the Goebel
law. IL they succeed we shall nave 295
electoral votes. Our candidate for gov
ernor wires that We have carried Ken
lucky for the electoral ticket and
elected him by over 1000 majority. The
time has come when the American -,
pie ought to insist at whatever cost
that the votes shall be counted as they
were honestly cast"
Senator Scott, in answer to kilograms
inquiring as To the result in Nebraska,
received the following dispatch from
L. INOScW dIeFs HleUlDGE Oh the ndJlOndI
advisory committee. who is a candidate
for the United States SenatOrship from
Nebraska:
Returns from rural districts are in
complete. but there is no doubt what
ever that Mckinley carries Nebraska
by not less than 5000. The governor
ship is close. but the prospects favor
republicans. Both houses of legisla-
ture will be republican by small ma
jority.
Frankfort. KY. November S.-Gov-
ernOr Beckham returned to the state
capital today. He says his plurality
VIII not be under 5000. Tho state cleo
ton commission will meet week after
next to canvass the returns. Returns
from the rural districts are unusually
slow in coming. 1t is evident now that
both sides Will continue to claim the
state until after the official count is
made and then there likely will be a
contest for governor to be settled in
the courts.
Louisville, KY. November S.-Leslie
Combs. chairman of the republican
state campaign committee. said this af-
rnoOn
Under any fair election law, Nc
Kinley and Yerkes would ave carried
the state by 5000 or 10000 maturity.
The republican vote has been whitfield
in most places by petty larceny, and
in a number of places by highway rob-
ugly NOIhll u III OIllCldl SOuIII
= will settle the election and the official
count is made under the Goebel law by
commissioners from whom the repub-
liCan party has no reasonable grounds
to expect fair treatment
Democratic leaders here say the
Kentucky election as far as the gov
ernor is concerned. cannot. under a
United States supreme court decision
be taken into the courts. They say
that as the election was held under the
old election law the returning board,
which is democratic. must finally pass
on all contests, questionable ballots, etc
The new election law does not become
effective until the next election. Hence
the democratic leaders assert that on
the face of the returns even allowing
every claim the republicans make as to
the Eleventh district. their stronghold,
Beckham is elected, with upward of T.
600 votes to spare.
Louisville, KY, November With
returns from all but 80 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-
einCts have been taken into account in
this result The republicans now clam
that majorities will be shown for Nc
Kinley and Yerkes when the returning
board the vote at Frankfort,
which it will do three weeks from cleo
ton day. The returning board is DEM
ocratic and the legislature is also DEM
ocratic- Ex-Governor James B. Nc
Creary. who managed the democratic
campaign. tonight closed the head
quarters and will tomorrow return to
his home at Richmond. He said to-
night that he had heard from Cam
paign chairmen in every county in the
state and that, allowing all the repub-
lican claims in the Eleventh district,
he placed the majorities of Bryan and
Beckham respectively at 5000 n 5000.
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 hat the official
u only can determine the result.
Louisville, November 7.-Chairman
omb of the republican state cam
paign committee was quoted today as
follows:
While we have not the figures thor
Oughly compiled yet we are certain
that Mr.. Yerkes carried Kentucky by
a small. though safe majority.
The result is very close. / think that
it will probably require the official
count to determine how the state goes.
When 1 left headquarters Yerkes had a
small plurality, with seventeen coun-
ties still to be heard from. / am inform
ed tha over 5000 ballots were not
counted by Goebel election officers
throughout the state, on account OF
trivial t~echnicalities. We have discov-
cred that not only have systematic
frauds been practiced all over the state
but in some counties, there was whole
sale exclusion of voters from the polls
In Fayette county, for instance, in two
precincts 500 voters were kept from
voting. In B%reathitt 600 persons were
kept from voting. C~hallengers and in
spectors were also excluded from thu
booths. In numbers of counties the re
turns were padded by the democrats
notably in Franklin and Owen
ties"
NEBRASKA
Omaha, Neb., November 8.-Th'
Evening Bee prints a table on the ma
tional ticket giving complete returns
l. from hfty-five counties. with one pre-
-cinct missing from each. out of a tota
OF ninety counties. giving McKinle,
so, 22S; Bryan 5 .196. The same cOun
J ties in 1896 ave Mckinley S5,4T6; Bryal
s6.547. This is a net gain for McKin