The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-06
ODELL'S PLURALITY 1887
OFFICIAL RETURNS OF THE NEW
YORK ELECTION.

Democratic Charges of Upstate Frauds
and Talk of Making a Fight Ia the
Courts Causes ExcItemeni-RepubII-
can Chairman Says If the Democrats
Want Contest They VIII Get All
They Want Right In New York County
Albany, Nov. 5.-The official plurali-
ties for governor in the state, as re-
ported to Governor Odell by the county
clerks of the various counties, are as
follows:
Total plurality for Odell, 1882.
Total plurality for Coler, 123,OS5.
Odells plurality over Coler, 1857.
New York. Nov Bird S. Coler, the
democratic nominee for governor, re-
fused to-day to concede defeat, declar-
ing that he wished to wait for the Off
cial count of the vote. Mr.. Colers
statement contained the following:
Suppose the democratic ticket had re-
ceived, say, in the neighborhood of $780,
900 majority in Greater New York,
there was nothing to have stopped the
republicans from claiming the upper
section of the state by at least 100000"
This declaration by Mr.. Coler was fol-
lowed by a rather sensational an
nouncement from Secretary Mason, of
the state democratic committee, that
he refused to concede Odelrs election,
that fraud had robbed Coler of many
votes UP the state, and that Senator
Hill and Chairman Campbell, of the
state committee, would come to New
York this evening to decide on a plan
of action. About the time these state
ments appeared rumor was circulated
that Coler intended to make a contest
in the courts, and simultaneously the
Evening Journal issued an extra edi-
tion declaring that former Senator Hill.
Charles F. Murphy and Hugh Nc
Laughlin claimed Coler's election. This
report, together with the statements
made by Mr.. Coler and Secretary Ma
son, caused considerable excitement in
this city.
Colonel Dunn, the chairman of the
republican state committee. when in
formed to-day of the rumor that the
democrats threatened to contest the
election, said:
s IF they start anything of that kind
we will give them all the contest they
want right here in New York county,
and they will wish they had never
heard 0f 0nntnrta - FfFat 77e d"
New York, Nov. '5.-Official figures on
the vote for governor vary but little
from the unofficial reports. According
to returns made to the executive at AL
bany by the several county clerks, the
plurality for Odell, rep, is 12SS7. Only
three counties above the Bronx were
carried by the democratic nominee, the
aggregate plurality for Coler in these
counties being 1011. This and the
Greater New York plurality of 122,O74
given to Coler was met and overcome
by an up state republican plurality of
1882, the difference being net plu-
rality of 1887 against 111,126 plurality
for Odell in 1900
Returns of the vote for other state
offices are so meagre that it is impossi-
BILE to say if the demands have been
more successful as regards the minor
offices than in the case Of the governor.
In some quarters it is asserted that,
by reason Of his endorsement by the
prohbitionists, Cunneen, the democrat
ic nominee for attorney general, has
made such gains over the head of the
ticket that he has been elected. There
are also claims that when the returns
for Judge of the court of appeals are all
in it will be found that Judge Gray has
defeated his republican opponent
The state legislature is controlled by
the republicans by reduced majority
but one so large as to admit of no
doubt of the return of Mr.. Platt to the
United States senate.