Show STATES IN DOUBT KENTUCKY WYOMING AUD AND SOUTH DAKOTA further votes from either state may give any one or all to mckinley or bryan louisville ky nov 7 tonight there are no material changes cl iannes in tile political situation the democratic headquarters give out no detailed figures to substantiate their claims of carrying the state tor for bryan while the republican managers bolster I 1 11 e I 1 r tion with tables embodying the majority of 0 each candidate in all of 0 the several counties and districts A call at democratic headquarters tonight found it a sign reading these headquarters closed none of 0 the com mitte emen could be found for or a statement the following follow lne Is 13 from republican headquarters kentucky has gone republican tor for the first time in its history in a presidential year complete clat returns irom from ill counties and reliable elal tat returns from the other eight counties give mckinley 46 plurality four years ago the state stale gave cleveland plurality over Il arilson and gave weaver leemer the tha populist candidate votes the fusion kit 0 democrats and populists lists tills this year was complete and the victory lor for mckinley means therefore h ere a re reversal ersal ot of votes based on the figures of our silver friends make a great ado over 2000 1000 republican gain in the eleventh eleven en th district but eee nothing remarkable ill 1 a gain ot of WW 2100 democratic plu alu bality in it a single county in the first district they also affect sur surprise Burp ilse that the republican state committee has been sticking slicking to Us its claim of 0 00 to 1110 plurality for mckinley in ili spite spile 0 I 1 C the discovery of great errors against D bryan ryan in hardin fayette Faye tle calloway and other coull counties ties and say that whenever bryan made a gain in this way may I 1 sent a cipher dispatch to the eleventh district tor for a corresponding addition to the mckinley plurality these errors error which tile hie newspapers made a cicat pi cat ado about lit in each succeeding I 1 were ore their own and not ours and I 1 explain how some of 0 the new a gave mckinley anywhere from 2000 to plurality when the committee figures open to the world orld stood between and goo COO tor for three days this committee has had nothing to do with w I 1 ill the conflicting reports of new newspapers newspaper B find and the big gains and losses loose ahe they Y have been finding in unofficial returns for several days have not changed our tables at any time the official count lias has le ic silted in occasional changes from our unofficial figures but t they hey have about balanced each other and my figures of wednesday ate aie practically confirmed by the official count at this writing our almost complete returns show that the democrats go to tile the eleventh Tle district with 1 plurality in their favor anil and are met there by republican plurality gl alv ing a net plurality of tor for mckinley SAM J ROBERTS non ERTS chairman with official returns from of 0 11 counties and unofficial turns returns re from the rima remainder inder mckinley now leads bryan in kentucky by 47 votes caal returns from the ebli teen counties are not expected to materially alter the total given the sliver silver democrats Demo crata are still claiming tile the state basing their claim on only plurality tor for mckinley in the ele eleventh anth congressional district they give no table of the vote by counties on the other hand the republicans on oil figures by counties in the eleventh district with only two counties unofficial estimate the total at complications have arisen that will likely divide the c electoral lec toral vote on oil the basis of 12 for or mckinley and I 1 for bryan due to the fact that a large number put a stencil mark opposite the he name of the first elector instead of under the party device thus causing the head of each ticket to run ahead of their colleagues in this way the foremost democratic elector W 13 smith sinith gets eels more votes than the hindmost republican elector bettors bettorf on oil bryan say this prevents the mckinley men from winning and raises an interesting point ilo however wever all bets are held up until the state canvassing boards count louisville ky nov 7 the county canvas canvassing sing board at I 1 completed the count in it this ward louisville with the result that mckinley nley gains sa 4 votes raising his total majority to |