Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — COUNT OF THE VOTES. [ARTICLE]

COUNT OF THE VOTES.

Congress Performs the Duty of Declaring the Election Kesult. The event in both houses of Congress ■Wednesday was the counting of the electoral vote, and this passed off without any incident of importance. Grover Cleveland was declared to be the choice of the people for the office of President, and Adlai E. Stevenson for the office of Vice President of the United States. As early as 10 o’clock a steady human stream began to flow toward the great white building on Capitol Hill, and long before an hour had passed every available seat in the galleries, except those portions reserved for the executive and the diplomatic corps, had an occupant. In the main public gallery were ladies in fine raiment anxious to witness a spectacle which can be seen but once in four years—that accompanying the counting of the electoral vote cast for the chief magistrate of the nation. A few moments before 1 o’clock DoorKeeper Turner announced the presence of the Vice President and the Senate of the United States. The vast assemblage rose with one accord to do them honor. Preceded by Vice President Morton and attended by other officers, including Capt. Bassett, the veteran doorkeeper, who carried the boxes containing the certificates of Presidential Electors, the Senators marched inio the hall of the House of Representatives. The Vice President took tho chair assigned to him to the right of the Speaker, and the Senators occupied the first four rows of, the seats to the right of the presiding' officers. The counting of tho electoral vote was then proceeded with. At its close the announcement was formally made that Grover Cleveland of the State of New York was elected President of the United States, and that Adlai E. Stevenson of the State of Illinois was elected Vice President cf the United States, each for the term beginning March 4, 1893, and that the fact would be entered, together with a list of the votes, on the journals. The formal announcement of the results by States was as follows:

Cleve- Harri- WeaStates. land. son. ver. Alabama. 11 Arkansas 8 California 8 1 Colorado .. 4 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Florida 4 Georgia 13 Idaho .. 3 Illinois 24 Indiana 15 lowa 13 Kansas .. 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 8 Maine '6 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 15 Michigan 5 !> Minnesota 9 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska 8 Nevada .. 3; New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 Now York 36 North Carolina 11 North Dakota 11l Ohio 1 22 Oregon 3 1 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Carolina 9 South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 Texas 15 Vermont 4 Virginia 12 ■Washington 4 West Virginia...’. 0 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming •• 3 Totals 277 145 27 The Vice Presidential candidates received the same number of votes, the totals being: Stevenson, 277; Reid, 146; Field, 22.