Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1884 — TESISTEST FROM NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

TESISTEST FROM NEW YORK.

The Presidential Contest Mot Yet Settled. The official count in York, upon which depends the result of the presidential election, was begun Tuesday, and is still m progress. Up to yesterday afternoon forty- four counties had been canvassed, and no material changes hud been made in the pluralities previously announced. These counties, however, the republican leaders claim, were not expected to make any great changes. In New York and Brooklyn is the real contest, and here, it is claimed, errors and frauds will be discovered which will give the state to Blaine. Should any such discoveries be made, the matter would probably be taken to the courts, as the laws of New York t provide, and in that case, a final decision ,H*a§r ppt be reached for several weeks. Republicans have good grounds fGr hoping that the decision will be favorable to then; but be that as it may, they will cheerfully abide by the result of a fair count, but they will insist upon their rights and if Blaine is the lawfully elected President of the United States no amount of bluster and bravado will prevent his innguratiop. Topi Wood talks of contesting the election of Owen, in this Congressional district, on the ground, principally, of alleged informality on the part of the canvassing board of Jasper county, in canvassing the vote of Barkley township in the absence of the trustee of that township. If Tom had a glimmer of sense lie would know that lie could not get the vote , of .Jasper county thrown out on that account, and even if he did, the majority against him ( about 400 i is still so great that Owen would still be ahead. -•