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THE WEATHER St. Paul and Vicinity—Fair. Minnesota —Fair, warmer in west portion today; fair tomorrow. VOL. XXVII.—NO. 316 MARYLAND'S VOTE EXTREMELY CLOSE PARTIES MAY DIVIDE THE ELECTORS Neither Side Is Likely to Have More Than 100 Plurality, and the Official Canvass May Be Required to De cide—Congressman Babcock Has a Close Call in Wisconsin, La Fol lette Committee Giving Him but Twenty-Five Majority r.AI/TIMORE, Md., Nov. 10.—The of flcial returns received up to a late hour tonight indicate that the vote for the presidential candidates last Tuesday was very close, possibly 100 on either side. It is probable that Secretary of State Oswald Tilghman will be called upon to decide which of the electors •will be entitled to cast their votes in Washington. The board of canvassers in Baltimore and in the twenty-three counties of the state met today. In Baltimore the votes c-ast in the Third congressional district were counted, but the totals were not made public. While Con gressman Frank Wachter was admit tedly re-elected, the vote on the pres idential ticket is left in doubt. From the official returns the indica tions are that the Republicans have elected seven electors and the Demo ocrats one. Returns from eleven counties of the state give the Republican electors 'a plurality of 174. Until the canvassing boards of the counties and of Balti more shi>ll have examined and count ed the ballots, it will be impossible to say which of the presidential candi dates will receive Maryland's electoral vote. There'is no change in the con- BRITAIN AND FRANCE WOULD MEDIATE They Contemplate Presenting a Joint Note to Japan and Russia Special Cable to The Globe LONDON, Nov. 10.—The Post's Paris correspondent says: "It is rumored in political circles tonight that the pres entation of an Anglo-French note to Russia and Japan with a view to medi ation is under serious consideration at the French foreign office. M. Cambon, French ambassador In London," has come to Paris, it is stated, at Minister Delcasse's request to confer with the government on the question. Probable Russian Defense Special to The Globe NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—The Herald's St. Petersburg cable: A letter from the captain of the Russian cruiser" Aurora to his wife sheds new light on the North sea tragedy. His ship and another suffered from the fire of the Russian squadron through a" misun derstanding of signals. The ships had strayed from their course. This may be the Russian defense. Russian Attacks Repulsed GEN. OKU'S HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 10, via Fusan Nov. —A spirited Russian attack on an advance post Tuesday night was repulsed after a half hour of musketry fire. ■ -The scout ing of positions is progressing. LONDON. Nov. 11.—The Telegraph correspondent with Gen. Oku cables under date of Nov. 9: "Last. night the Russians made sev eral determined attacks upon La muting and Sinchingpu.but were' re pulsed with heavy losses. - The artil lery laid the villages in ruins." " Feel Their Ground . HUANSIAN (ten miles south of Mukden), Nov. 10.—Along the eighty miles, constituting the front' of the Russian army everything is; quiet ex cept for occasional skirmishes and ar tillery duels on the --center and left, where gunners fire occasionally for the sake of practice, so \as to ' have the range should the Japanese take the of fensive. Sometimes outposts - indulge In fusillades. When the Japanese joc ularly display a white disk, indicating a miss, the Russian riflemen reply by raising a shirt or bayonet.-.:. " The Japanese are " industriously con tinuing work under the cover of dark ness, digging immense ditches, into which to. deflect the ' water of the Shakhe river. MEDIATION-SEEMS NEAR LONDON, Nov. 10.—Japan unoffi cially has made representations to Russia looking to peace. : This action' has resulted in failure and such repre sentations oven privately are not like ly to be repeated by the Japanese: Al though the suggestion of a pacific set tlement was made unofficially, it ac -11 was made direct to Russia."";. No pow "~~~~ ■ ■ ■*— Continued on Third ?PagQ>^i^ YHE ONLY DEMOCRATIC DA/LV NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE NORTHWEST THE ST. EAUL GLOBE gressfconal situation, the Democrats and Republicans each having elected three members. Looks Serious for Babcock MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 10.—Sec retary Frank R. Bentley, of the stal wart Republican faction, stated to night that the returns received by him from every precinct in the Third con gressional district show that Congress man Joseph W. Babcock is re-elected beyond the shadow of a doubt and that his plurality is 249. Mr. Bentley's figures show that Bab cock carried Sauk, Crawford, Richland and Juneau counties, and that his op ponent, Herman Grotophorst (Dem.), carried lowa, Grant and Vernon coun ties. Babcock's pluralities in the coun ties he carried axe: Sauk, 766; Craw ford, 92; .Richland, 376; Juneau, 120, or a total of 1,354. Grotophorst's plurali ties are: Vernon county, 472; Grant, 363; lowa, 270, making a total of 1,103. The difference between the tofal plural ities of each candidate gives Babcock the election by 249. Chairman J. B. Ashley, of the Third district Republican committee, tele- Continued on Sixth Page LIKES OUR SYSTEM Morley Says England Also Should Elect AH Same Day CHICAGO, Nov. —An election in Chicago, witnessed by a British.mem ber of parliament, may be the means of causing a radical change in English election ; laws. ". . • .. -_■'."■' John Morley, English statesman, left last night .for.Washington after a four days' visit: in Chicago/: so impressed with what he had seen, of an Amer ican election that he could scarcely talk of anything else, and of what an ex cellent thing it would be if Great Brit tain also could have a . general election "all on the same day." . "I'll never be satisfied until we con duct our election all ton the same day, as you do in the United States," Mr. Morley said. "It's a needed reform. There will be - traditions "to overcome, but I am hopeful of bringing about the desired reform. - "I was impressed, too, with the good nature of the losing side. There seem ed to be absolutely no ill feeling.": ■_ ; Mr.^Morley will return to England with : a large bundle of election mat-, ter, ; including \ samples of ballots and instructions to : voters. •. Will Decorate -Morgan ■ Special Cable to The Globe - ROME, Nov. 10.—On the proposal of the Italian minister of foreign affairs. King Victor has decided to send J. P. Morgan, of New York, Insignia." ;or ■ Knight ;of the Crown of Italy as a tes timonial of the gratitude of the Italian nation for the voluntary : return of the Ascollr'cope to the Italian government. g v :■ - : ■■■■•■ -;• . • . -■ • v .y^-. | THE NEWS INDEXED * — i PAGE ! Close Result in Maryland County Election Returns Muddled • - Conference of Republican State Repre ;. sentatives •*. ■'■ . .> ~" '• Probable Yield of Corn Mediation in Far Eastern War PAGE II —...". v. t Twin City Commercial : Clubs Dine - Hunting Season Opens * ~J.-^S"^. '■ • Institution Contracts Awarded ; - No Picture j for Fire Board ■ ' -?■- v '■:'': PAGE ill Minneapolis Matters . i" '.v :* Hennepin Swells Johnson's Plurality PAGE IV Editorial; Comment:^ .<-','. a» vJ. ?•,}"" *~< PAGE V In the Sporting World -. PAGE VI News of . the Northwest PAGE VII Of Interest to Women PAGE VIH >News of the Railroads - '..'**-. :-,* ' I Popular Wants PAGE IX • Financial and Commercial ' PAGE X Stop Illegal Voters The J Globe j[l si Praised -" j_"^i=^ - f c Union Franchise > Recommended "s : Politicians Assort Offices - ~-"." -'X W 111 WIH 111 II IT II #1111 ■ 111 ■ ITiif I T r^r~.^- :-.-* .* .J J« -*?>"^*^ FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 11, 1904—TEN PAGES LEADERS OF THE TWO PARTIES INDORSE THE ST. PAUL GLOBE F. C. STEVENS, Congressman Th c Globe made a good fight and is largely responsible for the election of Johnson. I am frank to say that there was no abuse or vil lification of Mr. Dunn in The Globe. It took smart advantage of the news as it transpired, but I saw no sign of personal abuse. It would not be too much to say that no better newspaper campaign has been made in this state in years than was made by The Globe tn the governorship contest, and, al though I regret the result, I do con gratulate The Globe on the fight it made. —F. C. Stevens. COMBINATION PICKS N. F. HUGO FOR SPEAKERSHIP OF THE HOUSE Representative From Duluth Meets With W, B. Anderson of Winona and W. A. INolan of Mower, and Later Announces That He Is Confident of Success- Caucuses Are Called In the First and Fourth Congressional Districts—Claque Is Conceded but 28 Votes A conference last night of four Repub lican members-elect o/ the Minnesota house of representatives, including two members who have been regarded as candidates for the speakership, is sig nificant. The further fact that N. F. Hugo, of Duluth. by many regarded as the lead ing candidate for the speakership, met with the four, is still more significant. The meeting, which was held at the Merchants hotel, it is said, will be fol lowed by a caucus of the Republican members of the First congressional district early .next week, and it is more than probable that the district will de clare for Hugo for speaker. It is also said that the Fourth con gressional district members will caucus either Saturday or Monday, and indi cations are that the members from this district will express a preference for the Duluth man. The Eighth congressional district members, eleven in number, are al ready claimed solidly by Hugo, as they are in his own congressional district. Mr. Hugo was last night serenely confident of his success. He refused to discount his own chances and was willing to concede not more than twen ty-eight votes to Frank Claque, of Redwood county, who is without doubt his principal competitor for the honor. The Duluth man insisted that stories printed of a combination by which cv- Mutual Satisfaction FRANK A. DAY Manager Johnson Campaign it would be difficult to overesti mate the value of the services of Th« Globe in the recerrt cam paign. It was aggressive. It made no mistakes. It had th« faculty to present the facts in a terse, vigor our style, so they quickly caught the eye of the voter. The Globe furnished the keynote of the cam paign for tens of thousands of loyal supporters of Mr. Johnson through out the state. Its columns were free from offensive personalities, and it has every reason to have a warm spot in tho heart of every Democrat in Minnesota.—Prank A. Day. cry man who had been considered a candidate for speaker, except Claque, was to be given a good committee chairmanship, and in which he was to be speaker, were withJoi foundation. He said be was assured of the speak ership simply because he had the neces sary fifty-five votes irt siglit. Present *t Conference In the conference, hejfl In one of the parlors of the Mercharfts hotel last night, were W. A. Nolan, of Mower county, who has himself been, an ac tive candidate for speaker; W. B. An derson, of Winona, who refused to be come a candidate until assured of his election as a member, but who has all along been considered a candidate; Edward Fanning, of Olmstejl, who has been one of Mr. Nolan's backers, and J. L. Morley, of Steele, another Nolan adherent. Mr. Hugo, was called into the conference late in the evening and did not emerge from the room until a late hour, when he left immediately, for Michigan. Following the adjournment of the ' conference members declined to admit that any decisive action was taken, but it was said that the result of the conference would be that a meeting of the Republican members of the house from the First district woqld be held at Winona early next week, and that it is more than probable tha{ the four- {Mutual Satisfaction •*• jsffpSg-'^^^;*'*'' "■> c By' \ JAMES A. MARTIN Manager of Dunn Campaign In fairness, I must say that I consider The Globe did most ef fective work for its candidates in the state campaign. The paper made the most of the rumors re lating to the Republican campaign and candidates, and it kept within the lines and did not have to take back anything dur ing the campaign. Much of the value of a newspaper in a political campaign is to provide something for the leaders in the various dis tricts on which to make their argu ments from day to day, and The Globe did this work very well, in deed. The Globe was certainly in the fight up to the last minute.— James A. Martin. teen members from that district will declare their preference for speaker. The Fourth congressional district has twelve Republican members-elect and efforts are now being made to get a caucus of the Republican house mem bers to secure an indorsement of Mr. Hugo. The meeting will be held either Saturday or Monday. Hugo delares the eleven members of his own congressional district are united in his support These three dis tricts, if the contemplated action is taken, will give Mr. Hugo thirty-seven members, and he claims to have per sonal pledges from a sufficient number of members from other congressional districts to give him the number nec essary to a choice. The Duluth delegation had no oppo sition to election and were very active in their support of R. C. Dunn for gov ernor. The Globe during the cam paign said that in the event of Mr. Dunn's election the strength of the ad ministration would be thrown to se cure the speakership for Hugo. This is verified by no less a personage than the Duluth man himself. Mr. Hugo said last night: All Stood by Dunn "In no part of the state did the Re publicans stand by the Republican Conrinued on Third Page PRICE TWO CENTS RVPSfiiT. COUNTY RETURNS ARE BADLY MIXED DISHONEST MESSENGERS FURNISH OWN FIGURES Election Clerks and Judges Notify Party Headquarters That Reports in Papers of City Are Incorrect- City Clerk Will Order Count of Du plicate Official Returns — County Auditor Advances Time for the Canvass of the Votes Grave errors in the returns furnished to the City Press association election night have been discovered, and the canvass of the county - official vote, which will begin tomorrow, may change joy to sorrow in a number of the closer contests. It is now positively known that sev eral of the messengers employed in carrying the returns to the City Press association deliberately filled in the blanks furnished them without waiting for the figures at the election booths. The value of the totals presented to the public by the newspapers of the city will depend entirely upon the hon esty of the main portion of the large corps of messengers at work. The fact that the figures furnished election night were not in any way ac curate was first discovered yesterday when a number of election judges and clerks, noting the reports in the news papers, called at the Democratic and Republican headquarters and reported that serious errors had been made. Their claim was proved when City Clerk Itedington opened several of the duplicate official precinct returns and found radical differences !n the figures furnished by the newspapers and the count turned In by the Judges. Want Official Figures News of the discovery of Inaccurate reports brought forth a general de mand that the offkiul figures be made public as soon as possible, the candi dates joining with persons who had bet money on the results. A promise was ultimately secured from County Au ditor Krahmer that the official count will begin tomorrow, and it !s likely that the duplicates of the returns filed with the city clerk will be opened to day and tabulated. City Clerk Redington expects to to day receive permission to open all the duplicate returns in his office, and if this is done the doubt will be settled, and it will be possible to give accurate information as to the outcome. This HE BECOMES LENIENT Kaiser Will Pardon Those Guil ty of Lese Majeste BERLIN, Nov. 10. —It is announced that Emperor William has decided hereafter to use the pardoning power liberally in cases of lese majeste. This is a radical departure from the previous practice. It had heretofore been prac tically unknown for the emperor to pardon a person convicted of this of fense. It is said now he intends to pardon almost without exception when the offender is shown to belong to the uneducated class, or to be incapable of weighing the consequences of a hasty word. Offenses committed during dis cussions, or while in an excited con dition, will constitute a basis for a pardon. The emperor has directed the min ister of justice to deal liberally with all persona convicted of an insult to his majesty who petition for pardon and show penitence. 'It la expected that the new practice will greatly re duce the number who will serve out sentences for the offense, since the im pression Is general that many slight offenders have been convicted every year through overofflctous state's at torneys and judges. Baldwin Suspends Operations ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Nov. 10.—Capt. T. S. Baldwin, inventor of the only aerial craft that has accomplished anything of importance at the exposition, has packed the dirigible California Arrow for shipment to San Francisco, and left the world's fair grounds himself. He was accompanied by his brother, Samuel Baldwin, of Quiney, 111., who has been associated with him in his aeronautic enterprise. Baldwin's de parture followed a conference with H. F. McGarvie, manager of special ex ploitations for the world's fair. Mr. Baldwin said: "There is no friction whatever be tween the world's fair management and myself. I have filled ray part of the contract with the exposition peo ple and am satisfied with the observ ance of their part of it. I am anxious to get home and make some improve ments on the machine whirh I find are necessary, but have decided to stay and observe the flights of the other air ships scheduled to go up before the close oL the^exposition." READ THE GLOBE THE ONLY LIVE NEWSPAPER IN ST. PAUL will necessitate going over the returns of the 116 precincts in the city and 4 seven in the county, taking from the \ sheets the returns of the judges on the \ vote for', the various offices and the] compilation of an entirely new set of { figures. Until this is done all fore-1 casts will be idle guesswork, except J in so far as the precincts opened iI«M dicate an increase of the vote for some [ of the candidates. It is possible that a great majority \ of the returns are correct, although it will be noticed by a comparison of the ! vote on the party candidates for some! offices as compared with another, that: the independent voting, if carried on to ■ the extent indicated by the press re- ! turns, was surprisingly large. In many ; instances they may have been correct- i ly reported, but in others it Is possible that the messengers made incorrect re- I turns. If half a dozen cases similar to some of the returns opened yesterday | are discovered it wouid be easily pos- \ sible to change the result in several of the close contests. Most remarkable of-the errors dis- j covered in the returns opened was that, J while press reports showed that Miesen • »-eceived 55 votes as compared with 175 for Justus in the Fourteenth pre cinct of the Fifth ward, the official re- J turns show that Miesen received 108 votes to 81 for Justus. This shows that in this precinct Miesen gained 43 J votes and Justus lost 94. In the Fourth • precinct of the Eighth ward Miesen j gained 110 votes and Justus gained 84, i and in the Eleventh precinct of the * Sixth ward Miesen gained 61 votes and ' Justus 26. This showed a gain, for < Miesen of 214 in total and 16 for Jus- ■ tus. If the remainder of the figures should prove to be correct, as reported to the press, the result would be: Miesen 14,003 * Justus 13,782 ; Miesen's majority 221 But in the face of the discoveries Continued on Third Page CORN YiELD WILL : BEJRODIGK Department of Agriculture Places It at 2,453,000,000 Bushels WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 10.— Preliminary returns to the chief of the bureau of statistics of the department , of agriculture on the production of corn in 1904 indicate a total yield of about 2,453,000,000 bushels, or an ay- ' erage of 26.7 bushels per acre, as compared with an average yield of 25.5 j bushels per acre as finally estimated ! in 1903, 26.8 bushels in 1902, and a ten- j year average of 24.2 bushels. The gen- ' eral average as to quality is 86.2 per cent, as- compared with 83.1 last year, 80.7 in 1902 and 73.7 in 1901. It is estimated that about 4.6 per cent of the corn crop of 1903 was etill in the hands of farmers on Nov. 1, 1904, i as compared with 5.2 per cent of the \ crop of 1902 in farmers' hands on Nov. i 1, 1903; 1.9 per cent of the crop of 1901 } In farmers' hands on Nov. 1, 1902, and | 4.6 per cent of the crop of 1900 in farmers' hands on Nov. 1, 1901. The.preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre of buckwheat is 18.9 bushels, against an average yield of 17.7 bushels in 1903, 18.1 bushels in. 1902, and a ten-year average of 17.9 ■ bushels. The average for quality la | 91.5 per cent, against 91.4 last year, ; 88.1 in 1902 and 93.3 in 1901. The preliminary estimate of the ay- j erage yield per acre of flaxseed is 10.2 bushels, as compared with a final esti mate of 8.4 bushels per acre in 1903 j and 7.S bushels in 1902. The average as to quality is 92 per cent, as com pared with 84.9 one year ago. The preliminary estimate of the av erage yield per acre of potatoes is 110.4 bushels, against an average yield of 84.7 in 1903. 96 bushels in 1902, and a ten-year average of 81 bushels. The average as to quality is 93.4 per cent, as compared with 86.4 per cent one year ago, 90 in 1902 and 78.4 in 1901. ' The preliminary estimate of the ay- . erage yield per acre of hay is 1.52 tons, against an average yield of 1.54 tons in 1903, 1.50 tons In 1902, and a" ten year average of 1.35 tons. The average as to quality is 92.7 per cent, against 91.3 one year ago, 85.7 In 1902 and 91.3 ft 1901.