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THE WILM tN GTON MESSENGER, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1900. r KENTUCKY AND NEBRASKA ELECTION RETURNS FROM THESE STATES NOT YET ALL RECEIVED BOTH SIDES STILL CLAIM THEM In Kentucky Indications Point to Dem oc ratio Success Republicans Charg lnc Fraud Election Held Under Goe bel Law In Nebraska Republicans Reduce Their Estimates Election Very Close The Legislature Almost Evenly Divided The State Probably Democratic. New York, November 8. As a, result of messages received at republican na tional headquarters today by N. B. Bcott from doubtful points, Mr. Man ley pave out the following statement: "Full returns today leave the situa tion as it wa3 yesterday. We have won by 308 electoral votes. We have carried every northern state, but Colo rado, Nevada and Montana, with ten Votes. We have carried Kentucky, Maryland. Delaware and West Vir ginia. As we predicted during the en-jtiT- campaign, they are attempting to mcKy unuer tne power or me uaeoei law. If they succeed we shall have 295 electoral votes. Our candidate for gov ernor wires that we have carried Ken tucky for the electoral , ticket and elected him by over 7,000 majority. The time has come when the Amerk-ui . pie ought to insist at whatever cost that the votes shall be counted as they were honestly cast." Senator Scott, in answer to telegrams inquiring as to the result in Nebraska, received the following dispatch from 11 Rose water, member of the national advisory committee, who is a candidate for the United States senatorship from Nebraska: "Returns from rural districts are In complete, but there is no doubt what ever that McKinley carries Nebraska by not less than 3.000. The governor ship u close, but the prospects favor republicans. Roth houses of legisla ture will be republican by small ma jority. Frankfort. Ky.. November $. Gov ernor Reckham returned to the state capital today. He says his plurality will not be under 5.000. Tho state elec tion commission will meet week after next to canvass the returns. Returns from the rural districts are unusually slow in coming. It is evident now that both sides will continue to claim the state until after the official count is made and then there likelv will be a contest for governor to be settled in the courts. Louisville, Ky.. November S. Leslie Combs, chairman of the republican state campaign committee, said this af ternoon: "Under any fair .election law, Mc Kinley and Yerkes would have carried the state by 8.000 or 10.000 majority. The republican vote has been whittled in most places by petty larceny, and in a number of places by highway rob bery. Nothing but the official count will settle the election and the official count is made under the Goebel law by commissioners from whom the repub lican party has no reasonable grounds to expect fair treatment.' Democratic leaders here say the Kentucky election as far as -the gov ernor is concerned, cannot, under a United States supreme court decision be taken into the courts. They say that as the election was held under the old election law the returning board. which is democratic, must finally pass n all contests, questionable ballots, etc The new election law doesnot become effective until the next election. Hence the democratic leaders assert that on the face of the returns even allowing every claim the republicans make as to the Eleventh district, their stronghold, Beckham is elected, with upward of 4. 000 votes to spare. Louisville. Ky., November 8. With returns from all but 30 out of 1.SS4 pre cincts in Kentucky, The Courier Jour nal puts Bryan's majority at 8,000 and Beckham's at 5,000. The missing pre eincts have been taken into account in this result. The republicans now clam that majorities will be shown for Mc Kinley and Yerkes when the returning board canvasses the vote at Frankfort, which it will do three weeks from elec tion day. The returning board Is dem ocratic and the legislature is also dem ocratic. Ex-Governor James B. Mc- Creary. who managed the democratic campaign, tonight closed the head quarters and will tomorrow return to his home at Richmond. He said to night that he had heard from Cam paign chairmen in every county in the state and that, allowing all the repub lican claims in the Eleventh district, he placed the majorities of Bryan and Beckham respectively at 8,000 and 5,000. The Louisville Commercial (repub lican) will tomorrow say the election is "very close." It will not concede the defeat of Yerkes and the McKinley electors and will say that the official count only can determine the result. Louisville, November 7. Chairman Combs, of the republican state cam paign committee was quoted today as follows: "While we have not the figures thor oughly compiled yet we are certain that Mr. Yerkes carried Kentucky by a small, though safe majority. "The result is very close. I think that it will probably require the official count to determine how the state goes. When I left headquarters Yerkes had a small plurality, with seventeen coun ties still to be heard from. I am inform ed that over 3,000 ballots were not counted by Goebel election officers throughout the state, on account of trivial technicalities. We have discov ered that not only have systematic frauds been practiced all over the stale, but In some counties, there was whole sale exclusion of voters from the polls. In Fayette county, for instance, in two precincts 500 voters were kept from voting. In Breathitt 600 persons were kept from voting. Challengers and in spectors were also excluded from the booths. In numbers of counties the re turns were padded by the democrats, notably in Franklin and Owen coun ties." NEBRASKA. Omaha, Neb..' November 8. The Evening- Bee prints a table on the na tional ticket giving complete returns from fifty-five counties, with one pre cfinct missine from oarh out of a 'total of ninety counties, -riving McKinley 90.Z2X: nryian so.iyt. The same coun ties 1n gave McKinley 85,476; Bryan This is a net train fnr "M "Kin- ley of 14,803. Bryan's plurality in 1896 was 13.600. With this ratio of Increase thrrwie'hmit the misslnr counties M- Kioley will have a plurality of about 5.000 in the state. There were 12,000 to 15,000 more' votes polled in the statr than In 1896 and the fusionists claim these are mostly from cities and towns which have already been heard from, and that the counties yet unreported will give Bryan a plurality in the state. The state ticket Is running close to the vote on president and It may re quire the official count to decide on the governor and other state officers. Both sides claim fouiflput of the six congress men. The legislature is closer than any other ticket. The . Douglas county delegation will be split fibout in half between fusionists and republicans. The latest returns indicate that neither side will have more than five or six ma jority on Joint ballot. Chicago. November 8. A telegram was received at democratic national headquarters today from William J. Bryan, stating that the democratic na tional ticket carried Nebraska by a majority of 2.000 and the state ticket by 4.000, and that the next legislaiur. will be democratic. Omaha, Neb., November 8. Complete returns from two-thirds of the coun ties In Nebraska and scattering returns from the balance show McKinley has carried Nebraska by a plurality of at least 2,000. An equal number of returns on the state ticket indicate that Ne braska has re-elected Governor Poyn ter and the entire state ticket by plu ralities ranging from 500 to 1,800 over the republicans, the governor being the high man. If the balance of the state shall show the same percentage of gain and loss, Poynter's election is certain and the counties to be heard from being mostly in the western part of the state, it is fair to presume that this is the case. The legislature will likely be decided by Douglas county, in which it will take the official count to determine the vote. The Wor!d-Herald, (d?mocrat,) claims the lieutenant governor will cast the deciding vote in the upper house and that the lower house is evidenly divid ed, with two places in doubt. The state ' republican committee, which last night gave out the claim that Deitrich and the republican state ticket had won by from 5.000 to 7,000 majority, this afternoon scaled down "close to the danger line" and claimed the election of the state ticket by from 1.000 to 2.000. In Douglas county the count is close and charges of fraud are made by the democrats. The republi cans claim to have elected one out of three senators and 'six out of nine rep resentatives, while the democrats claim two senators and all the representatives. THIS TRIAL OF C. L. ALVORD Before a United States Commlsslsner Han Becrun. New York, November 8. Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., the former note teller of the First national bank, who Is accused of embezzling $690,000 of the bank's funds, was arranged before United States Commissoner Shields in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court today. He was represent ed by Jacob F. Miller. United States District Attorney Henry L. Burnett and his assistant, Ernest E. Baldwin, appeared for the government. The ex amination was conducted by Mr. Bald win. The first witness was "Whiting E. Snow, assistant cashier of the First national bank. Mr. Snow said he had known Alvord tweny years, the past ten of which sie had been the note tell er in the First national bank, ire ex plained in detail the duties of the note teller and the bank's clearing house transactions. He explained the balance sheets which showed a shortage of J690.0O0 in Alvord's department. The figures showed that the shortage varied, and that, from October 10th to 13th it was $500,000. "You know that Alvord's accounts were made up from statements handed him by other persons in, the bank?" asked Mr. Miller. "Yes, sir. partly," answered. Mr. Snow. "Mr. AlVord was supposed to take these statements of other employees as correct?" "Yes." Mr. Miller then led Mr. Snow to ad mit that since the latter first became an officer of the bank two years ago he had never known .the officers of the bank to examine the assets of the insti tut'fon. Cashier William Reed, of the First national bank, was the next witness. He said the last time the bank had an examination was on October 15th. He had no personal knowledge of any re port of that examination. Morton V. Moore, settling clerk for the bank, identified a column of figures on a sheet that was prepared for and sent to the clearing house as havlna been made by himself. He explained the details of making up the sheets for the clearing house. Then, one by one. he Identified the sheets made up for the banking days of October. Mr. Moore testified that two figures In tht sheet made up for October 15th had been changed. The figures as they stood were not his. He did not know who had made the changes. It was brought out that the sheet had been In the possession of Alvord after it had been made up by Moore. Adjournment was then taken till 2 p. m. tomorrow. FREE SILVER DEAD. Henry Watterson Says If Not Killed in 1800, It is PendNow. Jacksonville, Fla.. November 8. Hon. Henry Watterson. editor of the Louis ville Courier-Journal wires the Times- Union and Citizen the following state ment: "With the elimination of the money issue there ought to be no further fac tional division among the democrats. If free silver was not dead before, as suredly it is dead now. beyond the hope of resurrection and redemption, having done harm enough to discredit it for ever, even among its most zealous ad herents. There will continue to be two great opposing political organizations. Defeated today the democrats may win tomorrow. They will find issues aris ing out of the nature of public affairs, and evolved by the course of events. Leaders suited to these will, in good time and season, arrive upon the scene. It is too early to particularize. Suffice to say. that there will always be a par ty of strict construction, as against a party of loose construction, and that. readjusted to the more conservative re quirements of the country, the demo cratic party will reappear as the con tending force In ithe public life of the people." It Saved His Leg. F. iA- Danforth. nf La.flr&ne'e. Ga.. miffrd intenselv fnr ei-r itinntha with a frightful running ore on his leg. but writes that .Buckiens Arnica sarve wholly cured it in "ben daya For Ul cers. Wounds. Burns. Boils. Pain or Piles it's the best salve In the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c Sold by R. R. Bellamy, Druggist. s FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY OPINIONS OF LEADING DEMOCRATS ON ITS FUTURE COURSE MUST ABANDON DEAD ISSUES Vilas Says Let the Party Tarn From Its Folly and Live Hoke Smith Op poses Movement by a Few to Reor sranlze Boles Says Drop Slxteen-to-One Carlisle Says Free Itself From Demoralizing: Alliances Morgan Says the Party Needs Fidelity to Its Creed. New Orleans. November 8. The New Orleans Picayune sent telegraphic re quests to many leading democrats In various sections of the country asking expressions with reference to the future of the democratic party. The following are extracts from some of the replies: Hoke Smith. Atlanta. Ga., says: "I doubt the advisability of a distinct movement by a few men with the pur pose of reorganization. A party which .can poll the enormous vote that the democratic party has recently polled is far from being a dead party. More con servative councils will prevail in fu ture democratic conventions and with a pronounced sound money platform in 1504 and with a man against whom no factional fight can be made there is every reason to believe the party will triumph." Horace Boies, of Iowa, says: "My belief is we should drop 16 to 1. Let the money question rest while condi tions remain as at present, organize democratic club3 in every voting pre cinct to send delegates to the county, from county to state and from state to national conventions of delegates to meet periodically and formulate a plat form for the party. This should be on principles enunciated in our declara tion of independence. Insist on a strict construction of the sole source of legislative power in congress, no sub jugation of unwilling people by force; expansion in everything that pertains to peace: contraction in everything that pertains to unnecessary war; one form of government for all. one flag, one people with equal rights to all and a special privilege to none." William F. Vilas. Wisconsin, said: You cannot wisely operate on a pa tient in utter collapse. When natural revival ensues, if party conscience comes back with returning vitality, the way to democratic victory is as plain as the path of honesty and fidelity. Let democracy turn from its folly and live." John G. Carlisle. New York, says: "In order to achieve success or to be come beneficial to the country as an op position party, the democracy must abandon all dead issues, tree itself from all demoralizing alliance and return to the true DrinciDles. and Dolicies of the party. The new questions precipitated upon the country by the conduct of thr present administration and tne declar ations of its supporters must be met in a broad spirit of justice and sincere respect for the mandates of the consti tution and the liberal principles upon which our institutions are founded. We have drifted into a situation which makes the correct solution bf these questions exceedingly difficult, and the party should give' them a most careful consideration in all their aspects before committing itself to any specific plan of adjustment. Upon the general prin ciples Involved there will be little dif ference of opinions, but the measures to be adopted in order to extricate the country from its present unfortunate position cannot be hastily formulated. What plan shall be proposed for the reorganization of the party in order that its real strength may be effective ly exerted is a question which it seems to me ought to be considered and de cided by a conference composed of con servative democrats .representing bath elements of the party as it has exist ed during the last four years. All are equally Interested In the success of the party on a sound and patriotic platform of principles, and, therefore, all should be consulted both as to the plan of re organization and policies to be an nounced." Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, eays: 'TThe democratic party needs no reconstruction. It needs fidelity to its creed, which has stood for 100 years. At present it demands the payment of the national debt and a return to the 'specie basis for banking. It demands the restoration to the states of the ex clusive right to determine the qualifi cation of voters. It demands that all federal taxation shall be equal and uni form In places within the limits of the United States. It demands the sup pression of trusts, especially the cor poratlons, in respect of all articles of commerce that are subjects of inter state and foreign commerce. If de mocracy adheres to these demandsNOur present defeat will b only temporary.' CUHA.X NATIONAL CONVENTION Question of Holding Secret Sessions. Three Important Questions Havana, November 8. The commit tee on rules of the Cuban constitution al convention is discussing the advis ability of holding secret sessions after the .permanent organization has been affected, which will probably take place at the re-opening of the convention next. Monday. Senores Capote, Tamayo and Rivera are the most prominent candidates for the presidency of the convention. La Lucha says: "The difficulty will not be In drawing up a constitution, but in reaching an agreement as to the re ralitions which are to exist between Cuba and the United States. We take it that the convention will insist upon three fundamental points no relations with other governments except the United States, no power to negotiate loans, and no authority to upset peace and order. Try Alien's Foot-Ease. A powder to be shaken into the shoes. Your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Al len's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures swollen sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c Trial package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy. N. Y. - Jatt-t Tvrach- the last survivor of the ' crew of the Alabama, dies In Atlanta. THE STATE ELECTION The Official Votes of Several Counties. The Democratic State Committee to Meet. (Special to the Messenger.) Clinton. N. C, November 8. Sampson county is strongly republican, as the following vote will show. Nearly all the former populists voted the straight republican ticket. Following is the offi cial vote of Sampson county: Fowler's majority over Thomas (democrat) L 189; for McKinley 2.002; for Bryan 1,237; middle-of-the-road 103. Simmons re ceived 1,041 votes. Carr 96. Wilson, N. C. November 8. In Wil son county for senator Simmons -received 1,303, Carr, 1.140. Wilson county gave Carr his strongest vote In the east. For president Bryan received 2, 816, McKinley 1,154. For congress, Claude Kitchin received 2,857. Martin 1.170. The vote In the town for senator was a tie, Simmons carrying the first precinct by 2$ and Carr the second by 26. Only one precinct in the county went against Kitchin. whose majority exceeds Aycock's by 275 and the amend ment by 191. Goidsboro, N. C. November 8. The official vote of Wayne county is as fol lows: Simmons 2.4S5. Carr 4S5; Claude Kitchin 3.185. Martin 2.076, Kendall, (prohibition) 4; Bryan electors 3,104, McKinley electors 1,365. prohibition 37. Raleigh, November 8. Official can vass of Wake's vote Is : Bryan 4,774, McKinley 3,947; E. W. Pou, for con gress, 5.056. J. A. Giles 3,792, J. A. Jen kins 135; Simmons 2,544, Carr 2,385. Eight hundred less democratic Votes were cast than in August and 437 dem ocrats did not vote for Bryan who voted for Pou. Chairman Simmons calls a meeting of the democratic executive committee In the senate chamber at 8:30 o'clock, No vember 20th. It is to be an Important meeting and the full attendance is par ticularly desired. , Secretary Pearsall, of the committee, who has done such admirable and faith ful work in this year's two campaigns, leaves tomorrow for New Bern. He will carry with him the sincere esteem and appreciation of all the democrats here as a gentleman and as a jpoliti cian. Governor Russell's thanksgiving pro clamation was issued today. TIIE ALAMANCE LOCK-OUT Cotton Mill Operatives Vacating Com pany's nouses. (Special to the Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C. November 8. A cot ton mill owner who came here today from Alamance county says the union ex-employes there are moving out of the mill companies houses. The latter named tomorrow as the date by which they must vacate and the sheriff has the papers. TWO BODIES FOUND In the Ruins of the Tarrant Building. One That, of Moorehouse New York, November 8. Two bodies were taken from the iuins of the Tar rant building today. The first was that of Hamilton Matthews, a driver for Tarrant & Co. The remains were shockingly mutilated. Later, the diggers in the ruins came across another body. This proved to be that of Benjamin Moorehouse, the missing shipping and stock clerk of the company. JYioorehouse was 51 years old and had been missing since the day of the explosion. With him in all prob ability died also all possibility of ex plaining the fire horror. It wras Moore house who had charge of the storage book of the big drug firm in which was a list of all the explosives stored in the building- No trace of this book was found. A FORMIDABLE BATTLESHIP Japanese Ship Mlkasa Just Launched In England. London, November 8. The Japanese battleship Mikasa, said to be the most formidable vessel of its kind in the wcrld, was launched today at the Vick ers-Maxim works at Barrow. The Mikasa is of 15,200 tona displace ment. She Is 400 feet long, 76 feet wide and 7 feet 3 inches deep. She -ias two propelleis and has a indicated horse power of 15,000. She has an armor belt of 12 to 4 inches, and the armor on her gun positions is 14 to 6 incn ;s thick, while the deck plating is 2 inches thick. The armament bf the Mikasa consists of four 12-inch guns, fourteen 6-Inch quick-firing guns, twenty 12- pounders, eight 3-pounders and four 2 pounders. She has four submerged torpedo tubes. The battleship has a speed (estimated) of 18 knots, and her normal coal supply Is 1,400 tons. She carries a crew of 730 men. STREET CAR LINES TIED UP Company Officials Refuse to Allow Motor-Men to Use Stools Pensacola, Fla., November 8. No e led trie cars have been on any of the lines here since 11 o'clock this morning, the motormen and conductors having gone out on a Htrike. Some time ago, on the statement of physicians that the long hours of stand ing were injurious to the health of motormen, the company permitted them to use stools. The new rules prohibit the use of these stools. The men de manded their stools' back, but the com pany refused to accede to ithem, "hence the strike." The strikers' are supported by district- assembly Knights of Labor and they have applied to all labor union not to patronize the cars should the company attempt to run them with non-union men. Perfect Health. Keep the system in perfect or der by the occasional use of Tutt s Liver Pills. Tney reg ulate the bowels and produce A Vigorous Body. For sick headache, malaria, bil iousness, constipation and kin dred diseases, an absolute cure TUTTS Liver PIUJS STATEMENT BY BRYAN AS TO CAUSES Of THE RESULTS OH THE RECENT ELECTION A SURPRISE TO BOTH PARTIES Impossible to Analyse thr Jletnrnsi Until They Are More Complete The Cry of "Prosperity" and 4 'Stand by the President Until te War Is Over He Thinks, the Most Potent Appeals of Repnbllesns-nis Future Plan J Not Yet Settled Lincoln. Neb.. November S. William Jennings Bryan tonight gave out theJ following statement concerning the election: "The result was a surprise to me and the magnitude of the republican vic tory was a surprise to our opponents as w ;ii as to anose wno voted our ticket. It is impossible to analyze the returns unUl they are more complete. put, speaking generally, we seem to have gained in the larger cities and to! have lost in the smaller cities and in the country. "The republicans were able to secure tickets or passes for all their voters who were away from home, and this gave them considerable advantage. We have no way of knowing at this time how much money was spent in the pur chase of votes and in colonization; but while these would account for some of the republican gains, they could no account for the widespread increase in the republican vote. The prosperity argument was probably the most po tent one used by the republicans. They compared present conditions with tht panic times of 1893 to 1S96. and this ar gument had weight with those who did not stop to consider the reason for the change. The appeal, 'stand by the president while the war is on, had a great deal of influence among those did not realize that a war against a doc trine of self-government in the Philip pines must react upon us in this coun try. We made an honest fight upon an honest platform, and. having done our duty as we saw it. we have nothing to regret. ! "We are defeated, but not dlscour agea. Tne ngnt must go on. I am sure that republican policies will be re pudiated by the people when the ten dency of these policies are fully under stood. The contest between plutocracy and democracy cannot end until one or the other is completely triumphant." Concerning himself Mr. Bryan said "I have come out of the campaign with perfect health and a clear con science. I did my most to bring1 suc cess to the principles lor which I stood. Mr. Stevenson did all that he could; Senator Jones and the members of the democratic, populist, silver republican and anti-imperialist committees did all they could. Mr. Hearst and his asso ciates in the club organization put forth their best efforts. Our newspapers our campaign speakers and our local organizations all did their part. I have no fault to find and no reproaches, shall continue to take an active Inter est in politics as long as I live. I be lieve it is the duty of citizens to do so and in addition to my interest as a citizen I feel that it will require a life time of work to repay the political friends who have done so much for me I shall not be a senatorial candidate before the legislature which has been elected. Senator AU?n deserves the senatorship which goes to the populists Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. W. H. Thomp son are avowed candidates for the sen atorship. They both deserve well of the party and I am too grateful to them for past support to stand In their way if I desired a seat in the senate." Mr. Bryan said he has no other plans at present than to remain at home un til he had recovered from the fatigue of campaigning. He denied the report that he would remove from Nebraska and make Texas his home. FRANCHISES IN CUBA A Company Formed to Establish Rail ways, Electric Plants, Etc. Philadelphia, November 8. Following a meeting of New York, Philadelphia and Canadian capitalists in this city last night. Sir William C. VanHorn, chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Pacific railroad, and his son, R. B. VanHorn,' of Montreal, sail ed from here today on the steamer Ad miral Sampson for Santiago, where they will make an effort to secure op tions on all horse and trolley lines In Cuba and also on all sugar planta tions in the island. The departure of the two men was the result of the per manent organizatoin at last night's meeting' of the Cuba company with a capital of J20.000.000. Sir Will ami pre sided at the meeting and the others present, besides his son, were William L. EJklns and Thomas Dolan. of this city; R. A. Smith, president of the Cuban Mail Steamship Company, and Dr. T. W. Sheppard and M. L. Evans, of Montreal. The purpose of the company. It Is announced. Is to secure control of al electric light and trolleys franchises In Cuba and to establish plants and eys terns in every city. The purpose, It Is said, will not be confined to the contro of these franchises alone, but will ul timately take In steam roads and also sugar plantations. The entire capita stock of the company, it Is said by those interested, has been subscribed. BRYAN AND THE SENATORSHIP He "Would Not Accept the Office ill Tendered Him. New York, November 8. The Even ing Journal prints the following- tele gram from W. J. Bryan: "Lincoln, Neb.. November 8. 1900. "To The Editor of The Evening Jour nal: - "You may say officially that under no circumstances would I accept the office of United States senator, even were it tendered me. I made my fight for the presidency and I lost. I am not going to take other men's positions from them. "WILLIAM J. BRYAN." Grvlntc Away s Secret "You'd better eat it slow." said John ny to the clergyman, who was dining with the family. "Mamma never gives more'n one piece of pte." Chicago Tribune. - CONGRATULATION! TO M'KINLET Received by the Thousand -Ho Leaves Canton for Washington. Canton. O- November 7. President McKinley was up early today and was soon the recipient of congratulatory telegrams by the thousand. The pres ident breakfasted at 8 o'clock with Mrs. McKinley and Secretary Cortelyou and then glanced over the morning pa pers and listened to the dispatches. They came from all quarters, many being cablegrams from ambassadors, and ministers abroad. Secretary Hay, Secretary Root and in fact all the members of the cabinet had been heard from. Following are the messages exchang ed by the president and Vice President elect Roosevelt: "Oyster Bay. N. Y.. November 7. -President McKinley, Canton. O.: "I congratulate you and I congratu late far more the nation. I feel the most heartfelt gratitude over the re sult. "THEODORE ROOOSKVESLT." "Canton, O.. November 7. "Hon. Theodore Roosevelt. Oyster Ray, N. Y.: "I heartily appreciate your kind ex pressions and congratulate you upon concluding In health one of the most memorable campaigns In our political history. "WILLIAM MKINLEY." Hundreds of friends called to con gratulate the president for which they received his thanks. He looked ex tremely happy, but his replies avoided any reference to the personal triumph Involved. President McKinley started back to Washington amid the booming of can non and the cheers of his townsmen. He drove with Mrs. McKinley to the depot where Judge Day and many oth er friends were assembled. In defer ence to Mrs. McKinley's wishes there was an avoidance of any noisy demon stration, but on Duber Heights, a mile away 21 guns, a presidential salute, were fired, and to this was added a chorus of the city's bells and steam whistles. The presidential car was lit erally embowered in flowers. Without organization and without formality, the people flocked to the sta tion and as the train pulled out sent up a tremendous round of cheers. As the train left the station it pass ed between columns of workingmen from the shops and factories along the tracks in an almost continuous line for more than a mile. The president stood on the rear platform of his car, bowing and waving his hat in acknowledg ment of the greeUngs until the shops and their employees were out of sight. TIIE NATION CONGRATULATED By Roosevelt on the Results of tho Recent Election New York, November 7. Governor Roosevelfc although he did not retire until after midnight, was up n good season today at his home in Oyster Bay. The governor made this statement, commenting on the republican victory: "I rejoice beyond measure over the way the vote has gone. President Mc Kinley had to face the most serious and complicated problems that have been faced by any president since Lincoln or by any president a generation be fore Lincoln. I do not see how there could have been any material improve ment In the way he has faced and solv ed each of them. It, therefore, seems to me a perfectly fair test of the way our people are willing to back up a man who has done such difficult and all important work for the nation. I think that the supreme capacity for success ful self-government in a nation Is clear ly shown by the struggle through which the nation has Just passed. To have failed to endorse President Mc Kinley would have been a calamity comparable only to a failure to en dorse President Lincoln in 1864. All far sighted and patriotic Americans feel deeply thankful for the way in which the American people as a whole have shown their goods sense and absolute adherence to the cause of honesty and national honor. "Again It should be a matter of the deepest gratification at the way those democrats stood for sound money. They having joined hands with their republican brethren, share the credit for a victory which represents far more than any partisan victory. In this con test for true Americanism the men who believe In It have stood together with out regard to locality or place of birth, without regard to creed or race origin, without regard to occupation or any thing else, excepting the seeds of Amerlcanship, in a way that Is a splen did omen for the future and that starts the nation well on the threshold of a new century." RICHARD CROKER SURPRISED At the Result ot the Election Free Silver Did It New York. November 7. Richard Croker said at the democratic club to day: "I was very much surprised and dis appointed at the way the election turn ed out. I did expeot Mr. Bryan to be elected president of the United States." Asked for the cause of defeat Mr. Croker replied: "I believe that 16 to 1 had a good deal to do with the vote against Mr. Bryan in this state. What the causes were in the southern and western states I do not know. We all know what was the cause In New York state, the money center of the east. However. New York city did very well indeed. If the rest of the country had done as well as New York Bryan would have been elected. Kings. county did very well too. I do not regard the decision of the country as adverse to Mr. Bryan as a man. It was against the principles. He is a magnificent. " representative American. "It is so far ahead and so many things may develop before the mayor alty campaign that I cannot se now how the present election can affect that contest. "I expect to go to Europe as soon as all this fuss and campaign Is over." Presidential Candidate for 1DOI Indianapolis, Ind., November 8. In diana, republican leaders will urge Sen ator Fairbanks for the presidency in 1904- Leading democrats favor reor ganization of the democratic party with ' the retirement of William J. Bryan from the leadership and a different management of the party from that of the past few years. HilL Olney ana Pattlson are suggested as candidates for the presidency four years hence.