The Presidential Election.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 109, 5 November 1896, Page 2

The Presidential Election.

GREAT EXCITEMENT. VOTING HEAVIEST KNOWN. MoKINLEY ELECTED. (Per Press Association.) Washington, November 2. Betting on the Presidency is 5 to 1 in favor of Major McKinley. November 4. A great victory for McKinley is expected. Counting is proceeding, and tbe excitement over the election in New York has never been equalled. Fiff.y thousand people swarm round the Herald office watching the results. The voting is said to be the heaviest known. McKinley has carried Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Tennessee, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, lowa, Pensylvania, and Vermont. Gold democrats have, to a large extent, voted for McKinley. Latest. McKinley's agents in St. Louis were mortally wounded. A democrat secret society known as the Whitecaps at Alabama, killed three negros. tome fighting took place at Lexington, otherwise the election was carried on peacefully. Grover Altgeld is dejected. McKinley has carried Bath, where Sewall, silverite, candidate for vicepresidency, resides New York is delighted at the result, and the procession sang " Star spangled banner." The progress returns show that McKinley has received 299. The latest returns give McKinley two hundred and fifty-eight and Bryan one hundred and fifty-three. Bryan carried twelve States receiving ninety one votes, McKinley carried twenty-two States, receiving two hundred andsixty-four votes. London, Nov. 4. The Daily News' correspondent wires that the city is wild with joy, and that since the rebellion was suppressed no thing like a patriotic outburst has been witnessed. Tbe Daily Telegraph considers that tbe universal belief is that the result will mean a boom in cheaper money and a great revival in trade. American stocks have risen from three to live points in London. New York, Nov. 8» The excitement over the election continues, and the New York Exchange is now more confident of the victory of the " sound-money :l policy. Stocks have advanced four points. Sydney, This Day. The Herald and Telegraph have congratulory lenders this morning on the election of McKinley. The Herald says the result shows the friends of social order are a vast and silont majority, and the foes a small and noisy minority. The Telegraph says it is a victory, not so much for this or that policy as against a polic}' of dishonor and disorder.