St. Paul Daily Globe

The "Tribune" Admits It at Last.
New York, Nov. 16.-The Tribune says to-day: "The official count is so nearly over that there can no longer be a doubt about the result. Gov. Cleveland is elected president by a plurality of a little over 1,100 in a vote of nearly 1,200,000 in this state. On the morning after election we believed there was a plurality a few hundred less than this on the other side and were subsequently confirmed in that belief by confident statements received by the commissioners as to errors and worse in the counts in Albany, Ulster, Sullivan, New York, Kings and other counties. The Albany fraud proved to effect only a county office, where it reversed the result, and in the other cases the boards of canvassers have made only small reductions. In this city an exaggerated idea of the number of defective ballots improperly rejected seems to have been adopted because of the occasional report of the "thirty-six defective" when the inspectors really meant "one defective with thirty-six names on it." Elsewhere many think Butler votes were counted for Cleveland, but with the ballots destroyed the canvass did not establish it. Until the New York and Brooklyn figures were developed we thought there was reason to believe that the plurality would not go above 500 either way. Though over double that, it is still a very small vote, on which such momentous consequences hang. We profoundly regret the result, but it is the duty of every good citizen to accept it and to give to the president elect the respect the office demands."