The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-20
GOVERNOR ROBINSON SPEAKS.
Tho Cause of the Disaster in Now York.
1,tcrricv w;M The Ne,c York World.


Tho Cause OF the Disaster in Now York.
Intcrric,y ,rith Mc Ne,U York World.
"There was never candidate who ran
with so many influences against him
who came so near being elected. If yon
want to know what l consider the first
cause of the defeat of the party in this
election you must 60 back to 1877, when
John Kelly entered into an alliance with
the corrupt Canal Ring in opposition to
the reforms that had been initiated by
the Democratic party. From that time
to the present we have been beaten. Kel-
ly in that year went into the convention
pledged to the interests of that ring, and
he has remained in alliance with them
ever since"
elias 'stalwartism,' the waving of the
bloody shirt as it is called, hurt you in
this canvass?"
eyes," replied the Governor; "but
with an air of resignation, "when one is
out in a hard shower he does not mind
few stray drops, come from what quarter
they may; still, there is no denying that
this appeal to the passions of the people
has had its effect in New York as in
other States. 1t is the Republican trump
card, which so far they have never failed
to play with success. This cry of solid
South and the necessity of solid
North to meet it, all we'll informed men,
whose business it is to watch public af-
fairs, know to be the sheerest nonsense;
but the masses of the people loyal to
the very core are easily alarmed by any
appeal tu their patriotism, and there can
be no doubt that many votes have been
secured for Mr.. Cornell by this appeal by
the false assertion that national issue
was involved in this election or in
other words that the Presidential contest
of next year depended upon this result"
"How do you account for Mr.. Kelly's
vote, Governor"
IT presume that one cause which
helped on that vote was the junketing tour
which he made through the State and
the false assertion that he was the regu-
lar nominee, and stood chance of being
elected Gavernor. He never entertained
the slightest hope of such a result him
SELF but he continuously asserted it in
his speeches, and those who were advo-
eating his cause did the same, so that
many people, honest themselves and
slow to suspect his honesty and trickery
in Others, were really deluded into cast
ing their votes for him, WHO, had they
been aware that by so doing they were
assisting to elect a Republican, would
never have done it,"
"Were not your vetoes, Governor, d.
rected against certain special interests,
and did not these combine againstyou in
the late election ?''
GALL" said the Governor, very em-
phatically, "all those without exception
who desired to plunder the public have
been opposing me in the late canvass.
The records of the canvass will show
that conclusively. Since l have been
Governor of this State 1 have vetoed many
bills the object of which, or at any rate
the effect of which, would have been to
take money out of the pockets of the
people unjustly, and of course the pro-
moters of all these wicked schemes have
opposed my reelection. Still, | am
rather proud of such opposition, and can
not regret single veto that 1 have put
forth. As I said at the outset the causes
of my defeat are many and various, and
this doubtless is one of the chief of them.
am neither disheartened nor disap-
pointed at the resIlt. When I accepted
this nomination thought>it not unlikely
might lose the fight, but I did not
shrink from the contest, for I thought l
was in q better position to accept defeat
than almost any other man who could be
nominated"
"What are your plans for the future,
Goverrof"
"To 20 home and attend to my bust
ness, which has been sadly neglected of
late and assure you that l 60 with
great gladness. I don't wish my friends
to think that personally 1 regret the re-
suit of the recent election, for I do not.
On the contrary, so far as my own com.
fort goes, I am rather glad to be relieved
from the troubles and annoyances of Of
fetal life. The only regret that I have
is on account of the party; but if the rest
of the State ticket is elected the party
has not suffered defeat. At any rate
I don't think that this election should be
considered as decisive of the result next
year. There were many different issues,
some of them purely personal, some of
which have mentioned and others of
which I need not speak of, which
largely determined this result, but
which will in all probability be elm
mated from the contest next year. Our
adversaries have, of course, insisted that
the national issues of next year was large
ly dependent on this election; it was
polite for them, as politics go, to do so,
and by this cry and the Haunting of the
"bloody shirt" thew doubtless obtained
votes but had not Mr.. Kelly bolted
from the Syracuse nomination, no sane
man in view of the ascertained result can
doubt that the entire State ticket of the
Democracy would have been elected.
This is proof enough that the fight was
purely local one and confined to State
issues entirely, and / have little doubt
that with q candidate acceptable not to
any section of the party, but to all of the
party, we can carry the State in $780,"
"That leads me to ask, Governor, if
you are in favor of the nomination Of
Mr.. Tilden again for the Presidency"
"That question don't care to answer
Just now. 1t is not the proper time, nor
is my opinion of sufficient Importance
about it to carry any weight. Mr.. Tilden
is warm friend of mine, and if nomina.
ted he would have my support, as would
any other candidate who might be chosen
by the National Convention; but as to
the policy Of nominating Mr.. Tilden l
really have no opinion to express, one
way or the other"
"What do you think of Mr.. Bayard as
candidate?"
"a noble and pure man, without
stain on his escutcheon. 1 only hope, for
his own sake, that he may not be nomi-
mated, for they would abuse him unmerci-
fully. He would not escape calumny,
and his previous record would not avail
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