The Wilmingtonian. (Wilmington, Del.) 1882-188?, 1884-10-25
THE FOURTH OF NOVEMBER
Presidential Hippodroning Distasteful
to the Conservative Citizen.

Next Tuesday week either Blaine or
Cleveland must ascend the funeral pile to
listen to the plaintve dirge of the American
people. Blasted hopes and wrecked ambi-
tion must be the sad lamentation of one Of
these gentlemen, who to-day fills such an
imposing niche in t hearts of his fellow
countrymen. 1t has been said that nothing
succeeds like success and the unfortunate
one in the race will be held largely RESPONSE
bic for the defeat into which his followers
will have been precipitated and their exccra-
tons VIII be both loud and deep.
The result Of the Fourth Of November is
largely conjectnra', yet the unprejndiced
mind mast regard Cleveland $ star as in the
ascerdency, AMI unless st. John and Butler
shall retire before elect on day Cleveland
will have handsome majority in the Elect
oral College. It is unfortunate for Blaine
that st. John and Butler will materially
weaken him in those states where Repub-
lican success would have been assured if
those accidental issues had MT have been
injected into the Presidential canvass.
Kansas, whoseRepub'ieanism is as slaunch
as the granite of Maine has promised her
vote to st. John which will lose to Blaine
her votes, and it will be found on the day of
Rutler in Massachusetts will probably defeat
the Republican electoral ticket of that state.
Democrats have no love for Butler, but their
hunger for power is such that they viii!
readily court an alliance with Butler and
give him the electoral vote of the Bay State
rather than have it go for Blaine, The nine
electoral votes of Kansas and the fourteen of
Massachusetts, which are now trembling in
the Blaine scales will be sadly needed
when the balance sheet is made up,
John Kelly and Tammauy Hall have by
their negative course assured the electora!
vote Of New Yoik for Cleveland John
Kelly had it in his power in the Chicago
| Convention to have given Cleveland fatal
blow, but lie there missed the one opportun-
| ity of his life's hopes. II John Kelly
Immediately had thrown himself upon
Cleveland's neck and had embraced him he
then would have had it in his power to have
compassed his defeat. John Kelly as the
| ayowcd friend Of Cleveland could have trar-
| iicked at pleasure in Democratic votes, but
Jsla. Kelly a. s:z oI'1.s orss-ag e e1e'tclsne
found the Democratic ranks at every Joint
fortified against his rlachinations.
Cleveland, be it said to his lasting renown,
is the marked antthesis of Kelly, and even
had Kelly assumed 10 have given Governor
Cleveland his support, IL would have been
only ostensible, not rcal-it would lave been
to the end that his stab in the back might
have been the more effectual.
1t is generally conceded that Kelly built
|
more wisely for his high-mindel foe than hi
was wont; for by his opposition very
respectable number of Independents were
persuaded to FOLLOW the fortunes Of Goyerno
Cleveland. Throughout the entire State o
New York Republicans openly and unhesi
tatingly asserted that the man whom Johl
Kelly opposed would he a good MAJ
to favor-the man who John Kelly woult
defeat was the man for them to elect. CHAIR
man Manning, who so adroitly managed th
, Cleveland forces in the Chicago Convention
expects with the aid Of John Kelly's wal
q fare to carry New York State for Goveno
l Cleveland by sixty five thousand majority
1t is to be hoped that the coming eectio
. will forever settle the presidential hrpc
l. dromo business" in this country. The sci
. of public condemnation should be unnis
takably stamped upon personal exhibition
!, of presidential candidates, in Blaine's fashio,
of parading himself from city to city an
+, from state to state. If Blaine's canvas
proves a success, then in the years to come
= it will be in order for Presidential nominee
il to organize an itinerant hippodrome, ele'
themselves riug-rnastcrs and proceed
business.