Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-11-12
This is the way we feel.

The result of the election on the
4th gives great satisfaction to the
Democratic party. They carried 20
States, elected 219 electors, and will
have u majority Of the Congressman.
The U. S. Senate will be Republican.
1t requires 20l electoral votes to
elect a President, so that Grover
Cleveland will have Is electoral votes
over a majority. Grover Cleveland
we believe, has been elected President,
and Thomas A. Hendricks Vice Pres
ident, of the United States.
The Republicans concede Indiana,
New Jersey, Connecticut and the
southern States, but the vote is so
close in New York State that some Of
their leaders such as Dorsey, Elkins
and similar INSCRIPTIONS politicians,
think they can count Cleveland out
by some means or other. 1t seems
certain that an attempt was made to
doctor" the returns from New York
State, so as to show n plurality OF q
few hundred for Blaine. The asso-
ciated press dispatches seem also to
have been under Republican CONTROL.
The reports up to Thursday night
showed Democratic gains amounting to
%, $50, or 2,147 more than Garfield
got in 1880. Then all Of a sudden
the associated press reports ceased to
give Democratic gains; the system of
sending reports was changed, the Re-
publican organ took back its acknowl-
edgement Of Clevelands victory, and
the Republican national committee
issued an incendiary manifesto. This
aroused popular Indignation in New
York city, and, at one time, it looked
as if Jay Gould and others who were
supposed to have hand in the at
tempted steal, would be mobbed. The
Albany Evening Journal (Republi-
CAM conceded Cleveland's plurality
at $50; The Sun, which was bitter
ly opposed to Cleveland, with revised
returns from every election district,
conceded Cleveland's election by a
plurality of 1,043. The returns re-
ceived by the Times, Herald, by the
Democratic national committee, and
by Grover Cleveland, all agreed that
Cleveland had at least 1000 plurali-
ty.
The popular Indignation caused the
conspirators to cease work. Jay
Gould congratulated Cleveland on his
election, and the associated press tele-
graphed all over the county the fol-
lowing
New YORK, Nov. 7th.-On a care
full review of the figures by districts,
as furnished by the agents of the AS
ISOLATED Press. corrected by returns
received during the day, so as to bring
the record down to this time, the total
vote of the State stands:
Cleveland.~.. $50
VIZ
Plurality for Cleveland. 1,4sC
There are yet eighteen districts
from which returns are yet behind OF
questioned. These, in 1880, gave
Garfield a plurality of 1855. The
counties in which are the lacking dis
tricts are Essex, Madison, Saratoga,
Sullivan and Ulster.
When the first returns were receiv
ed from New York State, and the
prospects for the Republicans looked
gloomy, they claimed Virginia, West
Virginia, Indiana and New Jersey
How little ground they had for such
claims, can readily be seen by seeing
the majorities the Democrats got In
the States named. Wien the Repub-
licans found that the vote was going
to be close in New York State, and
that the State was necessary to elecl
Cleveland, they abandoned all claims
to Virginia, West Virginia, indiana
and New jersey, "dcctored" the York