Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-11-25
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IL 49,
The Vote Of New York has
passed through the
last hands.
CLEvELAND'S MAJORITY
RANGES FROM l,l49 10
l,o77 ON THE ELEC.
ToRAL TICKET.
What Cleveland will do as Presi-
dent.
What Cleveland will do as Presi-
dent.

present, Secretary Wood announced
the foOtinss table as follows: High.
est Dem ;ratic Elector, Priest,
563, 154 highest Republican El,ctor,
562,005; plurality, 1,l49. Lowest
Democratic Elector, Ottendorter,
563,04S; lowest Republican Elector,
Harris, 56l,97l; plurality, 1,0H.
Highest Prohibition Elector, Miller,
25,006; lowest, Ellsworth, 24,04S.
Highest Butler Elector, O'Donnell,
1901; lowest, Campbell, 1871.
After the announcement the members
of the board signed the tables and
certificates.
THE KIND OF HAIR-PIN GROVER is.
The Albany Argus has an elabor-
ate article ON the kind Of President
Gov. Cleveland will make. 1t scouts
the prophecy of the Republican press
that he will "be run over by horde
of demanding and Unsuitable cormo-
,rants." On this point it says: awe
can assure the wise forecasters they
can win money by betting that just
what kind of man Grover Cleve-
land has zen as Governor that KIN |
OF man he will be as President. He
has not been run over by cormo
rants as Governor very much. As
President, he will doubtless find
more 'cormorants,' but that will only
require him to be more Cleveland,
and the amount of Clevelandism in
him will he found equal to any
emergency. 1t took the politicians
about two months to discover that
As Governor he was a resolute, clear
sighted man, who, to the disgust OF
the 'cormorants, really meant what
he said, and was resolved plainly,
and trnthfully, to do what he prom
ised the people-that he had no fears,
no reservations and no concern about
the consequences of doing right. In
not longer than twice two months at
most, the same discovery will be
made of him as President, and wheth-
er the politicians and he get along
well or not, he and the plain people
will have no more difficulty in get
ting along well, with one another,
than Abraham Lincoln and the plain
people of his day had"
REAssURING WORDS FOR THE DARKIEs.
Gov. Cleveland was asked by a
United Press representative one day
last week if he was aware of a dclu-
sion existing among the colored peo-
pie of the South that change in the
Administrator would unfavorably
affect their condition, to which he re-
piled:
eyes. l have been astonished at
the statement that there was an APP
prehension existing among the COL
ored people that in some way their
rights, now secured to them under
the laws and Constitution of the
United States, were in danger from
the election of a Democratic Presi-
| dent. | am even told that some OF
them are led to suppose that the re-
suit of the recent election means that
they may again be made slaves.
"All of this has appeared TO me to
be so absurd, and l have been so sure
that the slightest intelligent reflection
would dislodge such foolish fears
that l can hardly deem any notice OF
them necessary, but there is not the
slightest objection to calling the at
tention of all who are in the least
uneasy or uncertain upon this subject
to the fact that the title of the colored
people to freedom and all the rights
I of citizenship can not be disturbed
except by a change in the Constitu.
ton, which it would be absolutely
impossible 10 make.
Besides the present condition OF
, status of these people has been SC
fully accepted by the entire country
that no one should have the slightest
idea that any attempt will be made
to change it if there was any POSSIBLE
ity Of accomplishing such thing. Sc
far as the new administration is re-
lated to this subject, the whole coun'
ty can be sure that the lawful power
and jurisdiction of the executive will
, be so exercised that the rights of al
citizens, white or black, under thu
constitution and law, will be pre-
} served and protected, and all the ad
yantages to which they are entitled
by reason Of their citizenship will b.
secured to them. There need be NJ
, fear that either the Democratic party
or its newly elected administration
proposes to Cypress or enslave any
part Of our population nor to destroy
the business interests of the country
2 We hope, on the other hand, to d.
something to benefit the people. L
seems to me that our efforts in tina
direction would be aided if mischiev
, GUS croaking and dark Imagining
should give place 10 an earnest en-.
deavor to inspire confidence and tC
make universal a cheerful hope fol
the future"
1t was total eclipse of the New
. | VA,,lr Co.,, 4.