Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-10
Fanny COMMENTS.
What the Papers Said Last Week Of
the Contest.
Chlcpgo Tribune tBlnlnel.

re effected the genera doubt which op-
pressed Republicans everywhere.
Since then we have said no word de-
signed to inculcate a false hope Of
Blaine's election. This morning, for
the first time, we are tempted to raise
the banner Of victory. The result viii
not be beyond dispute until the state
returning board shall announce IT,.
But the exaggerated estimates OF
Cleveland's majority in New York
made by the Democrat
| 10 and mugwump newspapers
nave dwindled down TO few
hundreds, and the aggregated returns
| from all the precincts In the state, eX-
cept mere handful, give Blaine a
small majority. The premature
swindling claims Of the Cleveland pa
pers and managers seem 10 have been
part OF the same plan Of fraud and
| buster with which the entire cam
paign against Blnine has been con-
Quoted.
There are appreheDsions, and we fear
some signs, of fraud in the New York
count. Chairman Manning of the
state committee proclaimed through
his newspaper tthe Albany August
yesterday that New York having
been made Democratic by the people,
will remain, be declared, and be
counted Democratic, aud what
ever Ia necessary TO this act OF justice
will be thoroughly and fearlessly
done" Such notice has an
ugly look. At the time II was written
Manning did not know, and he does
not know now, that New York is
Democratic. Why does he claim that
10 will be counted Democratic? WHY
does he talk Of acting "fearlessly"
when the inspectors of election, the
boards Of supervisors and the return
ing board OF the state are in the hands
of the Democrats? The significant
statement Ia also made that dispatch
was sent 10y a prominent Democrat and
broker of New York yesterday TO O
still more prominent Democrat OF Erie,
Pa, urging the latter to send Man
ming good, stiff dispatch and put
some backbone into the people at AL
bauy." the closeness Of the vote GER
tainly offers great temptation TO tam
per with the returns, and there Is ground
Tor suspicion that something of this
kind has been done already. But il
Blaine he counted out in New York
the infamy will be exposed and de-
frated as sure as there IS God In
Heaven.
In this connection we direct atten-
ton TO the very suspicious "returnsn
rom Weschester county, which has
now been twice called upon to help
| Cleveland out. Yesterday one of the
Associated Press bulletins read AZ fol-
lows:
1.-The last thirty-seven districts from
| Westminster county put Cleveland
about seven hundred ahead of Blaine
on the staten
This morning we have another
strange report from Weotchester, as
| follows:
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.-1:40a m.-Of-
iicia returns from Westche ter county
give a Democratic gain over previous
figures of ass This makes Cleveland's
plurality ia the state ll7n
When will Westminster get through?
We shall be glad to know when the
lightning calculators in that Demo.
cratic citadel have quit and gone to bed.
IL wi also be noticed that the Dem
ocrats in the city of Albany, under the
guidance of Dan Manning and Cleve-
land himself, have been tamperlng
with the returns and have refused Re-
publicahs admission to the courthouse.
H. IL great triumph for MIR. Blaine,
IA well a. victory for his party, il he
has carried New York. The mug.
wump detection originated there, and
1t had the support of several newspa.
pers which had held high position In
the Republican party as well as
some eminent men whose influence
aud zeal undoubtedly betrayed u con-
siderable proportion OF the business
men OF the Eastern metropolis. The
st. John fanatics made their cam.
paign-not for Prohibition. which they
knew to be out OF the questiOn-but "a
defeat the Republican party and graf.
ily their own candidates petty malice
Tammany yielded at the LAST TO the
inducements held out by the Cleve-
land faction, but found that IL could
not deliver its entire vote. Tammany
has been rewarded, AS it might have
expected, by the defeat Of its city and
county ticket, and John Kelly and his
associates will waste no regieis over
Cieveland's downfall The Prohibi-
ton movement excited the luminosity
OF some OF the Germans and other li6-
eral-minded citizens. All these in.
tuencts combined To make Blaine's
fight IN New York hot, fierce, and dis.
couraging. The grave conditions rem.
der victory, If IL has been secured, all
the npra brilliant