The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-11-18
New York Herald Nov. 10.)
BLAINE ATTEMPTING REVO.
H1QJENOE
w. II. SE3RING,
Florida Commissioner.

On ednesday and Thursday last, the
two days following the election, the
Blaine voters were cautiously told by the
Blaine managers that they believed :"
they had carried New York They did
not venture to "claim" the State, but
they chad hopes"
That was not unnatural. The returns
came in slowly, and the Blaine "esti-
mates "-based on the presumed effect
iveness of vast corruption fund raised
at the Gould Blaine dinner aud in the
Union League Club in the last week Of
the canvass for immediate use-were all.
of course, in their own favor. But the
actual returns as they came in proved
those "estimates wrong. What hap
pened
BY Friday morning the returns were in,
and two men who more than all others in
this country have the habit of getting the
earliest correct news of all important
matters and the facilities for getting it
these two men, Jay Gould and William
II. Vanderbilt, had got the correct news,
and hastened to congratulate President
elect Cleveland. Mr.. Gould was the ear
liest, for he telegraphed President Cleve
land his congratulations. Mr.. Vanderbilt,
more deliberate, wrote the President elect,
and wrote him an admirable letter, too.
On the same day, Friday-we wish our
readers to note the day-the Republican
Committee telegraphed Mr.. Blaine that
Cleveland had carried New York.
At the same time-Fiday morning
the Tribune hauled down its flag and
ceased to put out bulletins.
That same Friday afternoon the Albany
Erening .jo,~nut, one of the strongest
Blaine journals outside of New York, and
placed at the point to which official re-
turns are brought, said:
Indiana has undoubtedly gone democratic,
and the reports OF Republican victory in West
Virginia and Florida are not sutJstanlaIed. II
seems clear that Governor Cleveland is elected
for the States that have gone Democratic have
219 electoral votes EDery honest citizen and
newspaper desires simply thdtkt cote sN be furry
counted and tie result declared the cote aoas cast
The Journals cLlin1s Of Mr. Bldtnes election rere
based on the best reports 0btainabke on Wednesday,
and Thursday. TODAY, WHEN THE OFFICIAL
RETURNS REMOVE ALL DOUBT, 1T FRANKLY AC-
KNOWLEDGES DEFEAT
But no sooner had Blaine received the
new that he was beaten, and that his own
supporters were actually acknowledging
his defeat, as good citizens ought, than
he telegraphed from Augusta has deter
mination to try bit of Mexican tactics.
Note the language of his pronuncia-
mento:
I am advised there have been frauds in New
York Stale. believe that the honest vote of
the Stale gives Il Republican plurality and ask
the committee to see That we have IA fair and hon
est count
It is all l, l. Blaine had been noti-
fed by the committee that the State had
gone Democratic; he was not sure that
he could stir them up to support his Mexi
canizing policy, and so, though Mr..
Gould and Mr.. Vanderbilt, the two men
most sure to have correct news, were con-
vinced; though the Albany Eoening
Journal, his vigorous supporter, had writ
ten that "to-iay, when the official re.
turns remove alt doubt" the Journal
"frankly acknowledges defeat; though
his own committee had telegraphed him
that the State was for Cleveland, Blaine
refused to accept the facts and impudently
telegraphed, II believe there have been
frauds; I believe that the honest vote
gives New York to the Republican,"
Everybody knows Blaine's boundless
audacity. He cares nothing for right,
nothing for truth. On that very day
Fnday-he made at Augusta what is
perhaps the most shameless utterance oi
which an American public man ever was
guilty:
feel great pride that no imputation of fraud
has ever been seriously uttered against the mem
bers of the Republican party In any Stsse or dis
trict
Blaine is tempting his followers to rev
olution. He has given notice that be il
readv 70 Mexicanize this country If he car
get suybody 20 stand by him. He helped
70 stsal the Presidency in 1875; he VA
psrs Of the Dorsey seoaPs and nsw tvt
IL dollar bin oanpaigp ii 1880, and tool
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