The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-11-13
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HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN MAJ
TIONAL COMMITTEE, Nov. s, 1884.
The Republican National Committee are
taking the most careful and thorough
measures to ascertain errors, if any have
been made, and frauds, if any, have been
committed in the returns of the late election
| in the State of Newly ork.
If Mr.. Cleveland shall be found to have
a plurality OF even one vote, prompt ac-
quieScence will follow from the Republi-
cans of the United States. If Mr.. Blaine
shall be found to have plurality of only
one vote, prompt acquieScence will be eX-
pected from the Democrats of the United
States.
The belief of this Committee, founded
upon investigation, is that Mr.. Blaine has
plurality of several hundred votes, and
that if that be so every honest man will
demand that it be officially declared. I'm
til the official declaration shall be made we
ask the public to unite with us in an hon.
orable effort to secure perfectly fair
count. Purity in elections is the only
safety for Republican institutions.
B. +. JONES, Chairman.
SAMUEL FESSENDEN, Secretary.
Following this, later in the day, the
following was sent to the country:
NEW YORK, Nov S-noon.
To the Republicans of the country:
We have carried New York. The official
count will confirm it. Blaine and Logan
have 2ls electoral votes and are elected.
B. F. JONES, Chairman.
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Secretary.
Weask the candid reader to carefully read
the two presentations through their official
representatives, and say which carries on
its face the evidences of sincerity and the
desire to get at the truth. and abide by it,
when aScertained?
If the Democrats think they can bull
dOze anybody. they are much mistaken.
Had their inflammatory methods been
met in similar spirit to that which char
acterized their utterances and the action on
them, trouble would certainly have come
upon the country. But the calm, cool,
determination of the Republicans to do
what was right, to accept and acknowledge
the right and abide by it. whether it
should be in their favor or not, has allayed
public apprehension, inspired confidence
in the patriotism and conservatism of the
thinking people, and giving assurance of
the strength and perpetuity of our institu-
tiOnS.
The following dispatch from New Y ork,
dated the 8th, presents the Republican
side of the issue, and in advance Of the
announcement of the official count, will
show the spirit of the Republicans
1--WE are still confident that we have
this state" said Mr.. Fessenden, secretary
of the Republican National Committee,
to- day, land according to our figures,
which have been gone over very carefully,
Mr.. Blaine's plurality will range between
/ 100 and 1.400. We feel quite cheerful
over the situation. In close election
like this it is the duty of every patriotic
citizen to avoid saying or doing anything
of an inflammatory character. This is the
course our national committee has studi-
Ously pursued. No good purpose can be
served by working excitable people into a
white heat In due time the official fig
ures will speak for themselves. and we feel
certain they will speak for Blaine. Should
it happen, however. that Cleveland has a
plurality of the votes, we shall bow to the
will of the people, and will do it with a
good grace.
when the official canvass is made next
Tuesday we will bring out some startling
facts which will open the eyes of the COM
munity. | cannot at present give even the
evidence in our possession fer ublication.
1t would not be wise to advise our oppo-
nents Of the precise course we intend to
pursue. and the frauds on which we shall
base our action. I can only say that in
| many counties of the state votes have been
| illegally counted and illegally thrown out,
and that we shall take proper legal meas
urpS TO redress these WRONGS
Until the official count comes" said
Sergeant-at-Arms Merritt. ''our banner
shall wave in the breeze. The vote is SO
very close that it is impossible to say who
has been elected until the canvassers meet
and pass upon the question. Until then
my advice to all Republicans, Democrats,
Butterflies and Lockwoodites-is, keep
quiet and don't agitate your nerves or
ruffle your temper"
| Chairman Jones said: 1--WE have not
vet surrendered, and have no idea of doing
so. Our banner is out and shall swing un-
til it is shown that we have been van
pushed. We still maintain that New
| York state is ours, and the only danger is
false count. There is nothing new that
we hear of, the situation being substan-
TALLY as it was yesterday. | consider the
| incendlary course Of some OF the Cleveland
papers as simply outrageous"
| AS pertinent to this review, it is proper
to furnish our readers with an idea of the
two men who stand at the head of the re-
spective National Committees of the two
great parties.
| W. H. Barnum is known to the country
as political trickster, capable of almost
any corrupt resort to gain party ends. He
is known as ''seven mule Barnum," in
connection with the corrupt use of money
to buy the State of Indiana in 1876. He
was party to the issuance of the Morey
letter forgery in 1880, by which several
States were thrown against Gen. Garfield
He is recognized everywhere as an unsafe
man where honest dealing is essential in
politics, and is distrusted by the best men
of his own party,
Mr.. B. F. Jones, the Republican chair
man, is successful business man Of
Pittsburg. His word is as good as his bond
and he is regarded by all who know him
as incapable of doing anything suspicious
or corrupt. The Philadelphia Press speaks
of him as follows:
The word of Mr.. Jones is worth that of
| 10000 Ba-nums. The one is an honorable
and high-minded business man the other
is notorious and INSCRIPTIONS trickster.
The one has stainless character at stake +;
the other is destitute equally ofreputation
and of principle. Mr.. Jones is personally
known to thousands of people in Pennsyl-
vania, and he has become known to the
country as man whose authority support
ing and verifying private or public decla-
ration would carry the same degree Of
weight as the name of John Welsh in Phila-
delphia or William M. Evarts in New
York. He can afford to be beaten, and
the Republican party can but he cannot
afford, any more than the party can, to sus-
| tain any wrong or to put forth any I'M
warranted statements, and he would not
do it for hundred presidencies.
When, therefore, Mr.. Jones at this hour
gives public and unreserved assurance that
A Mr.. Blaine has carried New York, the
country will understand that he does not
take this responsibility without good rea-
son. He knows the claim of the other side
and he knows the ground upon which his
own declaration rests. Unless he had a
substantial basis he is not the man to haz-
ard such an announcement. Republicans
NAV rest in full faith that he has not
spok,,n without ample warrant and pa
triotic and fair minded men Of all parties
\ mill ~ 1oast rpcopniza that with such a