Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-10
MR., BLAINE'S BOLn GAME
rRrrNu 40 STEAL NEW yu EK STATS.
| Expecting to Purchase county Canyasssr.
| ana TO fiud willing PARTS en- JUDGES
| warning Democratsi Address

desperate EFFORTS 10 stef,i the vote OF New
York, and by meons of money and promises |
Of official patronage are seeking TO debauch |
canvassers of election and induce them to |
appear before county boards of cauvassers
and attempt to correct the returns. All |
day Sunday secret conference were held in |
tho rooms Of the national Republican |
committee, Stephen j. Elkins, 5. Fessen- |
den, Chai rmau Jones and others being |
present. Precisely wha. was done Is not |
made public but at 3 o'clock the follow. |
ing dispatch was flashed over the Western |
Union wires 4:
Rooms OF NATIONAL. REPUBLICAN |
COMMITTEE, New YORK, November 8,
1sS4.-The committee is confident that the
official count will give us New York and
elect Blaine and Logan.
5. FEssESpEN. Secretary,
\ few moments afterward dispatch
sent to trusty Republican at Glen Cove,
l. l., as follows:
Have all the Republican inspectors
present at tho meeting of the county can.
yassers on Tuesday. Don't fail.
A similar dispatch was sent to every
county in the state, and it was passed
| along tho Blaine line that every county
| return is to be challenged, and plenty of
canvassers are prepared to swear to errors
| in tho count, so as to change the already
certified and verified returns. The Te-
| turns, however, are being carefully
guarded both by Pinkerton and Inspector
Byrnes' detectives. They arc not absent o
moment day or night, aud if eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty all fear of
| changes is removed.
| L. has leaked out that Judge Noah Davis
George Bliss, William 81. Evarts and other
Republican lawyers have consulted and
advised legal contest Of the vote of this
| state. Blank petitions and affidavits have
been sent to every county in the state to
lay the foundation of contest. The
method is to have Republican judges issue
| writs of alternative mandamus and
| ipiuuctions to restrain the certifying of
official votes, in the hope that the matter
may be dragged along in the courts, SO
that the state canvassers will have returns
only from such counties as will make the
plurality sure for Blaine.
The Blaine Dynamiters' club, of New
York, Sunday evening decided that Blaine
should be inaugurated if necessary at the
point of the bayonet.
Men prominent in the steal of 1876 have
been telegraphed to come to New York at
once. Among them are Chris Magee, the
boss of Western Pennsylvania John II.
Hampton, well known PennsSIvania
politician John c. New, of Indiana, and
|
} dispatch to Magee, Chairman Jones, of the
Republican committee, said Z" Hold your
horns until Wednesday, when you will
have cause to blow them"
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS.
The following address was on Sunday
issued by the Democratic state committee
Headquarters DEMOCRATIC STATE
COMMITTEE, HOFFMAN House, NEwYoRK,
Nov. 8, 1SS4.-We deem it our duty to
) announce to the people of the state that
, the Republican managers have within the
, last forty'eight hours conceived new
scheme for throwing again into dispute the
: result of the election in our state.
' For many days after the election they,
0 in entire bad faith, claimed for the Repub
n lican candidate several states which they
a., knew they had not carried.
Iu the same bad faith when every source
of information, including the Associated
5 Press, has demonstrated that the vote o
b New York has been given to the Cleveland
y electors, they still claim the state.
No fact of history is now better know
u than the results of the election as ascer
10 tanned. declared and certified by the cleo
20 ton officers, and OF public record through
a out the state, give New York TO tn
:. Cleveland electors bya decisive plurality
These public certified returns have bee
= sifted in the several counties by bot
n parties with the most conscientious car
It during the last four days, until ever
=, doubt as to the result has been removed.
!" knowing this fact, they now propose, a
last desperate resort, to make of tn
boards of county canvassers throughout th
state where controlled by them 80 man
N returning boards after tho pattern of thos
not long since used by them in th
N Southern states. Wherever the board
a fail them, judicial orders are to be ap
piled for. Thus relying upon tn
partisanship of the board in the first place
=, and judges of their own political faith
" the second, they intend and expect I
throw again into dispute the result of th
RS election and involve it in interminab!
"a litigation.
s. To this end printed papers have bee
10 sent by thom to their agents an
y representatives in every county in tt
in state of New York, to be used with th
courts whenever an occasion can DO mani
IN factured.
AT Ofthe entire reliability OF our infoi
n. nation as to this scheme there can be L
question.
j., We call upon the representatives of th
1 | party in the various counties of tn
;" y" state to be alert, and by every prop'
,o method resist and defeat this last desp
rate DEVICE
And mindful of the grave consequence,
10 to the business interests of our stat
III which such q conspiracy necessaril
10 involves, we deem it our duty to assul
40 our people, who have now general
oi acquiesed in the result, that they ma
confidently rely that by no such schen
of or device will the state be deprived OF Il
A" result of it's deliberate choice.
SO 1t may disturb and protract the dete
he mination !; it will lot change the result.
as W. K. SMITH,
Chairman Executive Committee.
ne LOOKING AFTER THE COUNT.
70 70 About fifty prominent Democratic la,
N NoA yers met in New York Sunday night al
@ 700 discussed the law relating to the boards
VI county canvassers IN the various count
an throughout the state. The result of Il
as discussion is that in all probability Dem
o.. o., cratic lawyers will DO present at eve
W 70 board of canvassers on Tuesday next.
e' Reports from every county clerk in Il
., state show that on q revision of the vo
y Cleveland gains ten in Albany count
Blaine ten in Delaware, two in Essex al
four in st. Lawrence, Cleveland's pl
an Iality is now known to be 1884.
'as The vote of Albany for electors W
D. carefully revised Saturday night and Il
iu Democratic plurality was found to be G
,n. | or Ia