The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-19
BLAINE ArrEMPrINeR REVOLUTION.
Facts Which Show his Wicked Desire to
Mexicanize This Country.
New York Herald, Noy. .e.l


New York Herald. Noy. ,e.l
On Wednesday and Thursday lsst, the two
days following the election, tts Blaine
voters were cautiously told by the Blaine
managers that they believed thew had
carried New Yerk. They did not venture to
claim" the State, but they chad hopes.n
That was not unnatural. The returns
came in slowly, and the Blaine estimates"
based on the presumed effectiveness of a
vast corruption fund raised at the Could
Blaine dinner and in the Union League
Club in the last week of the canvass for i'm.
mediate use-were all, of course in their
own favor. But the actual returns as they
came in proved those estimates wrong.
What happened?
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 mat
tiers and the facilities for getting it-these
two men, Jay Gould and William 81. Van
derbilt, had got the correct news and hast
ened to congratulate President-elect Cleve.
land. Mr.. Gould was the earliest, for he
telegraphed President Cleveland his congrat-
ulations. Mr.. Vanderbilt, more deliberate
wrote the President elect, and wrote
him an admirable letter, too
On the same day, Friday-ws wish our
readers to note the day-the Republican
Committee telegraghed Mr.. Blaine that
Cleveland had carried New York.
At the same tlme-Fridsy morning-the
Tribune hauled down his flag and ceased to
put out bulletins.
That same Friday afternoon the Albany
Evening Journal, one of the strongest Blaine
journals outside of New York, and placed at
the point to which official returns are
brought, said:
Indiana has undoubtedly gone Democratic aud
the reports OF Republican victory ip West Vir-
gInia and Florida are not substs Initiated 1t seems
lg f0 hQ
States that have gone Democratic have PIG cleo.
toral votes. Every honest citizen and newspaper
and the results declared as the vote was cast
The Journals claims OF Mr.. Blaine's election were
base based on the reports obtained on wednesday and
move all doubt, it frankly acknowledges defeat
But no sooner had Blaine received the
news that he was beaten, aud that his own
supporters were actually acknowledging his
defeat, as good citizens ought, then he
telegraphed from Augusta his determination
TO try bit of Mexican tactics. Note the
language OF his pronunciamento:
i am advised there have been frauds in New
York State. l believe that the honest vote of the
State gives Republican plurality, and ask the
committee to see that we have fair and honest
count.
1t is all /, I, 1. Blaine had been notified
by the committee that the State han gone
Democratic; he was not sure that he could stir
them up 10 support his Mexicanizing policy,
and so, though Mr.. Gould and Mr.. Wander
biit, the two men most sure to have correct
news, were convinced; though the Albany
Evening Journal, his vigorous supporter,
had written that to-day when the official
returns remove all doubt" the Journal
frankly acknowledges defeat" though his
own committee had tclegraphed him that
the State was for Cleveland, Blaine refused
to accept the facts and impudently tele-
elsphed, ~ believe there have been frauds;
believe that the honest vote gives New
York to The Republicans"
Everybody knows Blaine's boundless su-
dacity. He cares nothing for right, nothing
for truth. On that very day-Fridsy-he
made at Augusta what is perhaps the most
shameless utterance OF which al American
public man ever was guilty:
feel great pride that imputation OF fraud
hes ever been seriously uttered against the mem
beTs OF the Republican party in any State or dis
trict.
Blaine is tempting his followers to revolu-
ton. He has given notice that he Is ready
to Mexicanize this country il be can get
anybody to stand by him. He helped to
the Dorsey 'soap and new So bill' campaign
in 1880, and took the State Department as
his reward. And he now appeals to his fol-
lowers 10 help him in a still more desperate
step.
We believe that this bold, bad man, con-
victed lobbyist, convicted corruptionist, con-
vicied ally of Starroute and navy thieves,
convicted falsifer, convicted ignoramus in
all true craftsmanship, convicted trickster
and political gambler, will fail in this last
attempt at fraud snd revolution. He can
not grab the Presidency, because the people
are looking at him.