The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-11-20

The Republicans gave tue mgr"
the franchise and now bawl because
tbey cannot control their votes 1t is
medicine of their own making. Let
them now take it, if it kills them.
Firm Footing at Last--Ckese-
the President.
The great result has at last been
reached on the Presidential vote by
the conclusion of the canvass in
New York City. on Saturday even
ing, by which CleveIand's plurality
over Blaine In the State, taking the
lowest elector on the Democratic
ticket and the highest ON the Re
publican, is declared to he 1857.
Some of the Democratic electors will
run higher, and We suppose the av-
erage plurality will be between
twelve and thirteen hundred.
So Grover Cleveland becomes
President of the United States and
Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice Presi-
ident, by the votes of twenty States,
castiug 2l9 electoral votes.
No enc knows on what the Re-
publicans managers were bankIng
in their emphatic claims that the
State would surely show majority
on the face of the returns for Blame
This Was declared certainty. No
figures were given-the hgures were
oil the other way-but the claim
was resolutely maintained: With
their experience of 1876, and the
Fastening to New York of men en-
gagged in that great crime, the Dem
ocracy of the country naturally
took alarm, aHd the great demon
strations of Saturday week declar
ed a purpose deep down In the Dem
ocrat heart that fraud should not
be permitted, and even the attempt
would be dangerous. A. one time
the situation was critical, and the
country as it were resting on a pow
der magazine that spark would
have ignited. Jay Gould's con-
gratuiatory dispatch to Governor
Cleveland tod the story Of alarm
that had penetrated an interest
moro deeply concerned than any
other in stealing the Presidency
away from Cleveland.
Our own judgement is that there
Has plot in New York City, and
possibly elsewhere in the State, by
the corruption of election officers
and the altering of returns, to
change the result or throw taint
of fraud over the canvass to be us
ed in the final count by Congress.
On no other theory can we under
stand or explain the persistent
claims of Chairman Jones and the
National Republican Committee,
the Republican organs of the bas-
er sort, the great sums of money
wagered by the Republicans after
the result as it stands to day had
been semi officially ascertained.
Something underhand was in pro-
gress-some devilment Matching.
1t was not attempted because it
meant, very serious danger, not
alone to the corrupt tools to be used,
but to the head devils, 60 matter
how high their place.
That fraud was not attempted,
and that the canvass has gone on
in perfectly fair and legal way,
scrutinized in its every move.
and the count of every vote, as new
er before in this country. is mat
ter of general congratulation and
Thanksgiving. One advantage re-
suits from the prolonged struggle
over the official verifcation of the
vote the confidence of all parties
has been gained that the count is
fair and the election was conducted
with close observance to all the
forms and guards of the law.
But all danger is happily passed.
In a few days the result in New
York and the other States will be
officially declared. then the electors
will meet and cast their votes,
Congress will declare the result,
and the fourth of March next will
witness the inaguration of Grover
Cleveland and Thomas A. Hen
dricks; and, as we all hope, the res
toration of honest and economical
administration, and the steady pro
gress of the Government in the
grand pathway marked by its foun-
ders. In this faith the SENTINEL's
Eoostetts, have been both gamey and
numerous in the conflict, retire to
the sweet so'ace of their domestic
i.ys, firm in the faith as ever, and
at ali times ready to sound their
clarion notes for truth, justice. lib
erty and Democracy, which sym
bolizes them all.
OHEO,S OFFICE