The Mineral argus., 1884-11-20
ADDRESS FROM THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
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NEW YORK, NOV O.-Ihe following address
was issued this afternoons:
Headquarters Republican National Committee
New York City: The Republican national com
mittee rejoices that returns now received war
rant it in announcing the triumphant election
Of Blaine ana Logan The Republicans have
carried every Northern state, except New Jersey
and Connecticut. Virginia seems also to have
given a majority for the Republican cause and
that West Virginia has also The other
states alone however. give to Blaine
insure their election. In New York attempts to
tamper with returns have already been detected.
The actual vote in New York city and Kings
at the utmost only l9S plurality to Grover
Cleveland, while 163 precincts not yet heard
from gave 2, III plurality to Garfield. There is,
therefore, no ground for doubt that the honest
vote of the state has been given to the Repub-
lican candidates, and though the defeated
candidate for the presidency is at the head
of the election machinery in the state,
tho Democratic party, which has notortOusly
been party Of fraud in elections for years, will
not be permitted to thwart the will of the peo-
on the chairmen and individual members of all
county committees TO take prompt and most
stringent means to protect the sanctity Of the
ballot. The Republican candidates have been
honestly elected beyond question. Any attempt
to cheat the people, and to defeat their will thus
expressed at the polls, must be sternly exposed
and resisted by every law-respecting citizen.
[Slgnedl b. +. JONES, Chairman.
SAMUEL FEssENDEN, Secretary.
The Republican state committee has issued
the following:
In view of the claims made as to the result of
the election in New York, the Republican state
committee deem 1t their duty to announce that,
while the vote is very close, the returns and
estimates from the most authentic sources
justify the balief that plurality has been cast
in favor Of the Republican candidates:
We have received copies of the official
returns as filed in the several county
Soanties. % Beside this we have caused careful
re-examination to be made of returns forwarded
from police headquarters in New YORK
nine counties We have procured direct
information from the most reliable reliable
that the state has gone Republican The result
thus arrived at is confirmed by an entirely diff
ferent investigation, based upon the returns col
lected directly from every election district IN
JAMES D. WARREN Chairman.
PER CONTRA
Senator German, of the Democratic ma
tional committee sent the following dis
match TO Ex-Gov John Lee Carroll OF Mary
land, this evening:
The claim of the national Republican commit
tee is laughed at by everybody. We have car
ried New York beyond question Man
ming chairman state committee tells
the public to-day that the board OF
canvassers will see that the will of the people Is
observed Republicans are trying hard TO pre-
vent the official announcement of the vote OF
New York, which is for Cleveland. We have the
state by q small DuJ sa1e plu1allJy.
The Democratic national COMMITTEES has
issued an address, which states to the peo-
pie of the United States that Cleveland
and Hendricks are elected, with 2l9
electoral votes. The address names
states which have given Democratic majori-
ties. including New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut and West Virginia: The address
concludes thus:
No fraud or contrivance can defeat the will OF
the people of the United States thus puDhcly
and deliberately declared
ALBANY, Nov. 6.-Daniel Manning, chair
man of the Democratic state committee, has
sent the following to the New York Evening
Post:
By official returns reported from every county,
Cleveland and Hendricks have carried the stage
of New York by safe and sure majority. NO
machinations, or false claims or pretended
doubts of Blaine's managers can change TINS re,
sult The friends of honest gOvernment ano
honest elections can be everywhere assured that
the Democrats state board of canvassers VIII
see that the true vote is correctly declared
lSignedl DANIEL MANNiN"'