Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1884-12-16


Some dayf ago tile HehAtu pnb-
lished q table Of tle popular vote
which gave Cleseland q plurality q
nearly sixteen thousand This Vas
the nearest approach lva summary
y the result Of the late election lsal
we hld thus far encountered in any
newspaper. though VS. haze been
very anxiopH 10 furnish our readers
with th.s most interesting lnioma-
ton. IN tie New York SIM, 81
December 10Th Sc and a rkssne d
the popular vote which modilies these
figures and placer nf. Cleyolands
plurality at something short Of
seventy thousand votes, although
our New York contemporary, which
Shines for III, uegleets 70 give ihe
table upon which il prcdieaies is
totals. We quote from the sam
THO total number Of votes for Pres
ideut at the late election was o little
over Ten millions, and 81 these neither
Cleveland nor Blaine received the
majority. tho vote u each falling be-
loF oue-hall 81 the whole Cleye-
land, however, obtained q plurality
over Blaine oi something ahort 81
seventy thonsand votes, aud IN the
Electoral Colleges be had zi1 votes
against ls2 Tor Blaine
Tho recorded vote for Butler was
about 1884, 0U, but that docs not rep
resent DE whole support NJ the polls,
fot there vas a laaion Of the Peoples
pafsyw with The Republicans Ia Missouri
and West Virginia, and with the Demo
crntain Town, Michigan and Nebraska
II must have been partly i not chief.
Is, il consequence Of such fusion that
Blaine'H vote ID Missouri and West
Virginia showed an increase over that
Tor Garfield Of Gh,l32, while Cleve-
lands increase over Hancock Wax
Only 81 $40 In the three states
shafc the Peoples party fused with
the Democrats, Cleveland showed D
gain over Hancock Of h5,036, while
Biaine'a gain over Garfield was only
~ ,3si, n none Of these statos, how
ever was the fusion successful for all
gave their electoral votes 10 the Dean
ocrais or Republicans, ns they gave
them Ia 1880. at which election Wea-
yer, tho 6reenback candidate, polled
q considerable vote IN all
We find ihat Cleveland bad q ma
jofiiy OF the yotes in no Northern
STATE. though IL Connecticut, indi-
ma, New Jersey and New FORK he
had 3 plurality over Blaine aggregat.
ing a little over 1000 The total
vote Of those States was 1000 800. Of
which Cleveland received 1908, 0T9,
Blaine Qs9, $40, 81. John 6,4St, and
Butler $1,000 Cleveland carried
every Southern state by a majority
over all.
Blaine had a majority over all in
tho Hixteen Northern States Of Cali
lornia Colorado. Illinois, Iowa, Kan
saa, Maine, Mime sofa, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Ore
eon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Vermont and Wisconsin, and plu-
rality only ia the States OF Maasachu-
sctls and Michigan.
In the Northern stiics taken TO-
geihor BIaine had over three bum
dfed thousand votes more than Cleve-
land The Butler vote saved Massu
chusetts fer Blaine and the 81, John
vote lost him Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey, and, through fusion,
came near beating him in Michigan
The returns show, finally, that the
country continues 10 be 70 evenly d.
vided between the two great parties
that slight aud merely local and tenn
porary causes mny determine the re-
suit Of aeontest between them Mt any
election tor President