The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-23

HUWNAT, !: hoVBABER. ., 1851
TWELVE PAGES.
EVENTS AND COMMENTS.
CAREFUL COMPUTATION will show 1,OOO.-
600 more Democrats" in the United
States now then there were three weeks
ago.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOKES is the full
name of the late chairman of the late
Republican National Committee of the
late Republican party.
BETTING is the curse of American
politics howls a Western exchange.
And 100000 Republicans all over this
fair land Join in the chorus.
"THEY yAr goats in California" says
an exchange. The Republicans of that
State are eating crow, also, at least as
far as the electors are concerned.
A WESTERN paper has an article about
"a Girl on CorsetS.' We may be par
aonably ignorant of the matter, but it
has alwaf IS struck US that the corsets
we're on the girls.
BosToE Courier: A man so familiar
with a yacht as is General Butler must
be aware that when a boom swings
aronnd too suddenly it is very apt to
knock somebody overheard.
POOP BLAINE! 1t was bad enough to
be beaten and left a dead-head in the
enterprise, without having every cheap
Republican editor in the country point
the finger of scorn and say Didn't I
tell you sol"
MoNsIGBEUR CAPEL made good point
against the TRADES of abuse that we're
INDUCED in during the late campain
when he said that it was the bad side of
our election that showed an attempt to
pull down the character of the men who
were to rule US.
THE STATISTIC friend has been at work
OF New York and has figured that the
late election cost 81 1888, 44O, which he
divides as follows:
Expenses of candidates .. 81, 226, 800
Expense to the State and county $4,000
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81, $50, 44O
THERE Is waiIing and gnashing of
teeth among the Tribune compositors
Nearly all of them, it is said, were
foolish enough to follow their leader
and stake their hard-earned ducats on
the "Plumed Knight" There was one
Democrat in the Office, however, and he
scooped in enough money to take him
back home in flying colors.
LOGAN Is the worst defeated man Of
the party. He has lost the Vice-P resi-
dency and in grasping for that shadow
he has lost the substance of a seat in
the Senate. The Illinois Legislature is
either Democratic, or so close that
Logan'S election is entirely out of the
question. Well may Black Jack" ex-
claim: Things has went agln me. y
EEx.
IT is claimed in New York that w. II.
Vanderbilt, Cyrus w. Field, and Cen
eral Hancock, were among a large
number of notables who failed to vote
at the recent election. Their neglect
has caused considerable comment among
those who knew them. General Han
cock has been specially criticized for
failing to cast his vote with the party
which honored him the nomination for
the Presidency.
TIE ST. LOUIS GJobe-Demoerat is out
with its nomination for the Presidency
in 1888, and here it is:
For President:
SOME MAN Who HASN'T WRITTEN ANY
LETTERS.
To which it should append;
For Fiee-President:
soME ONE WHAT HASN'T So Much
RELATIVES.
IT IS now claimed that the Republi-
cans in New York were never in doubt
as to Cleveland having a plurality in
that States and thatsthe object of Blaine
and the National Republican. committee
in charging frauds in the New York
elections was % frighten Cleveland and
his advisers to terms In. reference to The
present Supreme JUDGES. In about two
wears four of the iudpeS will have at