The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-20
Historic Close Votes.

The democrats are having great ana
boree over New York, as though the fact of
close vote we're an extraordinary phenon-
enon and meant all sorts OF riotous and ex-
IRENE consequences. Close votes are moth
ing new in this country. Mr.. Hendricks,
who il one of the loudest shouters in the
present instance, knows that we'll enough.
Or, if he does not, he need go no further
than 20 the gubernatorial vote of Indiana in
1872 in order to refresh his memory. He
was elected governor of Indiana that year by
plurality OF only LAB votes, and yet the
capitol was not overturned nor dId the
heavens fall.
The idea that there must be row because
state OF national vote is close is wholly
bourbonese, unworthy any party or set of
men. The situation of affairs in New York
has frequent parallels in the experience of
the past, but there was an entirely peaceable
and lawful settlement of the interests at is-
sue, and no one ever thought OF stirring up
an instruction or clamoring fraud against
the properly constituted arbitrators Of the
vote.
Az early as 1924, in the contest between
Adams and Jackson, there WAS difference
OF only 100 in Maryland's vote on these two
candidates, in favor of Adams, but it did not
occur to Old Hickory to incite his minority
to sack the cities and tear up the soil Of
Maryland. Four years later the state voted
on these Same candidates, and though there
were nearly 25,o00 additional votes divided
between them, Adams still led by 1871. In
1882, when Clay and Jackson were the@rival
candidates, Delaware gave Clay but 166 more
votes than Jackson got. and in Maryland
there WAS an actual difference of only four
votes, Clay getting 1850 and Jackson
1886.
This is a healthful precedent for MIR. Hen
bricks to look to, remembering that his
party prototype did not, therefore,, demand
the execution of the Maryland tribunal. The
vote in New Jersey that year stood, Clay 23,-
392, Jackson 1856, triAing yet all-impor-
tant difference of 463 votes. In 1886, when
Harrison and Van Buren, were the petition
ers of suffrage, there was a difference in
Connecticut of only 768 votes, in Louisiana,
of go, in Mississippi of POI, and i'll New
jersey of 545.
In 1910, when Harrison ran against Van
Buren,. there was difference in tho vote in
Maine of only AL, in Michigan of 1885, in
Pennsylvania of 1886, in total vote of
287 1921 aud In Virginia of 1892. Between
Clay and Polk in 1874 there we're differences
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s23, and in Tennessee, Folks home, Clay led
him by just 113 votes. In 184S, between
Taylor and Cass, the difference between
votes for the two was, in Alabama 981, in
Delaware 524, in Iowa 1909, in Mississippi
615, and in Virginia AGE.
The race of Pierce against Scott in 1867
was correspondingly close in some states
the advantage being, Delaware only 20 votes
in Louisiana 1892, IN North Carolina CSC
and in Tennessee 1880. In the memorable
and remarkable contest of 1850 Lincoln only
mad 657 votes the better of Douglas in Cali
fornia. In 1864 Mcclellan got only CT:
more votes than Lincoln in Delaware. In
California in 1868 Grant received but zoe
more votes than Seymour, and in Oregon
bat ia majority. In 1872 again, between
Greeley and Grant. Delaware held her votes
within 9o9 OF each other.-Inter Ocean.