Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-18
HOW IT WAS DONE,
SOME MORE THEORIES UPON THE SUBJECT Q
REPUBLICAN DEFEAT.

SOME MORE THEORIES UPON THE SUBJECT OF
REPUBLICAN DEFEAT.
A st. Paul special to the Globe-D Democrat
says: Theodore Roosevelt of New York,
passed through st. Paul to-day, en- route to
where he will remain until the holidays. In.
terviewed on presidential politics he said:
Sorry? OF course l am sorry! l suppo'
Cleveland is elected-at least the chances in
his favor are several to one My friends and
myself worked hard, earnestly aud honestly
for the election of Mr. Blaine, and rs you'll
see, we held new York city to all that could
be expected of it. We held it, in fact, to the
Garfield figures of 1880"
What caused the dyfeat!'
"a combination of untowardness. if the
Conkling wing of the stalwarts had been true,
if Burchard's ter. ible ALTERATION had not been
sprung upon lis SO late in the campaign, if that
soap dinner ut Delmonlco's had not come off.
or if the prohlbitiouists had been az honest and
conscientious as they claimed-in brief, if any
one of these opposing factors had been elimin-
ated, Mr.. Blaine would have wou
81 am glad Roscoe,Conkling-that tiatulent
louter- pigeon in politics is out of the repub-
lcan party at last. He has worked it enough
even from within, dear knows. His stalwart
followers not the main body of the stalwarts,
Lley WtTb JIut us SGctI BoL u CiuICt AZ Dltlllo
and used it to crafty personal animosit!es.
AS for Conkling, he can stand on has forked
end and spout more inflated nonsense than
any public man in the country. He is not a
mental giant or q statesman at all, in
the true sense of this word Gifted in wire
pulling, his bomba tic perions catch the
groundlings and can sometimes win a major
ity in q convention to his side, but | deny
him the qualities of craftsmanship. He is a
traitor to the republican party, and it is non
sense for any one to talk OF republican legis-
lators Joining with democrats to send him to
| the United States senate. There is no dan
| ger of that. Unless Cleveland is a blatant
| fool he cannot offer him a cabinet portfolio.
Conkling was practically dead politically as
ever. The prohibitIonists wanted n chance
for revenge against the republicans, and took
1t. st. John, | haven't a shadow of doubt,
was bought by the democratic committee be.
fore the campaign had waxed to heat. DR.
Burchard cost us thous. nds of votes,
in that his utterance stopped and
turned the other way many who were tond
ing Blaineward, and would have voted for and
had the three RS" not been spoken. That
| second DelmonIcOs din err, although the phi
vate gentlemen who first conceived it were
honest enough, was "A fat mistake, and lost
us thousands. The Republican central com
mittee was not responsible for its blunder Oh
course it was n little hard on us in New York
to nominate Mr.. Blaine at all, and | am in
ciiped to give the New York Independents, Oh
a majority of them, credit for conscientious
ness. / don't know whether Cleveland will
recognize by high official place the services
the independents rendered him or not, but ]
am inclined to think not. Are they still re.
| publicans? That is a hard question to answer
aud III have to give it up. They are
not very valuable to the party at any rate. !
decline to believe that all the independent,
were conservatives, however, and need only tC
cits one case to show they were not. In Mas.
sachusetts the Independents, actuated by jeal,
ousy and IN a spirit OF revenge for fancied
Lodge, against whom they could urge moth
ing, and for whom almost everything good car
be said. and for Who u did they vote and
work? Lowering, a greenbacker and an ex
barkeeper.