The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-11
HUTLEirS VIEWS.

uollDt thnt they Will DC honestly Sgolhtct
and tho result truthfully declared"
DUTLEirs VIEWS. Y
lie Gives a Cheerful! and Cl.assy Deseripiio,
Ng OF tho Situation. a
WAsIIlNuroS, Nov. lO.--seatcd in til,
reception rcom at General i. +. Butler
law office yesterday, II reporter awaited III
opportunity to interview the head of til,
Peoples party" The General was en-
gagged with client, and, upon dismssint
him, entered the room where the reporter
sat. & Ig
"Good afternoon, General" was tho
salutation Of the reporter. A srunt was
the only response. ::
General, l have been sent to ascertain
your opinion OF the result Of the election,
said the reporter. General Butler was
chewing away vigorously upon an ur'
lighted cigar. with good deal more than
half OF 1t i'll his mouth. He removed the
partially masticatcd weed and said:
"pardon me- but ! don't know the re.
suit. | don't think yonrpaper does, either
Nobody knows the result yet We know
that the vote is very close in New York,
and that it will require the official coun,
to determine who has been elected"
"But, General, it is said that the Rcpub.
licans give up New forkY'
"pardon me again. The Republicans
admit only that OIL the iace OF the returns
Mr.. Cleveland has small plurality. That
Is at. Tiiat is, that in total Of l,ee80000
votcsthe footinns show him 10 l." II little
in the lead. How many errors there ure
III the returns inade, or III the iUotlHss,
nothing but All official canvass can tell.
don't believe that it is possible for any set
OF men to foot up twelve hundred thou.
sand votes separately us cast in the differ.
ent precincts, without making mistakes.
feel quite certain that errors will be dis.
covered. They. may be in Ctyeland's s
favor, or they may elect Blaine. Why,
look at Massachusetts. The day after tie
election it was given out that Blaine's
plurality was 10000, when in fuct it was
$1,000. Now, there is 10 State in this
Union that collects election returns so
rapidly MS Massachusetts. There is no
polling place more than four miles from n
railway station. Well. you could put four
such States us Massachusetts in New York,
and yet it is pretended that We have the
correctreturns from that State"
,.g JAY GorLD's CONGRATULATIONS.
"Jay. Gould has sent his congratulations
10 Governor Cleveland" was another sus-
gestion Of the reporter.
eyes, I know responded tho General.
"The other night thirty thousand men
were marching in the city OF New York
and singing, Hang Jay Gould to 4 sour
apple tree Now, Gould got frightened.
1t wouldn't have scared me-" added GEN
eral Butler, Strengthening himself up.
"Gould didn't want to be hung to Il sour
apple tree, so he takes an early opportu-
nifty to paciiy his would-be cxecu.ionc,s
by congratulatins Governor Cleveland.
He knew that il the figures should change
and elect Blaine, his, congratulations dis
patch would not do him any harm, while
in any event it might save him trouble
Now, don't know, but believe Gould
WIS rs much in iayor Of Cleveland as Of
Blaine. do know that Vanderbilt rode
TWO horses. He sent Mr.. Depew ont to
speak for Blain. and he gave Cleveland
Sl50, 600. / shall wait ior the official re-
turns OF the vote OF New York. We can,
rely upon telcpraphic returns. Dispatches
ure often doctorcd or errors occur iu
transmission. Now, 1 want to Iaskivou
how much OF Il million dollars would You
pay ont, SIS Mt N time, on I ttecgraphic
orders? Not many thousands, I warrant.
So it is with these returns forwarded by
telegraph. We must wait for the Official
figures. Why, night before last in New
York an old stall officer OF mine came to
me saying he, had heard OF dispatch
going. over the wire, Windsor Hotel,
signed B. +. Jones and advising Blaine
thnt Cleveland had been elected. My old
army friend was badly frightened until !
told him that Jones was not ut the Wind
sor. Hotel. / am IN old soldier, and
never get scared ut camp r,lnlors,"
General, was there ever Presidential
election in this country before that de-
pended upon so close Il vote?" t'l q "a
mo, sir; never. In 1886 Pennsylvania
was the pivotal State, and Fremont was
elected, but u Democratic Returning
Board discovered that he didn't have US
many votes as were cast for him, and he
was defeated. You remember that in
1876 the election was given up for two
weeks, but Republican Returning Boards
asccrtained that the vote was different
from that cast.n s. ,.l
BUTLER on HIS vorR. a.9
General, did your vote reach your cx.
pectations2' asked the reporter. sigq5.y
The General had been for moment
looking over the columns Of the New York
Sun, to find the account Of the men who
had been singing Hang Jay Gould to a
Sour Apple Tree, .lle made no response
to the question but continued to sean the
paper. After two or three minutes ST.
Ience, he exclaimed: ~ Ia u Z. Z (
"Ah, here it is. Let ME read it," and
he read the S,lMs description Of the march.
ing Democrats who were .proclairning
against Gould the night before. WE
"Now,"i he said, "you can see how Gould
felt. He was scared, and we can all read.
lily understand what prompted his dis
patch to Mr.. Cleveland. u ,ssg, 81
t"But, General, about your votc.'' ~
"Nly votc,". hc replied, without laying
down his paper, "was larger than cx-
pected. You see my vote was not counted
exceptin Michigan. lt!was not cast for
mo. My vote was the protection vote and
the Irish vote, and when it was appafcnt
that there was danger Of Clcveland's elec.
ton these men determined to vote direct.
ly for Blaine. \ vote for mo was only
half vote against Mr.. Cleveland. They
saw that and cast their votes ior Mr.
Blaine. Hence,I say, my vote except in
Michigan was not counted" 5tal94
The General was in q chatty mood, but
did not seem disposed to talk about his
party or It's prospects. lie maintained
that the Presidential election was not set
fled and that II ,nirht vnt .rivc thel vir