The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-22
ALL OVER.

The New York State board of canvas
sers met in Albany on Friday, and the
county returns having all been received,
tabulated and footed, the result OF the
late election was officially declared and
the certificates issued to Cleveland
electors. Those who have been hope
Iessly clinging to a forlorn hope that
the Republicans would discover or do
something to bring the matter in doubt
until either Cleveland or Blaine was
firmly seated in the White House, will
now subside, and either sulk or accept
the situation good-humoredly.
But how close the contest has been,
when we come to look at the figures.
The total vote in New York State, out
side that for the fair Belva, was ,167. 169,
being the largest ever polled, and the
two leading candidates ran so nearly
neck-and-neck that at the finish, one
came in only lib votes ahead, that
bling Cleveland's average plurality.
This is less than one-tenth OF
one per cent. of the total vote, and tells
how easily the victory might have been
reversed. Mr.. Blaine needed only 557
more votes to win New York and the
Presidency. On so narrow a margin
has the fate of the two great parties
been suspended; with such slight odds
has the scale been turned, and the most
powerful political organization that this
or any other country has ever seen been
overturned and wrecked, its two hun
dred thousand oftice-holders and paid
dependents sent to the wall, and the
internal and foreign policies of the re-
public changed. When one reflects upon
the closeness OF the contest he almost
shoulders at the thought, and yet the
true American feels proud that revolt
ton can be brought about in govern
ment where the forces are so evenly bal |
anced without trouble or danger.
The contest being over any OF Us
may point out a dozen things that
might have been done, or a dozen left
undone by Blaine and his managers,
any one of which would have gained
him the 557 votes needed. If Blaine
had never written that letter virtually |
confessing the seductio on of the woman |
who afterwards became his wife, be !
might to-day have been the President |
elect, instead of the Great Defeated, |
with gloomy future before him and a |
dhty record behind him. 1.-The had not !
gone TO that Delmonico dinner in New |
York, rendered by Cyrus Field and the |
great millionaire monopolists and stock |
robbers, who can doubt that he would |
have been elected. That unfortunate
dinner cost him many more votes than I
he required to make him President. If |
he had not been the victim of that min
isterial reception, and the enthusiastic
clerical idiot. Rev. DR.. Burchard,
had not made that foolish re-
mark about Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion" the Democrats all over the
land to-day would be down-hearted and
depressed, for Blaine's plurality would
have been two or three times as many
as Cleveland's. DR.. Burchard's meddle-
some, bat well-intended interference
cost Blaine the Presidency, and wrecked !
The Republican party. And SO we might |
80 on, finding scattered all along the
line plumbers and mistakes by Blaine |
and his managers, any one of which, in |
view of the small plurality, would have
cost him the election. OF course we are
all glad that these plumbers were made,
as they have rescued the republic from !
great peril