Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
ACCEPTS HIS DEFEAT.
BOSTON, MASS, No'


BOSTON, MASS, November 16.
A special to the Herald from Augusta
says:
Mr.. Blaine regards the official count in
New York as practically settling the
Presidential question Mr.. Blaine, it is
stated on the best authority, received this
afternoon q telegram from New York an
nouncing the completion of the official
canvass OF that city, and informing him
that the plurality for Cleveland in
that State would be l,137. The same
authority states that Mr.. Blaine accepts
the result very cheerfully, and has no re-
grets growing out of his connection with
the campaign. He feels that he made
good fight, and he gracefully bows to the
verdict OF the American people. He
believes the Republican party will
prove true to its grand past
and will increase in strength
with coming years. He expects that in
1888 it will be called back into power.
Mr.. Blaine leaves for Washington the
middle of next week, where he and his
family will spend the winter.
THE CAUSES OF BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
ST. PAUL, MINI, November 16.
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York passed
through St. Paul yesterday, en- route to
his cattle ranches on the Little Missouri,
where he will remain until the holidays.
Interviewed on Presidential politics, he
said
''Sorry? Of course am sorry. | sup
pose Cleveland is elected-at least, the
chances in his favor are as several to one.
My friends and myself worked hard,
earnestly and honestly for Mr.. Blaine,
and, as 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
1SS0.'
'What caused the defeat?"
"a combination of untoWardness. If
the Conkling wing of the Stalwarts had
been true, if Burchard's terrible allitera-
tion had not been sprung upon us so late
in the campaign, if that soap dinner at
Delmonico's had not come off, or if the
Prohibitionists had been as honest and
conscientious as they claimed-in brief, if
any one of these opposing factors had
been eliminated, Mr.. Blaine would have
Won"
81 am glad Roscoe Conkling-that fiat.
ulent pouter-pigeon in politics-is out OF
the Republican party at last. He has
worked enough even from within, dear
knows. His Stalwart followers-not the
main body Of the Stalwarts, they were
true as steel-got a chance at Blaine and
used it to gforify personal animosi-
ties. Conkling is as practically dead
politically as ever. The Prohibitionists
wanted chance for revenge against the
Republicans, and took it. st. John,
haven't haven't shade of doubt, was
bought by the Democratic Committee be-
fore the campaign had waved to heat.
DR.. Burchard cost us thousands of votes,
in that his utterance stopped and turned
the other way many who were tend
ing Blaineward, and would have
voted for him had the three RS not
been spoken. That second Delmonico's
dinner, although the private gentlemen
who first conceived it were honest
enough, was a fatal mistake, and lost us
The Republican Central
Committee was not responsible for this
blunder. OF course it was little hard
on us in New York to nominate Mr..
Blaine at all, and | am inclined to
give the New York Independents,
or majority of them, credit for con-
l don't know whether
Cleveland will recognize by high official
place the services the Independents
rendered him or not, but | am inclined to
think SO. Are they still Republicans?
That is hard question to answer, and I'll
have to give it up. They are not
very valuable to the party at any rate.
l decline to believe that all the Independ-
ents were conservatives however and
need only cite one case to show they were
not. In Massachusetts the Independents,
by jealousy, and in a spirit OF
revenge for fancied wrongs, deliberately
Henry Cabot Lodge, against
whom they could urge nothing, and for
whom almost everything good can be said;
and for whom did they vote and work:
For Loyerick, Greenbacker and an ex.
If that be conscientiousnesa
In politics I'll have none OF it "