Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-12-05
Facts and Figures.

have been LWlSVou VI Hn'S"P
order that facts may be misinter-
peted, can this be truthfully charged
against them. The pregnant facts
and the fixed figures of the late
election will be in the near future
subject of curious inquiry to people
who lust now are content to accept
results merely, and who have no
inclination to philosophize about
them. Figures, now matters oil
official record, are singularly help
full in interpreting the facts OF the
recent contest which are visible 10
everybody.
A prominent fact that even the
so.called Democratic supporters OF
Cleveland do not care to argue Is
that he was selected as candidate
not because his party wanted MIN,
but because boiling Republicans
demanded him. Not the so-calleu
Democracy, but the New York
Times, "Harper's Weekly George
William Curtis, and other news
papers and individuals whose
careers have been consecrated u
the work Of defaming Democracy,
selected Cleveland, and forced
Democratic convention to name
candidate who would please DIS
gruntled Republi cans. The acci-
dental Governor was agreeable 10
Beecher and the Independents, anu
the sO-called Democracy accepted
him as a Presidential candidate
0hecause of the friends he had
made.p A second fact of startling
import 10 the adherents of So
called Democracy is that their line
has been broken at the very ceutre
by an enormous detection from
what has heretofore been the back |
bone of Democratic strenGth-the |
labor vote, and especially the
Irish laboring vote. For the time
being a mercenary contingent has
filed the gap in the Democratic
line oecasioned by the marching
out Of this .trusty force-the labor
vote.
Sach clements as the labor vote
and the Irish vote do not abandon
old political affiliations except when
deeply stirred by consciousness OF
wrong or meditated wrong 10 them
selves. For long time to come,
they have abandoned the so-called
Democracy, or as they say them
selves, they have "gone to stay
What a poor exchange for such sup
porters, who number thousands OF
earnest and conscientious citizens
without ambition for place or pow
or, was the Democratic "swap"
with such Dalgettys and free-lances
in politics and personal relations as
Carl Schurzl With such PecksniHs
as Curtis, whom COnkliDg, his ally |
in the late contest, long ago char
acterized as a "political man-millin-
err" How long are such accessiOns |
likely to support the so-called De-
mocracy they have always reviled,
and whom they lately helped only |
to secure foreign missions and cab
met places for themselves, after the
first disappointment Of their AFRO
CANT demandsi
But facts and figures are abund-
ant, and bear each other out with
prophetic and poetic fidelity.
Every Northern state but four, and
that means eighteen states, with
1872 electoral votes, was carried for
Blaine. One of these four, New
York, remained in doubt for a week
after the election, and has been
finally decided for Cleveland by a
meager plurality of a little over a
thousand votes, the actual majority
against him being in that state
about forty thousand. In the re-
naming three Northern States, ln-
diana, Connecticut and New Jersey
voting against Blaine, the aggre-
gate excess of Cleveland over Blaine
is only about ten thousand. BY
such narrow margins was the mere
result attained The Pacific states,
two of which, California and Ne
vada, voted for Hancock, and all of
which have been lately held by the
Republicans by slender margins,
When held at all, are all in line for
Blaine by large majorities, and
California elects Legislature to
return a Republican senator in
stead of Senator Farley, the pres
ent Democratic incumbent. Above
the old line Of slavery every one of
the interior and agricultural states
except Indiana remains firm in its
allegiance to the Republicans. The
North, in truth was practically
solid for Blaine, and would have
been actually solid for him, but for
mere accidents determining each
one by itself a few hundred or Il
few Thousand votes.
The S0nth, the bOurbOns say was
"sOlid ag,iin. IL is useless TO dis
pmte the assertion. It is worse
than useless just now to inquire
why the whole cottongrOwing area
was solid for Cleveland. Some
day, and it will he during Cieve-
land administration, too, the Cot
ton State boys will b. put on notice
that they have 0verdOne the thing.