The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
TITS PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
The Official Canvass of New York Gives
Him 1,147 Plurality,
And He Will Be maugurated as President
of the United States on March 4,
Next-Cabinet Talk.
COUNTED FOR CLEVELAND.


noon the canvass of the vote in this city was
completed, and Grover Cleveland, by the slender
majority of less than twelve hundred, placed to
his credit by the most stupendous of clerical
errors" and DIR. Burchard's rum, Romansm
and rebellion" speech, becomes beyond dispute
the President elect of these United States.
great pressure has been removed from the public
mind. The long and feverish struggle, with its
sleepless anxiety, is over, and the people are ac-
cepting the result calmly. Business promises to
be depressed while, and the Republicans think
it hard that they should be robbed of the
electoral votes of half dozen States in the
South, but both of these things business de-
preston and hard feelings, will pass away.
Mr.. Cleveland will be inaugurated as quitely
and peacefully as Garfield was. The feeling is
growing that Mr. Cleveland will be his own
worst enemy. If he is only allowed to go unmo-
Tested about his business, four or eight years of
Democratic administration will make the people
pray for return of the good old times of Re
publican rule The Republican party need not
despair of success because it will not have the
patronage of the government and the influence
of the administration to aid it in the next presi-
Dental contest 1t can do without them. The
administration was called hostile this year. and
rendered the Republican national committee no
assistance of any considerable value. The ad-
ministraton, by ordering the postoffice to remain
open here election day and refusing to give
the letter carriers holiday on the day of
the election, easily took from Mr.. Blaine 800
votes. The support from the hundred thousand
Office holders of this country was absurdly
mean and small. The Office holders
contributed to the campaign funds $3S, 0OO and
not one cent more The Democrats had So to
spend where the Republicans had 81; and that
they spent it the result in Indiana and New Jer-
sey proves. This campaign has been conducted,
on the part of the Republicans, with one-third
the money spent in 1880, 1876 or 1872 I'VE
feel that we have done all we could, said Chair
man JONES' when the result of the count was
announced. ''We fought the battle honestly
and vigorously; we could do more"
There mas been disposition to criticise the
national committee, but 1 observe that the
people are becoming more just, and
they recognize that the committee did
the very best that they could
in the face of the fearful odds that rose before
them from the first day of the campaign down
to the very day of the election. On this point
the Sun sensibly observes: For some mystic
rious reason these committees are held respon-
sible because a plurality of 1900 among the
voters of the country preferred Cleveland to
Blaine. If Blaine had hoped to have few hun
dred more votes in this State, as would probably
have been the case, if Brother Burchards
aryngeal, hngual and labial facilities for the
propulsion of the letter h had been less, Mr..
d. NJ nj +lair
would have been soundly abused by the
Democrats as Mr. Jones and Mr.. Elkins now
are by the Republicans"
The aldermanic supervisors entered upon
their work of canvassing to day earlier than
usual in order to complete the electoral count, at
all hazards by an early hour in the afternoon.
Chairman Waite came ahead of the crowd and
took his seat long before o'clock Not another
alderman was visible in the chamber at that
time, and but one lawyer, Mr. Bartlett, was in
attendance Mr.. Waite had brief consultation
with Mr.. Bartlett, and then proceeded to attach
his initials to the tally sheets, in order to ex-
pediate matters, while awaiting his colleagues
The first important preliminary, when the board
came to order, was the resolution laid over yes
terday providing for the canvass of the electoral
Supervisor O'Neill offered a motion to
that effect, and there was no oppo-
sition. Supervisor Kirk then took up
the Fifteenth district returns and
ratified off the electoral figures with such rapid
ity that within fifteen minutes he called out for
the returns from the Sixteenth. A large crowd
occupied the benches in the rear of the chamber
and the floor 1t was found that two returns in
election districts of the Seventeenth Assembly
district were defective, and they were sent to
the committee on corrected returns Often
dorfer was scratched in the First election dis
trict of the Sixteenth Assembly district The
Eighteenth Assembly district was then
taken up and read. 1t was found in
the First election district that the
vote for Blaine was ST. Cleveland
l41, and St John s. making total ol 1913. There
were 225 votes cast making difference of ~ for
Blaine. The return was referred to the
mittee to be corrected In the Third election
district of the Eighteenth Assembly district, the
total vote cast for Cleveland was shown to be
213 instead of 3l3, the figures heretofore pub
lished In the Sixteenth election district Of the
Eighteenth Assembly district the figures gave
Cleveland gain of 200 over those already cred
tied to him. The vote cast was 272 in place
of r. In the Twentieth election district of the
Nineteenth Assembly district Ottendorfer was
again botted from the electoral ticket.
The canvass went on briskly and without a
hitch. The spectators lounged back i'll their
chairs and puffed cigars until the air was blue
and misty, and buzz of whispered conversa-
ton ran round the chamber. At 2 o'clock the
canvass of the electoral count in the citv w,es
completed, and the announcement was greeted
with tremendous applause. The committee on
corrected returns were still in session in the
Governors room, making the necessary cor
rections and the supervisors took a