Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-08
Very Innocent Claim.

y Very Innocent tiainis
Mr.. Blaine still claims that he has
received plurality of the votes of New
York. The national Republican com
mittee expresses the same opinion rs
do It's organs in New York and Phla-
delphia, the tribune and the Press. The
z rest Of the country generally considers
that Mr.. Blaine has not carried New
York state, and is not elected. No one
can deny that Mr.. Blaine and his com
mittee and his special organs can claim
New York il they desire, nor can 1t be
disputed that they naturally desire to do
% while there remains ray of hope for
them. The returns of the county officers
of the state are against them, but they
say these returns will be shown to lie
Incorrect In the official canvass on Tu, s.
day. and they profess their willingness
{ to Abids by the canvass if no fraud has
been perpetrsted That is all that We
can demand from them. It is true that
1t is generally considered a mark of
wisdom in man to know when he is
beaten, and sign of good sense wher
be surrenders gracefully. But we are
not particularly concerned about the
degree Of wisdom or gracefulness the
Republican managers exhibit, provided
they abstain from the trickery and fraua
themselves, of which they pretend to fear
that they are going to be the victims.
The feeling which has been aroused
against them since the election has been
tnoitp1 hy a Snnntn11u
methods which have been taken by their
Instruments to conceal the true returns
Of the election. 1t was found that tht
news sent out by the AssociateC
Press, which was unGer the control OF
their friends, did not give correct re
port of the result. This was conspcu-
Ous iD the reports from Indiana and Vir
ginia, and has been particularly proved
against the telegraph managers in theiJ
presentation Of the returns from New
York. II was found that their reports
were unfair and were steadily colored
for Blaine.
La view of this, it certainly takes
great deal Of brass in Blaine and his
committee ard organs to now claim that
they are being cheated in New York.
If they had fairly reported the returns
OF The county officers they might b.
heard patiently in charging frauds but
" en they have been caught in an : D
parent effort to prepare the way for
frauds In their own behalf, they do not
get much credit in declaring that they
have been cheated.
Their claim, as now made is, however,
very innocent one. They only ask for
the right the law gives them to chal-
lenge the vote of New York aud submit
the decision Of it to the tribunals pro-
vided by the law. They are welcome to
all the comfort they can get out
of the law and the increase
of their vote that will be likely to come
from contest. Upon the figures ascer-
tained already from the county officers
the state board of canvassers will Ger.
tainly fad plurality for Cleveland. The
Democratic officers OF the state will Ger
tify the choice Of the electors found to
be chosen by the board of canvassers.
The Democratic House of Representa-
tiyes will accept the decision of the state
of New York, The Republicans, in
contestiDg the state, will need TO demon
strate that they have carried it before
they get 1t; and if they can show this
they are welcome to 1t. When they get
down to their work, however, they will
first strike against the remarkable vote of
New York city which gave Cleveland but
forty-three thousand plurality. and but
one hundred and thirty-three thousand
votes, while the vote received by the
Dem cratic candidates for the county
Offices was one hundred and sixty thlu
sand, and for mayor one hundred and
seventy-eiGht thousand.
Inasmuch as twenty thousand Inde.
pendent Republicans are believed to
have voted for Cleveland in New York,
most OF whom voted for the Republican
candidates for the county offices, it seems
remarkable that the Democratic presi-
Dental electors should poll twenty seven
thousand votes less than the Democratic
county officers received and perhaps in
explaining the cause of this notable vote
In New York city, there may be come
thing discovered of the frauds of which
Mr., Blaine has SO great horror.
THE a lbany evening Journal Is one
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