Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-10
HOW II WAS LOST.
Ten Thousand Votes Stuffed il Brook.
yn-Quay Makes Effective Use
OF What Was Left Of
Bis Campaign FuDd-BoodIe and Civil
Services Reform 8espup sib!s for
ms Ktsu:s-HSpa Sishs.
Times Democrat,

now GrOYeI CLEVELAND came TOO lose New
York." said prominent Democrat 10
the Times Democrat correspondent TO-.
day. "Ot course hindsight is better than
foresight, and after the fight we can see
things that before the contes: were CD
:cured. Thers are two reasons for the
loss of the Empire State to the Demo.
crscy."
sI. The factional f ghts and greed for
patronage in New YORK county; and
The lack Of shy love for the presidential
candidate upon the part of the Democrats.
In the last SIX weeks 10 New York, in all
my min CLING with Democrats, it hss been
q rare case 10 find man who had kind
ApG seeetionate word to say for the occu-
pant Of the White House.
"I an not going to abuse Grover Cleve-
land, for In many respects he ls sn able
and q courageous man. He has done
some things while President that have
stamped him to be lot only q patriot but
9 statesman of the broadest type. He
made his mistake in the start by turning
| his back upon old Democratic veterans in
the party, who had fought gsllsntIy and
zsalously for Z quarter Of . century to re-
, store the Democracy to power. He not
only did this, but he heaped Uoop, what
he chose TO term rsrt3 workers, b..lel
and rebuxGG wCrds, which they could
1 OF forg1G H. also SHUT himself up, IS
j. were, SD refused to counsel and nave
intercourse with oid-'ime honored, true
a2d genuine leaders Of the D5mocrscy Ct
the nation.
believing inst tie country was with
hin, aud mat 2s would re sustained in
nis position, he bound himself 10 senti-
mentality kuGWr SIS
CIvIL ssRyIcs REFORM,
! which lost b IN thoussri5 CT earnest and
Thoughtful men l.. hia own parry. He
kept IN CEi.e unit, the Cay OF eIecsion
strong, biuer and uuCelenting l. 3pu o!.can
partisRDs, who Fever log. an opportunity
TO stab the very administration that Rss
giving them bread and meat. This wac
done il The face of the fact that there
were thousands Of good and competent
uen Of Mr. Clevelspd's own party really
sUFFsRING TOR POSITIONS.
can take the blue BOOK and give the
names OF Republicans holding prominent
positiots in Washington that would sim
ply asto1ish the Democrat OF the coun-
try
"There is no use Of saying that this
lnsde no dif renee, because it did. 1t
rankeisd in the 5Ie,st OF every good Dem.
ocrat lie could Iot understand why II
Nss that men who had fought for twenty
i've years and finally succeeded IL win
ming the light, should be kept cut OF po-
sltious and his Ell emies be kept il them.
There can be bur one understanding IL
American politics, and that is, the party
that Wins viii stand by the men who
p.aced il il power. AUy party that goss
against this rule will suffer defeat IS
surely IS the night fellows the day. The
grest secret CT Republican sue cas- now
end heretofore has been that 1t has been
true to its friends.
This aside, lie. US lcok al other reasons.
The Demo cratic party OF New York state
will fad it very difficulty to explain to the
Democracy Of the ration how it Is that
they cleo. their Governor by 10000 ma
lrity, their Lieurenant-G Governor, their
Judge OF the Court Of Appeals, aud that
they absolutely carry everything by fri m
so 600 to 10000 ma1ority in tue City of
New York and yet defelt the national
Democratic ticket.
| THEY WILL OFFER EXPLANATIONS,
but these explanations will not be worth
the paper upon which they ara written
Look a. It: Hill receives Is, 900 plurality
in New York county and Cleveland only
Sc 700! Hill carried Kings county by
l6, COO and Cleveland by only II, 0G0! Hill
carried Erie county By over 5000 and
Cleveland by 8 few hundred! Grant is
elected mayor Of New York City by 10,
coo plurs lily, Hewitt gets IS COO, and yet
Mr., Cleveland only gets $4,000 plurality
"Now, what WAS the Republican
strer 9Th? Not to exceed en- an average
IS COO votes out CT q total poll CT nesrly
270 600. Miller, the Republic csndI-
Gate for Goverror, received 1000 votes;
Erhardt, the R publicsn candidate for
mayor, received $1,000 voses; Jscoous,
! the REPUBLICAN candidate for sheriff, re
ceiv.d 81, 900 votes, and Perley, tie Re
publican cand date for county clerk, re-
ceived so. coo votes, wolfe Harrison, fol-
President, rec ived 1G7 SS4 votes. Now
Is there any msn with q Grain Of political
O. nse 10 this country who will not sse
that this
STATEMENT ALONE STAMPS TREAcAEkY
on the psrs of the Democracy Of New
York Cl'y?
HNoH let Us leave Nav York county
lnd see what was done in other pisces.
] Fur years sgo Brooklyn gave MIR. Cleve-
land &c, 0c0 plurality over M. Blaine.
The new registration in Brooklyn In
creased the vote e lhss city abou 30 COO,
| md yet Mr.. Clevelsnd It saves 1l.ooo OF
Il. 900 plurality in Brooklyn sEe1esosy'
and Mr. Hill receives 16 900 or 10 "U
Taking into consideration slI the con0i-
tons that may hsve existed sgainst Mr..
Cleveland snd in favor Of Mr.. Hi, tais
loo ks remarkable If not suspicious.
| II comes TO me this evening from q
pretty good scou'ce that the Democrats
in Brooklyn were beaten out of about
,0o0 votes by Republican bribery and
"sculIduggery" from O'Clock until 10
las. evening. 1 read three dispatches
from Brooklyn to the effect that Cleve.
lsnd had carried the county of Kings by
| $4,000 plurality. In the meantime Hugh
Mclaughlin, who is at the head OF the
D mocrstiC organization over there, WAS
constantly telegrsphipg Senator German
thst Brooklyn would certairlg give Cleve-
Land %. 900 msjority. All of q sudden
there Was 0 tremendous and sensational
drop A dispatch came about m dnight
statisg that Brooklyn had only Il, 900 or
1G GOO for Cleveland. u knocked the
| boys Of the patiopal committee senseless
IT CREATED PANIC
| that l never saw before in q political