The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-11-17
ONE VIEW OF THE CAUSES.


well tell you how Grover Cleveland
came 10 lose New York. OF course
hindsight is better than foresight, and
after the fight we can see things that
before the contest were obscure.
There are three reasons for the loss
of the Empire state to the democracy.
First, mismanagement upon the part of
the national democratic committee :;
for patronage in New York county
and third, the lack of love for the
presidential candidate upon the part of
the democrats.
In the last six weeks in New York,
in all my mingling with democrats, it
has been rare case to find a man who
had kind and atfectionaie word TO
say for the occupant Of the White
house. am not going to abuse Grover
Cleveland, for in many respects he is
an able and courageous man. lie has
done some things while president thal
have stamped him to be not only a
patriot but 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 gallantly and zealously for
quarter OF century to restore the
democracy to power. He has not only
done this, but he heaped upon what he
chose to term "party workers" bitter
rebuking words which they could not
forget. He also shut himself up, as it
were, and refused to counsel and have
intercourse with old, time-honored,
true and genuine leaders of the democ-
racy of the nation. Believing that the
country was with him, and that he
would be sustained in his position, he
bowed himself to sentimentality
known as civil service reform, which
lost him thousands of earnest and
thoughtful men in his own party He
kept in Office from the day of his cleo
ton strong, bitter and unrelenting re-
publican partisans who never lost an
opportunity to stab the very admins
tration that was giving them bread and
meat. This was done III the face OF the
fact that there were thousands of good
competent men of Mr.. Cleveland's own
party really suffering for positions.
can take the blue book and give the
names of republicans holding pr0mi'
nent positions in Washington that
would simply astonish the democrats
of the country. There is no use in
saying that this made no difference, be-
, cause it did. 1t ranked in the heart o
every good democrat. He could hot
understand how it was that men he
had fought against for twenty-five
years, and finally succeeded in winning
, the fight, should hold positions, and hi
and his friends be kept out of them
There can be but one understanding il
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party that wins will stand by the meI
, that placed it in power. Any party
that goes against this rule will suffer
defeat as certainly as the night follows
the day. The great secret of repubh
can success, now aud heretofore, ha'
been that the party has been true tC
its friends. This aside, let us look a
, others reasons.
The democratic party OF New York
state will find it very difficult to eX
plain to the democrats OF the natioi
how it is that they elect their governor
n by 10000 majority; their lieutenan
governor, their judge of the court 0
appeals, and that they absolutely carr!
everything by from $4,000 to 0,oOt
: majority in the city of New York, ant
n yet defeat the national democratic
ticket. They will offer explanations
, but these explanations will not b'
worth the paper upon which they arr
8 written. Look at it. Hill received
68, 900 plurality in New York county
= and Cleveland only $4,000. Hill carried
8 Kings county by 10000, and &. evelant
e by only 1900. Hill carried Fri,
. county by over 5000, and CleveianI
by lew hundred. Grant Is electet
mayor of New York city by 40 600
Hewitt gets sc, 900, and yet Mr.. CIcve
land only gets $4,000 plurality.
Now, what was the republican
strength? No to exceed on an averag'
$4,000 votes, out of a total poll o
nearly 10000. Miller, the republican
candidate for governor, received 81 +,
600 votes. Erhardt, the republican can
didate tor mayor, received 67 900 votes
Jacobus, the republican candidate +,
sheriff, received 81, 900 votes, an,
Perley, the republican candidate TO
county clerk, received $4,000 votes
while Harrison, for president. receives
l07 1884 votes.
Now. is there any man with grain
of political sense in the country tha
will not see that this statement alon
stamps treachery upon the part of tn
democracy of New York city.
Now lei us leave New York count,
and see what was none in other places
Four years ago Brooklyn gave Mr
Cleveland sixteen thousand pluralit,
over MIR. Blaine. The new registration
in Brooklyn increased the vote of th
city about thirty thousand, and ye
Mr.. Cleveland received eleven or twelv
thousand plurality in Brooklyn, an,
Mr.. Hill received sixteen or eighteen
thousand. Taking into consideration
all the conditions that may have existet
against Cleveland and in favor of M
Hill, this looks remarkable, if not sus
picious. 1t come TO me this evening
from q pretty good source, that TN
democrats in Brooklyn were beatel
out of about ten thousand votes b.
republican bribery and sculiduggery.
From O'Clock until 10 O'Clock las
evening, read three dispatches froH
Brooklyn to the effect that Cleve!amt
had carried the county of Kings b,
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