The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-08
STILL IN DOUBT.

dispatches are against US, it must be
confessed, and the very atmosphere is
gloomy, and yet our faith is that Mr..
Cleveland has won the battle and will
continue four years longer at the head
of the nation whose affairs he has man
aged with ability and integrity and
patriotism for nearly four years. 1t
does not seem possible that the Ameri-
can people have permitted themselves
to b3 duped and bamboozzled into
doing that which intelligence con-
vinces the thoughtful must result in
injury to the individual and the ma
ton.
Defiant as this confession or ex-
preston of confidence in the triumph of
the Democracy may appear in the face
of the news which has been sent to
the country. it is not without
grounds for its justification and
Support. We have all had experience
and know how unreliable and untrust-
worthy is the political news spread by
the Associated Press. The first an
nouncements of the results of the past
three Presidential elections have been
untruthtul, and the Justification, as in
this instance, has Invariably been in
the interest of the Republican Party. Fo r
daysafter the election four years ago, the
press reports insisted upon counting
Indiana for Blaine, and Democrats had
only the word of that good and true
man who was above lying and deceiv-
ing, Thomas A. Hendricks, that his
State was safe. Finally the votes were
counted, and the press dispatches were
shown TO have been wrong, the Demo
cratic plurality being over $500. The
same was true of New York, which was
at first claimed for and by the Republi-
cans, the plurality being placed at
more than 10000. Figures and returns,
official and estimated, were sent forth
to sustain the claim. 1t is amusing
now to turn back to the kilograms of
those days, and read how the Asso-
ciated Press and the telegraph company
made it plain that Mr.. Cleveland had
been defeated in his own State. Thu
Republic ms Throughout the country &C
cepted the verdict ot the news mongers,
and went ahead with their bonfres,
their red fire, their speech
and their Publications. The Dem
ocrats on the ground denied the
r publican claim, and disputed the
figures, but they could not inspire con-
fdence in the hearts OF the Democrats
throughout the country. Finally when
the returns were canvsssed, it was
found that the New York Democratic
managers were right, the State having
stood oy its favorite son. To-day the
Democratic national committee in New
York denies that the Empire State has
been carried for Harrison, and says
the returns which have been circul-
lated are not only not Official
but are incorrect, and that they
as usual, have been doctored in the in
terest of the Republicans. Also, the
same old cry that the Democrats are
trying to steal the State, is heard in the
land. When was there an election
when the Republican managers did not
howl that the Democrats were trying
to steal New York; It is conceded y
Republicans themselves that the fig
ures first sent out were incorrect, and
as the returns from the interior coun- |
ties of the State come in, the vote of |
r. 80 inv Job darn
Early yesterday morning THEHERALD
received from Hon. John w. Young, who |
is in New York because he wanted to be |
on the ground during the big battles |
dispatch stating that Cleveland's ma
jorities in the seaboar1 counties, .or
"beIoW Harlem Bridge as the phrase
goes, was $4,000, giving the Democrats !
the State by from 5000 to 5000. This
was in harmony with the belief of
thoughtful, observing Democrats here,
who remembered the past. AS bad
news came later in the day, Mr..
Young was asked for further informa-
ton, and late last night this was re-
ceived:
NEW 1ORht november Z.
To the SALT LAKE HERALD.
It is impossible to give exact inform alton.
Corrected returns are coming III, plainly re- |
ducing the majority claimed By the Repub- |
licans in the state. Nothing but complete
oficis returns can determine. The vote is |
very close, however. with possibilities yet
on the Democratic side.
JOHN W. YOUNG
twill not be claimed that this makes
New York Democratic, but it is en-
G., raging and it proves that the Re-
publicans, with their ally, the Asso- |
ciated Press, have been playing the old
game of claiming everything and taking
chances on holding what they can
Why ought we not to expect the same