Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-10-30
GOVERNOR DAVID 3. HILL.


The Hope Of Cleveland Said to Hang
Upon Dsvids Willingness to Call a
Special session of the Legislature.
Yesterday and to-day the New York
Herald has been devoting the broadside
of whole page to the subject of regis
tration and crowded polling places in New
York city. II has not been SO agitated
since James Gordon Bennett was home
last and discharged the entire editorial
force, and Mr.. Bennett will probably have
to discharge the present force before the
excitement can be allayed There is re-
published below the gist Of all this furore
with extracts from the Herald's editorial
on the same, which by the way was set
forth in the Herald this morning in all
the various fonts Of type that the Herald
office contains. Here are the alleged
facts Of the case.
1.-The plain truth. as everybody admit
ted, is simply this, that the registration
in New York city this year has been so
euormous-so far without precedent
that it will be utterly impossible to cast
the entire vote which it represents at the
800 polling places prescribed by law and
within the ten hours from a. m. TO p
m, to which the statute limits the keep
has shown that ut is not safe TO count
upon an ability TO receive and deposit the
ballots OF more than 400 voters at any
polling place within the ten hours limit
Yet, out Of the $50 election districts
there are 2l7 in which over 400
have been registered; there are forty
nine districts in which the voters exceed
40, many with precincts which contain
more than 500 voters; some which con
tain over 600, and one in which over 900
voters have been registered. The situa
lion IS one which aroused the especial
alarm Of the hosts of the Democratic
party in this city For upon the vote Of
New York city may depend the election
OF President Cleveland and the contin-
nance Of tha national administration in
power And the shutting out Of any Of
this vast army of loyal patriots
might mean the defeat of true democracy,
tariff reform and good government p"
The editorial alarm which is sounded
below intimates. that unless everybody
will have chance to vote and Mr.. Cleve-
land is reelected, there win be an appeal
from the ballet box to yiolence-proba
.bly 10 Henri Watterson's 100, 600 Ken
tuckians who were to march to Wash
ington In 1871 but who have not yet
materialzed The Herald says in fact
The elective franchise is the highest
privilege OF an American citizen. II is a
right guaranteed by the constitution, the
fundamental law of the land Every
man Of the two hundred and eighty-ive
thousand registered in this city when he
presents himself At the polls ON election
NS-day has right to deposit his ballot and
TO have that ballot received and counted
''But unless prompt and adequate
remedy shall be provided hundreds of
voters may be deprived Of that right.
The danger Of sucn A situation cannot DO
Oyer estimated II Is not to much 70 SAY
- that among its possible consequences are
riots at the polls, perilous election dis
putes, even a national crisis,
fThe American people are the quickest
In the world to accept the result of al
honest, lawful election They would b.
quickest TO reject the result of an election
which did not include the vote of ever,
qualified voter appearing at the poll
ready to cast his ballot
''The Importance Of giving every vote
chance to ote, the Importance of re
seiving and counting every ballot offered
is vital A governor Of Massachusetts
was once elected by bare majority o
one Less than 500 votes transferre
from Cleveland 10 Blaine in this city fou
years ago would have changed the resul
Of the election in the United States
There is no telling what may happen thi
year. The exclusion Of a hundred or eve
ten voters from the polls might be sufi
Gent to defeat the popular will for Pres
dent, mayor or any local officer.
Not single voter can be constitu
fional or safely deprived Of his vot'
through inadoquRcy Of the election
machinery To disfranchise larg
number in that wsy, as is now threaten
ed would be simply to invite nations
peril. The entire vote of the city Nigh
be thus vitiated. The consequence Nigh
be a controversy over the national eleC
tion more frauGht with danger tina
that Of 1875"