Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-12-13
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compilation Of the popular vote, by
states, for Presidential caudldateH, which
is complete with mo single exception Of
Colorado. With this omission the total
vote ioots up; Cleveland, 5,296 7es !;
Harrison, 5,1ss, 1893; Fisk, 242 9sl /;
streeter, Union Labor candidate lea ,96s.
II is Unnecessary to say that figures 40.
ceptsd by the New York Tribune cannot
be suspected Of exsggerAting the Demo-
cratic vote. In saying this we do not
wish to Misunderstood as insiauating that
the 7sibuRe's figures, on tho Other hand,
are open to any suspicion of favoring the
Republican vote; but merely to en-
phasize the sef-svident conclusion that
when the Tribune comedies 100 600
plurality for Cleveland the concession
carries with It tbs g,oAter force for COM
ing from the chief Eepublican newspaper
in the United States. Now what do these
figures show1 Primarily, that the people
have endorsed President Cleveland and
the Mills bill and that the great issue upon
which the Democratic party fought the
fight Of November has iriumphed at the
polls. There are 8, 296, 703 aYowad tariff
reformers in the United States, not count
ing Colorado; 5000, 7O9 voters who favor
free raw msteriRls and q reduction Of
taxation on necessArles; {, 296, 7O3 voters
who want to see Americans mauufac-
turing for the markets OF the world aud
American commerce again reyisitiug the
seas. This Is 3 elorsously encouraging
showing, even though these 5,aa8, 70s
votes failed to secuEe a majority in the
electoral college. But the Asutes show
something more, and right here ia our
oWa State, in the Republican ratohsss
Of Sussex county, we have local cor.
roboration Of the general truth OF what
the Brooklyn Citizen says in the following
extract
! 1t appears by the returns now In that
| Cleveland resolved total Of 6, 29G, 7NS votes
| against 5,lS579g Tor Harrison, being plu.
rallty OF llU, VA for the Democratic candi-
date. stated Ia this simple form the result
| Is auhcie3fly astonishing, when We con-
slider that the minority candidate Is to have
the office, bu:it becomes still more signifl-
1 can't wien the figures OF four years ago are
| brought TO our attention. Four years ago
Oleveland's plurality In the popular vote
over Blaine was ~, 2l5,o In IoiherI words,
cleveland Is Set aside with a greatly In
creased plurality oyer what was Tncordedr
for him whom he was the yictor.u The flist
thing shown By these Results Ia that tho
Democratic party still holds the pc0nhdence
| OF the American people the second Is thatr
1t gained In popular favor because oil, its
course in oilica, and the third is that the
defeat Of Cleveland ts due to the operation
| OF causes NOT subject to tho popular WILL
| The more thoroughly the facts are exam
! ined the more evident does II become that
the success OF Harrison Is due entirely to
! the corrupt use OF money In the states of
I New York and Indiana. Except as votes
were obtained for him In these states by
purchase, the record Throughout the coun-
try Is one of almost uniform Republican
loss. Thus, In California, Harrlson's plu-
| rality IL only 1850, against IS, 1928 cast for
! Blaine; In Illinois 1t Is 22,042 for him
I against 25,li9 Tor Blaine: In Michigan II Is
f,S2 903 against 1854 for Bl4lne; in Mime.
81. he has &c, 635 against Al ,779 for Blaine;
ana Il Ohio 1t Is 1850 tor Harrison to
Sl,oJz fot Blaine. Wherever the Democrats
hao . nRH1sg show and fought, the same
ehnloit - nrsSs Of lessened Republican
vote. TO reconeifS this with tue loss OF
N'ut Vafis ord r. 4 !, - a.,
hypothesis thar eXcludS avsteluAiIe ON
cuptlou. As tho case st8nds .berefore h
appears thai, the VIII 81 tho pss,le has
baen as plainly set'at naugbt this yBeh y II
was In 1876 Tllden was robbed outrfrhk.
Cleveland mas fallen before the arts OF
bribery.
A disgruntled Republican contempt
rary, unable to buck against facts so dis
tasteful to "protsotionists" and corrup.
tionists, produces returns from half u
dozen southern states and argues that
these returns, by comparison with the
census statistios, chow a 'suppressed'
Republican vote which would have turned
the scale. Perhaps il will now kindly
set it's mathematical experts to work on
some OF the Republican states and figure
out the ''suppressed" Democratic vote
which suoh returnB as the following, ac-
cording to this line of argument, would
indicate: Rhode Island total number
of adult males by this census OF 1890
1855; total vote cast at the last rresi.
dental election, l0,774. California,
adult males, 329, S53; November vo.e
24s, $50. Massachusetts, adnla nalss,
500 $40; November yots, s4t GA Va
mont, adnlt mslsg, 356al; November
yots. CD 439. "Vo.,,o ~ snnnrssz5g y,,.li,,
four e.ates) scoo-djpo ia the banana o,,,,,,,
GRAFTON Of lssa.n 3O7 ggg. nTsk,n,, IA
account. y "a our conteronorary ssya an,
growth OF population SINGS 1850, II is fsie
10 say that" quarter million .,ot tbass
votes ought to have been cast N E,yan.
Der, and counted fairly ON tbe bo,ia O.,
tha ,pgpnlar, vosa ac5 .n,nnla, 7,ifE,n
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