The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-04-04
POOR, pElupEo GROVER,
q Demseratie Organ Shows How !
Corpulsncy Was Sold Out.


II the Democracy Of New York can
fairly be charged with treachery to the
National ticket because it pollsd Is, 900
more votes for David Bennett Hill than
for Grover Cleveland in 1855, let Us see
II there was treason Of the same sort in
other States.
The Alabama Democrats gave Mr..
Cleveland 1880 votes in 1883. and
81, 1913 plurality. The same year they
elected Hon. Thomas Seay a. Governor,
and they gave him 155. 973 votes, and
Ill. 203 plurality. In Alabama Seay ran
ahead of Cleveland by no less than ss,-
$50 Democratic votes.
Cleveland's vote in Arkansas was
Is, 962. At the same election the total
Democratic vote for Congressman in
Arkansas was SO, SO. About 3, 600 Arkan-
sas Democrats went to the polls and
voted for Congressman, but sold out
Cleveland.
In Connecticut Mr.. Cleveland re-
ceived 1920 votes, and his plurality
was 33s. Mr.. Morris, the comparatively
unknown Democrat who was running
for Governor, received IS, O74 votes and
1,4i5 plurality.
In Florida Cleveland ran a15 votes be-
hind the vote for Congressman.
The great Democratic State Of
Georgia, sometimes styled the Empire
State Of the South, polled 100, 449 votes
for Grover Cleveland in November. In
the preceding month 131 1899 Georgia
Democrats had voted for General Cor
don for Governor. Cleveland ran behind
Gordon 81. $50 votes
Cleveland's vote for President in Ill
inois was 34s.37l. General John NJ.
Palmer. on the same day, received $685.
sI3 votes for Governor. About 1000
Illinois Democrats who voted for Palmer
sold out Cleveland.
In Iowa, one of the States o'er-arched
by the rainbow, 5000 Democrats who
voted for Democratic Congressman re-
fused to vote for Grover Cleveland. The
next year. with Cleveland out of the
way, the Iowa Democrats succeeded in
carrying the State.
Five thousand Democrats in Kansas
who voted for John Martin for Governor
withheld their ballots for the party's
candidate for President
The Cleveland vote in Louisiana was
e5,OS2. In April, 1888, James Jeffries
had received 1877. 46S Democratic votes
for observation-disclosures.
In Maine, Grover Cleveland had So
4sl Democratic votes, or just 10,s6
fewer than his friend "Billr Putnam re-
ceived for Governor in September of the
same year.
In Massachusetts,, Cleveland fell 1000
votes behind young Mr.. Russelrs vote
for Governor.
Michigan was another rainbow State.
the Democrats there turned out in
splendid force. They gave Wellington
r. Burt 216,45 votes for Governor,
their Congress candidates an aggregate
of 215, $50, and Grover Cleveland for
President 21S, 469. Cleveland ran 5000
behind the ticket in Michigan, with
Don Dickinson on deck.
Still another rainbow, perhaps the
brightest of the gorgeous series, spanned
the Minnesotan skies. That State was
particularly and peculiarly the field Of
Cleveland effort. On election day 104,-
Ss5 Minnesota Democrats voted for
Cleveland. 10s,O10 for the Democratic
candidates for Congress, and 110,2 for
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
Cleveland ran behind the ticket 900
votes in Minnesota
The story is the same in Mississippi
Is in the other Southern States-a small
vote and the party leader running more
than 5000 behind the party vote act
ually cast for other Democratic candi-
dates.
In Missouri, Cleveland received the
full party vote; but his tariff message,
with the help of Major Jones frantic
efforts, cost the Democracy the three st.
Louis districts in Congress.
In Nebraska, Cleveland was away be-
hind McShane, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, by 5000 votes.
In Nevada, he ran behind the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress, and he
lost nearly half of the vote polled for
him in 1854
New Hampshire Democrats gave 43, 45s
votes for Cleveland and A. O93 votes for
their candidate for Governor.
The Democratic vote in North Caroli-
IA for members Of Congress was las, 344.
The Cleveland vote was LAT, 902.
In Texas, Mr.. Cleveland received 49,
900 fewer votes than Ross, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor in the
same year.
The case Of Virginia Is still more
striking. Cleveland pulled through in
that great Democratic State by plu-
rality Of only $50. His total vote was
151,s77. Did Fitzhugh Lee attempt to
sell him out? Twelve months later the
Democrats swept the State with total
vote Of 162, 654 for Mckinney and the
State ticket, and plurality of not less
than ~, Ia, with Malone fighting for
life.
Finally, in Wisconsin, where Hon.
William F. Villas superintended the
rainbow. Mr.. Cleveland ran more than
thousand votes behind the aggregate
vote Of the party as cast for the Demo
cratic candidates for Representatives in
Congress.
This exhibit tells the whole story. |
Just as Grover Cleveland was sold out !
by the Democrats in New York. so was !
he sold out by the Democrats of nearly I
every State in the Union. Instead of |
lending strength to the party, the party !
suffered disaster because he was a weak !
candidate. He was weak everywhere. |
He was an incubus, a burden, mill |
stone. The Democracy, holding the po- !
sition of advantage, and starting out |
with magnificent prospects Of success, |
was crushed down into the mud simply |
because Grover Cleveland was too heavy |
Q load for it to carry.
Yet the foolish and deluded man is 1
anxious to mount the party's back again. |