The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-11-16
THE TWO CANDIDATES.
How Mr.. Cleveland Voted, and What Mr..
Harrison Says Defeated Him.

Inc new DIX w Ollu gives Jne IOllOW
ing interesting account OF how Mr.. Cleve.
land voted:
Mr.. Cleveland has lost flesh during the
summer, and he never looked in better
trim than he did when he stroled
through Fifty-first street west towards
Sixth avenue. He wore the same famil-
lar high hat-moved the wrong way
which all the admirers of the ex-presi-
dent know Sc we'll, and his figure was
tightly buttoned up in the frock coat,
which you see in all his pictures.
There was a big gathering about Keim's
shop when Mr.. Cleveland came in sight.
There were people there who had been
waiting since the damp gray of early
morning just to catch glimpse of him.
1t was exactly at II 81 O'Clock when he
took his place in the line at the door.
There was . solid Indian file of voters
ahead of him, however, and he had to
wait almost half an hour before his turn
came. He waited patiently in the ranks
and edged along an inch at time with
the rest. Somebody timed Mr.. Cleve-
land in the booth. 1t took him six min
utes and sixteen seconds to prepare his
ball Colonel Nicholson handed him
the slips, and when the ex-president
came out from the little Enclosure, which
looks like dressing room at Coney Is
land beach, his ballots we're IN perfect
order, the slips he wished to cast in his
right hand; those he wished to cast away
in the left.
When he steered his way through the
JAM piloted by the faithful Sinclair,
big hurrah went up outside. During the
wal, inside the news had spread that
Grover Cleveland was preparing his pas
tiers. and the crowd which was standing
on the curb when he arrived was trebled
when he came out
AS Sinclair opened the door a big
cheer went up for Cleveland. There was
a hip, hip, hurrah, all around. Mr..
Cleveland acknow lto4eG til salvo by
raising his hat, ami af er thls = easant
little ovation lie walked back through
Fifty-first street home again.
While Mr.. Cleveland was about to go
into his booth, fellow who had been
taking too many early drinks on an
empty stomach, called out in a husky
voice that Cleveland's vote ought to be
challenged. The fellow with the drinks
on an empty stomach was quickly got
rid of by the policeman on duty.
Mr. Cleveland went back home. The
day wore itself monotonously away.
People could be seen as long as light
lasted walking through Fitty-hrst street
and stopping opposite or in front OF No.
II to gaze upon the windows. In the
library-the second room, fr0nt--two
wires had been placed by the Western
Union people and there Mr.. Cleveland
and his friends sat till late in the morn- |
ing awaiting returns. Senator and Mrs. |
Carlisle, William G.. Whitney, Colonel
Dan Lamont, and Mrs. Cleveland were
among the watchers who kept vigil over
the keys.
Throughout the day and night Mr.
Cleveland kept up the calm, dignitied |
compOsure that marks him always. As
Colonel Lamont told World reporter |
the other day: He is always that way. |
have seen him triumphant and seen him
when he was defeated. His demeanor
never varied in either extremity"
What MIR. Harrison Says.
President Harrison talked freely today |
about the recent defeat of his party and |
the causes that brought it aboct.
"The overwhelming defeat of the re-
publican party he said, twas due
mainly to the position of the party on
the tariff question. The republicans |
had forced this issue to an extreme
which evidently did not meet with the
approval of the people"
This expression of opinion on the part
of President Harrison yerifieS a rum II
current here some time ago that il was
the party, and not the president, who
took such an extreme position on the
two leading issues on which the repnb
lican campaign was to be made.
There was another element, the pres
ident said, which had much to do with
the defeat of the republicans last Tues
day, and its force WAS felt at the north as
well as in the south. There was a pop
ular belief that the force bill issue kept T
the south solid in old lines. but in the
presidents estimation it did more than
tLat, for it Drought to the support of
the democratic ticket many votes in the
north
The verdict last Tuesday, he con
could be construed in but one
way 1t meant condemnation OF the |
high tariff policy of the republicans.
President Harrison has very decided
views as to the conduct of the campaign.
He does not think very much of Chair
man Carter, of the republican national
He consented to Carriers
only when It became evil
dent that no more acceptable man could
be secured. He said the campaign had
been mismanaged and that much better
results would hive been secured but for
the rainbow chasing schemes to
which Carter gave countenance and as
The president said he realized for
some time past that the drift of pub
lie sentiment was against him and his
party, and it was this thas kled him to
force his advice upon tue party leaders.