The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-10
GREENHALGE'S BIG MAJORITY.
Congress smnn ONeII Of NJ massachusetts Trie
TO Account for 1t.

Congress mnn OMEN Of NJ massachusetts Tries
to Account for It.
wAsHrSG1oS. Nov. o-I'epresentative oNeill
OF Massachusetts has returned to Washington
and was at the Treasury Department to-day
to condole with Assistant Secretary Hnmin.
Mr.. O'Neill says he is unable to account for the
election Of Mr.. Greenhalge by such a large
majority. unless 1t be that many thousands OF
Democrats remained away from tho POLLS. He
cited many incidents Of the cam paign. show
ing that. though many public meetings were
attended by three or four Thousand people.
when the votes in those towns were counted 1t
was found that not more than hal! Of the men
who attended tho meetings had voted the
Democratic ticket. There was no lack OF en-
lack OF MANAGEMENT in arranging the time for
holding them in the s,a mr.
pie in the manufacturing towns. especia al ~
go to bed every night at 9 O'Clock. because
morning. Many OF our best campaign speak
ers frequenty found their audience desert
ing the halls as the factory bells tolled the
dinte for Governor. Mr.. Russell. was an
nounced to speak in one Of the man ufacturln&
sisted on having a torchlight procession prior
TO the speechmaking. lie arrangements
rade was sc long that It was nearly O'clock
before We reached the hall where the ora
tory was to take place. before Mr.. Eue-
sell was fairly started with his speech. which
had been specially prepared for the enllght-
ment Of the workingmen present. the factory
bells chmed out the hour OF 8. Half an hour
later the large audience had gradually dwin-
died away to an insignificant number. These
circumstances were not fully understood at
the time by Mr.. Russell. and he was naturally
chagrined and mortified at the apparent lack
of interest in behalf Of the cause he was advo-
eating. In the city Of Boston we had tho
biggest kind Of a Representation at Fan
fully aroused t" the importance OF the occa:
sion. But the returns on election night did
not come UP to our expectations. When the
official count is made 1 believe it will be shown
that many OF our people who could not be in
duced to vote The ReDublcan ticket s IMPLY re.
manned away from the pol lis on election day."
Do you think the nomination Of Gov: Rus
sell would have made any difference In the re-
No. I don't believe it would He might
have polled five or six thousand more votes
than his namesake: but for some reason which
cannot understand We could not get out our
full vote
Assistant Secretary Hamlin said that 1t
seemed that the Republicans managed to get
out their full voting strength lie then good
naturally referred to speech o. congratua-
succession OF democratic Victories Tor the
Russell family in Massachusetts. Unfortu-
nately he did not get an opportunity to deliver
that speech. but says he will put it carefully
away with tho hope that with few reysions 1t
may be appropriate at some future time. He
did not attempt to give reasons for the defeat
of his party further than to say that the Re.
publicans came out and voted In full force;
while tho Democrats failed to report at general
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