The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-01-10
TIE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
GhOVER CLEVELAND ELECTED
PRESIDENT

"hOSER CLEVELAND ELECTED
RESIDENT
Of the United States and A dlai x. stew
so" S'ce-Prestdenl by the Unani.
nous Vote OF the College.
Ihe members of the Electoral College
Tor North Carolina convened in the Sen
ate chamber in the Capitol at noon YES
terday to vote for candidates for Presi
dent and Vice Preside of the United
States in the presence of large audi
ence, many members of the General As
sembly being present. All the demo
cratic Presidential electors for North
Carolina were present: Charles B
Aycock, Robert B Glenn, electors at
large; Leroy L. Smith, Noah ] Rouse,
John & Shaw. Edward 8. Abel, John
A. Barringer, Solomon G. WE'LL, Angus
tus Leazar, James r. Lewellyn, Locke
Craig, district electors. The oath was
administered by Justice Clark, of the
Supreme Court. Mr.. Aycock was, on
motion of Mr.. Glenn, electsd President
OF the College. The College being fully
organized. Grover Cleveland, of the State
OF New York. was nominated for Pre,i
dent OF the United States by Mr.. Shaw
10 e we'll considered speech. which was
heartily applauded. Mr. Shaw said:
MR.. PREsIDENT:-In obedience to the
wishes Of the people of North Carolina
and In compliance with the dictates of
my own heart, am here to place in
nomination for President of the Uoited
States the name Of the greatest of living
statesmen, the purest Of modern poll
t'cians, the Honorable Grover Cleveland.
of the State of New York.
Mr.. President we have met together SUI
rounded by peculiar circumstances I
verify believe that when our work has
been complete that it will be nothing
more or less than a reaction of work com
pleted by the Electoral College of North
Carolina in "a and '8S respectively. That
when our vote has been cast that it will
become q matter of history that for three
times In succession the Electoral vote
"f North Carolina has been given to one
and the self same m ,n-the man whose
name l have just mentioned. True, Mr..
President, that after having given our
common country a fair and honest and
40 impartial administr alton as President
extending over a period Of four years,
that he was defeated and the principles
be espoused and the doctrines he incul
Gated were for the time being overswept
by wave of disaster. But, Mr. Presi
dent. while men may be defeated and
men may perlsh-principles never die.
And alth ugh the people of this Union
tailed to realize the lmmensity of the prir-
ciples involved in 1888, neyerth.
theless when these principles had
been incorporated into the plat
form Of the democratic party in 1892
and Grover Cleveland was again ch ,sen
As the leader of that party-thus it was
on the 9Th day Of November that the
honest yeomanry Of this couutry, the old
sod the young, the high and tie low,
the rich and the poor, We're alike to be
seen In every state, county and town
bending their footsteps to their respcc
tive polling places, and with the
slogan cry of Cleveland and tariff re
form upon their lips. aud with hears
over lowing with patriotic devotion to
right and duty, they then aud there in
the power OF their majesty, representing
the intelligence of the citizenship Of
America, put down that god of the repub
lican party, that child of monopolists,
called protection aud declared by their
votes, that no " and from henceforth that
the administration of this government
must be upon fair, an honest, and an
economi al basis.
Mr.. President, the life and character
OF Grover Cleveland is well worth the
study and consideration of The youth and
young men of America Possessing the
patriotism Of Washington. the Statesman
chip Of Jefferson aud the coura ge of
j ackson, from the humber walks OF life
he has arisen with giant strides and to
day stands forth in the dazzling light of
fame and distinction, aud wherever the
English language is spoken. wherever
the Anglo Saxon blood courses through
the veins of the people of any
country, there his name is known,
there it is honored and esteemed.
aud in the galaxy of all the illustrlou,
names of American statesmen, his is the
most loved and honored, and clustered
around him are the hearts of millions of
bis fellow countrymen bound to him as
it were, by hooks of steel and bands of
iron.
10 this land of constitutions rights
and Tree citizenship it is source of pc
cu'iar qualification and pleasure to see
one by the force of his aim, courage and
ability, rising far above his fellows, and
declaring in plain aud unmistakable
terms taat he is in deed, and in trust,
Untitled to the name and distinction of
The leader of the greatest people
Of the greatest country that has
sver existed in any age. or in any cline
such man sir is Grover Cleveland,
nan who in the discharge of the multi
,ude of duties which have been imp )sed
lpon him, has been equ Il to every energy,
4 man who has the power to express aud
carry into effect his own convictions un-
Ter all circumstances, man whom the
.llurements of wealth and the p ,wer of
n any have never been able to sW-rve
rom what he believed to be his official
]uty.
We have seen him lay aside his official
'obes and at the command of the people
If his country vaca,e the highest off ;e
q the land, but even in thst darkest
,our of his political career,
when the clouds hung thick
Iround him-he was as grand as RI
nan and as brave as the Historic Saxon
And now, Mr. President, on the eve of
lis second advent into the Presidential
chair of the nation, the eyes of the whole
world are upon him, and most especially
he eyes of his admiring countrymen look |
ng to him as their political Joshua whom
hey expect to stand at their
read and lead them by his superior skill
md knowledge out of this wilderness of
nisrule and corruption into which they
lave been plunged by the leaders Of the
republican party.
Mr.. Shaw's remarks, so admirably con-
'eived and happily expressed, were fire
luently Interrupted by applause, which,