The Butler weekly times., 1894-11-22
C0urs &c. Democrats

oSo'uSt uHiteu DeIHocIacy. oeu.
Dix was elected by the Republicans
in 1872 by 53,524 plurality, because
large numbers Of Democrats, dlssat
isfied with Mr.. Greeley 8 nomination
for President, did not vote.
Did that make New York Repub
licau! On the contrary, a. the very
next election for Governor the SAINT
Gen. Dix WAS be4ten by Illden, th
Democratic reformer. by 50 81
completely reversing the result e.,
wo years before La 1876 Luclus
r pblnson was elected by the Demo
Gratis In 1879 came ;he tluke b,
which Cornell got 42,777 plurality
But he had about $4,000 less tha,
the comb bined Democratic vote, II,
566 Democrats supporting John
Kelly, the bolting Tammany candl
date.
Did this defeat kill the Democratic
party?
At the next election for Govern I
the Democrats elected Grover Cleve.
land by the unparalleled plurality o
192,s54.
Ii defeat disinteglates. il com
. etc overthrow in one election 70
final, surely the republican party dlo
not rally from this disaster.
AS if to illustrate the pcrversity
of politics aud the vitality of parties
the Republicans elected their candi
date for Secretary of State in the
very next year by IL plurality of Is,
$50.
Did that give them the decisiv.
electoral vote of New York in 1884!
Hardly! The Democrats carried
the State for Cleveland in spite of
the intrenchment of the Republi cans
III power in the nation and against
their most brilliant and popular
leader
Again the pendulum swung, and
in 1888 the Republicans carried the
State for Harrison by plurality of
1902, largely through the indiffer
euce or hostility of Democrats to
President Cleveland, while Hill had
a plurality of 1911 for Governor.
Did this reverse. involving the
loss of tho Presidency, destroy OF
even dishearten the Democrats?
On the contrary, in 1889 the Dem
ocrats elected their State ticket by g
plurality of 20,527 and, in 1890 they
secured an aggregate majority in the
} State of nearly $4,000 for their can
dldates for Congress.
Flower Governor by plurality o.
: 1887.
La 1892 came another and strang
e. paradox OF politics. Grover Cleve
land, the candidate who was beatel
four years before, and who encount
cred the strenuous hostility of thu
: delegation from his own State in th
nominating convention, carried th
State by plurality of 45,5lS, an
his party swept the country. Sure
| ly this entrenched the Democrats il
power.
: Again no. The very next year
e once more by the help of the Demo
. cratic voters, the Republicans electe
their State ticket by Il plurality @
nearly 25.000, and defeated Maynar
. by majority of over 100000 de
/ feat that was more honorable to th
h party than victory would have beer
Thus in twenty years the Demt
Gratis have elected their State tickt
lOutbccu iiIuSS, NAV e tWBSc, by hcct
'e ed disciplin of their own fatuor
|, leaders, thrown the State to the r.
4. publicans, and have once lost it by
;. factional bolt.
, Is there encouragement in tn
Ii record. Does it not hold out hop
full prospect that the Democrats ca
l. carry the State in the great conte
II of 1896?
- New York can be and will be I
. covered through reunion, reorganiz
~ tion and reform N. Y. World.
D Children Who Suffer
n from scrofulous, skin or scalp di
IL eases. ought to be given DIR. Pierce
:, Golden Medical Discovery. for pu
le flying the blood. For children WI
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