New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-01-15
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multitude which packed the street in a
solid mass from sidewalk to Sidewalk.
by the advice ofauthorities and of friends,
flashed, in this emergency, a bulletin
declaring in the most positive terms that
9 telegram just received from New York
stated THAT the state was counted for
Cleveland, that the Republicans had gi-
ven It up, and that that was the last bull
letln Tor the night. Very few were in
the secret, and while the Democrats went
wild, the news soon spread to the Re-
publican crowd further down the street
and corresponding]Y disheartened them.
They hai formidably barr,caded the
street with trucks, wagons, boxes and
anything which could be hastily secured,
and were arming themselves with clubs
and stones for the expected attack. The
news enabled the mayor
to persuade the Republicans to disperse,
and fraction of the happy Democrats
swept down the street and went singing
over the barricade which half an hour
earlier would have been held with des-
peration and bloodshed.
1t was two days later before the result
was absolutely known, but by common
consent no more bulletins were posted
in st. Paul after that night. It was the
same in Minneapolis and everywhere in
the land. The crisis the country passed
through in those few days was not re-
allied in the excitement of the moment.
Blaibe's friends wore debating contesting
the vote, but he was willing to accept
the result as due to ''an ass in the shape
OF preacher and the weather, and r,s-
olutely declined to allow the contest to
be made. This result, however, was not
reached until some days after. the elec-
ton. The election was on Tuesday, the
4th OF November, and on Friday, the 7th,
w. III. Barnum, chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee, issued a pro-
clamation declaring that while Cleve-
land was elected the Republicans were
trying to count New York for Blaine.
He asked the Democrats to fire salutes in
every city in the land at noon on the Sth
to celebrate their victory and every
where to meet in public assemblages on
the same evening, both to rejoice and 20
protest against the attempt to give New
York TO Blaine.
Late on the night Of the Sth William
Henry Smith, manager of the Associated
Press, sent out from New York over his
signature. the following message:
"Our footings show that Cleveland
has plurity of 1,400. There are 1s
places to hear from officially, which may
reduce this somewhat. If Gar6eld's
.majorities in those places are accepted
the plurality for Cleveland will be 724
but 1T is doubtful if Blaine polls as large
a vote in those precincts as Garfield,
hence Cleveland's plurality may lie ac-
cepted at about 1000.
This telegram to the press of the coun-
try was sent after consultation with
Blaine and other leaders, and was in re-
ality an official Republican pronuDcia-
mento Of defeat.
|. Time in its revenges had evcned up
1876 for the Democrats. and in its retri-
buttons had prevented the Republicans
from obtaining what, but for the '7e
event, they might have secured in 1884.
It was better that both wrongs should
have been borne than that our form of
government, which IS model for the
world, should have been destroyed.
The day will come Gf it has not al
ready when time has softened asperities
to such an extent that the American
people will recognize that to the un-
crowned patriots, Samuel J. Tilden and
James G.. Blaine, they are indebted fo1
successfully demonstrating their capac.
ity of self-government. Others have done
nobly, grandly, for the country in the
presidential chair, but no. other men save
these two ever had the opportunity liz
their own personality and by their per.
sonal decision, to peacefully preserve
and perpetuate government of the. peo.
pie by the people.-H. p. Hall.
Satan entered the gate of his strong:
hold. He looked about him.
sit used to be place of torture, butt
| He had just returned from the earth
A week he had spent visiting the thea.
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