Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — RECEIVING THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

RECEIVING THE NEWS.

How Some of the Candidates for President Heard the Election Returns. GOV. CLEVELAND. [Albany <N. Y.) special.] *•’ ‘ Gov. Cleveland received returpg by messenger at the Executive Mansion, surrounded by a few friends. As the good news came in the gentlemen present congratulated the Governor and the ladies applauded. All present, excepting the Governor, displayed tn therr tnantier the intense gratification which the prospect of victory afforded them. The Governor, however, preserved a calm exterior, and merely smiled at the enthusiasm of those about him. MB. BLAINE [Augusta (Me.) dispatch.] ' Mr. Blaine received the election returns in his own house by private wire, which he has had in use since the beginning of the campaign. Besides members of his family, all of whom except his daughter, Mrs. Coppinser, were with him, there were present Gov. Robie, ex-Gov. Connor, and many near neighbors dropped in during the evening. Owing to the rain-storm, and other causes, returns came in slowly,, but were encouraging. Among those received early in the evening was one from Oneida, N. Y., announcing a gain of 19 on the vote for Garfield, and one from Batavia, N. Y., announcing that that city, which gave Garfield a majority of 34, had given Blaine 114. The following was received from the chairman of the Connecticut Republican State Committee: “ You have surely carried Connecticut. Irish true. Democrats despondent.” GOV. HENDRICKS. [lndianapolis dispatch.] Gov. Hendricks cast his ballot at the Second Precinot of the Twelfth Ward, near noon, today, and then, in company with Hon. James H. . Rioe, Auditor of State, made a tour of the polls of the city. Everywhere he was received with the utmost cordiality and respect. Returning home he spent the evening in his library, where in company with a few personal friends, he received the bulletins of the Associated Press. The company was small,-com-prising Judge Nlblack, of the Supreme Court, William Henderson, and Aquilla Jones. To a reporter who called on him early in the evening Mr. Hendricks expressed himself as gratified* more than anything else with tbe reflection that the struggle was at an epd. “You doubtless feel comfortable over the result?” “Well, having accomplished the object of the contest, I feel like laying it aside now like an old mitten. I entered upon a campaign, the like of which I never expect to again make, but, haying been drawn into it, of course I wanted to succeed.” GOV. ST. JOHN. [Olathe (Kan.) telegram.] Gov. St. John spent the day quietly at his home here, occasionally appearing on the streets infeompany with a small number of his friends. At half-past Ihe walked to the polls in the Tmrd Ward, where he cast his vote. In reply to an inquiry, Gov. St. John remarked that he was happy as a clam. He produced the following dispatch, which he stated he had just received: Olney, HL, Nov. 4. To J. P. St. John, Olathe, Kan.: St. John and Daniel Club sends greeting. The fraudulent reports against you strengthen you n your old home. D. F. Houser, Pres’t. Samuel J. Barkee, Sec’y.