Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Senator Edmunds talks of retiring from public life at the end of his present term in the Senate, and expresses much annoyance at the criticism of Vermont Republican newspapers for his refusal to take part in the late campaign. The New York Young Republican Club has voted to expunge from its rolls the names of persons who voted against Blaine and Logan.

The electoral colleges of the various States met at their respective capitals on Dec. 3, and went through the formality of voting for President and Vico President. The ballots used at Raleigh were miniature United States flags, made from s lie grown in North Carolina, The Indiana electors marched in a body to the residence of Mr. Hendricks. In the Illinois college Andrew Shuman drew the slip which carried the privilege of delivering the returns at Washington. The ballot-box used iu Connecticut was the silk hat of ex-Lieut. Gov. Loomis. Mark Hopkins presided over tho Massachusetts college. The electors of New Jersey unite! John P. Stockton for a Cabinet po ition. Among tho New York electors was Jacob Wind miller, 84 years of age, who marched with his associates to the Cnpito to congratulate Mr. Cleveland. Tho President of the college sent his per diem and mileage to the Little Sisters* of tho Poor in Albany. Neany every distinguished Democrat in West Virginia witnessed the proceedings of the college at Wheeling. At Lansing, George K. Stekotee was chosen to carry tho vote of Michigan to

Washington. The Tennessee college selected Robert I. Chester, the oldest Democrat in the State, as messenger. The Texas electors sent Cleveland a dispatch congratu ating him on his 128,000 majority in that State. The Kansas college adopted resolutions expressing confidence In tfe character and ability of Blaine and Logan, and those J. M. Miller messenger. At Des Moines, John Van Valkenburg was selected to carry the vote of lowa to the national capital. The Wisconsin college imposed this trust upon J. W. Ostrander. The Missouri electors sent a congratulatory telegram to Cleveland and chose John I. Martin as messenger.

The official vote of Texas was canvassed on the 2d inst., thus completing the list of States, and below we print the complete and authentic popular vote for President in all of the States of the Union:

2 tt ~08 * SB O a f P < m- . erf- „ a g o o States. p ? tr * a •• a Alabama 92,973 59,414 GlOi 762 Arkansas 72,927 60,8)5; l 847 California 88,'.07 100,8161 2,6491 ],975 Colorado 27,723 36,230} 761 j 1,958 Connecticut 67,182 65,898 2,494] 1,685 Delaware 17,054 12,768 55 i 6 Florida 31,769 28,031 72 Georgia 94,367 47,60.i| 184 125 Illinois 312,453 337,481 12,074 10,910 lildi na 244,990 238,463 3,024| 8,293 lowa *177,286 197,089 1,564'., Kansas 90,132 154,496 4,495} 16,346 Kentucky. 152,657 118,674 3,106 1,655 Louisiana. 62,546 46,347 338 120 Maine 62,140 72,209 2,160 3,953 Maryland 96,932 86,69!) 2,794 531 Massachusetts... 122,352 146,724 9,923 24,382 Michigan 1189,361 192,069 18,403 Minnesota 70,144 111,923 4,691' 3,87 Mississippi 76,510 43,509 Missouri 1235,989 202,925 2,153 Nebraska 64,354 ' 76,877 2,838 Nevada 5,577 7,193! New Hampshire. 35,166 43,166 1,573 652 New Jersey 127,784 123,432 6,155 3,494 New York 662,154 662,005 25,206, 17,004 North Carolina.. 142,900 125,070 425 10 Ohio. 308,280 400,082 11,069 5,179 Oregon 24,593 26,852 488 723 Pennsylvania.... 393,747 474,268 14,306 16,992 Rhode Island.... 12,391 19,030 928 422 South Carolina.. 69,890 21,733 Tennessee 133,270 124,090 1,131 957 Texas 223.208 88,353 3,511 3,321 Vermont 17,342 38,411 1,612 785 Virginia §145,437 139,356 143 West Virginia.... 67,317 63,036 939 805 Wisconsin... 146,477 161,157 7,656 4,598 Total 4,910,843 4,843,94-4 150,335 133,400 Cleveland’s plu. 66,899 Total vote 10,038,522 •Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors. _ I Fusion—Cleveland and Butler electors; one Cleveland elector was voted tor separately» receiving 149,815 votes, and one Butler elector was vote l for separately, receiving 41,390 votes. IFusion—Blaine and Butler electors.

In an interview with a newspaper correspondent at Albany, Gov. Cleveland Is reported as saying: “I am not engaged in making Cabinets at the S resent time, the newspapers notwithstanding. iy time is continuously broken in upon by the visits of people from all parts of the country. 1 am glad to meet them, and I trust 1 meet them cordially; but the hints, the suggestions, the discussions, and the differences of opinion with which they and I am frequently credited originate in the brains of the newspaper correspondents.” “As, for &\ ample, your reported interview with Mr. Hendricks?” Interposed tho correspondent. “Ah. as to that,” said the Governor, his face clouding as he spoke, “th t was not simply false. It was mischievous and malicious. A man could go to sleep and dream of nothing more utterly, wholly false than that. 1 doubt, if two men, comparatively strangers, could ever give one another a more cordial greeting than was-the greeting between Hendricks and myself. We spoke together for barely fifteen minutes, and our intercourse was than friendly—it was warm and thoroughly cordial. I will not complain of any picture which any man chooses to draw’ of me from personal observation. If the visiting correspondent chooses to say that I wear a No. 3 hat and No. 10 shoes he is at liberty to do so. It is merely a question, then, whether his course is or is not in good taste; but when words are put into my mouth which I never uttered, and when I am accredited with statements which I never entertained, I must nut a stop to it. We are not used to that sort of thing here. I will not permit it. I have not the slightest disposition to cloud in mystery anything connected with my office, with-myself, or with my future course. There need be no guessing about it. It Senator This or Congressman That calls upon me it should furnish no occasion for any newspaper writer to build speculation upon specu ation till he reaches some startling conclusion. Let him come to me; I’ll tell him frankly all 1 have said."

It is said that after Mr. Cleveland's resignation of the Gubernatorial office he will extend an invitation to the Democratic party leaders to visit him in Buffalo. The most prominent Southern aspirants for Cabinet portfolios are Money of Mississippi, Garland of Arkansas, and Barbour of Virginia. The rest have dropped out.