Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — Cleveland Played Out in New York. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland Played Out in New York.

New York iS’un (Dem.); It is now tolerably clear that tnere is no chance of Grover Cleveland’s election to the Presidency. He cannot carry New York. He will be beaten in this State by a majority of not less than 50,000, in spite of every exertion that may be made between now and election day. Why, then, .should genuine Democrats any longer think of tving themselves up to such a hopeless candidacy? It was a mistake from the first. We warned its authors before the nomination at Chicago that they were engaged in an enterprise which was doomed to disaster, and this doom is now so plainly apparent that only the blind can fail to see it. Bat there is a Democratic candidate in the field for whom men may vote with earnest goodwill and a hope for the future. We refer to the candidate of the People's Democratic party, Gen. Butler. In this State the real contest is between him and Mr. Blaine; and if all the treeminded Democrats who have hitherto been disposed to support Cleveland, on the possibility that by seine good fortune he might be elected, will now abandon him and vote for Bntler, the strengthwof the People's Democratic party will

thereby rapidly become great and formidable, so that it may even exceed I the strength of Blaine. ; 6 It would be a great thing to beat Blaine her* in New York. Butler only can do it.