Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1884 — RECEIVING THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

RECEIVING THE NEWS.

How Some of tlie Candidates for President Heard the Election Returns. GOV. CLEVELAND. fAlbany {N. Y.) special.} Gov. Cleveland received returns by messeneer at the Executive Mansion, surrounded by afew Friends. As the (rood news came in the gentlemen present congratulated the. Governor and the ladies applauded. All presem, excepting the Governor, displayed in their manner 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 off whom except his daughter. Mrs. Coppingec, 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 folio-wing was received from the chairman of the Connecticut Republican State Committee: “You have sunely carried Connecticut. Irish true. Democrats despondent.” GOV. HENDBJCKS. [lndianapolis dispatch.! Gov- Hendricks cast his ballot at tlio Seeond Precinct of the Twelfth Ward, near noon, tor day. and then, in company with Hon. James H. Rice, Auditor of State, made a tour of the polls of the city. Everywhere he was received with the utmost cordiality and respect. Returning home ho spent the evening in his library, where in company with a lew personal friends, he received the bulletins of the Associated Press. The company was small, comprising Judge Niblack, of the Supreme Court, William Henderson, and Aquilia Jones. To a reporter who called on him early in the evening Mr. Hendricks expressed himself as gratified more than anything else with the reflection that the struggle was at an end. "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, bat, having been drawn into it, of course I v/anted to succeed.” GOV. ST. JOHN. [Olathe (Kan.) telegram.] Gov. St. John spent the day quietly at his home here, occasionally appearing on the streets in company with a small number of his friends. At half-past Ihe walked to the polls in the Third 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 ho had just received: Olney, lU., Nov. 4. To J. P. St. John, Olathe, Kan.: St. John and Daniel Club sends greeting. The fraudulent reports against you strengthen you n vour old home. D. F. Houseb, Pres't. Samuel J. Babkeb, Sec’y. $