Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — THE OUTS ARE IN, [ARTICLE]

THE OUTS ARE IN,

And the Solid Sotilh has Got Us Down. j . ' - _ The final count in the State of New York was completed, in New York City, last Saturday. If there were any frauds, as it is certain there were, the law of New York which requires all ballots to be destroyed as soon as they are first counted, prevented their discovery. Some clerical errors were discovered which reduced Cleveland’s plurality to some extent, but not sufficiently to give the state to Blaine. Cleveland’s plurality, as finally determined, was 1106, but he lacks more than 25000 votes of having a majority. A magnificent evidence of his popularity, considering that it was his own state, and that it gave him a majority of 200,000 two y ears ago. At th? meeting of Democrats at Indianapolis to celebrate the supposed election of Cleveland, speeches were made by Hendricks and Gray, the Gov-ernor-elect. The former, as usual, talked a long time and said nothing, except to repeat the old lie that he was loyal to the country during the War of the Rebellion. Gray, however, let himself out and said:

“The Republican party, in its twentyfour years’ lease of power, has filled all the places with Republicans, and, - when the Democratic party obtains power Match 4next, we will expect that as rapidly as possible the offices will be tilled with Democrats. I don't expect that all Republicanjofficeholders will be tured out. There may be some widow woman holding some secondclass post-office that will not be disturbed, but those big fellows who have made money by fostering monopolies—to these 1 expectmiA Democratic Administration to say: Tack your gripsack; get your Saratoga trunks ready. You may go to the cottage by the sea forrawhile; or, if your health is not good, you may go to. Europe; or, if you ilen’t want to do that, you may take Horace Greely’s advice and ‘go west.' When we want you we will send for you.” This speech, made by a renegade who was first a Know-Nothing, second a Republican, and third a Democrat, and by a Colonel who wouldn't light—two admirable qualities for Democracy—characterizes the Democrats as Curtis described them, “organized conspiratots against human rights, very hungry, and as you may believe, very thirsty.’’ This renegade has sounded the keynote of the chorus which will be sung Nprth and South by Democrats since Cleveland is elected. But was this exactly what the mugwumps expected?— ■Chicago Tribune.