Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1884 — Cleveland and the Vote. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland and the Vote.

Grover Cleveland was beaten in his own ward. If he had been running for Alderman he would have been rejected by his nearest neighbors. Grover Cleveland was beaten in his own city. If he had been running this year for Mayor of Buffalo, the votes of his fellow citizens would Lave declared him unworthy to fill that office. . Grover Cleveland was beaten, in his own county. If he had been running again for Sheriff of Erie, the people of that county would have expressed their j preference for some other hangman. * Grover Cleveland was beaten, in his own Congressional district Grover Cleveland narrowly escaped defeat in his own State. The people of New York have had an opportunity to study him. He “has only a minority of the votes of New Yoraers; he lacks many thousands of a majority. If he had been running once more for Governor, he would have been beaten by the men who know him best. He Was nominated for President on the assurance of his managers that he was the one man able to carry New York for the Democracy. The vote shows that these pretensions as to his,strength at home were absolutely unfounded. Grover Cleveland did not pull the Democratic party through. He was pulled through in spite of himself by anti-Democratic voters who had grudges ahd animosities against Mr, Blain e and a very tight squeeze it was after all. ’ Just a few hundred votes the other way would have beaten Grover Cieve- • land in the United States for President of the United States —-[New York Sgn, Please call and Settle your account, we are needing it badly, uncij greatly oblige, Hemphill & Honan.

Judge Hanimend, of the supreme bench, ran 4,000 ahead of the Republican State ticket Tne appointment and election of judges should be without ant' political signification whatever/ When a man like Judge Hammondj the peer of any jurist in the State, is defeated on political grounds, it is time that the judiciary offices were taken out of the hands of political parties.— Lafayette Courier. - __