Daily Yellowstone Journal

A DAY OF REST
From the Trials and Turmoils
of Political Palaver and
Secular Sorrow.
A Clever Rounding-Up of the
Past Week's Woes and
Wickedness
Wherein the Democratic Party
is Clearly Shown to Have
Seriously Sinned.
Tammany Talks.
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 10 p. m.—
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A.
Hendricks are elected president and
vice president of the United States by
13 electoral votes; total 214. John
Kelley has ordered one hundred sa-
lutes fired in front of Tammany Hall.
Incidents of the Contest
NEW York, Nov. 8.—The Demo-
cratic national committee has issued
an address which states to the people
of the United States that Cleveland
and Hendricks are elected with 219
electoral votes. The address names
the states which have given Demo-
cratic majorities, including New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, In-
diana and West Virginia. The ad-
dress concludes thus: "No fraud nor
contrivance can defeat the will of the
people of the United States thus pub-
licly and deliberately declared."
The Evening News publishes the
following conspicuously: We believe
it to be our duty to caution the friends
of Blaine that any attempt to subvert
the will of the people, by tampering
with election returns, will be perilous.
The populace, in case of fraud in the
returns, could not be restrained, and,
as much as we deprecate violence, we
fear turbulence and bloodshed would
be the result. Beware!
The political feeling on the streets
has been intense ever since the elec-
tion, and now is rapidly assuming a
tone of bitterness. Good nature seems
to be vanishing and trouble may a-
rise. The entire police force are on
duty. Reserves held at stations in
each precinct. Inspector Thorne, in
charge at police headquarters, says no
trouble is reported nor expected any-
where, and that no extraordinary
orders have been issued to the police.
The Republican state committee has
issued the following: "In view of the
claims made as to the result of the
election in New York, the Republi-
can state committee deem it their
duty to announce that while the vote
is very close the returns and estimates
from the most authentic sources
justify the belief that a plurality has
been cast in favor of the Republican
candidates. We have received copies
of the official returns as filed in the
several county clerks' offices in all ex-
cept eleven counties. Besides these
we have caused a careful examination
to be made of the returns forwarded
to police headquarters in New York
and Kings counties. From the re-
main ing nine counties we have pro-
cured direct information from the
most reliable sources and feel justified
in asserting that the state has gone
Republican. The result thus arrived
at is confirmed by an entirely different
investigation based upon the returns
collected directly from every election
district in the state."
Commenting on the situation, the
Argus of this city, the leading Demo-
cratic organ, says:
"No fraudulent
commission will be let to put James G.
Blaine in the White House, or keep
Grover Cleveland out of it. The men
who attempt it will be killed and the
legal consequences of killing them
will be taken care of afterwards."
Governor Cleveland said, "I think I
have been elected President, and
nothing but the grossest fraud can
keep me out of it, and that we will
not permit." General Carr, secretary
of state, and a Republican, says:
"There is no chance of stealing this
state; not as long as I have charge of
the affair. I don't propose that any-
body shall steal the state. If Mr.
Cleveland has a plurality, large or
small, he will get it; the same is true
of the other candidate. I don't pro-
pose to play any southern game. No
matter whether it is friend or foe,
with me he has to have blue justice."
Chairman Gorman of the Demo-
cratic national committee, sent the
following dispatch to ex-Gov. John
Lee Carroll, of Maryland, last even-
ing: "The claim of the national Re-
publican committee is laughed at by
everybody. We have carried New
York beyond question. Manning,
chairman of the state committee, tells
the public that the board of canvass-
ers will see that the will of the people
is observed. The Republicans are
trying hard to prevent an official an-
nouncement of the vote of New York,
which is for Cleveland. We have the
state by a small, but safe plurality."
Subsequently, Mr. Gorman was
serenaded at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
and in response to calls for a speech,
he said Cleveland had certainly been
elected. He added: "One President,
duly elected, has been deprived of his
office by fraud, but such a disgrace
will never again be permitted in this
country."
Boston Uproarious.
BOSTON, Nov. 8.—Never in the his-
tory of this city has the interest in an
election been so great as at the present
time. During the reception of the re-
turns at the newspaper offices the
cheering and hissing were deafening.
Party spirit ran exceeding high. Pa-
pers were seized from newsboys and
burned; pictures of Blaine and Cleve-
land were seized by the crowd
and destroyed, and there have been
many personal encounters.
The
crowd broke one of the large plate
glass windows of the Journal office,
and rotten eggs and stones were vio-
lently thrown at the building. Six
persons were arrested in connection
with the newspaper burning. At the
Democratic headquarters the cele-
brants were constantly burning red
lights and discharging rockets, and
taking it all together the stirring
scenes have never before been sur-
passed in the streets of Boston.
The Official Count.
ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 8.—The Jour-
al says: Next Tuesday the boards of
supervisors meet in the various coun-
ties of the state and canvass the re-
turns. Their duties are merely cler-
ical. They simply add up the total
returns of towns, election districts and
wards, certify
to their accuracy
and transmit the certified returns
to the secretary of state. During
this month the state board of can-
vassers, consisting of Secretary Carr,
Comptroller Chapin, Attorney Gen-
eral O'Brien, State Treasurer Maxwell
and State Engineer Sweet, meet in
this city and add up the totals of the
supervisors returns from the counties.
and the result is the official vote of
the state, and according to that result
certificates of election are issued by
the state board to the presidential
lectors who have been chosen.
Timely Advice.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 8.—Commenting on
the national election, the Globe of this
city, the Democratic organ, thus
speaks in its editorial columns: "The
experience of 1876 taught the Demo-
cracy a lesson and all concerned can
rest assured that another dose of fraud
will not be tolerated. There is no oc-
casion for excitement or quarreling
among neighbors. It is time for cool-
ness and conservatism, while at the
same time it can be understood that a
square deal is of vital importance to
the public health and prosperity."
Cleveland Congratulated,
ALBANY, Nov. 8.—Ever since the
closing of the polls, congratulatory
dispatches have been pouring in upon
Governor Cleveland. They came
from every state in the Union and al-
ready several thousand have been re-
ceived. There has been a constant
stream of visitors in and out of the ex-
ecutive mansion ever since, including
many ladies. The governor bears his
honors modestly.
The excitement
in this city
has somewhat subsided.
Republicans generally are conceding
the election. Many business and pri-
vate houses are decorated and enthu-
siasm among the Democrats is subdued
but intense. The Jacksonians, one of
the leading campaign clubs, serenaded
President-elect Cleveland at the exec-
utive mansion last evening. On Mon-
day night next, a monstrous celebra-
tion will be held in which all the cam-
paign clubs of Albany and the vicin-
ity will participate.
Hendricks and the Hoosiers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8.—Since the
election Hon. Tom Hendricks has re-
ceived numerous enthusiastic callers,
as well as many congratulatory mes-
sages from all over the country. At
various times during Mr. Hendricks'
speeches he has reiterated his opinion
that the Western Union telegraph
company and associated press were
conspiring to damage his person-
ally, throughout the country by
falsely reporting that the state had
gone for Blaine and Logan. The
question of polygamy in Utah was in-
cidentally discussed by some visitors.
Mr. Hendricks declined to enter into
a detail of his opinions, but intimated
that the Democrats had very pro-
nounced views and would develop a
strong policy in its treatment of this
evil. "The system," he said, "has be-
come so deeply rooted that if trouble
arises I fear that it will not be dispos-
ed of without a resort to force."
"If the presidential vote is very
close, will another electoral commis-
sion be tolerated, Mr. Hendricks?"
"No, sir; and so long as I can con-
trol the matter this state will never
again be disgraced by having one
man controlling a force of deputy
marshals, acting as a partisan police
force. It is a disgrace; there was no
occasion for this secret counselling and
threatening of the people's liberties."