Show CLEV ELANDS DEFEAT THE REPUBLICS CANNOT CLUM CREDIT FOR THE VICTORY cleveland to satisfy mayor dewitts hewitts He witts personal malice correspondence odthe mr cleveland has been defeated ant under such a combination of circumstances cum stances that the republican party as an organization has really no right to claim credit for the victory although the result places its candidate in the white house for four years mr cleveland has been sacrificed to gratify the personal malice of mayor abraham S hewitt and to satisfy tho greed of a gang of corrupt local politicians ns in new york city it is a reproach to our country that such a thing could have been possible and it will remain a reproach as long as tho voto of new york city can control a presidential election few people here believe that governor jwill of new york did not do his best to reelect re elect mr cleveland col lament who doubtless reflects the sentiments of mr cleveland on this subject says that he is folly satisfied that governor hill has done all that ho possibly could for the national ticket and that the votes he got that cleveland did not get were from tho republican publican Ke liquor interests and could not have been controlled by anyone mr cleveland has so conducted himself since the election as to win the admiration of everybody republicans as well as democrats he is disappointed disa pointed of course he would not be human if he was not under the circumstances but he hides it well on wednesday with tho streets full of jubilant yelling republicans and a battery of artillery in the park just in the rear of the white house firing a salute to celebrate harrisons election mr cleveland was holding his usual public reception and quietly shaking hands with the large crowd in attendance and exchanging smiles and pleasant words with each one most men would have sulked for some time after the election i there is a great diversity of opinion among officials as to the cause of tho defeat por in secretary whitney says that the loss of new york was caused by the fact that the workingmen had not been properly educated as to tha tariff the question was not presented to them in the right manner and they were made to believe the democrats were free traders instead of tariff justice lamar is of ane opinion that the tariff had nothing whatever to do with the result representative foran fresh from an interview with the president said 1 I am not good on a postmortem I 1 can diagnose the case but there my skill ends tariff and civil service reform did it civil service a little and tariff a great deal the president was entirely right in all that ho did but he was right too soon the time was not yet ready but the manufacturers have refused a small reduction the result will be that there will be an uprising of the taxed people and they will bo cut deep everybody confesses that there must be tariff revision the democratic party will be stronger than ever conr years hence there will be a reaction from this intense selfishness representative taulbee feels confident that the responsibility now gien the republicans will eventually prove their destruction and thus it goes on columns might be filled with the different opinions but it is unnecessary mr cleveland in talking of the election admits that his tariff message may have lost him a good many votes enough probably to have caused his defeat but he still maintains with a courage that does aim honor that if he had the whole business to do over again he would not change his course in regard to the tariff question by a hair s breadth as what he did was the result of his honest conviction vic tion mr cleveland was very much disappointed at the action of the republicans that he had kept in office who voted and worked against him with all their might mr cleveland states in language that cannot be misunderstood tha tHilI and tammany hall treated him squarely but he makes no such statement in regard to hewitt and his crowd who as stated in the first paragraph of this letter are the parties that are responsible for the defeat of the national democratic ticket the loss of the house was particularly unfortunate just at this time as it will enable the republicans to admit as states all the territories that are republican in politics which will give them at least four more senators and tha vote of two more states in the electoral college of 1892 that they will admit the republican territories ri and keep out the democratic territories cannot for a moment be doubted by any one at all familiar with methods washington nov |