| Show JUDGE RETURN the chief justice and hife back aaen la rials chief justice sandford accompanied by mrs sandford returned sunday evening from their visit to their old home in new york city where then spent about a month judge sandford was seen monday evening by a reporter of tha salt lake herald and when asked for his impressions of the cause of mr Clev elands defeat he said that he was out of politics but did not mind saying that he thought mr cleveland lost simply from a want of votes A press report said that tammany hall had traded cleveland votes for grant votes said the reporter do you think there was anything in that 1 am satisfied said the judge that that was not the case I 1 was told by a tammany man that an order was given out by tammany only the night before election that no votes should be traded then you dont think that new yorks local fight had anything to do with mr Clev elands defeat 1 I feel sure that it had not was the reply and do you think there is anything in the rumors that davy hill knifed Cleveland 2 asked the reporter no hill is a true friend to cleveland the judge thought that the death of henry ward beecher daniel i manning and others had been a great i loss to Clev elands cause in their respective spec tive districts becchers beechers Be echers voice was worth votes in brooklyn and manning had wielded a strong influence among his old constituents in albany in answer to further questions his honor said that Clev elands defeat was no doubt due to a combination of minor causes harrisons being a grand army man was one of these the tariff issue another and so on As to the feeling in new york judge sandford said that he with many others guessed the way things were going about two days before the election and mrs sandford remarked here that she had heard many democrats express themselves as having lost hope just before the election coming down to local matters the reporter asked 1 I suppose you will remain in utah till the end of your term judge 1 I expect to yes was tho reply |
