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Show T AM. if AN! ELECTION I ItALDS. A PhiladelptlU paper prints :t history ?f tho political campaign in New York J in 1888 iu which is shown ono of thu ! methods employed by thu Tam-; Tam-; many thieves to carry the Empire ! Htato for Cleveland in 1884. Thu btrength of Ben Hi tleu iu the ew York metropolis was known to bo large, so it was decided npou to change i several thousands of votes cast for tho BCTUX electors to thoso on the Clevk-f Clevk-f land ticket which wus done, aud this manipulation was carried on suili-eieutly suili-eieutly to giver Cleveland a plurality of barely more than 1000 in the state. Mr. Quay, chairman of the national republican re-publican comtnittuu iu 1838, became a ware before tho cluse of the campaign of that year that the Tamuiauyites would attempt the same game in New York City, and by having its lower wards mapped, blocked and ceustised, jtnd by special efforts to get early election elec-tion returns prevented repetition of the work of 1884. There is uo doubt what-eer what-eer that tho honest vote of New York .-.lato in 1884 wus as much for Mr. ISlaine as was that of Massachusetts. |