Show WAS NEW mw YOEK'S YORKS VOTE VOrE STOLEN Can the electoral vote of ot New York state be stolen Did such a a. theft occur In ISM Was the will of tho the people then criminally perverted and did Democracy come Into power at Cleveland's Cleveland s 1 election with a n fraudulent title to the presidency These arise for the reason that doubt of ot the honesty hone of ot the declared re result of or the presidential vote of NewYork Now New York In 1884 has been announced recently by a writer of ot considerable reputation Even Een If not supported sup b by evidence a suspicion of this kind put forth by res re responsible responsible re- re s authority Is not unlikely to have some weight when In tho the future the stor story of ot our OUI own times time comes to be written Though generally conversant with all ill that has been written about Mr Clove Clove- land I had never neer seen this thus charge of dishonesty dishonest dishonesty dis dis- honesty honest as to the declared vote of ot NewYork NewYork New NewYork York supported by name until the th publication pubU- pubU cation calion of an article entitled Election EJection Superstitions and F Fallacies b by Edward Stanwood In the Atlantic Monthly for tor October 1912 While the drift drill seemed constantly and sure surely favorable to Mr Cleveland it wasso wasso was wasso so slight alIght that I was satisfied his hit ma majority mB ma- world not be toe over or 2000 Gradually Or semiofficial returns wore collected collected col col- at the executive chamber in Albany Al Albany Al- Al bany and md Mr Cleveland's Cle assured ma- ma In tho state to was as more a accurately ura tel known there than anywhere else Tho exact majority determined finally by the state stale canvassing board in the following December l a was lalOn 1017 lOn When our OUr- executive e chamber tabulation tabulation tabu tion of ot detailed returns was finished td and d Mr Jr Cleveland eland wag was satisfied that Iho tho to to- tat u-ils told the truth he sent this telegram November ember 6 6 to a friend J 1 believe c I have been en elected dent Ilent and nothing but grossest fraud can keep me inn no out of ot It and that we ve will not permit The Tho whole case raSe ma may bo ho summed up b by that In the er Very tery nature of or things s the tho wonder I 1 Is that New York gave gae Cleveland elan a plurality so small rather than th a IL largo majority New York naturally naturally natu natu- natu rally wa was a Democratic state stale From 1867 to 1 9 inclusive a period of ot twenty five cars the state went Republican only sly six Ix times In 1882 1883 It had gone ono for tor Clevo Clevo- land by and in n 1853 generally by about Democratic Therefore It was strange that in New York Tork City Cleveland's plurality of or In 1834 1934 ex exceeded ex- ex b by le less c than 2000 that of or Hancock Hancock Han Han- cock II Hi Ih 1880 The surprise was the tho size aim of or the the- vote given cn not for Cleveland but for Blaine As All was WM ob observed ened editorially In the Tribune of or No November cr 14 H Right flight ht In hi this city the very center of or the Inde Inde- pendent strength Mr Ir Blaine Blaino received a vote ote several c thousand larger Ilu-ger than was as ever e eThe before given to an any Republican The fhe conclusion of or the the whole matter Batter is that Non 0 Yorks York's 1884 cf vote tote was as not stolen Molen in that none of or the principals had reason to suppose that It was that at the Ump time no responsible pap paper r adhered r red l to the charge person or of c that It waR wai stolen tolen and that the these c facts facts facts' arc fattened attested td by IW evidence still In n existence and accessible William William Gotham Gorham readily Rice Francis Lynde In the January and number of or the North orth American Review Rt |