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adopted and the ticket placed in nomination, 

 and on the 12th of August he published a long 

 statement addressed to his " constituents," in 

 which he discussed a great variety of topics, 

 accepted the nomiDations of the Anti-Monopo- 

 ly and Greenback-Labor Conventions, advo- 

 cated the consolidation of elements of discon- 

 tent and dissatisfaction in a u People's party," 

 advised fusion with the minority in any State 

 where there was a chance of gaining by it, and 

 explained to the Democrats of Massachusetts 

 his reasons for parting company with them. 



Prohibition Convention. A convention of the 

 Prohibition party was held at Pitrsburg on the 

 23d and 24th of July, a considerable number of 

 the delegates being women. The platform de- 

 nounced the encouragement of the importation, 

 manufacture, supply, and sale of alcoholic bev- 

 erages by national revenue laws, and demanded 

 the abolition of the collection of revenues from 

 alcoholic liquors and tobacco; set forth the 

 evils arising from the liquor-traffic, and de- 

 manded that it be prohibited by the Govern- 

 ment in all places over which it has exclusive 

 jurisdiction, and that no State be hereafter ad- 

 mitted into the Union until its Constitution 

 should prohibit polygamy and the manufacture 

 and sale of intoxicating beverages, and appealed 

 to all classes to aid in suppressing the liquor- 

 traffic in the States. Faith in woman suffrage 

 was declared, but the "practical outworking 

 of this reform" was relegated "to the discre- 

 tion of the Prohibition party in the several 

 States, according to the condition of public 

 sentiment in those States." Ex-Gov. John P. 

 St. John, of Kansas, was nominated for the 

 office of President, and William Daniel, of 

 Maryland, for that of Vice-President! 



(For Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance, 

 see page 148.) 



Incidents of the Canvass. Mr. Hendricks signi- 

 fied his acceptance in a brief note, dated Indi- 

 anapolis, August 20. St. John and Daniel were 

 notified of their nominations, and accepted the 

 same while at a temperance camp-meeting near 

 Cuba, N. Y., on the 25th of August. S. C. 

 Pomeroy, who had been nominated for Presi- 

 dent by the American or Anti Secret Society 

 party, at a convention held in Chicago, June 20 

 and 21, withdrew in favor of St. John in the 

 latter part of August. During the canvass an 

 effort was made to induce Mr. St. John to 

 withdraw in the interest of the Republican 

 party, a formal request to that effect being ad- 

 dressed to him by a number of prominent men, 

 with Dr. Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, 

 at their head, urging upon him reasons for such 

 a course. He made an extended reply, in an- 

 swer to these representations, and refusing 

 to withdraw, under date of October 11. Gen. 

 Butler was accused of having entered into an 

 understanding with the Republican National 

 Committee, in accordance with which his can- 

 vass was to serve the interests of the Repub- 

 lican ticket in return for the payment of the 

 whole or a large part of his expenses. This 



he vehemently denied in a statement " to the 

 people of the United States," dated October 25. 



Both Butler and St. John conducted a per- 

 sonal canvass throughout the Northern States. 

 Mr. Blaine passed the summer in Maine, partly 

 at Augusta and partly at Bar Harbor, attend- 

 ing a few political meetings and receiving some 

 visitors. On the 17th of September he lef 

 Augusta for an extended trip to the West, 

 passing through Boston and New York, and de- 

 livering numerous brief addresses on his way 

 through New York State and in Ohio, Indiana, 

 Michigan, and West Virginia. On his return 

 he gave a reception to a delegation of clergy- 

 men in New York on the 30th of October, tl 

 spokesman of the delegation causing some 

 tation by referring to the Democracy as 

 party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion.' 

 The same evening he was entertained at 

 banquet by two hundred prominent capitalist 

 of New York. Gov. Cleveland continued th< 

 performance of his official duties at Albany, 

 making visits to Buffalo, October 2 ; to New- 

 ark, N. J., October 26 ; to Hartford and New 

 Haven, October 30, and two visits to the city 

 of New York during the same month, all of 

 which visits were attended by political demon- 

 strations. 



Result of the Election. The uncertainties ol 

 the canvass, occasioned by the defection of 

 Republican Independents, the unusual vigor of 

 the Prohibition movement, and the peculiar 

 circumstances of Gen. Butler's candidacy, were 

 increased by the evident lack of cordiality in 

 the support given to Cleveland by the Tam- 

 many faction of New York, and the declared 

 preferences for Blaine on the part of many 

 Irish and Roman Catholic voters who had for- 

 merly adhered to the Democratic party. The 

 apathetic canvass and light vote at the State 

 election in Vermont were regarded as unfavor- 

 able to the Republicans, but were offset by tht 

 result in Maine shortly after. The ground was 

 warmly contested in Ohio, in October, with the 

 result of increasing rather than diminishing the 

 uncertainty. The presidential election, on the 

 4th of November, accordingly enlisted more 

 anxious interest on both sides than had been 

 experienced for many years before. The close- 

 ness of the result in New York, whose elect- 

 oral votes were a decisive factor, continued the 

 excitement for some days after the election. 

 (See NEW YORK, in this volume.) The elect- 

 oral votes in favor of Cleveland and Hendricks 

 were the following: Alabama 10, Arkansas 7, 

 Connecticut 6, Delaware 3, Florida 4, Georgia 

 12, Indiana 15, Kentucky 13, Louisiana 8, Mary- 

 land 8, Mississippi 9, Missouri 16, New Jersey 9, 

 New York 36, North Carolina 11, South Caro- 

 lina 9, Tennessee 12, Texas 13, Virginia 12, West 

 Virginia 6 total, 219. Those for Blaine and Lo- 

 gan were : California 8, Colorado 3, Illinois 22, 

 Iowa 13, Kansas 9, Maine 6, Massachusetts 14, 

 Michigan 13, Minnesota 7, Nebraska 5, Nevada 

 3, New Hampshire 4, Ohio 23, Oregon 3, Penn- 

 sylvania 30, Rhode Island 4, Vermont 4, and 



