THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2424, 12 November 1892, Page 4

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

W.vsiitxotox, Nov. 8. The candidates lor the Presidency are : Republican II irrison, vic.n lleid ; Democrats Cleveland and Stevenson; Farmers’ Alliance—General Weaver and Field; Temperance Party—Bhhvell and Creaphill. The result will be known to-morrow. Nov. 9. Mr Cleveland carried New York state by a majority of 110,000, New York ctiy by 70,000, Brooklyn by 10,000. He also has large majorities in Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, and Indiana. The weather keeps fine and the election is carried on without any disturbance. .Several persons have been arrested and charged with impersonation. General Weaver, the People’s Party

Oregon. Mr Cleveland is assured of heavy majorities in Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Alabama, and has secured several Republican States. IBs estimated majority in Congress is 135. It is reported that his majority in the Electoral College will be 50 New York, Nov. 7. Mr Cleveland’s election is now assured, as he possesses a majority o." 34 in the Electoral College. It is expected that he will have a majority in the Senate, in addition to a majority of about 100 in the House. The Democrats carried Illinois, California, and Michigan ; and the Farmers’ Alliance carried Colorado. Nebraska, and Kansas. Mr Whitelaw Reid was defeated in his own district. The Australian system of ballot is pronounced a success. During the progress of the election in Anderson County, South Carolina, a Republican supervisor killed four Democrats. General Harrison has secured a majority in Ohio and Pennsylvania. London, Nov, 7. The result of the Presidential election in the Untited States is popular in commercial circles in England, and a modification of the McKinley tariff is looked for.

The following sketch of the new President, taken from the Boston Herald, will be read with interest. : Mr Grover Cleveland is a member of the law firm of Bangs Stetson, Tracy and MacVeagh, on a fourth floor. He is a good lawyer in consultations. His work in this firm is whit is known in the professoin as “ office work.” He never was a plei der in tiie courts, yet his State papers are considered sound, and often, in some respects, brilliant. His share in the profits of the firm is about 50,000d01s a year. Mr Cleveland spends his evenings at home, at the theatre, or at the opera, as well as at private dinners. He does not like the opera, partly because of a defective ear for music, partly owing to the long and, as they seem to him, wearisome acts. In the spring and fall he often goes to Lakewood, and in the summer ho usually takes a trip to the Aclirondncks, where he gratifies his love for fishing. He likes to play poker and pinochle, but never for high stakes. He cares as little for art as he does for music. He has no taste for society. It is a bore to him. In his bachelor life at Buffalo, where he had appartments in the Weed block, he contracted independent habits, and he adheres to them now. Although he, detests opera, he takes pleasure in going to such performances with his wife, and he is very proud of the attention and the admiration which that lady universally excites. Now and then ho goes to the club, but he is not, strictly speaking, a club man. He is an honorary member of the Manhattan, a member of the Democi’atic Club, which has its quarters in the late Christopher Meyer’s princely home on Fifth avenue, near Fiftieth street, and he is also a member of the Iroquois Club of Chicago. He is not a great reader of books now, and never has been, bnt he is as diligent a student of newspapers as many other distinguished men in this country. Whatever may be said of Mr Jay Gould, nobody ever called him a fool, and his advice to a young man who wanted a hint as to a course of life needful to success was, for one thing, to carefully study the daily newspapers. Mr Cleveland would patiently wade through a cartload of dry Legislative Bills with his cool grey eyes hunting for an “ axe,” and he scrutinises closely all the daily journals. He has no time for books any more than the great mass of people in this country, the newspapers being, in fact, about the only literature of the people. He is about sft 9in in height, and weighs about 2001 b. At one time ho was growing so stout that ho took measures to prevent an increase of weight. HeJeasily gains flesh, and at one time he tried an extravagant kind of Checkley system to reduce hia avoirdupois. This system requires an exaggerated lifting of the legs, as if going quickly upslairs, and raising the knees until they almost reach the stomach. He likes to live well, both : as to eating and drinking, but he is a man of such strong will that no habits permanently prejudicial to his health could fasten upon him. He is very sensitive upon the subject of his weight. For two years ha has been very careful in his hygenie. The question is sometimes asked, « How is Mr Cleveland lUed by those who know the man best ? ” They like him for his social qualities and sometimes they regret that his character is so strong that he does not seek to know the opinions of his friends on personal and political questions, which they think it would be better for him to consult them about. But they admire his courage. He is gruff in his manner at times, and, when he thinks there is occasion, almost impetuous, not to say imperious. At other times ho is as gentle as a lamb, and a little child might lead him. He is a man of considerable means for one who has never systematically devoted himself to money getting. Ho is understood to be worth half a million. He was successful in re.'l estate operations in Washington, and he s + ill owns real estate there. Ho never was a spendibrift, any more than he was unduly close. lie takes great pride in the staunch allegiance of ft large mass of the American oeorde to him, a id, whatever may be his faults, even bis enemies concede that above everything else he is an. honest man.”

As showing his views on tJu iarifT question, in a recent i lErvjew A f Clevolandsaidr—“ 'Pari IF reform is still OU’ - purpose. Though we oppose tlie theory that tarifflaws may be passed h iving for their object the granting of discriminating aid to private ventures, we wage no exterminating war against Ame ion interests. We believe Oi it the advantage o of freer raw material should be accorded to our manufactures, and we contemplate the fair and careful distribution of the necessary tariff burdens ratlvm than the precipitation of free trade. We rely upon the intelligence of our fellow countrymen to reject the charge that a party, comprising the majority of our people, is planning the destruction or the injury of American interests, and we know that they cannot be frightened by the spectre of impossible free trade.”