Henry Lauren Clinton
Published: 2016-09-16
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Excerpt from Speech of Henry L. Clinton: Delivered Before the Democratic Republican General Committee of the City of New York, September 5th, 1878, at Tammany Hall For the last four or five years the Democrats have elected their state ticket by a large majority. Yet, with a single ex ception, the Republicans have had a majority in the Assembly. In 1872 the Republicans carried this State by a majority of In 1874 a great Democratic tidal wave swept over the whole country. In the Fall election of that year the Demo cratic majority in this State was The Democratic ma jority outside of the City of N ew York was The conse quence was that, in the year 1874, the Democrats elected a de cided majority of the members of the Assembly. That victory at the polls resulted not only in the election of our entire state ticket, but it enabled Democratic Assemblymen, on joint ballot, to vote against the nominee of a Republican Senate for United States Senator, and to send to the U nited States Senate the distinguished Democrat who, two years before, was our candidate for Governor. Had the election for United States Senator oc curred in any other year, this great State, notwithstanding a large majority of her citizens vote the Democratic ticket, would be at the present time misrepresented in the Senate of the United States by two Republicans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.