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It was another very very close election and it may well have been decided in NY city
這又是一次結(jié)果不相上下的大選，紐約在這場大選中起了決定性作用
By the large Irish population of the city
紐約有著大量愛爾蘭移民
When Samuel Burchard, the Presbyterian Minister said at a Blaine rally in New York City
而紐約的長老會牧師，伯查德卻在布萊恩的紐約競選活動上說
We are Republicans and don't propose to leave our party
“我們真正的共和黨人永遠(yuǎn)不會企圖叛離自己的政黨"
and other Republicans had been leaving it
這是在諷刺那些脫離了共和黨的人
To leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion
“不會叛離自己的政黨并讓自己和那些酗酒者，天主教徒和反叛分子同流合污”
So another was Catholicism alcoholic consumption remember
這里提到了天主教和出售酒的問題，我說過
The Bourbon Democrats particularly were soft on issues like alcohol
波旁派民主黨人在酒的問題是態(tài)度尤為開放
Where the Republican party at this time had a very strong prohibitionist strict within it
而這時共和黨人則提議嚴(yán)格執(zhí)行禁酒制度
And of course Rebellion going back to the Civil War
所謂反叛分子則是在翻南北戰(zhàn)爭的舊賬
This was enough tip the scales among the Irish populations in New York
但這句話卻足以扭轉(zhuǎn)紐約愛爾蘭人支持共和黨的立場
Blain lost New York State by a few thousand vote and by doing so lost the election
布萊恩以千票之差失意紐約，也因此輸?shù)袅舜筮x
So you can see how a very very small slip could perhaps throw the election
可見有時一些微小的紕漏可能毀掉整個大選
one way or the other and you have this kind of knife-edge voting tallies
以各種方式發(fā)揮作用，所以才會有了這些勝負(fù)一線間的大選
Then, yeah, no surprise that sort of thing gonna happen
但競選本身就充滿了意料中的“意外”
So 1884, here's just the votes
這里是1884年的投票情況
You can see New York going to Cleveland almost all the counties in upstate New York voted for Blane
你們看的紐約支持的是克里弗蘭,雖然幾乎所有紐約州北部的縣都支持布萊恩
but there was enough Cleveland vote here
但仍敵不過克里弗蘭獲得的選票
