The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-09-06
A SEVERE ARRANGEMENT.

A letter has been published from
the Hon. Thad. G.. Pound, of Wiscon.
sin, in which he announced his pur-
pose to oppose Mr.. Blaine and sup
port Gov. Cleveland for the Presiden. |
cy. The following are extracts from
Mr.. Pounds letter:
"Mr. Blaine, in my opinion, en-
bodies most in American politics that
is menacing to public morals and in
tegrity in government. With long
public career mainly distinguished
for sort of declsmatory and pugilis>
tic statecraft, he is not the inspira-
ton of single valuable policy or the
author of an important statute, but,
on the contrary, has suggested and
supported unwise and bad and oppos-
ed good legislation. With a record
clouded by suspicious and accusations
sfjobbery and corruption undefended,
he brings to us personal antagonisms
which have torn aud weakened our
party in the past, invading the adj
ministration of the lamented Garfield
with demands of personal vengeance
so yjrulent as to infsme the spirit of
as ,assination and eliminating in the
defeat of Judge Folger and consequent
election of Grover Cleveland Govern
or of the Empire State. Mr.. Blaine's
friends justified their detection, which
| defeated a most excellent man, by
the plea of fraud in one proxy at the
State Convention.
"But returning 70 the candidate.
Himself speculator, enjoying for>
tune too great to have been acquired
by honest industry, Legitimate bust
ness enterprise, or his cOuntry's ser.
vice at SIS, 600 a year. he sympathizes
with and profits by speculative stock
jobbing and gambling methods of
acquiring wealth--methods which
have wrought ruin, disgrace and bus>
mess disaster beyond computation,
schooled youth and persuaded middle
age to avoid honest and useful indus,
try, made suicide and insanity COM
monplace, unsettled values, placed
the fruits of honest toll in the power
the Goulds and Armours to bear
down or bull up in the markets as
within or interest may dictate; meth
DDS which recently gave us but an
exaggerated illustration of their mi
quit0us consequences in the Grant d
Ward fifteen, million dollar failure
and robbery.
i Reference to Blaine's Congress
ional record relating to subsidies,
class legislation, corporate exactions,
etc., will readily satisfy the honest
inquirer of his uniform support of
monopolies and indifference to the
common veal.
1.-The disingenuousness Of his letter
of acceptance is further betrayed by
its insignificant silence touching the
events of the past three years. Bring
ing down his historic figures to the
present would have revealed the fic.
ton involved in his statements;
would have shown marvellous
shrinkage in nominal values, would
have noted the downfall of business
prosperity and business morals, and
would have pictured, as few can do
so graphically as he, the furnace fires
dying out, the wheels of factories
standing still, wages reduced, beggary
usurping the place of labor, bank
and business failures, creditors and
depositors wantonly defrauded,
homes lost, and crookedness in public
affairs. Mr.. Blaine is Objectionable
furthermore for the company he
! keeps, for the friends he has made.
"With no pronounced issues between
, the two great parties we can safely
: afford to yield temporary executive
. control at this time to an honest man,
though he be Democrat. And il
grave questions of public policy
were an issue they cannot be deter
mined by the Executive. This is
the prerogative of Congress, the law
making branch, heretofore for time
: and now under Democratic control;
1t is vastly more important to good
government that the Republican par
r ty be restored to supremacy in Con
{ gress than that the administration Of
law be entrusted to an unworthy par
tizan surrounded by bad counsel
= While Mr.. Blaine is known to be un,
worthy, Gov. Cleveland has demons
r trated his fitness and worthiness fol
!. the position by his fidelity, ability anc
= integrity in the discharge of his exec
!. utive duties as Mayor of Buffalo anC
) Governor of the great State of New