The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-06
WHY THEY VOTE FOR BLAINE.

WHY THEY VOTE FOR BLAINE.
The Boston Traveller sent dispatches tomore
than two hundred prominent men in the
country asking them for an expression upon
the pending political canvass. Nearly all re-
piled. From the published list we select a
few that will be of interest to our readers and
the public generally
The venerable Theodore Dwight Woolsey
ex president of Yale College, writes:
~ have been, as time has gone on, more
and more inclined to accept Of him GBlaine]
as the candidate whom l can support. And
as for the parties l have no manner of ques-
ton that the Republicans are far more de-
serving Of the confidence of the country than
their opponents. L. d. WooLsEY."
John Greenleaf Whittier, the good Quaker
poet, and lover of his race, writes:
"For myself shall esteem it privilege as
well as duty to cast my vote for the Repub-
lican candidates. l regret the action of the
Independents. They might simply withhold
their votes, or cast them for some better rep
resentative of their views and principles than
the Democratic candidate.
'JoHN G. WHITTIER"
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the eminent
clergyman and author, writes
''The country is to be governed by two oil
garchies, the solid South and the combination
which controls the city of New York
Il believe in the government of the people,
for the people, by the people, and therefore
oppose the resuscitation of the Democratic
party, whose real leaders in the last fifty
Years have never believed in any such thing.
edward E. HALE"
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, the distinguished
publicist of Massachusetts,, writes:
II support the candidates of the Republican
party, Mr. Blaine and General Logan, because
! believe that Republican success is for the
best interests OF the country;
Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes:
81 am interested in the success Of the Re-
publican party, and as its success depends in
a measure on the election of James G. Blaine
l sincerely hope he may be victorious in No
vember. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON"
Hon. George S. Boutwell,, ex-Secretary of
the Treasury, writes
not.
logan is patriot, and Hendricks is not
'The Republican ticket represents the
craftsmanship and patriotism of the country.
The Democratic ticket represents neither
craftsmanship nor patriotism"
Hon. Frederick Douglass the most distin-
guished man of his race in the world, writes:
because they represent the party of loyal
ty, liberty, justice, progress equal rights, ed
ucation, protection to American industry,
equal suffrage, and fair count, and composed
of the best elements of American society;
because | have reason to believe that the cleo
ton of Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hen
bricks would be the beginning of dangerous
reaction against the principles of liberty and
equal rights, l give my voice and vote for
them. FREDERICK DOUGLASS"
Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., of Boston, a Con
gregational clergyman. well known and hon
ored for his ability and character, writes:
II shall vote for the Republican ticket, and
heartily for Mr. Blaine, whom l have known
in all the relations of life, personal, social,
business and political, for more than twenty
five years.
After reading these tributes and reasons
from men of the high character, the culture,
the ability, the probity, the influence of those
whose names are above given, it is sickening
to turn to the cant of such political turn
coat and charlatan as Carl Schun, and to the
blab of such man as George William Curtis
who proves himself liar by his own words,
and shameless slanderer of man whom he
has frequently praised; and how deep the dis
gust on turning from the words of men like
President Woolsey, Cabot Lodge and Ed
ward Everett Hale to the triturated "wash"
of the independent goslings in this city and
State; from the words Of a venerable and
humble Friend Quaker like John Greenleaf
Whittier to the cheap and malicious de-
nunciations of the Pinkhams and Tatums,
and their like, who are stumping the State in
the interests of the Democratic party and free
whisky.
T. IL