River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-30
A Hoosier Marx rapIex.

II has been reserved for the Chairman the
Democratic State Committee of Indiana, Tho
has rendered himself conspicuous several
times during the campaign by his ridiculous
antics, to discover that the Democrats won
victory in Ohio and to order general jollitica-
ton on the part of the s'gallant Democracy Of
his State. In his genral order he says:
To the Democracy of Indiana: The State
Central Committee of Illinois purposes TO nave
100000 people to welcome Gov. Hendricks to
Chicago "Wednesday next, Oct % While this
grand demonstration is taking place in Chicago
/ ask the gallant Democracy of indiana TO cell
citrate in every city and town IN the state tne
grand victory is West Virginia and Ohio. Light
every torch, lindle bonfres, bring out the
bands and clubs, and let the young and old re-
joice. The Democracy of Illinois, Iowa, Mich
igan, and Wisconsin will all jolify the sans
evening. T. Il. HENDERSON,
Chairman State Central Committee.
OF all the Democratic Chairmen in the coun-
try this Indiana Mark Tapley il the only one re-
solved to be jolly under difficulties. Even
Seven Mule Barnum, Chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, and his lieutenant
German, have issued walling appeal to the
Democracy to make last desperate effort or
everything is gone to ''the demnition bow
vows
What is this so-called democratic victory in
Ohio and West Virginia which the Indiana
chairman wants to celebrate with torches and
bonfires, brass bands and bannersy Let us
examine its dimensions. In 1882 the democrats
carried Ohio by 1905 votes. In 1883 they car
ried it by 1929. That majority has disap-
peared. The republican majority over the
democrats on canal commissioner, where there
was no scratching, was about 1850. That
was the straight republican majority In the
state. The aggregate majority of republican
candidates for congress in the twenty-one
districts, in spite of the fraudulent Democratic
gerrymandering is 1S,4l8, which represents
the Republican preponderance on COMPRESSION
al issues, and will be still further increased IN
November for Blaine and Logan. The net Re
publican gain in the State since last year is over
10000 This may be Democratic victory
and a cause for rejoicing, but it does not strike
the average voter in that light, and nobody else
except the Indiana Chairman who evidently
can't tell when his party is routed, horse, foot,
and dragons.
What is the extent of the Democratic vic.
tory" in West Virginia Hancock's plurality
in 1880 was II ,14S This has been cut down tc
less than 1000 with the prospect, as shown by
the Republican gains, that two of the four seats
in congress may be filed by republicans III Nov
ember, with fighting chance left to carry the
state; and this is one of the old southern slave
states! The net republican gain in the states
of Ohio and West Virginia has been nearly ~
COO
Just how many Hooser democrats will be-
lieve Henderson that these resuEs are demo
cratic victories is not known, but we should
like to see them stand up to be counted-Chl-
cago Tribune.
Stewart L. woodford to Beecher.
During his speech at the Brooklyn rinA
Stewart L. Woodford paid his respects to the
slanderers of Mr.. Blaine in the following
terse language:
There lives in this city one of the most elo-
quent clergymen in the land, and one whose
services in behalf of humanity have been of the
most eminent character. / believe most
thoroughly in the honesty and purity of tina
gentleman. My confidence and faith IN tina
man are absolute But not many years age
there came an hour of trial to that gentleman
when there was nothing between him and uttei
ruin but the confidence of the loving hearts OF
the people of Brooklyn. There were letters
produced and read upon a public trial ther
held in this CITY, and which lasted many months
Had those letters been read and interpreted il
the spirit and by the methods pursued by Mr.
Schurz in reading and explaining the Fisher
letter against Mr. Blaine they would have drlv-
en- that clergyman from every pulpit IN the lano
and from every home and freside in the country
Immense and prolonged cheering, mingled with
cries of That's SOFT And why, my friends, was
not that base attack upon the character OF this
man successful? Simply and alone because
the good people OF Brooklyn mad faltn IN the
honesty and integrity of their nelghbor.
[Great cheering.l We stood firmly between
him and his slanderers, and we savec
him. IGreat applause.l | want for my ole
friend who entered the Fremont campaign with
me in 1856: who for thirty years has lived in
Hill and his rebel colleagues, whose name is for
ever associated with all the great issues which
the Republican party has carried through
want for that man the same kind of justice
from the people of Brooklyn that they have
exercised in the past. Let b rooklyn be to-day
as Just to the statesman she was a few years
ago to the clergyman. But this is not all The
depths to which this political canvass has
stopped are enough to bring blush of shame
to the check of every honest American. /
said when the Democrats went into the
home of our candidate and slandered the
woman who is wife, mother, and grand
mother, surely the men and women OF
this land who know what fatherhood and
motherhood mean will rise up and bury this
Democratic party forever Whatever may be
the result of this campaign, | believe it WI
teach MS one thing very effectually, and this is
that hereafter we must be gentlemen in politics
and not blackguards. use that word deliber-
ately. as the only one adequately expressing
what mean The attack upon Mr.. Blaine's
home and wife and family was and is black
guardism, pure, simple and unadultrated
The decency of the people requires to-day that
this attack be condemned by the utter and
crushing defeat of the Democratic perry and
the Democratic candidates. 1t will be. icon.