The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-09-11
A Forecast.

E#.EE EVI CCdoba Ea-- FL.
The outlook of the Democracy and the
free Republicans on the Presidential
campaign is more favorable now than
the prospect of any other party in Au-
gust ever was, which was successful ut
the polls, in November. If the election
were to be held to-day, Blaine and Lo-
gan would barely carry nine States out
Of the thirty-eight. Their chance for
any larger number than that is at pres
emit extremely u~nfavorable.
Events which have occurred, and
events which assuredly will occur, justify
the assertion that the Democratic vote,
with substantial SO III ty, will be cast
for Cleveland and Hendricks. The ef-
fort to divert to Blaine a portion of the
Labor vote was no sooner made than it.
failed. 1t resulted in showing that
Blaine was q millionaire, by the grace
of corrupt contracts, of paid-for votes,
of marketed rulings, of subsidies from
corporations and of speculation in all
the powers of the trusts which he has
betrayed. A monopolist and a rascal
does not commend himself to the men
who honestly toll. The other effort, to
get foreign-born citizens to support
Blaine, also failed. Neither the Irish
nor the Germans want a Know-Noth.n g
and q Prohibitionist, aud Blaine's denial
that he was either has bat illustrated the
versatility of his mendacity. Every
endeavor to divide or reduce the Demo-
cratic vote has failed. Leaders or
wocld-be leaders who are hostile or luke
warm to Cleveland and Hendricks will
be III over by the rank and file.
The line of assault On Governor Cleve-
land has also collapsed. For weeks it
was confined to generalizations. When
they were reduced to particulars, the
particulars were found to be lies. The
lies have recoiled on their authors. Gov
rno Clevelau6's record, for instance,
relative to legislation for workingmen
has been found to comprize more 1egis-
lation for the labor,ng class than has
been chargeable to the record of all
other Governors, past or present, put
together. His record on behalf Of
American citizens abroad has been dis
covered to be replete with an equal love
for liberty and for law. His opponents
record is very brave lin a letter of
acceptance to catch votes. Elsewhere
it has been full of evidence of a desire
to let unjustly imprisoned foreign-born
citizens rot in British jails, TO disenable
Thorn from returning to the United
States to vote the Democratic ticket.
James Russell Lowell, as an English
lick-spittle, has been outdone by James
G. Blaine.
On the contrary. che exposure of the
public record of Blaine has been truth
fully fatal to him at every point. He
was, as a Maine politician. first n Know
Nothing and afterward a rascally As
grabber for railroad sharks, and the ac-
complete of Simon Cameron in tae
crimes which drove the latterout of the
War Department. He then got elected
to Congress from a venal district, and
for six years he jobbed the Claims Com
mittee and the Appropriations Commit
tee in the interest of his pocket. As
Speaker, for six years, he was chief of
the back pay and of the Credit Mobil-
Ter Congresses and the hero and bene-
ficiary Of the Mulligau letters, the only
epistles on record in which a rascal has
not done to virtue eve the poor
homage of assembling his d~epravity.
In the Department of State he sought
to employ the power of this great Re-
public on behalf of q miserable guano
claim, while public attention was abb
sorbed in the case of a dying and MUIR
dered Chief Magistrate.
These facts are sinking deep into the
public mind. The impression they are
making ensures every enlightened, re-
spectacle citizens vote for cleveland.
1t is disreputable to be a Blaine man.
1t is getting to be recogn;ze ed to be so. 1t
is mor difficult to get Blaine newspa-
pers to examine the public record of
the man than it is to get gentlemen to
crawl through the ewers of a city.
Those papers know that he is dishonest.
They realize that it is not within the
resources OF ingenuity 10 make the facts
in his case appear to,erable. Conse-
quently they have taken to empty Wifi
cation of the Democratic party aud to
the plying of unnameable denominations
aga INST Cleveland. As a result, the
sturdy masses of the Democracy were
ne yer so united and determined. The
Independents were never so combined
against the Republican party. The free
Republicans were never SO numerous
OF so resolved to aid the reform DenIoc-
racy. The foreign-born citizens OF all
poii1!Co WcIo uOFcI 81 CoiuIIlIJIeu W tuc
I)emocra " as now.
Republican officeholders, corrupt ring
lnasters, beaten bosses, conspiring
mranks, bowling ~dynamiters, roaring
communists, chevaliers of industry,
professional crooks, and the victim, of
The weaknesses, the vices and the inher-
stances which outlaw men, for cause,
from respectable consideration, are sup
plying to the Blaine canvass all its ac-
tivity and making it as noisome as its
noisy. The earnest, honest, laborious,
stable, scrupulous and patriotic forces
in citizenship. whether that citizenship
be native or adopted, are a unit for
Governor Cleveland. The great ma
iority for true Demo racy and reform,
hitherto found in part in one party and
in part in the other, has been brought
into union by the excellence OF the Dem
~ocratic candidates AID platform. The