West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1884-08-29
T0LITICAL ITEMS.

--Blainc's letter may have f.Llcr
like wet blanket, but Logan's they
say, rcScmblcd crazy quilt. Hidi0Hd
sentinel.
--Gcueral Durbin Ward struck the
Keynote the other day when he said:
Tho public welfare demands the defeat
OF Blaine"
There is more personal magnet.
ism in straightforward. old-iashioned
honest man than there is In an cntro
regiment of 'plumcd knights"
Tho Mulligan lcttcrs show that
Mr. Blaine marketed his rulings as
Speaker at n valuation of hundreds of
thousands of dollars To n wildcat rail
way company and got the money. -
A'bmy drgUS.
Blaine was active i'm turning tho
Republican party over to the Know
Nothings when the cry of down with
the foreigner was raised. Still we are
informed 10y certain fools that tho Irish
will vote for Blaine.
- There have been two or three
prominent Republican officials in the
past twelve years who have proposed to
turn the rascals out, but in the end tho
raScas have turned them out For
further Information inquire of b. III.
Bristow
Nothing in this campaign has
been moro amusing than Elkin $ Vouch-
en- " Mr.. Blaine Knows all about the
Proprctirs.' lclknay should match il
with n certificate about the "cquitics." "
and Kellogg with one about the ''ycrac-
ties. ~ Exchange.
The New York Tribune, under
its present editor, ia the winter Of 1873.
IgnnnnsnI tnt
n bully The change wrought i'm H.
since was not u change of heart. and
William Walter Phelps, who made the
change, knows just what did IT,
-- AS poor Logan reads the com
ments on his letter of acceptance hc
must not fail To remember that it was
the New York Tribune which drew at
tcntlon 10 his eminent claim to- the Irish
VOC, based on the allegation that hc
was not even ON speaking terms with
the English language. Ihc argus.
by setting up a veto shop in tho
White House Mr. Blaine could treble
his salary every month Congress was
in session, and he is just the man 10 do
IT. But the approyals that can be
/ bought and tho ve'ocs that can be sold
are not the kind the honest men of the
/ United states desire. -ETchdHgc.
Mr.. Blaino's long delayed and
much-labored letter of acceptance is aL
last before the public. The lengl II of the
! document is inordnatc, and If il is an
example of what he will be capable, in
/ the way of elaborate composition. when
/ lac becomes President. We are n raid the
newspapers will at once cool toward
/ MN. Ottcd Press
Black Jack Logan addressed n
post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie at Minneapolis, MINI, last week,
and having inadvertently delivered him
self of grammatical sentence, an en-
thusiastic admirer was so struck by the
fact that he could not wait till the
speaker was done to congratulate him
on his success. but blurtcd the fact
right out in meeting. -Rtchm0nd IN, i,
/ Stdtc.
Mr.. Blaine declares that che is
not one who proves dcadhcad i'm any
enterprise" in other words, he is ''on
the make The Presidency could be
made the source of more entirely infa-
nous wealth to man who could venal-
ize H. than any other place in the couu-
| try. A man who will administer il hon
cstly, not one who would market the
patronage and it's powers over legisla-
ton, Is desired by the people. M Y
I UOTid.