Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-06
GERMANS AGAINST BLAINE.
Opposed by Both Brewers and
PFohibitionists.
A GUESS At THE VOTE FoRsT. JOHN
AS5 Game Being Played by Ben Butler,
With the View Of Advancing
His Own Aims. ~

campaign. While the Blaine managers have
been Paking their combinations to carry
that. State, the prospect inh number Of the
Republican backbone States, in the West
and Northwest, has changed. And chiefly
for two reasons. First the German vote
gave signs of alienation. Blaine's Maine
Law antecedents have helped to do ii. For
years Maine law politics were. and for aught
that appears on the record, are still Blaines
politics, in Maine at least II he had a
different kind for other regions it don't help
the matter much. As the editor Of the
Kennebec Journal, Blaine preached the
Maine law ideas to keep the Republicans
in power. They are the ideas topmost there
now.
mo decent Republican in Maine" says
Senator Frye, is not Maine law man.
Of course that includes Blaine. This is
what is turning the Germans against him
in those States where they are numerous
class, especially west of the Alleghenies. 1t
IS no news that the Germans are disposed
to stand together for their lager. The atti
tude and growth of the Prohibition idea has
intensified this spirit and compelled them,
as they think, TO act in selfdefense.
The Sc. John Vote.
While Blaine gets none of the support of
the Prohibitionists il is his misfortune to De
considered unsound by the brewers and
their customers, and to have incurred their
hostility. The nomination of st. John will
take away from Blaine large blocks of Re
publican voters. At present there is no
compensating influences in Ohio Indiana,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, the Republican
supremacy in at least some of which States
is threatened. The minimum Of Republi
cans in Ohio who win 90 for St John is
placed by thoroughly inteligend .Republi-
cans there, speaking calmly and acting in
Blaine's interest, at fifteen thousand. Ii
NAV be much more. Even that number OF
votes taken from the Republican side Gre
ates danger in Ohio. Last week the case
was not far different in the other States
named. What will be the case as the can
vsss progresses is serious question for Mr.
Blaine
1t is this that makes New York so much
less the battle State than it was. The most
certain thing in the canvass is the tsct that
the ProhlbitioniStS are making headway
Threefourths, at least, of their recruits Will
come from the Republican side At the
last election in New York the liquor ques-
ton made It's mark to the extent OF more
than thirty thousand votes, when Carr was
elected State Treasurer, while the Demo
Gratis elected the other State officers By
from FIVE 10 twenty thousand. This was an
isolated case relating to single candidate.
There is no certainty this time, then, about
this vote, only the chances are bound to run
against the Republicans. The saying that
at Presidential elections voters sink back
into the old party lines is so far from the
truth now that previous calculations fail
What Butler Is Doing.
The Republican managers point to the
votes of the Irish and I.aboringmen to
which General Butler lays claim, Out
wardly there is an uncertainty concerning
the doughty man Of Massachusetts,, In re-
ality however, those on the inside declare
that there is no uncertainty at all. He is
only fixing himself and things so as to
make it more sure that he viii be the con-
trolling power in the fight. 1t would COM
port perfectly with Buffers antecedents
and character to find his satisfaction in
being able to prove that it was he who
did it, without particular reference to
how it was done There is instruction as
10 Butler in that the Republicans and Dem
ocrats hostile to Cleveland view him in some
way as an ally. What right they have to
think so, men may differ ABOUT II IS the
place here, 10 observe that Buffers methods
and apparent aims, ike his eyes, are mis-
leading and liable to produce dlsaPpolnt-
ments. The three months intervening be-
fore the election is time enough for Butler
10 DO a good deal The latest words from
him are that he is extremely busy, was
never less in hurry and sees as far ahead
as he wishes to do for the sake of his Pur-
poses. As a matter of fact it will not be
long before he begins
scandal in the Canvass.
The introduction into the canvass of a
topic which can only be handled with tOngS
and will at the rate it is geing, necesssitate
the extensive use OF that description of tool
has had the effect to put some things at
a%eyance. There Is strong wish, with a
strong reason. il is said. on the part Of
Blaine's immediate representatives to be
understood as frOwning on the introduction
Of nas;v politics. Probably they would De
able 10 show that thev did not do it; that
he scandal more or less fully written out
vas proiuced AT the convention which
nominated Cleveland, by Western New
York Democrats. TO defeat his nomination.
Since the nomination il has got into the can
yass as sewer gas gets into house. Blaine
advocates in places are making use OF II to
\ denial as they say. We pub
.isb this 10 condemn it is a familiar dodge.
And YOU NAV look out for something as
an Offset" Blaines enemies are saying.
Meanwhile decent people are holding
heir noses and friends of Butler are saying,
Here is your candidate, gentlemen; our
;kiirts are clean!'
Notwithstanding the positive currents
towing from the Irish, the Labor and Pro
bibition questions, which, viewed alone,
,eem 10 Justify positive opinions, not few
observers Of large experience |
md good opportunities for gaining an in |
,ight Withhold opinions and confess that the !
ions of the times are confusing. No great !
rsve of popular excitement is going to roll
,yer the land sud take masses of voters on |
heir feet. II il is a revolution, 1t will be !
nom conviction which leads to turbulent
outbreak
CHEERS AND Kisses.