Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-08-28
The Bad Man From Maine.

Here is what NJ. Halstead, the pres
ent manager of the Commercial Gazette
at long range, and cheap Blaine pa
per in New York city, thought of Blaine
several years since, in the Cincinnati
Commercial:
"The whiskey ring displayed all its
digits for Blaine in Illinois and Missouri.
The ringsters who have fattened under
the Republican administration feel that
Blain would not reform enough to
hurt. ."-Commercial, May 26th, 1876.
"Carl Schurz would certainly not sup
port Blaine, Morton or Conkling, no
matter by whom nominated. He
would oppose Blaine for his railroad
subsidy record in Congress and his pc
culiar career of railroad intimacies and
habit of specializing in stocks that vary
in value according to Congressional leg
islation"-Commercial, May Goth, 1875.
"Mr. Blaine stands in rather too sus-
piciOus relations to these railroad spec
ulations, and has been dealing too ex-
tensively in them to make it altogether
expedient for the Republicans to take
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presidential canvass in which the result
is likely to be close and doubtful. ~
Commercial, June 2, 1876.
"Blaine is not fool, and he knows
he cannot be the next President as we'll
as any able newspaper can tell him. p
Commercial, June Sd, 1875.
democratic newspapers are dealing
gently with Mr.. Blaine. He would
make such splendid Republican can
didate for the Presidency-for the De-
mocracy."-Commercial, June Sd, 1875.
"Mr. Blaine, like the prize-fighter, is
still in the ring, though somewhat dis
figured. .'-Commercial, June 4th, 1876.
"The Blaine retreat will doubtless be
to the tune of the Mulligan guards. ~
Commercial, June 4th, 1876.
"Why was Blaine running around
barber-shops, looking for witnesses who
were reported to be his enemies, if he is
a man whose public record is clear?"-
Commercial, June 5th, 1876.
"Do you really mean that man who
has been stock-iobber in subsidy rail-
road schemes, would be o good reform
candidate for the Presidency?"- Com
mercial, June 9th, 1876.
"Mr. Blaine should study the history
of Ananias and Sapphira. ."-Commer-
cial, June 7th, 1876.
"The Blaine letters prove all he has
been charged with. The troublesome
fact is, that there is low tone of pub
lie morality in the estimation of the
uses ofpublic position for private gain"
Commercial, June 7th, 1876.
"After all if there is not virtue
enough in the Republican party to
nominate a man whose name means re-
form, Mr.. Blaine ought to be nomina-
ted. d."~-Commercial, June Sth, 1876.
Nothing whatever against Mr..
Blaine, says the New York Tribune.
Is it nothing that he has used his pub
lie position to place himself inside of
jobs? Has public man a right to use
his place to help himself to money by
stock speculations, influenced by his
official actions? This would be good
time to have an understanding about
these delicate matters. s."-Commercial,
June Sth, 1876.
"The careful reading and analysis to
which Blaine's letters have been sub
jected have clearly had a perceptible in
fluence in cooling the ardor of those
committed to him, and of depriving
him of the chance of uncertain votes"
Commercial, June 10th, 1876.
"Conceding all that is claimed for Mr..
Blaine, can the party afford to go into
the canvass with candidate for whom
apology or explanation will continually
be required?"-Commercial, June 18th,
1876.
ut may be set down as a fixed fact,
now that with Blaine or Conkling on
the ticket for President, Ohio will go
Democratic in October. Neither of
these candidates can command the in
dependent or the German vote, and
without its aid the State will go Demo-
cratic by from 10000 to Is, 900 majority"
Commercial, June 18th, 1876.
"!We make eno personal war upon Mr..
Blaine. His public record condemns
him, and it would be the very madness
of the moon for the Republican party
to go to the country under his leader
ship. ."--Commercial, June 10th, 1876.
"The exposure of Blaine will have the
effect to put the Cincinnati Convention
severely on its guard. Had he been
nominated before the disclosures were
made, the party would have been re-
duced to the necessity of forcing him
off the ticket, or accepting the alterna-
tive of overwhelming defeat" Com
mercial June 5th, 1876.