The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-09-20
Political Notes.

\ freshman, has come out strongly Tor Cleye-
land and Hendricks
A Chicago paper says :-"Carl Schurz is
engaged in thrashing old straw He is also
engaged in thrashing Jim Blaine.
Col. George E. Deneale, of Rockingham
county, Va, heretofore a prominent Read
juster, has taken the stump for Cleveland and
Hendricks.
President Gibbs, of the New York Tenn
perance Alliance, de clares that Mr.. Blaine's
non-voting on the prohibition amendment will
cost him 100000 votes.
Albert J. Akin, president of the National
Bank of Pawling, Duchess county, N. Y, and
Republican elector in 1880, has declared for
Cleveland and Hendricks.
The Hon. Perry Belmont, of New York,
has informed Mayor Latrobe that he will come
to Baltimore and make speech for Cleveland
and Hendricks during the canvass.
Hon. VIM. II. Barnum, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, has been in
Chicago for the past week. 1t is said he is
instituting vigorous campaign in the West
Maj. Gen. Abner, Doubleday, U. S. Army,
called on Gov. Cleveland and expressed his
intention of voting for him. Gen. Double
day says he has always voted the Republican
ticket.
/ The disaffected Republicans of the Norfolk
District of Virginia held convention Mon
day and nominated B. ]. Mitchell, colored,
for Congress, in opposition to H. Libbey, the
regular candidate.
On Saturday last Mr.. William Wyse, of
New York, bet $500 even with Col Chas. s.
Spencer that Cleveland would be elected and
$500 that Cleveland would carry New York
State by $4,000 majority.
The Ohio canvass is described as fred
4 hot the Republican managers making active
ftorch, brass-bands and oratorical demonstra-
tons with the view of bringing out lethargic
voters, who are assumed to be Republicans.
Mr.. F. F. Wendell, one of the most promi.
nent lawyers of Montgomery county, N. Y,
and pronounced Republican, has published
a letter announcing his refusal to support
Blaine and his intention to take the stump for
Cleveland.
A conference of the Prohibition party of
Maryland was held on Tuesday in Baltimore,
at which it was resolved to put a full State
ticket in the field, and recommend the NOM
nation of Prohibition candidates for Con-
gress in the various districts.
Senator Plumb, a member of the Republi-
can national committee, regards Wisconsin
and Michigan as doubtful States, and says he
is afraid of the result in each. He thinks the
! Democrats will carry West Virginia by 5000
majority, but is confident the Republicans
| will carry Ohio.
| The Potter's Magazine, one of the most
prominent Republican papers published at
| East Liverpool, Columbiana County, o., has
come out in favor of Cleveland and Hendricks.
| 1t has been the organ of the boss potters and
has heretofore been radically Republican.
Its change shows how the tide is running in
Ohio.
| Mr.. E. Il. c. Judson, Ned Buntline,) who
has the credit of having been one of the chief
organizers of the know nothing organization,
is quoted in an interview in the New York
World as ''payinga long deferred tribute to
Mr.. Blaine for the assistance rendered by him
to the ancient cause of know nothingism in
Maine
Hon. Carl Schurz addressed large audi
ence of independent Republicans, including
many prominent Germans, in Indianapolis,
Monday evening. Mr.. Schurz said that the
election of any Democrat would be preferable
to the success of Mr.. Blaine, and no calamity
equal to the success of Mr.. Blaine. Points
complimentary to Mr.. Cleveland were heart
lily cheered.
Mr.. Oswald Ottendorfer, editor of the New
York Stats Zeitung, says all his information
personal and official, through conversations.
correspondence and the press regarding not
only the city and State of New York, but the
West, and especially all regions where the
number of German citizens is large, makes
him absolutely confident of the election of
Cleveland
1t is estimated in Washington that it cost
the Republican party $3.50, 600 to ''vindcate'
Blaine himself personally contributed $685.
600. Six months of the Presidency, with its
broad channels of usefulness, would enable
Mr.. Blaine to gracefully recoup himself
However, he has embarked great deal of
money in a risky enterprise.
Much having been said in Virginia of how
Blaine election would benefit that old COM
monwealth, Frank G. Rufiin publishes a
statement of how the James River and Kama
wha canal was gobbled up by syndicate of
which Blaine was a member, and charges
that in two years the syndicate became bank
rupt, with 81 ,000,0 unaccounted for. The
canal bank was used to build the Richmond
and Allegany railroad.
Governor Cleveland stopped over at Bling
hamton, New-York, last week, on his way
from Geneva. He was received by the Mayor,
Councilman and committee of citizens of
both parties, and escorted by battery and
infantry company to the hotel, where he
shook hands with stream of callers for
about an hour. The buildings along the route
from the depot to the hotel were profusely |
ucCOIlleu Win anu DuuIluS.
At the Butler mass-meeting in Union /
Square, n. Y, Monday evening some one in |
the crowd called for three cheers for Cleve- |
land, which were given with will, whereupon |
Mr.. Doody, who was speaking at the time,
called his audience such pet names as Infer |
nal imps," miserable curs,'' 'scrawling vi |
pers, "wretched towards" He said they
were more degraded than the leprous Chinese, |
and did not have the intelligence of brutes. |
He was finally dragged off the platform.
The full returns from the Maine election
show what the Republican majority over all |
is 1921, and their percentage Of the total |
vote is 1913. In 1876, tho last time that /
there was square party issue presented, the .
Republican majority was l4,3GS, and their
percentage of the total vote 1927. 1t would /
seem, then, that Mr.. Blaine's popularity,
State pride and tireless canvass have ena-
bled the Republicans to make a gain of about |
one tenth OF one per cent. on the vote of
eight years ago.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling is reported by a New
York paper as saying for years ''the Repub-
lican party has waged relentless war against
superiority it has placed a penalty upon
leadership, and driven to the wall those who
gave it strength and success" In regard to
the Republican campaign he is represented
as saying: ''There is not q man of national
Importance Or reputation at the committee
headquarters, nor man who represents any
thing but Blaine's personal favor. 1t is sim
ply Blaine campaign without an issue, ex-
cept the defense of the candidates private
reputation.
A dispatch from Buffalo TO the New York
Times says: at is learned from trustwor-
thy source that Mr.. Blaine has decided to de-
vote nearly all his time until election day in
visiting important States and making short
semi-palitical speeches in the leading cities.
Nest Vreiaa he Will turn 'n his Attention TO
New York. His first speech will be made in
Buffalo, at the request of Chairman James d.
Warren. From there he will start along the
line Of the New York Central Railroad and
stop at Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and AL
hany. AT each point he will be given re-