Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-08-14
BLAINE AND THE GERMAN ELEMENT.

A Washington letter says: "Three weeks
ago New York was the battle State OF the
campaign. While the Blaine managers
have been making their combinations to
carry that State, the prospect in number OF
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 an
tecedents have helped to do it. For years
Main-elaw politics were, and for aught that
appears on the record, are still, Blaine's poll
tics, in, Maine at least. If he had differ
ent kind for other regions it don't help the
matter much. AS the editor of the Kenne-
bee Journal, Blaine preached the Maine law
ideas to keep the Republicans in power.
They are the ideas topmost there now.
"No decent Republican in Maine," says
Senator Fry, "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 Alleghanies: 1t is no
news that the Germans are disposed to stand
together for their lager. The attitude and
growth of the Prohibition idea has intensi-
fed this spirit and compelled them, as they
think, to act in self defence.
While Blaine gets none of the support or
the Prohibitionists it is his misfortune to be
considered unsound by the brewers and their
customers and to have incurred their hostil-
ity. The nomination of st. John will take
from Blaine large blocks of Republican
voters. At present there is no prospect of
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 will 90 for st. John, is
placed by thoroughly intelligent Republi-
no nc thara olrnlv anI 9ptinp in
Blaine's interest, at fifteen thousand. 1t
may be much more. Even that number of
votes taken from the Republican side cre-
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
vass progresses is serious question for MIR.
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 fact that
the Prohibitionists are making headWay.
come from the Republican side. At the last
election in New York, the liquor question
made it's mark to the extent of more than
thirty thousand votes, when Carr was elect
ed State treasurer, while the Democrats
elected the other State officers by from five
to twenty thousand. This was an isolated
case, relating to a 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 TALL.
BLAINE's SHOWER OF GoLD.-Speaking
of Blaine's $4,000 checks reminds me that
he has always made money easily. A VEN
o;t Of fp1
ago how he was the means of putting $57,-
900 into Mr.. Blaine's pocket without Mr..
Blaine ever having invested or risked a
cent. The gentleman referred to is Mr. }.
NJ. S. Williams, who was the leading man
in the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railway.
The road was built through the usual instru-
mentality of a construction company and it
did not differ from the ordinary construction
company of the period. 1t was very prot
liable indeed. Mr.. Williams allowed
his friend, Ex-Governor Abner COburn, Of
Maine, to take stock in the construction
company to the amount of $22S,00O. MIR.
COburn went in half for himself and halffOr
Blaine, he supplying all the money re-
quired. BY the time he had got Sl14, 900
invested he had $22S,000 to his credit. His
profits within short period were one hun
dred per cent, and Mr.. Blaine received as
gift from Messrs. Williams and Coburn the
sum of S57 Washington Capital.
@E Ex-Gov. st. John, the Prohibition cam
didate, says he expects to get at least 900
votes in the State of New York. He thinks
he will poll a very large vote in Missouri,
Kansas, Arkansas, Illinois and Nebraska.
In the North he thinks the Prohibition vote
will be drawn principally from the Republi-
cans, and will make the result doubtful in
Comm of tho Ranub1iran States