The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-10
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AT last accounts the Republican
Of Ohio were still appealing for contTi
buttons Of anything negotiable, fror
2-cent stamps TO certified checks. Chs
| ea9o Herald.
1T does not require great deal Q
] political sagacity to see that the Re
| publican campaign in MichlganA is up
/ hill work. with the road in q fright
fully bad conditio n.--DgtTOit Free Press
New York Tfadk offers to print tn
names Of all the Blaine Irish demo
! Gratis. Truth is diminutive paper, Du
/ it could print these names and tn
names Of the Butler votes, too, With
out erowding its columns.
ID. T. Linegar, a Representative
democrat of southern Illinois, state
that fully IS per cent. of the Germal
/ citizens of Cairo are openly at Worl
| for Cleveland, while not five Irishmel
have changed their political faith.
Every Democrat sincerely hope
| that Mr.. Blaine's failing health VII
/ not necesSitate his withdrawal from
| the ticket. His withdrawal would b.
a very discouraging Democratic loss
1t is doubtless painful, but Mr., Blaln'
must stick.
The Democrats have the Republi
cans on the defensive. One OF tn
| Mulligan letters is worth more than
| ton of personal scandal. Let the-r
| ligious papers run the scandal business
| The Democracy can do better by fore
| ing the fighting on the correspondence
to "My Dear Mr.. Fisher"
The indications are that the Yves
will not have a taste of that magnet
lie campaign which was so loudly prom
| ised when Mr.. Blaine was nominated
| As far as we have been able to d1scoy
eF. Mr.. Blaine's magnetism has beer
hooped up in a barrel and rolled oyel
| into West Virginia for jndicious diStrl
button among the poor but honest
voters of that locality.
Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts,
| in his newborn love for Blaine, goes z
an unWarranted extreme In his glorln'
cation of him. He says there Is nc
man in public life whose public and
private character is more free from
Stain than Mr.. Blaine" What terri.
bic indictment of our public men. Pos
siblv Mr.. Dawes has not read the let
tiers to "My Dear Fisher" from the pen
of Mr.. Blaine. Chicago Nelcs.
The Republican party has shown
that it can stand a great deal, but
don't think that it could stand -four
wears of BIaine's administration and
remain alive at the end of 1T. Why,
six months of Blaine under Garfield
nearly dissolved the Republican organi-
cation, and nothing but the wisdom,
patience. and laziness of President Ar
thur could have brought it back into
the condition in which we see it,
Charles A. Dana IN IpteTrieac.
Mr.. Edmrmds made a campaign
speech, the other day, lauding the par
ty but sedulously avoiding mention of
that party's tattooed candidate. Mr..
Edmunds could not have consistently
said anything favorable to a man of
whom he once wrote: Whenever
Thurman and I have Joined hands
against Jay Gould and fellows OF that
sort, in the Senate, Blaine has ipvaria-
bly, started up from Goulds breast
works, musket in hand, to defend
them"
Blaine is a millionaire, Butler is a
millionaire, and Cleveland is a man in
moderate circumstances. Mr.. Cleye-
land has had opportunities to enrich
himself in office, but he has attended
TO public business as though it were a
solemn trust. Old-fashioned people,
who believe in old-fashioned honesty,
will vote for the man whose official
record is unStained by jObbery or UNI
faithfulness-the man who has never
had in his pocket a dollar dishonesty
or shamefully earned.-N I. World.
1t is said that Mr.. Benjamin Frank
lin Jones, as chairman of the national
republican committee, has proved
4 nj 70 In Of aa hi
tribution expected of him, he has given
only small sum, and has completely
failed in the desirable talent Of wiring
ing money out OF anybody else, More
over, his general management of the
committee work has produced nothing
but confusion and disgust. Mr.. Jones
will probably be deposed in favor of
somebody of more generosity and ca
pacity for politics, and permitted to re-
sumo the business of importing cheap
contract labor Chicago Times,
Mr.. Blaine's rapid accumulation of
wealth, while supposedly serving his
country as brilliant statesman" has
frequently been attributed by his friends
to lucky investments in Pennsylvania
coal lands. To learn just how far these
investments have been instrumental in
building up the plumed knights for
tune, The PatSblTg Post has been in
vestigating his Pennsylvania coal prop
erty. 1t finds that these lands are as
SesSed at a valuation on 80, f16,' that
they are comparatively NnprOduetlVe,
as worked would give him an in
come of $3.50 year.
The predictions of the Blaine organs
that General Buffers vote will be OBJ
Ja1ned at the expense of Governor
Cleveland are not at all consistent with
their repeated boasts that Blaine would
receive a large Irish support. 1t is
now evident that the antivC Cleveland
irish vote, whether large or small. viii
% to General Butler and not to Mr..
blaine, The lingo editors are. of
course, disposed to take all the conso-
alton possible out of the existing situ,
ion, but it would perhaps be lust as
veil for them to keep within at' least
railing distance of the actual facts.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Eterne Chit
enden, a rich and Well-known New |
I ork lawyer, published in the Euenigao
Post, OF that city, an open letter. offer |
ng to pay $4,000 into the treasury of |
ale College if Mr.. William Waiter
helps would give an explanation OF |
H. Btalne's Little Rock Railroad |
transactions which the venerable DIR, |
|. oolsey, OF Yale, would say was not |
l,lscreditable to Mr.. Blaine. As Mr.. |
shelpS is a most devoted alumnus of |
he college named, he ought to be clad /
t an opportunity to put so much mon
y into her Golfers; and as the Blaine |
arty in Connecticut expect to nut Dr.
Y OolSey at the head af their electoral /
lfket, there ought to be no fear of the 1
% gentlemall3s being prejudiced on i
he wrong side. Why has Mr.. Phelps Il
ept sllent?-Sg Syracuse Herald.
Judge Thoman, of the civil-seryice
omEnisSion, who has just returned t0 4
fashlngten from ohio, does not hesi-
ate TO express his candid opinion that
ne state will certainly go democratic
october by very C considerable ma
Drity, and gives as his reasons for this I
elief that the local questions which |
ltered into the canvass Of 1892 and
'SS are still unsettled, and NAV prom
-ly be considered deciding factors in Is
rs campaign; further, that at least |
per cent. more German rep.solicans I
III vote the democratic ticket this *
ear than last; that SO per cent. of the
condition vote viii come from the re-
lbilcan party, and he estimates that {
1te at from 1900 to 20DO0; that the {
44o44 a1SaACCllgn ID exaggerated. and L
III not amount to 10 per cent, Of their
ltire vote; that in the democratic col
nm there is no break; the state ticket g
popular, and everybody is working z
18th viii for victory. ~
1t is generally conceded that Cleye- !.
nd's prospects look brighter now than ! !
eY did three weeks ago. His Letter (
IS appeared, and in the main has (
ven satisfaction. il certainly cor.
med no damaging blHnders, aid fbe !
position has picked at It In vain. 3
ldicule Is their only weapon. and that y y
not very effective in this case. The 1
candals has about run its cou1se. ami J.
far as IS known has but little WeiGhf Y !.
le Republicans have not as vet been y
'le % gain any advantage with the {. !
rim question. The great Irish Amer I, y
IN meeting IN New York few -elavs.. Z
o has had maTke5 sltebg. The dfss :,
sltlon o the Germans IN Ohio. the 8
est. and Northwest is causing maeH u
arm IN Republican cirDies. Blfieres. =.
ndidaey, against Cleveland III New y y
DIX and AlaSSach usetfs Is aOains3 z.