Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-10-07
Banding Blame!

Branding Blame
1.-The Red Hot IRONS Applied BY
Republican,.
lEWoRps OF TTTETsEss sTINsNg EPTTHRTs
THE FINsER or SHINE pIREcTkD m
Il SORROW TOWARD TIE REPUHLICAN CAN
prPATE FOB FRRs1DEeST
g A Politician for Revenue only - Carl
sstessisz.l q '5
regard Blaine as one Of the most cor
rupt men in public life Henry Hard
Bsse1sr. $50
could not vote for Blaine on any plat
form. - ~ Ion. James SPEED Of Rstltte At
t0r1aslf7G 5eneIat asEde1s a bgalsana Lincolls.
Thenominationo Of Blaine is 20 symptom
4 oft the wholesale corruption of the Repub-
4 lican managers. COX GtGrEes e. Goldman.
g have been Republican since the
found tion of the party but do not want to
five to see Jim Blaine President of the Uni.
ted States 4dmirGl Porter.
If Blaine should be. elected It would be
a calamity to the country. ~ os. Henry n
RoetF, editor aud proprietor of tie Brooklyn
4 .RTete39 eeS0. ~ VI s5-f -
never yet voted knowingly for man
WHOM was satisfied was not an honestman,
aud never will. - = Jt.dge Bacon, Of Oneida
Co., NJ ~. .siss
.Blaine,s public record condemns him.
land ittwould be the very madness of the
moon for the Republican party to go to. the
country under his leadership. '-MurGt Hal
stead.
stThe nomination of Blaine is an insult
to the moral sense Of the country. Ion.
liz. o. Mason Of Ontario County, NJ y, The
kaso partner Of The late Hon. Chas. y. Folaer.
and one Of The Grant delegGteS 70 The Repttb-
liean National Conpsttios Of 1880.
Sc Now about Blaine, I know him per.
sonRlly. Iwon't say anything of his doings
in Congress, but his course in the depart
ment is patent to all-and il cannot be too
strongly condemned. -Rlr-S Secretary Of State
Hamilton FEsh. 81 yafAN = as5
.sI shall vote for Cleveland as an emphatic
man as MIR. Blaine. Il is the only way i
can protest against the candidacy of SO, dis
honest and corrupt mar. "-Er- Secretary
Of tie Treasury, Benjamin 81. Brfstoto.
"Our hope now seems to lie in the defeat
Iof the Republican party in November.
Multitudes of its adherents perceive this,
and they are waiting for its death. knell as
the signal of hope. "-lhost Req. John Ian
caster spasstding, Bishop Of Peoria, ~.
Irepeat, therefore, that you are not in a
situation TO appreciate any sensitiveness on
this point, because you, have for so many;
years supported your well earned national
Reputation; as a liar that it seems to you of
noiconsequence''-G George Oxford. Brother
i'a-lasO OF Senator Elge1le Htsle, 81 Name. s
g There have been few instances ofipos
Ilitical trickerys or corruption inltwhich
Blaine has not been charged with fmplica-
ton: His railroad jobs have become con-
slant basis of assault against him. II would
not surprise me If the Star Route exposures
would involve him or some friend in the
fraud. "-Rttt heIJ0rd B. Hayes. ~ tsflii
80 If there is any public man in the Union
who is well understood to be the right hand
man of the great railway corporations Of the
country, and their unfinching friend under
all circumstances, that man. is James q.
Blaine always playing his part as a shifty
ALLEY of organized cupidity and pelf. ~
Congressman Geofye W. julian.
s," 1t is my deliberate opinion that Mr..
Blaine acts as the attorney of Jay Gould;
whenever Mr.. Thurman and have settled
roads to terms Of equity with the govern
ment; up has jumped MIR. James g. Blaine,
musketi in hand, from behind the breast
works of Gould Is lobby, to fire in our face"
/ Senator Geo. H. ES1naurdS.
eft would, indeed, be deplorable If the
young men of this Nation should be in
formed by this election that the people of
the United States condone the offenses
proved against James G.. Blaine. The moral
be told by his election that they can lie, de-
fraud, become demagogues, bribe givers and
takers and still not forfeit the public conf
dence. "-BE&hop Harrington.
| al thought every citizen of this country
knew my husband was at rest. am in
mourning for him, but, as much as mourn
his death, I thank my Father in Heaven.
that He called him home before the party
he loved so we'll and did so much for, had
SO disgraced itself as to nominate so wicked
and corrupt man for the highest office
within the gift of the American people, as
know and my husband knew James g..
Blaine to be. ~ Charlotte Mo17tM.
"The startling exposure of Speaker
Blaine's venality in connection with the
Union Pacific Road. Eastern Division, en-
tirely destroys. of course, whatever credit
some people may have given to his eVasive
denial of the Cakes Ames bribery, and puts
the whole case of the Credit Mobilier upon
| a different basis y Now it is shown
that Speaker Blaine never deserved his good
reputation. He had taken brides in another
case. ~ WhftelaW Reid. "a
"The duty of the hour is TO defeat can.
didate whose election to the Presidency
would be q proclamation to all the world
that high sense of official honor is no
longer required in the Government of the
United States, and that the American peo-
pie consider man who has offered for pros
titution his official power to make money as
still worthy of the highest honors of the
Republic, tobe held up as model for emu
lation to this and coming generations -
Carl Schurs.
"a Mr. Blaine embodies most in American
politics that which is menacing to public
morals and integrity in Government. Him
self SPECTATOR, enjoying fortune too
great to have been acquired by honest in.
dustry, legitimate business enterprise, or his