Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-20
POLITICAL JOTTINGs.

The Galveston NeeuS asks: "Will
somebody please state the amount of
William IL. English's contribution to
the campaign fund.-" Mr.. English is
waiting until half cents are coined.
Then he may contribute.
Emery A. S5orrs thus defines
Stephen Grover Cleveland: "The Dem
Ocratic candidate briefly summed up is
q man with No. 194 collar, a No. 7
hat, q No. II boot, a bachelor married
upon the European plan, with his do
mestic relations served LII carte" The
New York iStn, might supplement this
description by giving his weight.
The New York Times is busy pa
per. 1t is busy explaining the good
things which it has said in the past
about Blaine and the bad things which
it has said about Cleveland. This is
the newspaper which couple of months
ago was unhappy because the Republi-
cans had been compelled to "enter on q
defensive campaign" Who is on the
defensive now?
The Worcester Times Qabor organ)
writes: mo, General Bragg did not
use the word Irish to the Chicago
COnyentiOn,' but the miserable little
bicot did use it IN the convention, in
talking to the group of Democratic
-Nothings sitting near him; and
he did speak with contempt of the
Irish in various discussions in the hotel
lobbies." The Times speaks truly.
Among Irish-Americans particular
ly it will not pass without comment
that the Bourbon organs and orators say
that the Irish-AmericanS who have de-
clared against Cleveland will be whip
ped into line by November. Do the
Bourbon organs and leaders take the
Irish Americans for voting cattle?
Will IriSh-Americans warrant such a
Characterization? They certainly will
not.
Mr.. McMaster, the Democratic edi
tor of the New Y ork Fieen1Gn's Journal,
groans his discomfort and dissatisfac
ton thus: 1T is, indeed, CALLING
load, on q rough road, that old-fashiOn
ed Democrats, as we are, are called to
march alOng-With such eminent horn
blowers as Henry Ward Beecher and
Curtis Of HH1per's Weekly cheering us
by telling they are with us for Cleye-
lands election"
Ex-senator Roscoe COnkling turns
the charge that Blaine is tattOoed" in
very neat and effective manner. MI.
Blaine is tattooed," says Mr.. Conkling,
"but he is tattooed from head to foot
with Republican scars. He has been
at the front in every fight which Re
publicans have been obliged to wage
for the last twenty years" Although
for the leadership of the House, and
the two had frequent sharp discussions
of a personal nature, Mr.. Conkling rec
ogniZes above all else Mr.. Blaine's cour-
age as Republican in the thickest OF
ali Republican battleS.-HdrttOrd En-
ening Post.
The Hon. William F. Villas is re-
ported as saying that Cleveland and
Hendricks will sweep Wisconsin as
with broom next November. We
presume the Hon. Villas has contri-
buted largely from his abundant means
to the democratic campaign fund OF
the state. He was the only man in the
whole city of Madison who refused to
subscribe penny toward the recent
national convention of schOol-teachers
in that place. Perhaps Villas will emu
late the example of William II. Eng
lish. who, upon being asked to sub
scribe something toward the democrat
ic campaign bar'l in Indiana four years
ago, generously puthis name down for
the bunghOle.
-"When did Hendricks become bad
MANI" inquiries the New York Ere1eing
Post of the New York Tribune. We
may not know what ''bad man" is,
but we think the Evening Post described
one who was bad enough in 1876, when
it said: Hendricks is a politician of
the politicians! a poor, stumbling,
shutting, two-faced, flexible waiter
upon the tides! with no more consist
ency than a lump of dough, which he
who handles kneads into shape; whose
political attitude for years past has
been that of striding a fence; who. in
the Ohio election strove to ride the
hard-money horse, while he fondled
the rag-baby, and whose success will
send a pang Of despair to every citizen
devoted to the great cause Of free
trade, of honest money and rigid adj
ministration. "-Albany Journal.