The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-14
po1rTIcAL POINTS.

POLITICAL POINTS.
-Blaine's letter may have fallen
like a wet blanket, but Logan's they
say, resembled crazy quilt. Indiana
Sentinel.
General Durbin Ward struck the
keynote the other day when he said:
"The public welfare demands the defeat
of Blaine
There is more personal magnet
ism in straightforward. old-fashioned
honest man than there is in an entire
regiment of ''plumed knights. "
livery true Democrat will lay his
prejudice, his ambition. his individu-
ality and his factions on the party
altar as voluntary sacrifice to the
party good.
-Unless Mr. Blaine violates good
taste by taking an active part in the
present campaign, his letter may be re-
garded in the light of Farewell Ad-
dress -Baltimore Day.
The Mulligan letters show that
Mr.. Blaine marketed his rulings as
Speaker at a valuation of hundreds of
thousands of dollars to wildcat rail-
way company-and got the money
Albany argus.
Blaine was active in turning the
Republican party over to tip, Know
Nothings when the cry of down with
the foreigner was raised. Still we are
informed by certain fools that the Irish
will vote for Blaine.
There have been two or three
prominent Republican. officials in the
past twelve years who have proposed to
turn the rascals out, but in the end the
rascals have turned them out. For
further information inquire of B. H.
Bristow.
Nothing in this campaign has
been more amusing than Elkin' s youch-
er. :. Mr.. Blaine knows all about the
proprieties.n Belknay should match it
with a certificate about the equities, !"
and Kellogg with one about the ''yeraci-
ties. "-Ezchange.
AS poor Logan reads the COM
ments on his letter of acceptance he
must not fail to remember that it was
the New York Tribune which drew at
tention to his eminent claim to the Irish
vote, based on the allegation that he
was not even on speaking terms with
the English language. The Arqus.
Mr.. Blaine's long delayed and
much-labored letter of acceptance is at
last before the public. The length of the
document is inordinate, and if it is an
example of what he will be capable, in
the way of elaborate composition, when
he becomes President. we are afraid the
newspapers will at once cool toward
| MIN. Utica Press.
Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins has lately
remarked that the vote of Indiana is
largely question OF finance. Mr..
Elkins shouldn't give away his tactics
SO early in the campaign. People may
suspect that he is not great states
man, with hat full of brainy schemes,
but merely fresh politician with ample
bowels. Ctsscinnati Enquirer.
Black Jack Logan addressed q
post of the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie at Minneapolis, Mimi, last week,
and having inadvertently delivered him
! self of a grammatical sentence, an en-
thusiastic admirer was SO struck by tbs
fact that he could not wait till the
/ speaker was done to congratulate him
ON his success, but blurted the fact
right out In meeting Richmond Va,
State.
There is, of course, great dea
of bluff and buncombe about the claims
of Republican editors and managers il
the matter of the October and Novem
ber elections in West Virginia Th'
game probably is to frighten the Demo
Gratis into over-exertion in State whicl
is sure to them, while the Republican
devote themselves to places left Demo
cratically weak. 1t will not work.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
| Mr.. Blaine declares that che i
not one who proves deadhead in an.
enterprise in other words, he is e'ol
the make" The Presidency could b
made the source of more entirely infu
NOUS wealth to man who could vena!
ize it than any other place IN the coun
try. A man who will administer it hon
estly, not one who would market tn
patronage and its powers over legisla
ton, is desired by the people. ~ ]
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