The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-24

loudest to bid defiance to danger; in the
face of danger he slips away. Such he was
when he all but went on his knees to Multi
gan to get back the letters that damned
his fair fame before all the world. Such
he was when he pleaded with Lot NJ. Nor
rill, with tears and entreaties," to use in
fuence in his behalf. Such he was when
he took refuge in sudden and mysterious
illness, as lie saw the hour of condemns
ton close at hand. Such he was when,
unvindcated, his name tainted with dis
honor, he slipped into the United States
Senate, to escape being branded by the
House of Representatives.
Such he is now, when he brings a per-
functionary civil suit against q paper that,
if it has libeled him at at all, has libeed
HIM criminally. Such he is now, when he
countenances an UNANIMOUSLY slanderous as
saut on Governor Cleveland; and stabs his
adversary in the back with weapon no
other politician would touch. Such he is
now, when man after man, newspaper after
newspaper, rises up to tell him that he has
been an unfaithful public servant, and to
thrust the proofs of dishonor in his face,
and he remains silent.
Such he is now, when he forms an ALI
ance with the cheapest charlatan of Ameri
can politics on the mere chance of stealing
a few votes from the Democracy. This is
surely the last resort of cowardce To
pick up tins clown who for years has been
the despicable butt of the nation, sort of
dlsgrsceful living jest; scotted at, yet feared
for his capacity for mischief-why, what
self-respect can be left in the man or the
party that will consent to such associa-
tionsl A pleasant reflection it must be
for respectable Republicans, that the NOM
inee of their party has joined forces with a
man whose only claim to public recogni
ton is his hold on the oupidity and credu-
lily of that floating element which calls
itself working class and does not
know the meaning of days work!
No, there will be no aggressive cam
paign. If his supporters had begun a
campaign Of aggression, and bis oppon-
ents had responded with campaign of re-
talation, Mr.. Blaine would have retired
from the canvass long before this. He is
the last man in the world who can afford
to go into an aggressive campaign, and he
knows it. If by undetermined means, In
crooked ways he can steal into the White
House, he will do it. Honestly and fairly
to fight away there he leaves to the man
whose watchword is: "Tell the Truth"
This Is bad season for corruption, and
1t begins to look as though our magnetic
and aggressive" board Of aldermen had to
come to an end Of its magnetism and ag
gressons. For years it has attracted to
itself the money and the influence of mo.
nopolists and political sharks, and the use
it has made of its power this suffering city
knows too WELL But now it has gone 80
far in its-wel, its "intense Americanismn
that is what Mr. Blaine would call it
that it has actually goaded the patient pop
ulace int revolt. We do not wish to excite
false hopes; but there seems to be some
thing of chance that the alderman who
recently handed a valuable city franchise
over to monopolists, for considerations
this writing not quite definitely known,
may have chance 70 put their profits out
a: compound interest while they mellow IN
Sing Sing. This seems dream of ideally
poetical justice, yet it is aiming the posi-
BILE things. And oh, what Clearly, hap
py, and well governed city might this be
if only the majority of its present rulers
were in jaill-[Puck, Sept. 10