The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-11
The Outlook.

Inc OUTLOOK OF the democracy ana the
free Republicans on the Presidential
campaign is more favorable now than
the prospect of any other party in Au-
gust eve. was, which was successful at
the polls, in November. If the election
were to be held to-day, Blaine and Lo-
gan would barely carry nine States out
of the thirty-eight. Their chahce for
any larger number than that is at pres
ent extremely unfavorable.
Events which have occurred, and
events which assuredlv will occur, justify
the assert on that the Democratic vote,
with substantial so Ill ty, will be cast
for Cleveland and Hendricks. The eff
fort to divert to Blaine portion of the
Labor vote was no sooner made than it
failed. 1t resulted in showing that
Blaine was millionaire, by the grace
of corrupt contracts, of paid-for votes,
of marketed rulings, OF subsidies from
corporations and or speculation in all
the powers of the trusts which he has
betrayed. A mOnoDolist and rascal
does not commend himself to the men
who honestly toll. The other effort, to
get foreign-born citizens to support
Blaine, also failed. Neither the Irish
nor the Germans want a KNOWN othing
and a Prohibitionist, and Blaine's denial
that he was either has but illustrated the
versatility of his mendacity. Every
endeavOr to divide or reduce the Demo-
cratic vote has failed. Leaders or
woUld-be leaders who are hostile or luke
warm to Cleveland and Hendricks will
be run over by the rank and file.
The Inc of assault ON Governor Cleve-
land has also collapsed. Fol weeks it
was confined 10 congratulations. When
they were reduced 10 particulars, the
particulars we. found to be lies. The
lies have recoled on their authors. Gov
ernor ClevelanG'S record, for instance,
relative to legislation for workingmen
has been found to comprize more legis-
lation for the laboring class than has
been chargeable to the record of all
other Governors, past or present, put
together. HIS record on behalf of
American citizens abroad has been dis
covered to be replete with an equal love
for liberty and for law. His opponents
record is very brave in letter of
acceptance to catch votes. Elsewhere
it has been full of evidence of desire
10 let unjustly imprisoned foreign-born
citizens rot in British jails, TO disenable
them from returning to the United
States to vote the Democratic ticket.
James Russell Lowell, as an English
lick-spittle, has been Outdone by James
G. Blaine
On the contrary, the exposure of the
public record of Blaine has been truth
fully fatal to him at every point. He
was, rs a Maine politician, first Know
Nothing and afterward a rascally As
semblyman. He then became claim
grdbber for railroad sharks, and the ac-
complete of Simon Cameron in the
crimes which drove the latter out of the
War Department. He then got elected
to Congress from 4 venal district, and
for six years he jobbed the Claims Com
mittee and the Appropriations Commit
tee in the interest of his pocket. As
Speaker, for six years, he was chief of
the back pay and of the Credit Mobil-
Ter Congresses and the hero and Dene-
ficiary of the Mullgan letters, the only
epistles on record in which rascal has
not done to virtue even the poor
homage Of assembling his depravity.
In the Department of State he sought
to employ the power of this great Re-
public on behalf of miserable guano
claim, while public attention was alb
sorbed in the case of dying and muir
dered Chief Magistrate
These facts are sinking deep into the
public mind. The impression they are
making ensures every enlightened, re-
spectacle citizens vote for Cleveland.
1t is disreputable to be Blaine man.
II is getting TO be recognized To be so. 1t
is more dinicult to get Blaine newspa-
pers to examine the public record OF
the man than it is to get gentlemen to
crawl through the sewers of city.
Those papers know that he is dishonest.
They realize that it is not within the
resources OF ingenuity to make the facts
in his case appear to,erab!e. Conse-
quentiy they have taken to empty viliti-
cation of the Democratic party and to
the plying of unnameable denominations
aga nst Cleveland As result, the
sturdy masses of the Democracy were
never so united and determined. The
Independents were never so combined
against the Republican party. The free
Republicans were never so numerous
or so resolved to aid the reform Democ-
racy. The foreien-b born citizens of all
politics were never so committed to the
Democra V As now.
Republican olficeholders, corrupt ring
masters, beaten bosses, conspiring
cranks, bowling dynamiters, roaring
communists, chevaiiers of industry,
professional crooks, and the victims of
the weaknesses, the vices and the inher-
itanceS which outlaw men, for cause,
from respectable consideration. are sup
plying to the Blaine canvass all its &C.
tivity and making it as noIsOme as its
noisy. The earnest, honest, laborious,
stable, scrupulous and patriotic forces
in citizenship. whether that citizenship
be native or adopted, are unit for
Governor Cleveland. The great ma
jOrity for true Democracy and reform.
hitherto found in part in one party and
in part in the other. has been brought
into union by the excellence of the Dem
ocratic candidates and platform The
moral, educational, civilizing and hon
orable influences in politics fight for
Cleveland, and his election, by IN un-
precedented majority, is constantly in
Dictated by all the evidences visible in
the canvass.--A'5Gny argus.