St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-06-26
The National Campaign.

The NaflOnal campaign.
few weeks ago occupied considerable
space in telling clicking state papers
that they would have to turn in and
support Nichols for governor, now
makes another prediction, just about
as likely to prove true, as follows
The kicker kicketh his little kick,
And groansth if in pain;
But the Ides of November will soften his grief
And gather his vote for Blaine.
The nomination of Blaine, it was
said, marked the opening of an Gag
gressive" campaign. And so it did,
but the aggressiveness seems to be on
the other side of the house.
Taking its cue from the Hartford
Post, the Woodstock Standard berates
George William Curtis for coming out
against Blaine after saying pleasant
things of him years ago. But on second
thought the Standard may remember
that the Mulligan letters and other
damaging proof of Blaine's lack of
integrity have appeared since then.
The steady old Messenger stirs up
more space to unfavorable than favora-
BILE mention of the nominations, OBJ
serving that "the Waterman would APP
pear better if it had more sand" But
this bit of heresy on the part of the
Waterman is easily explained. 1t
probably gave all the favorable men
ton it could find. We are forced, how
ever, to believe with the Messenger
that little more "Sand" in the Watch
mans makeup would be a good thing
for as near as we can judge, that paper
has decided longing to come out
against the ticket, but hardly dares tt
do so.
| The esteemed Rutland Herald takes
a column in arguing that, since Walter
Scott, Napoleon and other great mer
were not precocious, Blaine should be
elected president-fOr he was an es-
pecially dull lad. To avoid Il misun-
derStanding, we desire to state thai
this shows plainly an aggressive
campaign.
Among its pictorial worthless, the
Messenger gives a wood-cut of that
great and undefiled patriot, "Stephen
b. Elkins, principal manager of the
Blaine forces at Chicago" The Mes.
senger must feel very proud to print
the likeness of this gentleman, for il
is the same "Steve" Elkins, who will
Dorsey and Brady feathered his nest
by star-route thieving. Hurrah fol
Jim and Jack-and Steve.
"Humph," say the Burlington Free
Press and several other organs, "what
do we care for the boiling of the Times
the Evening Post, Harper's Weekly
etc, hasn't the Buffalo Express declared
for Blaine p
The Rutland Herald will have tt
look out or it will be saying something
/ vi us Wv IL IIClC IL -
ing that 1.-THE anti Chinese legislation ii
inhuman and that the republican party
since it has lost the electoral votes o
the south has grown selfish and Gym
ical, the negro, since he cannot safely
vote the republican ticket in sucl
numbers as to strengthen the republi
can party in congress, is treated witt
contempt. He is told that he mus
make the best terms possible with hi
masters; that the republican party hai
no concern with the barren ideality
of equal suffrage and civil rights undel
the law at the south when the right o
colOred suffrage has no might at il
back"
Maine is so near Canada that one o
| the newspapers up there looks across
the border and observes "The presi
dency of Mr.. Blaine would be a sOurc,
of constant uneasiness and distrus
against our neighbors."
To catch the prohibitionists eastern
papers declare that Blaine favored the
Maine law and to placate the Germans
the Chicago Tribune says he didn't
| but was down in the rum bound state
of Kentucky.
Ben Butler says Cleveland and Bay
ard are no good. His candidate ii
Butler-Beniami F., of Lowell.
Gen. Sherman observes that he never
voted but once in his life and then he
voted wrong. So he will not vote this
year. Wise Tecumseh
The Blaine papers declared exult-
ingly that Edmunds would make q
great speech at the Washington rally
last week But when the time came
the Vermont senator was otherwise
engaged.
Another ticket claims recognition
The anti Masons have nominated fol
president ex-senator Pomeroy of Kan
sas and for ice-president j. A. Conant
of Connecticut.
A correspondent of the Springfield
Republican says there is talk of start
ing Blaine newspaper organ in Gale
dOnia county. Haven't they the North
Star Do they want the earth 7
A good many predict that unless he