The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-09-27

lays out the combinations that the
wicked and corrupt and conscience
less Republicans have made to defeat
the party whose character is as white
as the driven snow. First, it men,
tions the Office holders, whom it &C.
cuses of making campaign contribu-
tons. Second, it refers to the large
manufacturers. business men and en-
ployers, all of whom it combines in
the term "organized bodies of men,
These, it claims, are giving their
money to keep the wicked Republi.
can party in power. Third, it pays
it respects to "a host of unscrupulous
contractors and jobhers," and their
cash, it tearfully affirms, is pouring
into the exchequer of the National
Republican Committee. Fourth, it
rings in the corporations" which
have grown fat off the public lands,
and without any proof beyond mere
assertion, which is no proof, it de.
clares they are doing all they can to
perpetuate corrupt Republican rule,
With these four combinations Joined
into one it beholds an opposition
which can only be beaten down by
every Democrat putting his hand in
his pocketbook and Smelling out.
To say the 1S..-.. - : dress =
unfortunate. For weeks past the
Democratic newspapers have striven
to create the impression that the Re-
publicans had no money. They
boastingly asserted that the commit
tee was busted, and that the business
men had refused positively to help
raise the expenses of the campaign.
Now, sad to relate, the Democratic
committees address directly contra
diets these previous statements, and
say that the Republicans are over
run with money. But this admis
sion goes even farther. In declaring
that the business men are contribut-
ing to the Republican cause. the
Democratic committee emphaticaIly
acknowledges that the business men
are in favor of Mr.. Blaine's election.
Truth will out and shame the devil
occasionally, and in this mass OF
misstatement it creeps forth unmis-
takably. AS long as the business
men-the great men-the manufac-
turers and mechanics, the men en-
ploying thousands of workingmen
and their employes-are on our side,
we need not fear the result. The
Democratic mule certainly put his
foot in it when he opened his mouth
that time.
But the remarkable address does
not stop there. 1t goes on to say a
whole lot of things about what il will
not do, and finally gets down to the
place where it informs 1.-THE people OF
he United States" that the Repub-
lican party must be ousted, and that
money is needed to do this honest
work" No contribution, it affirms
twill be accounted too small" o.
course, all this is very entertaining
and refreshing, and it ought to make
all good Democrats come down
promptly and generously. The re-
markable address has a remarkable
ending, and this is the way it closes
THE man who wrote the Fisher letters will
never be the choice of the people for the Pres
idency of the United States"
And who is the man who writes
all this? Senator Arthur p. Cor.
man. All, here's richness for you
What noble statesman, what a pure
reformer. what spotless diplomat is
this indignant Senator! A man who
faints at the sight of a lobbyist who
knows not the contamination of ring
legislation who feels naught but the
hottest emotions of political reform
man, in short, who has risen to sen.
atorial dignity on the wings of an.
gelic purity and innocence-is it any
wonder that his whole nature should
revolt at the record of a man like Mr.
Blaine? True, as compared with the
Maine statesman he is hut the satyr
to Hyperion, but the pygmy to the
giant; yet, with it all, it is no Won
der that gods and men weep when he
arrays Mr.. Blaine before "the people
of the United States" and at the
same time passes around the hat for
contributions to a fund to be used for
well'known political purposes.-Bal-
tine0re american.