Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-19
POLITICAL GOSSIP,

A Buffalo man, an old friend of Cleveland,
said: 81 was an intimate friend of Governor
Cleveland for fifteen years, and believe he
is almost crank on the subject of homes ty,
and as for the peculiar charges against him,
why, he is not that kind of a man at all.
There is no man to-day in the world that the
democrats are so afraid of ~ they are of Cleve.
land You will hear bowling in that party
soon There will be no distribution of spoils
under Cleveland. Threats and abuse and all
that will have no more effect upon him than
they would on wooden Indian Remember,
speak ~ nn old friend and intimate friend of
| Cleveland, and tell you he is u goo1 man.
| He will know his friends and stand by them.
He will do some things that will pMalyze the
| fighting factions of New Yo!k city. He is
| for national domocracy, and has got no use
for halls and factions and that sort of thing, u
New York Correspondence Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette (Rep.).
When the 4th of Maic'i comes, Grover
| Cleveland will lack but urteea days of
being forty-eight years old Only one younger
man has been inaugurated president, and that
is u. s. Grant. who lacked soma six weeks of
being forty. seven years old when he entered
the White House. Fraok Pierce was three
months over forty y-eght, aud Arthur and
Garfield were each a trifls less than fifty.
All the other presidents have been older,
William Henry Harrison, with his sixty.
eight years, being the oldest OF them all at
taking the oath of office.
The course of the Blaine organs was infa-
nous, We charge them with a concerted at
tempt to disturb public confidence in the hon.
esty of the election. They had no more rea,
son to doubt the result in New York than in
New Jersey and Connecticut. If they had
simply said: 'It ia very close-wait for the
official canvasss," nobody would have com.
planned. But .ey did not do this. They
impudently claimed the state, and suppressed
the figures that gave them the lie. No organ
which has been in this infamous combination
should be believed again, until it has earned
ANEW share in public confidence. IL Boston
Herald (Ind.).
A funny story is told in New York about
the sudden and unexpected introduction to
Mr. Burchard of certain very sore and dis
appointed republican politician. The latter,
| as he heard the name, was taken back and eX-
claimed: Are you the hev. Mr.. Burchard
who talked about Rum, Romanism aud Rebel
lion?
II am," said Dr. Burchard unessily.
"Well," said the other after o pause, slowly
and with deep feeling, "yon played hi
din't you!"
The thing that gave rise to the suspicion
that there was method in Burchards madness
was the fact that his two SONS marched in the
Cleveland procession, and one of them has de.
clared that his father. in his Rum, Roman.
ism and Rebellion" accomplished more good
than in all the rest of his life.-New York
Cor Cincinnati Commercial Gazette (Rep)
| Mr.. Blaine must be content to occupy q
place in the nations annals as an ex-speaker
ef the house of representatives. grouped with
Coltax and Keifer; as the author of some in.
teresting letters to one Fisher and one Cald-
well, as q most active presidential electioneer-
er and most prolific roman .er, and as the first
defeated presidential candidate of the repub-
lican party since it came into power with
Lincoln. louisville Courier-J ournal (dem,
If Grover Cleveland were not already re-
former, one months experiences would make
him 80. 1t is said that in some of the New
York towns from fifteen to twenty-five c'ndi.
dates for postmaster have been discovered =
and this before the returns are all canvassed.
Truly, Mr.. Curtis was right. The demo.
cratic party is Every hungry and very thirsty,
But it has elected president who does not
look upon the public offices as feeding troughs
and drinking fountains for party tramps.-
Boston Herald, lind