River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-24
THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN.


New York special:-Cleyeland belongs to
those namby PANTY democrats, called by some
the silk stockings said Deputy Register
Mclaughlin, "and regard him as a trimmer
NOW, no true democrat likes man of this
character pretending to belong to the demo-
| cratic party, yet catering for the votes of the
other party. II was that which killed Horace
GIeeley politically, and viii kill Cleveland.
pendent repnbheans-the trimmers of that
party. The democrats, therefore, cannot con
| slstently support such man as this.
The political sensation in Boston is the I'M
eaTthing Of fine, eloquent extracts of speeches
by the Rev. James Freeman Clarke and II
lockwood Hoar, made to a Fanuel hall ratifi-
cation meeting in 1876, extolling Mr.. Blaine and
his conduct at the convention which nominated
Il. b. Hayes As DR.. Clarke has recently been
leading the bolt against Mr.. Blaine and speak
ing of his following at least with unmeasured
terms of disrespect, his warm and apparently
very sincere euology of the Maine statesmen is
sickening surprise for the young boilers
The national Democratic convention, al
though not nominating the old ticket, have
made close approximation to it 1t has the
old tail-Hendricks Gov. Cleveland is
nephew of ex-Unlted States Senator Grover of
Oregon, who was the Governor who certified
that s'Cronin's nosen was Tilden elector in
lS16-the only attempted steal in the campaign
and which proved unsuccessful, notwith-
standing the advocacy of Hoadly Hence the
head of the ticket has at least a nasal relation
to the Sage Of Greystone.
The Unconditional club, of Albany, the old
est republican campaign club, in New York,
which came into existence in the Grant canvass
of 1865, met Friday, and organized amid great
enthusiasm for Blaine and Logan. Nearly two
hundred members We're present, and by the
end of this week the club will probably reach
three hundred. 1t is composed of the most
prominent and influential young republicans IN
the city. Several young Irish democrats joined
New York, SpeciaL-It is pretty safe to say
that Cleveland will have very few Irish votes
in this city or in the State. At a meeting of
representative Irishmen, held in Clarendon
hall there was positive declaration of
opposition to Cleveland Speeches were made
by Gen. Kirwan, formerly editor of the Mon
treal Post, Richard Murphy, Edward O'Meara
Condor, Col 0'Flynn and others in favor of
Blaine, and resolution to endorse Blaine was
carried by two-thirds majority. 1t was also
resolved that the committee organization
should attend the Blaine mass meeting at the
Grand Opera house on Tuesday evening next
The Blaine boom has been fairly started in
Irish American circles, and there is no pre-
dieting where it will end
St Louis Specialize Westliche Post, Carl
Schurz' papers, after boiling the nomination of
Blaine and Logan came recently with the an
nouncement that it would support the Repub-
lican ticket That cause of this action lies in
the fact that the Westliche Posts subscribers
fell away by thousands, and the paper was
nearly wrecked. 1t said:
The more we tried to famlliarlze ourselves
with the idea of Democrat at the head of our
national administration the less were we able
to reconcile ourselves to it. The longer this
was agitated upon SO much the more vivid be-
came the "reminiscences of the past, and to-day
we do not find that we are justified in making
any guarantee that a Democrat, be his name
Grover Cleveland, even, would present an I'M
compromising front under all circumstances,
to the medacing onslaught of the Southern
brigadiers. We have criticised the Republican
ticket thus far freely, but admit now with
equal freedom that we have erred. We ex-
pected of the other party what the Republican
party can best perform Republicans can do
no better than to remain true to their ticket
a reporter who came through to New York
on the train with John Kelly, and who talked
with him on the situation, says John Kelly,
while refusing to be interviewed, did not hest
tate to say that he was very sorry this nomina-
ton has been made
1t is in my judgement most unfortunate. 1t
means defeat | am sorry that the party has
acted SO blindly. do not believe tits possible
for Cleveland to carry New York. AS to what
Tammany will do, cannot answer now The
next meeting of the general organization will
not be held until the first week in September.
By that time the reports of the subcommittee
and district committees will be in and we shall
know just what the SENTIMENT is IfTammany
voters do not want Cleveland, it is not likely
they will do anything for HIM. had an inter
view with Gen. Butler just before leaving Chi
cago, and he told me the ticket would be de-
feated in Massachusetts, by at least 25, 600 ma
jority Mr.. Cummings, who was present when
/ was talking with Gen Butler, said that the
Worcester district would be lost
New York Special Ex-senator Window of
Minnesota, who Is atthe Fifth Avenue hotel,
has just returned with his family from an ex-
tended visit to Europe When asked about pol
itics by reporter, Mr. Window said l am for
Mr.. Blaine, of course Everybody knows that
and am confident that he will be elected i
shall put myself in the hands of the national
committee, shortly, and expect to do what
campaigning can to aid in that result You can
hardly expect me to talk upon politics in gener-
al since have been out of the country so long,
and am generally fourteen days behind the
news, of which | endeavored to keep the run
through the newspapers After the Democratic
nominations are made and the issues joined we
shall know better what can be said | think
Cleveland would be a weak candidate for the
Democrats, and that Butler would be strong. [
spent day in Massachusetts, since my return,
and from what 4 saw and heard there am con-
fident Mr.. Blaine will carry that state against
any Democrat
Rev DR.. Edward Everett Hale, having been
invited by the New York Independents to join
the Blaine bolt, replied: SIT now seems
possible for the solid southern oligarchy, by
combination with the voters of the worst wards
in the city of New York, tosregain the power
tney iost IN 4ooi many genI hanH wv mnI hnva
voted with the republican party to assist this
combination. You ask me to. l do not think
7 shal1-yerv much -