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Iron County register., 1884-07-10
Afraid Of the Truth.

It is apprehended that this is going
to be q campaign of scandal; that this
Presidential year will be signalized by
an unusual amount of mAd-slinging.
These apprehensions are, induced by the
free manner In which the, public record
OF the leading candidate on the Repub-.
lican ticket is made the subject of COM
ment and exposed to critical examina-
tom His supporters deprecate the de-
rogatory remarks that are made about
the favOrite of the Star-fouters and
land-grant jobbers and condemn as a
scandalous procedure the analytical
process to which his, practices rs a
statesman are subjected.
But what may ordinarily appear as a.
scandalous way of treating a candidate
can not be avoided in Biaine's case:
When the facts connected with his ca
reer are plainly presented delicacy in
handling his case would be unfairness
to the people who are asked to elevate
him to the highest office in their gift.
Ii threatening evil may be prevented
by the use OF harsh means it-would be
iuexcusable weakness to allow a deli-
cacy as to the mode of treatment to in.
terfere with the obvious duty requiring
its prevention. When candidate for
an important public trust is presented
to the people, the extreme nicety that
would regard the exposure of his de-
merits as scandalous is not the kind of
sentiment to- be relied upon when the
public welfare is IN question.
This no doubt was the view taken by
the many intelligent and reputable Re-
publicans who previous to the meeting
of the Chicago Convention plainly.
stated and published their objections to
the nomination. of James 6. Blaine. In
taking this position. to which they were
led evidently by conscientious motives.
d plain statement of the ground Of their
opposition to him was proper. and nn-
avoidabIe, and when it neeessitated the
exposure of record closely identified
with the corrupt politics that constitute
the greatest danger to the Government,
it is preposterous to charge them with
mud-slinging.
Tt will be well to bear in mind that
when the Democrats join in the indict-
ment of the Republican candidate they
are in accord with the best Republican
authority. It is an anomaly in the
politics of the country that the severest
arraignment of The character of cans
didate should come from the. best elo-
ment of his own party and the fact that
James G. Blaine comes from such a
source entities it to be regarded as
something above the level of ordinary
campaign criticism. - Harrisburg (Pd.l .
Patriot.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
A Piece Of Mosaic.

The Republican National platform is
piece of joiner-work fearfully and
wonderfully made.
There is any quantity of lumber in it.
This was necessary in order that there
might be standing room for all the dis
cordant factions.
The tariff plank is made partly OF
high protection pine. partly of free trade
hickory, with some little stuff easily
broken worked in TO carry the labor
element till after the election.
One thing the country is assured OF
in this platform and that is that the
Republican party is pledged to tax the
people for something besides the neces-
sary revenue. The tariff resolution de-
clares that 1.-THE imposition of duties on
foreign imports shall be made not for
recenue only"
1t the taxation on imported articles
used by the American people is not to
be for revenue only, then what in the
name of justice is it to be forp Is the
money wrung from the industry of the
country by this means to be for plunder
or for distribution among favored
classes? .sf
The Republican wiseacres at Chicago
deserve the hearty thanks of the De-
mocracy for putting that impudent dec
laration into their platform. They will
wish they had omitted it before the ides
of November shall have confe.
Then the charge by implication in this
platform that the Democrats favor a
horizontal reduction of the tariff is
another fine piece of work. The trainers
of the platform knew they were COM
structing a lie when they made it.
The only horizontal reduction OF the
tariff that ever was made or attempted
was the ten per cent. cut made by the
Republican Congress of 1872. The
Morrison bill left the tariff on Injuries
as it found it and also limited its re-
duction by the rates of the Morrill, bill.
1t was therefore not horizontal.
In order to catch the wool-growers a
special plank is put into the platform
for their benefit. When was ever before
any particular interest singled out by q
political party to be favored especially
at the expense of all others?
The wool resolution becomes peeuli-
arly ridiculous in the ligh. of the fact
that the reduction of the wool tariff was
made by a Republican Congress upon
the recommendation of the Republican
Tariff Commission.
The remainder of the platform is
simply an Indictment of the Republican
party itself for its negligence in correct
ing abuses and uprooting evils which
came with its coming and grew with its
growth.
The decay of American commerce,
the moral crime of polygamy, the deg
radiation of the civil service. the system
of substituting railroads with land
grants. the destruction of the navy, the
corruption of elect ons, all these are
part Of the h story of twenty-five years
of Republican ascendancy.
Does the Republican party want
twenty-five years more to correct the
evils it has wrought or tolerated Ia
would seem so judging from the stupid
platitudes of its National platforn- =
WasaiasQton Post. $3.50.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
What a Paper Says That Supports the
Ticket.

We must decline to shout for Mr..
Blaine, or to do any other thing which
seems to us inconsistent with our con-
victions concerning him. They are un-
favorable to him as a man and candi-
date, and they are convictions and not
mere oyinions, much less vicious preju-
dices. They are based upon charges,
supported by evidence largely supplied
and more largely confirmed by MIR.
Blaine himself, and they have never
been disproved or explained away to
our satisfaction. To make public
man against whom charges most Sc
riously affecting his personal and Of
fetal character have been again and
again made, and virtually conceded by
himself, the candidate of great party
for the country's highest Office, is worse
than q blunder; it is q grave offense
against both the country and the party.
That was what we tried to say with
great clearness and emphasis before
Mr.. Blaine was nominated. and we now
say it again after he has been nomi-
mated. We declined then to shout
with the large mob which demanded
his nomination, and we decline
to do it now We contended that, in
view of the undisproved charges against
Mr.. Blaine, to nominate him would be
an error and wrong-an error. be-
cause it would place the Republican
party in q defensive position in a CAM
paign likely to be so closely contested
as to render it essential that its position
should be peculiarly aggressive one;
Q wrong, because for a great party to
bestow its highest honors upon the un-
worthy and to deny them to the worthy,
was to condemn the one and extol the
other. We felt that to warn the party
whose principles we profess our faith in
against the commission of this error
and wrong, was our rlainest duty. We
Iron County register., 1884-07-10

The Presidential candidacy of Mr..
James G. Blaine is a menace of evil to
the Republic. Of all the citizens that
were proposed to the assembly OF
partisan electors, and of all whose
names have been mentioned in connec-
ton with that Office, MIR. Blaine is the
least fit, the least trustworthy.
He is perhaps the most intense par
tisan in America. Moreover, his party
ism is not the partyism of a statesman
who is guided by sincere convictions
founded on broad knowledge and under
standing. 1t is the partyism of a mere
passion for leadership actuating a man
of intense prejudices, of ugly temper,
and of defective understanding, whose
highest happiness is in playing the ring
leader in a disturbance. This character
of Mr. Blaine was fully displayed dur
ing his leadership of the House, at a
time when passion rather than iudg-
ment was the guide of nearly all the
members of that chamber.
In no respectable sense of the word
is Mr.. Blaine a statesman. When he
entered tho Senate-a body in which
craftsmanship is not yet wholly extinct
he stepped out of his own place and
into one which he failed to manifest the
faculty of filing respectfully. So far
from adding to his public reputation,
his brief career of Senator served only
as means of making more conspicuous
his notable defects by comparison with
superior characters. 1t has been said
by some of his personal champions that
he made himself conspicuous by his ad-
vocaey of the Chinese Immigration Pro-
hibition Bill. He made speech for
that measure which gained for him no
admiration among those who listened
to its delivery. Without any founda-
tion in reason, knowledge, or under
standing of his subject, it was the pain
full harangue of an aspiring demagogue
who, as everyone plainly perceived, was
already fishing for the "sandlot'' votes.
His strange and more than suspicious
South American diplomacy was fur
ther exhibition of meddling and reck-
less propensity to crush in where
angels fear to tread" and to undertake
what neither angels nor mortals of good
judgment and right prudence. would
either undertake or approve. That
chapter alone in the public career of
Blaine contains conclusive proof to all
sound minds of the peril with which his
selection for the Presidency menaees
this Republic. Chicago Times (Iaad.).
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
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Iron County register., 1884-07-10
The Opposition 10 Blaine.

The opposition to Blaine within the
ranks of the party which has already
shown itself is sufficient to cause the
most enthusiastic supporters of the
Plumed Knight to wear long faces.
They pretend, however, not to be in the
least alarmed, and declare that the op-
position was discounted before the nom.
ination was made. They pretend to be.
leve that the loss of independent Re-
publican votes will be more than made
good by Democratic votes. Such pre-
tension, of course. has no reasonable
foundation. There is no reason why
Democrats should support a candidate
whom the best element of the Republie-
an party refuses to recognize. The be-
lief that tie opposition will die out as
the campaign progresses, as the opposi-
tion to Garfield died out in 1880. is not
well founded. The condition of affairs
is very different. In 1880 there was no
great amount of hostility to Garfield.
There was only disappointment on the
part Of the supporters of Grant at the
failure of their fayorite to get the NOM
ination. Those who are opposed to
Blaine feel that his nomination was one
not tit to be made. They think that the
party has dishonored itself by placing
him at the head of it's ticket. 1t is not
probable, therefore, that their hostility
will disappear as the campaign pro-
crosses. The prominent Republican
journals which have pronounced against
the ticket can not change their position,
because there will be no possible excuse
for a change. They knew all about
Blaine before his nomination, and the
accusations which could not be shown
to be unfounded before the nomination
are not likely t. be shown to be false
after it.
When the New York Times, New
York Ecening Post, New York Com
nae1etat AdUerttser, Harper's Weekly,
Springfield Republican, Boston Adcer-
ttser, and other leading Republican
Journals in different parts of the coun-
try press home day after day and week
after week to the Republican masses
the fact that the Blame ticket is dis
grace to the party, and that it
is better for the party that it should
be defeated, it will be surprising if
the Blaine shouters do not lose good
deal of that enthusiasm on which they
are counting SO strongly to give Blaine
the victory. Admitting all that may
have been said about Blaine's resources
and his popularity with a very large
majority of his party, it must not be
forgotten that in some of the doubtful
States in 1880 change of compara-
lively small number of votes would
have given the victory to the Demo-
Gratis, and that if the dissatisfied fac
ton of the Republican party is any
where near as strong as it appears to
to be it will be more than sufficient to
give those States to the Democrats this
(Ga.) NeWs.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
RITH ANp POINT.

skt--Let the light Of reason shine
through your SOUPS windows, bat keep
warm by the fire OF Affection
When er man says dat de laws o.
de Ian Is er bearins down ON hinls yer
ken mighty nigh allns come to3de 'cln-
sion dat he Is or tryin' tGr b'ar doMnOn
de laws. -ArA1aasGs0 TraUcter- ,ssidsu
&C. is very c,ose,'' was observed
Inv b.. che will suuabbie about . cent
.sWell,',,s remarked W., II have always
thought that the less one squabbles
about the better. = "A r. Ledger
An article in an exchange.is, head
ed .sCostly Misuse Of thetMails.n About
the most costly miss use of tho males
that we know of are INDECENT young
men marrying heiresses. BOSTON Post.
Soft soap for all sorts of people
For Lieutenant, call him q Captain.
For middle-aged lady, say YOU mis-
took her for her daughter. For ayoung,
gentleman rising fifteen, ask his opin-
ion respecting the comparative merits
of Mechi and Mappin as razor-sellers.
For young ladies, If you know their
painting. Chicago Tribune. ls.ss,s8
Some people e.poetical by nature,
but there are others to whom poetical
or sentimental language is utterly unin-
telligible. Miss Molly McD Dude belongs
to the latter class. George Smffhers
has been paying her attention, and
few evenings ago. IN q wild poetic out
burst, he exclaimed: 'sHow fast time
vanishes in your company, dearest Mol
lie! The hours, become; brief minntes.,s -
.How can you tell anything abont itp
You haven't even, looked at your
watch. !" respondediths prosaic Molly
Iszas Siftiags. fss II
Some stoio;wvitess ef
Man that IL married to woman Is OF many
days and full of trOuble.
In the morning he draws his salary, andinsthe
IS evening" fss3s .f4s 4sgss.,sA sif5 A.
Behold, f5 is gone!
1t Is tale that Is told; - 81
1t is vanished, and no'man knows whitheris
He riseth up clothed Inn the chilly garments
OF the night
And seeketh the somnolent paregorfc. assls
tossOOthe his infant pOsterity..af
He oOmeth as athOrSe or OK,
And draweth thechRniot Of his Offspring. -
He speedeth the sheckels in the purchas0sof
fine linen
To cover the bosomofhis s
Family;
Yet himself is seeniat the gates Of tho,citv
WITH one suspenden @s{ sk ssSs s#7,6Fh K
Yea, he Is altogether Wretched.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
The Democratic Opportunity.

The personal magnetism of James 6.
Blaine is not so powerful as to attract
the whole body of his party to his sup
port. In fact, the negative pole of the
Maine magnet seems to have rather
more influence than the positive. Its
repeHent power is absolutely astonish.
ing.
There is not an Independent journal
of any standing or influence, from Maine
to California, that does not oppose the
election of Blaine Indeed, some of the
most reputable aud influential Repub-
lican newspapers are as pronounced
and emphatic in their opposition to the
Republican nominee as any Democratic
newspaper in the land
The Boston Adcertiser, Springfield
(biass.) Republican, Worcester Mass. }
Spy, New York. Times, New York
Eueniug Post and Brooklyn Union are
prominent among the Republican jour-
mails which have already announced
their hostility to Blaine. These papers
supported every Republican candidate
for the Presidency from Fremont to
Garfield.
The Independent journals of note
which oppose the election of Blaine are
the Boston Herald, New Haven NeaCs,
New York Herald. New York Morning
Jourssal, New York Truth, New York
Staats Zeitung, Puck, Philadelphia Rec
ord, Philadelphia Times and Chicago
Times. Other. Independent journals
deplore the action of the Republican
Convention in making him the nomi-
nee.
These newspapers are read daily by
not less than a million voters. The in
fiuence they will exert upon the minds
of intelligent and thoughtful people
will be quite sufficient to ensure Mr..
Blaine's defeat. Already a movement
for the nomination of another ticket
which shall represent the disaffected
Republican element is in contempla-
tion.
The opportunity is thus once more
presented to the Democrats to make a
winning fight for the Presidency. Only
the gravest and most ineXcusable error
on the part of the Democratic party
can prevent Democratic success in No
vember. -ETch0nge Il
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
SCIENCR: AND INDUSTRY.

81 u Sottles Sfs now uhAaa 6ss is !
large scale ii GernanY and Anstxia.
"A clay which can ~ utilized II
/ the manufacture Of putty has been dis
covered in Attala, Miss.
IL Santa Barbara {Cal) botauist
has discovered species Of g00eebe1y
wholly an hknown 10 scicnco, also Amow
species Of olive tr0e. IN 4sstks 4 sG
Ii German paper says thasl y root
can be made ifire-pr0of by covering it
with < mixture of lime, salt and wood
ashes, adding little lampblack to give
dark color. This NOS only guards
aga mss fire, it Is claimed, but also ia .
measure prevents decay. u. .l
A New Haven man has invented =
new kind Of 4 parachute. which is
balloon % itseif arid It IS exp9cted ID b1ing
the whole affair, including the aerO-
naut, down safely If any accident hap
pens to the balloon. Hartford Posi-
There is hardly any safety railway
appliances but may be improved, and
inventors who are seeking for profitable
fields of labor will do well to investi-
gate. the cause Of railway accidents
and devise means Of greater SAFETY to
Life, limb and property. Scicn isc
Anaericrzs III M " q III Fs
Mr.. Case a matchmaker of Frank
lin, Pa, has completed locomotive
and tender six inches long all told. tnat
has every part complete that e found
in working engine. 1t is made OF
gold. silver and steel, and is destined
for the New Orleans exhib ton. = Pits
burgh Post.
Experiments By DR.. Pehl. Of St.
Petersburg, 60 to support the theory
that, the waters of rivers are purified by
the motion (mass or molecular) inn
parted to the liquid, Bringing waters
into rapid motion by means OF Aacentri-
fngal machine the numberof develo ping
germs of bacteria was reduced by ninety
per cent. ff8a sts,s
4 The photographic JoNrssas reports
an ingenious way to prevent forgery of
bank notes. This is no other than the
empl0yme Of an invisible actinic ink,
Of which no trace can be seen on the
paper or upon the image upon the TO-
scusing screen. As soon, however, as
you come to develop your plate, the
word sHorgery'' appears IN bold letters
right across the negative
!, The height and velocity of clouds
may be determined by means OF pho
biography. Two cameras are placed 600
feet apart and provided with instantane-
Gus shutters, which are released by
electricity at the same moucnt. The
angle of inclination Of the cameras and
the position OF the cloud as photo
graphed are thus obtained, 1nd simple
Lrigonometrical operations give the
height and distance from those data
;ErchGnge.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10

-On the tomb of the Emperor Vii
4iam the Silent. at Delft, Holland, is
the marble efiigy of spaniel. At the,
night attack before Mons the Emperor
was asleep in his tent, and would prob
ably have been seized and killed had
not a fayoFite wasar-spaniel sprung up-i
on him and wakened him by barking in
time to escape before his tent was sur
rounded. To his dying day the Prince
ever afterward kept spaniel OF the
same race in his bedchamber And he
ordered the marble figure Of the dog,
engraved on his tomb.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
The Nomination OF Mr.. Blaine.

The death of Garfield and the retire
ment of MIR. Blaine to private life have
eliminated in the elevation of the latter
to the head of his party. This resuI.
has long been anticipated. Mr. Blaine
himself has invited it by pursuing a
policy tn at suited the times and circum-
stances. Without soliciting votes he
kept himself before the people, so that
all knew he was as keen an aspirant as
he was in 1876 or in 1880. He has thus
become the standard-bearer of his par
ty: and he must now face, not poll
ticians and delegates within his own
ranks, but q great party that has no
faith in him or the principles of the
platform upon which he stands.
He was nominated at the end of a
struggle of almost unprecedented bitter
ness. The very circumstances of his
nomination must have a tendency to
arouse factional feelings, and Mr.
Blaine himself represents all that Grant
and Conkling and the stalwarts general
ly loath and despise. But Blaine's
weakness chiefly consists in his restless
ambition-in his desire to inaugurate a
dazzling, snowy policy both at home
and abroad. Once seated he would be-
gin campaign for a second term, and
the country would be apt to be treated
to policies that would not promote its
growth and prosperity. In times like
present the country does not want an
Irritating foreign policy or disturbing
domestic policy. 1t would be apt to get
both if it elects MIR. Blaine.
:. Thoughtful people will be apt to hes
itate before they vote for the brilliant
and restless man from Maine. The
overpressed business man, who can not
leave his Office or store or factory for
summer rest, will be apt to think twice
before he helps to the Presidency q
men whose career has been full of sur
prises and daring declarations. Mr..
Blaine IS not safe man, and the busi-
ness world knows it.
How, then, can man who can rot poll
in the doubtful States, and particularly
in New York, the full vote of his party
because of factional differences, and who
does not possess the confidence in crit
ical business period of business men
how can such a man-magnetic and
brilliant though he be--hope to carry
the country He can not carry New
Ysssks nor New Jersey, nor Indiana, and
1t Is not altogether certain that he can
nan In Massachusetts The best men in
mt of , n2art$ in TIE last named State
~ :. : 1slu5PoFt R exccpt tin-the most
yer sltff0ryt mpMners and if to luke
esy) yoess in political ranks R~oper, is
Il st: Fed distrust in business circles,
mt II she Old Bay State may win place
de Democratic column.
BE the result what it may the bread
and-l,utter. brigade and the colored
=. generally y retuxhed hsgne in q dis
The sand hapfxes sconditipn. They
,lardy q horse thatNas easily aistanced,
,ther ne entire gang can not now estab-
:. "a ssingle claiH upon Nh, Blaine.
= " can not ea& an electoral vote,
la& the only infkzential votes they had /
6ewili have u year were persistently
.ksst INST the p1umed knight. They
,euk Hobly, but their foresight was
:. st 69ual to the occasion. and they will
o3w proceed to chew the bitter cud of
disappointment. Mr.. Blaine owes them
.-Atianta Constitution.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10
All! LOGAN Is

usaH w men H0 Lhf0N1 -.--.---.-
3 question, whether -
self government, or that thereby the
ship. something has Mor.a ~ And
you may always kI mo1so to find
him-to wit. where he kas kh4s saiways been.
drawing pay from the Government in
some capacity. he lacks only fifteen
He has lungs.-Nsso Yors 7rssans. Jan. Jan.
a0s-y Is, 1875.
Iron County register., 1884-07-10

young lady pedestrians OF
Georgia wear Mother Hubbards 10 their
walking matches, and are not afraid Ct
the police. Z,