The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-14
POLITICAL ITEMS.

General Durbin Ward struck the
keynote the other day when he said:
"The public welfare demands the defeat
of Blaine''
There is more personal magnet
ism in straightforward, old-fashioned
honest man than there is in an entire
regiment of '.plumed knights"
Every true Democrat will lay his
prejudice, his ambition, his individu-
ality and his factions on the party
altar as voluntary sacrifice to the
party good.
-Unless Mr.. blaine violates good
taste by taking an active part in the
present campaign, his letter may be re-
garded in the light of Farewell Ad-
dress ss--BGltimore Day.
The Mulligan letters show that
Mr.. Blaine marketed his rulings as
Speaker at a valuation OF hundreds OF
thousands of dollars to a wildcat rail-
way company-and got the money
Albany Argns.
Blaine was active in turning the
Republican party over TO the know
Nothings when the cry of down with
the foreigner was raised. Still we are
informed by certain fools that the Irish
will vote for Blaine.
There have been two or three
prominent Republican officials in the
past twelve years who have proposed to
turn the rascals out, but in the end the
rascals have turned them out. For
further information inquire of b. IL.
Bristow.
Nothing in this campaign has
been more amusing than Elkin' 5 vouch-
er. Mr.. Blaine knows all about the
proprieties." Belknay should match it
with certificate about the equities, "
and Kellogg with one about the ''veraci-
ties. '-Erchange.
The New York Tribune, under
its present editor, in the winter of 1873,
denounced Blaine las a e-taker and
bully" The change wrought in it
since was not a change of heart, and
William Walter Phelps, who made the
change. knows just what did it.
by setting up a vetoshop in the
White House MIR. Blaine could treble
his salary every month Congress was
in session, and he is Just the man to do
it. But the approvalS that can be
are not the kind the honest men of the
United States desire. .-Erchange.
As poor Logan reads the COM
ments on his letter of acceptance he
must not fail to remember that it was
the New York Tribune which drew at
tention to his eminent claim to the Irish
vote, based on the allegation that he
was not even on speaking terms with
the English language. The Argms.
Mr.. Blaine's long, delayed and
much-labored letter of acceptance is at
last before the public. The length of the
document is inordinate, and if it is an
example of what he will be capable, in
the way of elaborate composition, when
he becomes President. we are afraid the
newspapers will at once cool toward
nim.-UticG Press.
Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins has lately
remarked that the vote of Indiana is
largely a question of finance. Mr..
Elkins shouldn't give away his tactics
so early in the campaign. People may
suspect that he is not great states
man, with a hat full of brainy schemes,
but merely fresh politician with ample
bowels. Cincinnati Enquirer.
There is, of course, great deal
of bluff and buncombe about the claims
of Republican editors and managers in
the matter of the October and Novem-
ber elections in West Virginia. The
game probably is to frighten the Demo-
Gratis into over-exertion in State which
is sure to them, while the Republicans
devote themselves to places lett Demo-
cratically weak. 1t will not work.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.