The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-10-03
POLITICAL JUrTINGS.

j. B. Chase, of the Ohio Democrat
lie State Committee. has resigned, and
will support Blaine and Logan.
The Car Drivers and Conductors
Association of New York City has
1909 members. Most OF them are
| against Cleveland.
"A Republican First Voters Club"
ut Buffalo numbers 800 members. A
only POO members.
The Blaine and Logan Club of the
Twentieth Assembly District, New
York CITY. has more than 800 members.
Half of them are IriSlAmericanS.
The New York SIN says 100 Re-
publicans of Greenwich. Conn.,, who
had decided to vote for Cleveland
changed their minds on account OF the
! Halpin scandal.
The n. Y. iS,a, has the following:
a correspondent suggests that hang
mans moose would be proper badge
| for the supporters of Mr.. Cleveland.
Well, why not?"
Logan is accused of running on his
War record. Bat that isn't half us
hard work us running away from one s
War record. is it, Mr.. Hendricks?--
iHa0dejpatn iTfSS.
In Ohio Democratic officials are
turning ont of the work houses and
city prisons every incarcerated rascal
who will pledge himself to vote and
work for the Democratic ticket.
Congressman Potter, of New York,
| u frank, honest man. says he does not
know of one Democrat i'm his district,
tie Eleventh. that will vote for Blaine.
He knows many Republicans who will
vote for Cleveland.
General Mcclellan has been max
ing prediction to the effect that Cleve-
land will be elected. General McClel-
Ian is a failure i'm politics. as he was in
war. Cleveland will be elected in the
same way that Mcclellan took Rich
| mend.
"A correspondent of the New York
| San, who is travelling in New Jersey,
reports that he has never seen the Dem
ocratic party in that state so divided
Us it is at present. Fully 20 per cent of
the workingmen, he aflirmS, are OPP
posed to Cleveland.
AS st. John gets $50 per night for
! advocating his own cause, it is to his
interest to keep the ball rolling. AS q
| financial venture it is the best thing
the Kansas apostle has struck since he
lost his grip on the railroad companies.
-Kdnsds City Journal.
"A few days ago the Democratic
press were harping on "the straws"
seen in the elections pending. Well,
what about the straws seen in Ver-
mont and Maine? Are they of the
kind to draw Democratic fluids to tick
lie the Bourbon stomach?
In a special dispatch from Ohio,
aGath" telegraphs: "OhiO is for Blaine
in October. / have looked into it, and
feel that it will be the British party's
Waterloo. Yet not sinew will be
spared. The Germans are coming to
the front for Blaine like fellow men,"
Mr.. Hendricks, twenty years ago
this fall. gave vent to tine ferYent hope,
i'm public speech, that the people
would rise in their might and ht1i the
smshy old klrant at Washington mean
ing LincOln) out of political eriS'ence"
This is the man the Democratic thip-
ble-riggers are asking the patriotic
masses to vote for and elect to the Vice
Presidency.
1t would be interesting to know
/ whether there is any truth in the asser-
tibn that wherever in Maine the Boston
| Independents sent their speakers and
used their strongest efforts to proselyte
voters there the Republican gains were
the largest. AS nearly as we can ascer-
tain the heft of the Independent move
ment is always "Over in the next
State"
And now they are accusing Thorn
as A. Hendricks of treachery to Cleve-
land! AS if anything. but treachery
could be expected of this man. whose
career has been marked from first To
last with perfidy--periidy to his coun-
try, his party, and his friends. Men do
not gather figs of thorns nor grapes of
thistles. Hendricks has always been
The incarnation of treachery; he has
thrived by it, and he will pursue it to
1.-THE end as the business in which he has
always engaged and prospered.-Chi-
cogo Ne,es.