The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-28
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The man who treads on Mr..
Hendricks coat-tal during this cam
paigI will have business on his hands
forthwith.
--Harper'S Weekly. has been in bad
company long time, but it is encOur-
aging to know that at last it sees the
error of its ways.
Butler will be sixtv-six years old
in NOyember-old enough to know bet
ter than to buck against the Democratic
party that was Just beginning to make
man of him.
ANY effort on the part of Blaine
and Calkins to carry Indiana while
Hendricks and Gray are on the war
path will be regarded as joke by all
well-informed people.
The latest charges brought
against the Democratic nominees is that
the leader ''smOkes cigarettes of the
Kind that have glass STEMS" and that
his associate plays on the ACCORDION"
Next
The Boston HerGld. heretofore of
Republican tendencies, says: In all
human proba iity the Democratic Ma
tional ticket will receive this year TO-
900 Independent votes in'Massachusetts.
1t may be 2u,U0J.'
Mr.. Blaine announces that he is
il the hands OF his friends. Just so.
And ever since his nomination they
have been applying the white-wash
brush 10 obliterate the spots, but with
out Rjcbmond OG.,) !State.
1--we will follow where the white
plume waves" SAYS one of the cam
paign poets. He would. do well to Law
IN good supply Of fresh water for the
white plume IS waving in the direction
OF Salt River and headed up stream.
Mr. Arthur's apparent indiffer-
ence 10 the fate of Blaine is one of the
distressing things in the campaign. Mr..
Arthur is now in the mountains, where
the lian rOareth and the whangdoodle
mourneth, and where he can not be
reached by wire. This looks bad for
Blame.
a man in New York, who uttered
the remark that he would bet his life
that Blaine would he elected fell to the
ground and died in less than five min
utes af;erward. When Providence be-
gins TO take such bets, BIaines defeat
must be looked upon as certain.-In-
dtdHapDLtS Sentinel.
Governor Cleveland meets the cor
respondents and talks to them, but does
not make mistakes. He preserves the
dignity OF a candidate for the Presi-
dency: but to protect himself from the
wlieS of the interviewer he does not
have to back himself against wall and
stubbornly refuse 10 say anything.
Tie New York SIN recognizes
Grover Cleveland as Man of DESTINY,
bat wants the Argus to tell it of what
destiny. The signs of the political 10 (
diac appear to show that { leveland is |
destined to be elected President OF the /,
United states. and to make one of the /
best Presidents the Republic ever had.
AijGaY -4rgU,.
is not James c. Blaine an af- |
fe Tomato husband and father? What |
better evidence is needed than the fact |
that he wept and went down on his .
knees at the Mulligan interview, say
iIt@: ''For Gods sake. think of my /
wife and childrenm His appeal was to
spare their feelings, and not to publish
his sgrace and shame. But his rec
ord is there. all the same
The Firm OF Bi-ina and Bitter.
The Butler campaign is a dismal
fraud upon its face
If General Butler, when nominated by
the AntiMonopolistS and Grcenback-
ers, had accepted WITHOUT hesitation
and placed himself squarelv on what
are supposed 10 be the principles of
those organizations, he N ght nave
laid some claim to honesty.
When he paused and dallIed and
waited for the action of the Democratic
{ convention o. which he was a member,
and whose candidate he hoped to be,
he proved that he was willing to use the
Autobiography and Greenback nomna-
ons rs means of securing the Demo
cratic prize. He was playing a Butler
game.
1t took Ex-Governor st. John ONLY
few hours to learn and accept the nom
ination of the Prohibitionists' Conven-
tfun
If Butler had obtained the nOmina-
ton At Chicago no sane man questions
that he would have accepted ii at once
and have enthusiastically Endorsed the
platform inst rs it is
When he became satisfied that his I
chances were hopeless he objected to
the platform and pretended that il was
not sufficiently Autobiography and Pro-
tecfive to suit his views
Ever then. if he had forthwith an
n0unced his acceptance OF the Anti
Monopoly and Greenha K nominations.
he might have insisted that his previous
DELAY had only been due 10 his desire to {
hot IL,
party would proclaim. If he had at
once declared his inability to indorse |
the Democr tic candidates and platform |
ana is readiness 10 run in opposit on |
TO them, his plea might kaye had some I
DretenSe of honesty. /
Way did he back and FIJI and pro-
,raStinate for another ful month, civ C
NJ the clOWnish answer of "'pes<snd- S
10, Re-and-yes," to all iaquirers, and a
'efuSiRg to say whether he WAS or uSas [
lot candidate? b
Butler wCs waiting for 3 bargain. v
1e put himself into communication h
With BiA Chandler aud made trade. b
Before Butler accepted. the eopartner- ?
hip OF Blaine and Butler had been duly i
ormed.
Honest Republicans have started IN
IiSmay froan the prospect of q Blaine
That would be bad n
noGgh- But how much worse would n
e a Blaine and Rgtler Administrar:o n? ~
an any one doubt the existence sf the, a,
rm? :.
The friends of ar. Blaine coaoede :,
hat if he is elected it will be through. I'll
he candidacy of BGder w w
Did anybody ever know Ben Bn4ler m