The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-10-02
In reply to an invitation to visit Chicago,

In reply to an invitation to visit Chicago,
Gov Cleveland wrote: You may be certain
that should be very glad to accept your in
vitatlon, and have no doubt that the great
city of Chicago would extend to me a cordial
reception but have now on my hands an
Office the duties of which are exceedingly ex-
acting, and they will not be postponed. OF
course they must not be neglected. Added to
this conditisn of affairs, 1 must suggest the
fact that my recent nomination to a higher
Office renders it absolutely necessary that
should be accessible to those who are constant
ly calling to see me, many of these from dis
lance.
Mr.. Conkling is said to have remarked to one
of number of Mr. Blaines friends who had
intimated that Mr.. Blaine was confidently ex-
pecting that before the campaign went much
further he would stump the state for the Re.
publican ticket: s'Pray give my compliments
to Mr.. Blaine and tell him that have no Grim.
inal practice"
Admiral Porter says, "1 have been Re
publican since the formation of the party, blu,
1 do not want to live to see ''Jim Blaine Presi-
dent of the United States" ,
Gov. Cleveland, says the New York Herald,
is not likely to take the stump.
Ex-Secretary Barstow says: sT shall vote
for Cleveland as an emphatic protest against
the nomination of such a man as Mr. Blaine
1t is the only way can protest against the can.
didacy of SO dishonest and corrupt man.
Yes, my one vote is for Cleveland. don't call
it Democratic vote, sir; call it an honest
one"
Congressman Lyman of Massachusetts ia
making target of himself for the Blaine
gress the other day, Mr.. Lyman said that hav-
ing been Republican since the dissolution of
the Wing party it would be natural in him to
vote for the Republican nominee. "But for
Mr.. Blaine cannot vote"
Ex-Secretary Bristow and President Elliott.
of Harvard college, both declare themselves op-
posed to Blaine and will vote for Cleveland.
Out of list of three hundred and fifty
Cleveland and eighty are advocating Blaine.
Heretofore a majority of these papers have
been Republican. What is true of the papers
printed in the German language is equally true
of the German people themselves.
The New Haven Palladium commented upor
Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon as misguided man
who was on the point of indorsing Cleveland.
This treatment aroused and provoked DR..
Bacon, and he is out with strong letter saying
he shall vote for Cleveland and counsel and
urge all his friends to do the same.
J. A. Jameson, of the New York stock ex-
change, says that of the 26O republican men,
bers, ISL are against Blaine, 80 are for him, and
10 are on the fence
Secretary Riley, of the Indiana democratic
state central committee, says the democratic
poll shows democratic majority Of over 49,
CO.,
Herr Won Langen, editor of the leading Ger.
man journal of Kansas, states that his race has
nearly 5000 votes in that state, and that six
seventies of them will vote for CleYeland and
Hendricks.
Mr. Mulligan has been approached by repub-
licaus who offered him large sum to suppress
the evidences of Blaines rascality, but without
success
Steve Dorsey, Steve Elkins, Powell Clayton,
Dick Harrington, Johnny Davenport, the Robe
sons, Chambers and Jim Blaine dominate
the grand old party formed and led by Lincoln,
Seward, Sumner, Chase, Phillips and Giddings.
Astaff correspondent of the Boston Post has
had long interview with Mrs. Lot M. Morrill,,
in which she defends herself from attacks
made by certain newspapers and reiterates her
charges against Mr.. Blaine She says, sIn
giving my opinion of Mr.. Blaine's record,
express what know was that of my husband"
Gov. Hoadly says the Democrats will carry
Ohio by larger majority than that Of last year.