The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-26
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. z. 7. RAREUA, who agreed to sell his
worldly possessions for three quarters of.:the
sum they were worth If Mr.. Cleveland was
elected President has changed his mind.
His property is not in the market st q dis
count
Nh. BLAIEE tries to "blame it on" Rev. DR..
Burchard. But ii was the Blaine manage
ment of the Republican canvass which COM
mitted the indecency of organizinga cleri-
cal demonstration in behalf of q political
party, and thus gave Rev. DR.. Burchard
chance to "put his foot in it."-Brocklyn
Union fRep.)
a POLITICAL problem in the late vote in
King County, Washington Territory, is that
in total vote of 5,165. the candidate on the
Republican ticket who received the largest
vote, Sheriff McGraw, had q majority of
2,263, aud the Democratic candidate who re-
ceived the most votes, Voorhees, majority
of 2 246, a difference of 4, 800 votes between
the highest Democratic and the highest Re-
publican majority.
SINCE the election the Postmaster General,
q scrub politician from the wilds of Iowa,
named Hatton, has openly rejoiced in the
supposed defeat of Blame, and has said that
he has always been of the opinion that
"Blaineism would not be tolerated in this
country" Well, the tail goes with the hide.
II Blaineism is not to be tolerated after the
4th OF March, neither will Arthurism or Hat
tonism be endured. Both Arthur and Hat
ton will retire to an obscurity which could
never by any possibility encompass Mr..
Blaine, and il will be the more congenial to
them from the fact that they only emerged
from it in consequence of q cruel murder,
which deprived the country Of its duly elect
ed President.-Ohicsgo Tribune.
THE close vote in Connecticut recalls vsri-
Gus stories Of close elections, one Of the most
interesting being that Of 1851, which is told
by correspondent of the Waterbury Mass.
American. There was no election OF State
officers, and the Legislature was evenly di-
vided between the Wings sud Democrats,
with three Free-soilers, who held the balance
OF power. Two OF these had been Wings,
and Foeter, the Wing candidate for Cover
nor, was so sure of an election that ne wrote
his message and had special engine all fred
up to take him to Hartford to deliver 1t. But
the Free-soilers had agreed to vote together
for all officers, and they were 30 successful
with their trades that they organized the
House with Free-sol officers, from Speaker
down to Doorkeepers. Then, at the last
minute, they elected Thomas Il. Seymour,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, and
Green Kendrick, the Wing candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. Seymour was sur.
prised, and had to deliver his message of the
previous year, with the dates and figures
changed
TIE campaign of 1884 is closed: the cam
paign of 1888 opens with Blaine's bitter and
malignant speech, which we print In full.
Part OF il he has said before. The sophistry
and mendacity Of his construction of the
Southern electoral vote have been already
exposed; they can impose on no one who
reflects. His fierce attack upon q great
body OF his fellow-citizens, his savage APP
peal to the hatreds Of the war, and to the
long extinguished passions Of that unhappy
period. are too late to do harm now. All
that stuff served its purpose until the theft
OF the Presidency By Blaine's Southern
friends showed what Southern Republican
ism meant, From that day to this no Re-
publican has been so i'll advised as to sug-
gest comparison between the Democratic
supremacy at the South and the Republican
| supremacy which preceded 1t. 80 the ball
opens The leader cracks his whip ever his
party. He tells them that he Is everything
and they are nothing; that the people made
his cause their own. but the party was not
! as strong ss its leader. He lays down the