St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-08-14
Public Opinion.
THERE Is ANOTHER VIEW OF 1T.

THERE Is ANOTHER VIEW OF 1T.
The general conviction will be, we
think, that Gen. Buffers candidacy in
sures the election of Mr.. Blaine, max
ing certain that which most intelligent
men now expect Boston Journal.
FABRICATED RECORD.
Butler is an astonishing soldier,
sailor, poet, pedestrian, and button
hole bouquet and claw-hammer coat
tail fancy man, but politically he is a
complete old cork screw twisting about
without regard to consequences Hart
ford Times.
VOTES FOR BUTLER
But on the other hand, great num-
Der of voters, principally of Irish orr
gin, will give their suffrages to But
Ter, who would vote for Blaine if But
Ter were not candidate. In this way
Buffers candidacy tends directly to
weaken and break down the republi-
can candidate, and it seems to us ac-
cordingly, that the effect of his APP
pearance in the election will be felt
rather more injuriously on the repub-
llcan side than on the democratic.
II New York Sun.
ABOVE THE POLITICAL HERD.
Calm, dispassiOnate, analytical, ele-
waited, spurning party claptrap and APP
pealing to reason, his rhetoric stands
as high above the common OratOrical
truck of the campaign as the zenith
above the earth. The best of it is,
too, that Mr.. Schurz's sincere character
as IA man reinforces his elOquence. His
name never comes nowadays before
the people without recalling Nw often
he has stood out for principler and how
only year ago he sacrificed IA leading
editorial position in New York and a
large salary to his views on the labor
question: New Haven News.
CHOICE OF THE BIS.
Gen. Buffers decision to run for the
presidency rs the greenback and labor
candidate introduces new element in
the campaign, already sufficiently
stocked with candidates and platforms.
OF course such movement is intended
to draw votes away from Cleveland
and Hendricks, and to promote the
chances of Blaine and Logan, for
neither Butler nor any Butler man
expects to secure an electoral vote for
the greenback ticket. We shall be
interested now to learn how the Irish
dynamiters look upon Butler and
Blaine respectively as candidates fitted
to express their hostility to England
and to carry out "spirited foreign
policy" . New York Evening Post.
ABOUNDS IN TRICKS.
There is material enough near at
hand. The Mulligan letters are simply
valuable as illustrations of political
character which has always been slip
perry. If they were wiped out of ex-
istence, or had never been unearthed.
we should have reasons enough against
making Mr.. Blaine President. His
two latest propositions, to distribute
the surplus among the states and to
assume Virginia's debt, show that he is
a demagOgue. But his whole political
history abOunds in tricks to catch votes.
One of the most striking of these was
his duplicity on the electoral commits
sion bill. When you add to slippery
political methods such evidences OF
jobbery as were deemed conclusive by
his fellow and senators, You
have Il character that disqualifies for
'ihNt w u lbOSbOl
THE SCANDAL LOSING FORCE.
Two days after the appearance in
the Buffalo Evening Telegraph of the
article headed, "a Terrible Tale" in
conversation with a representative OF
the New York Sun, remarked that
"upOn the then existing state of facts
Gov. Cleveland must be considered a
moral leper.' The conclusion without
the premise was printed aud has since
been extensively copied. | now desire
to say that information has come to
me, from source in which | place
implicit confidence, materially chang
ing the state of facts upon which the
remark was made. Hence. in Justice
to Gov. Cleveland and myself, and to
all others whom it may concern, ]
withdraw the characterization and
request that hereafter it be not at
Purcell, late Editor of the Rochester
Union Advertiser.
BLAINE's CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
And now here is another worthy
grandma, the Worcester Spy, who is
troubled about the Mirrors ideas on
civil-service reform, which she declares
are very ''antiquated," and an insult
to Hon. James G. Blaine. They are
somewhat antiquated, that's fact,
for they were held aud used by the
founders of the republican party, by
Abraham Lincoln, who bounced every
democrat he found in office, and dis
trihuted the spOils of the victory OF
1860 among the gallant men who won
it; by Hale and Wilson and Morton
and Seward and Chase and Sumner
and Zach Chandler and Andrew and
Hamlin, and all the rest of that grand
band of spoilsmen and machinists who
lived and labored before the refOrma-
ton. But old and worn as they are,
they are good enough for us, and we
guess they are good enough for James