The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-11-01
POLITICAL ITEMS

.-Blaine's letter may have fallen
like a wet blanket, but Logan's they
say, rescmbled crazy quilt-Indiano
Sentinel.
There is more personal magnet
ism in a straightforward, old-lashioned
honest man than there is in an entire
regiment of "plumed knights"
Unless Mr.. Blaine violates good
taste by taking an active part in the
present campaign. his letter may be re-
garded in the light of Farewell Ad-
dress baltimore Day.
The Mulligan letters show that
Mr.. Blaine marketed his rulings as
Speaker at a valuation OF hundreds OF
thousands of dollars to a wildcat rail-
way company-and got the money
A'b1ny Argus.
Blaine was active in turning the
Republican party over TO the Know
Nothiugs when the cry of down with
the foreigner was raised. Still we are
informed by certain fools that the Irish
will vote for Blaine.
There have been two or three
prominent Republican officials in the
past twelve years who have proposed to
turn the rascals out, but in the end the
rascals have turned them out. For
further information inquire of B. u.
BristOw.
Nothing in this campaign has
been more amusing than Elkn' $ vouch-
er. " Mr.. Blaine knows all about the
proprieties." Belknay should match it
with a certificate about the "equities,"
and Kellogg with one about the ''yeraci-
ties. "-EIchGaqe.
The New York Tribune, under
its present editor, in the winter of 1873,
denounced Blaine las bride -taker and
bully" The change wrought in it
since was not a change of heart, and
William Walter Phelps, who made the
change, knows just what did it.
AS poor Logan reads the COM
ments on his letter of acceptance he
must not fail to remember that it was
the New York Tribune which drew at
tention to his eminent claim to the Irish
vote, based on the allegation that he
was not even on speaking terms with
the English language. The argus.
by setting up veto shop in tho
White House Mr.. Blaine could treble
his salary every month Congress was
in session, and he is just the man to do
it. Blu. the approvals that can be
bought and the ve.oes that can be sold
are not the kind the honest men of the
United States desire.
Mr.. Blaine's long. delayed and
much-labored letter of acceptance is at
last before the public. The length of the
document is inordinate, and il it is an
example of what he will be capable, in
tie way of elaborate composition, when
he becomes President. We are q raid the
newspapers will 1T once cool toward
him. tica Press.
Black Jack Logan adore Ssed a
post of the Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie at Minneapolis, MINI, last week,
and having inadvertently delivered him.
self of a grammatical sentence, an en-
thusiastic admirer was SO struck by the
fact that he could not wait till the
speaker was done to congratulate him
on his success, but blurted the fact
right out in meeting. Richmond Va.
State.
Mr.. Blaine declares that s.he is
not one who proves deadhead in any
enterprise" in other words, he is con
the make" The Presidency could be
made the source of more entirely infa-
nous wealth to man who could venai-
ize it than any other place in the coun-
try. A man who will administer it hon.
estly, not one who would market the
patronage and its powers over legisla-
ton. is desired by the people. M Y.
World.