National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-31
POLITICAL SMALL rALk.

GlcuNs. llo IutS hl5 NOlob bbO,OVNs llbN |
yvcr, he is probably too sanguino by
,iphcr. Portland Press
Private Dalzel Is writing poetry in favor
Of Blaine and Logan. Notwithstanding |
this fact, we arc very confident that Blaine
and Logan will be cleCted.-SL Louis Globe
Democrat
Marion, Wis, with 2i5 voters, has u
Blaiue aud Logan club whose membership
is 200. And Marion isn't considered ANY
thing of u great Blaine town, either.'-
ECening Wisconsin.
Tildon's health Is again matter of
solicitude in certain quarters. some of
Clevelands friends are afraid Uncio
Sammy is not strong enough to tap his
barrel. IitSburg Times.
There was time Whitolaw Reid had
considerable to say about frozen facts"
Now ho toll about cold and double
shotted truth" Variety ID the spice of
organic uttCrances. .-BOsiOH Post.
Gov. Cleveands party friends could do
q more foolish thing than to ask him to
withdraw from the ticket, and he could
do more foolish thing than to accede tO
their request. .--New HaUot Courier.
The greatest democratic blunder of tho
year WIS the resolve To mako tho issue of
personal character against Blaine. Tho
character racket is the very thing that
Cleveland can't stand. - Chicago IribHnG
Roswell Z. Flower Is said to have re-
marked recently, ~ am only a democrat"
This candid confession Is calculated to
restore confidence. Everybody formerly
imagined that he was the entire party
Nep York journal.
The republican national committee is
anxiously awaiting tho arrival of Mr..
Howard Gordon, of Norristown, Pa,
who proposes to- sing steve Elkins some
new campaign songs about plumed
knights and such things.--NcIC York sun.
81 baYe buNiod my bridges behind mo-"
exclaims Coz. Il. Wentworth uigginson,
tho royal grand Of the Boston mugwulDps.
We'll, many man has dono that before,
and howled for mud scow to cross back
again after the skirmish was over
Philadelphia Press.
Gov. Cleveland" says an admirlug
contemporary, wore shoes in his boy
hood days that let in the sleet." Where.
upon the Philadelphia CAL scOilingly adds
that he would have displayed economic
ability If he had exchanged tho shoes for
hat that would have lot in ideas.
We heartily indorse the suggestion of a
contemporary that Blaine aud Cleveland
take the stump in Joint debate. Demo-
cratic papers will, of course, second a
proposition which would at once show
how vastly superior their candidate is to
the nominee of tho Phiiddel-
phta Item.
The Albany argus. the organ which
4. Al. 4
man who nominated Cleveland, says
Thus far no lrishman not republican
or dynamiter has declared for Blaine"
Irish citizens will mako their own reply
to the insult. Tho democratic party still
believes it owns the Irish voters.-Phila-
deiphia Press.
| Judging from tho portinacity with
which the overtures Of the democracy
have been declined at five successive
presidential elections it would seem that
the people of the United States believe
the corrupt Tendencies of tho democratic
party to be more dangerous and pervasivc
than those of the party in power
Brooklyn Union
We learn from democratic organs that
every democrat who comes out in favor oi
Blaine controls only his own vote,
while every republican that declares fol
Cleveland has - large and iniluentia
following" A democratic organ wouldu''
lie about little thing like that, and ye
its assertions are calculated to mako tht
fish romancer feel envious.
Herald.
A first rate political authority writes
that there will be a democratic Blaine ant
Logan club in every ward In Rochester
N. Y. and that within u few woshn th
revolt against Clevclard's nomination ii
western New York has assumed tremen,
dous proportions. Cleveland has not beer
much known anywhere, but he is better
known in western New York than any
where else.-NeU York. Tribune.
Mr.. Hendricks recently made fur
over the dofalcations of democrat in til
navy department under u republican I'D
ministratiou. The Chicago Inter Occu
, now gives him list of democratic defa,
! cations in that department between 1SJ
and 1860, when his own party was i
power. They amount TO Si7S, S,l29.20 /
= six years. During the twenty -thrC
> years Of republican administration the
amount to SG3,O0O.
Our independent friends will bo eve
4 more indiscrcet than thoy have yet bee
!
Logan aud Thomas A. Hendricks. Whe
T. Logan was leading his men into bait
I Hendricks was firing mt them from bC
ii hind. All that "a brave soldier could
, Logan did do in defense of tho tiug. A
that n man whose heart was with Il
enemy could do Hendricks did do to ira
- that flag in the dust. Few words a
% needed here, and these tell the who
!, story. Commercial advertiser.
Mr.. Hondricks's speeches during II
~ war are returning to plague him. The
20 recall the tact that he was then II blata,
!, cupperhcad, peace-at-any-price man, WI
:, had little to say against the men wi
y were trying to destroy the union, b
much to say against President Linco
o. and the men who with him, were tryiI
d to protect and maintain tho nation
le authority. The soldiers Of tho union wi
rs are called to choose between HendriCl
and Logan for vice president Of t.
ID United States will not hesitate long befo
MS making their choice.-Phiiddelphia Pre-
ly Sumner talked then about Grant in
w as Curtis talks now about Blaine; q lit
worse if anything. Grant was corrul
.s, Grant was IL bribo-taker and gift-seekt
II. Grant was guilty Of nepotism; Grant W
nr surrounded by rascals; Grant was tyra
ana hhurpefi HrAHb WAS cOarSci NuiR'
and OF low moral tone; to defeat Ora
~ was to do great service to pure repub
at canism. The republican voters 81
IS through it all They saw clearly that D
lg Summers hostility to Grant was person
of They see just as clearly that Mr.. Curti
u hostility TO Blaine is PERSONAL
Irdueiier.
ris A fno bit of consistency? Geor
he William Curtis ut Chicago protested
CO the floor Of the republican convonti
in that no honorable man would be bou
II. by resolution pledging himself to I
rs oopt the nominee of the convention.
the recent gathering OF British freo-tri
cor sympathizors in New York, yclopt
to Independent convention, Of which Goo
~ William Curtis WAS the practical head,
g. person was admitted who did not sigr
~, paper in advance pledging himself not
% ns abide by the nominations Of the repul