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The Flower.CIeveIand Race,

BUFFALO, June 15.-It seems that
Senator Robert c. Titus has secured a
majority of the delegates from the
three Assembly districts of this Con-
gress district to the Saratoga Conven-
tion, and it is expected that he and
James Mooney, ex-President of the
National Land League, will be the del
egates selected. Senator Titus says
that he is for Cleveland forever in this
campaign, although many ofhis warm
est supporters have until lately believ-
ed that he was not entirely friendly
toward the Governor. People away
from Buffalo have misunderstood the
anti-Cleveland sentiment. The
amount of the opposition is that the
Democrats rebelled at having, Col.
Doyle and Law Partners Bissell and
Goodyear dictate who the delegates
should be, and had those men kept
their hands off there would have been
no trouble. AS it is, the disgruntled
ones say that there is actually strong
feeling against Gov. Cleveland him
self. Several substitutions of the As
sembly delegates are reported, but nc
matter who they are, it is regarded
now as certain that they will vote il
Gov. Cleveland's interests, even though
they may not take off their coats fol
him.
In the Fourth Erie district the dele
gates said on the day they were elect
ed that they were for Cleveland, anC
they say so now, although it has beer
reported that they are for Flower
Whitford Harrington says "Gov
Cleveland is entitled to the Erie coun
ty delegation, and we ought all t,
throw aside any personal feeling. NJ,
colleagues and myself will vote 70
Cleveland" Senator Titus says tha
he will support Cleveland.
Members of the Buffalo Democrats
Club will leave tomorrow night TO
Saratoga, where they will work TO
Cleveland. This is the club that di,
the Governor such effective service a
Syracuse Convention.
BUFFALO, June 15.-The Democrat
of the Fifth district including town
in the adjoining county, last nigh
elected the Hon. Beldin Wilcox, J.
Yeomans, and Ira C. Woodward delt
gates to the State Convention. A
favor Cleveland for first choice.
The Convention in the First distri,
OF Chautauqua county elected Gerorg
P. York of Westticld, G. n. Corbett ,
Sherman, and A. A. Vandusen of Ma,
vile delegates to the State Convel
ton. Resolutions favoring Cleyelan
were unanimously passed.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

New YORK, June 15.-There is like
ly to be lively time in the Brooklyn
Republican general committe, which
meets tomorrow evening. Several
members of the committee have al
ready announced their decision not to
vote for Blaine and Logan. Michael
S. Dady, who was one of Arthurs
friends in Chicago, says he win proba-
bly, make motion that the kickers be
expelled from the committee
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21
VIII Not SuppOt Blaine.

1t is not too early to comment in
telligently upon the effect Of the
Blaine and Logan ticket at the North
and East--in Massachusetts and New
York.
In the former State, the Boston Her.
aid, the leading Independent paper Of
New England, and the Boston Adrer-
tiser, the Boston Transcript, the Spring
field Republican and the Horcester Spy,
Republican journals, decline to sup
port the candidates and oppose them
with earnestness, and the Massachu-
setts Reform Club unanimously passed
resolutions dcnouncing the nomina-
ton and appointing a committee to
call meeting Of Independent voters
at an early day to take steps for a
practical reputation of the ticket.
In New York the Neac York Herald
is bitter in denunciation, and the New
York Times, the New York Erening
Post, the Brooklyn Union, the BgfalC
Express, and the Rochester Rost-Es
preSs-Republiean journals all-unite
in opposition to the ticket and the
platform upon which the candidates
stand. In addition, prominent Rcpub
licans and Independents are quoted
the number of whom is limited by the
restrictions Of newspaper space, who
declare, with sometimes startling en-
phasis, that they are against the Re
publican party this Woshing
ton Post.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21
MIR. Islaine's Religion.

Mr.. Blaine and his wife are both
members of the Congregational
Church in Augusta, Me. On his
fathers side, Mr.. Blaine's ancestors
were always identified with the Pres
byterian Church, and when in Wash
ington Mr.. Blaine and his family are
attendants at Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Blaine was educated at Washing
ton College, Pennsylvania, which was
then, and is now, when consolidated
with Jefferson College, one toe OF
stanchest of Presbyterian institutions
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

A vulgar merchant is gross sir,
and q vulgar woman is gross-hcr
too.
THAT'S tooth in" yelled the boy
who had Il savage dog hanging to his
veal.
The hand that rocks a cradle is the
hand that can't stone hen with any
success.
Man proposes and the other man
her papa-disposes of him in short
order,
The immortal saying, "Theres
always room at the top" was invented
by hotel clerk.
When movement is on foot in
Chicago, among the ladies, it has the
right of way.
Why should cook never get over
heated? Because she is engaged in
cool and airy Culinary work.
The crop of young doctors this year
promises to be unusually large. But
what will the harvest be?
A young physician of this city is
doctoring potatoes for weak eyes, and
says he has a growing practice.
A Congressman declares that the
remains of Southern politicians make
the best levies. They keep out the
water
A trap which will catch fifty crows
a minute has been invented. This
will lower the price Of boarding-house
Spring chicken,
1t shows shrewd but rather mean
disposition in the boarding house
mistress to tack up in the dining
room q motto reading, "Man wants
little here below 5.t Luz.
Speaking Of Tcnnyson's elevation,
the London Times says that as yet no
poet has worn the garter FROM this
we infer that Ella Wheeler goes bare
footed.
When the ocean steamships leave
their docks at New York, they never
move a foot without tows This shows
that they want to be well prepared
for walking the waters
"An inquirer asks: "What can
have for tea?" II you will come up
to our boarding house you can have
piece of cold meat and couple Of
measly radishes.
Somebody has invented security
hairpin which is warranted not to fall
out. Now, il somebody" will invent
a kind of hair that won't fall off. the
/, ladies will be very much obliged to
him.
An exchange advertiscs plymouth
Rock eggs" Boarding houses using
gutta-percha beefstcak and baseball
apple dumplings should try some of
the eggs laid by Plymouth Rock.
} Give this your at-hen-shun.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21
blaine as "a. BOY.

Representative Pusey, of Iowa, was a
classmate of Blaine when the latter at
tended Washington College, Washing
ton county, Pa, and he has a store OF
"reminiscences of the Plumed Knight
which are OF interest now. "Jim
Blaine, as ! remember him." said Mr..
Pusey, twas pretty well-built boy
and a hard student. He had an i'm
pediment of his speech, however, which
prevented him from joining in our de.
bates and declamations but he could
distance all his classmates in the mat
ter of studies and his memory was
remarkable. We had in the college a
literary society, of which was presi-
dent about the time Blaine was sixteen
years old. One day he came to me
and said 'B-b-ill, l would like to be
p-p-president of the literary. Can you
f-f-fx it for me?' ! answered: why,
Nosey, what the d. do you know
about the literary society? You have
never taken any part in the debates
and have always preferred to pay your
fine TO active part. Do you know any
thing about parliamentary practice?"
He replied; No, but dod dunn it Chat
was his favorite oath; he never used
any other), can c-c-commit Cushing's
Manual to memory in one night.
Well the result was that at the next
meeting | fixed it, for him. and at the
meeting nextlweek 'Nosey' Blaine was
elected president, vice Pusey, term ex-
pired. AS he had promised, he com.
mitted the entire contents of Bushing's
Manual, and he proved the best presi
dent the literary society OF the college
ever had.
81 remember one day his father tolt
him to get up early and go to the mar
ket to buy turkey. He gave him {
dollar, which was good deal of mon
ey in those days. Well, Nosey brought
/ home the bird and handed it to ole
Dinah, the colored cook of the Blaine
family. When the elder Blaine came
down to breakfast Dinah greeted him
Mars Blaine, dat dar turkey wha
Mars Jim buyed dis mawnin' am d,
quarest turkey Is ever seed. Deed i
is, Mars Blaine.
"Why, what's the matter with i
Dinah, amt it big enough?" repliet
the old gentleman. 1t ought to be
!, surely; jim paid dollar for it,
"'Oh, yes, Mars Blaine, de turkey i
big huff. but it am dc funniest turke,
: dis yer niger ever seed
"'Mars Blaine went out to the kitch
en- to look at the turkey and found i
: to be ten-year-old goose.
I "He called Jim down and haule'
t him over the Goals, saying; Wh!
), jim, you ought to be ashamed Of youl
!. self. Fifteen years old and can't tc'
h a turkey from gooser
). "Jim hung his head and simply IT
r piled why, dod dun it, pa, how's
Il BOY to tell a turkey from a goose whe
@ it's feathers are off?'o
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21
A Ticket That Would Get 1872 Votes

Thomas F. Bayard can carry Massa-
chusetts against Blaine.
William w. Eaton can carry Cen
neticut against Blaine.
Grover Cleveland can carry New
York against Blaine.
Joel Parker can carry New jersey
against Blaine.
Samuel ]. Randall can carry Penn
sylvania against Blaine.
Allen G. Thurman can carry Ohio
against Blaine.
Thomas A. Hendricks can carry
Indiana against Blaine.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21
a Suggestion 10 the President.

Mrs. Green Coffee isa very energetic
woman, who in connection with her
husband runs a small grocery on third
ayenne, New York. She also seems
to know how the government is run.
One morning while reading the paper,
she remarked to her husband
president Arthur ought to- get
married" =
"What does he want to get married.
for?" growled Mr.. Coffee, "hasn't he
got his hands full as il is?'
ayes, but if he were to die unmar-
ricd, there would be nobody to carry
on the business
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

An enraged Mormon is said to have
threatened to marry all the female
newspaper correspondents in Salt
Lake City if they do not stop writing
lie must be awful mad.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

ALBANY, N. Y, June 14-Governor
Cleveland has requested the authori-
ties at Washington, on the applica-
ton of the District Attorney of New
York, to grant an application for the
extradition Of John c. Emo.
Anybody who has examined doc
tors handwriting on prescription
win not wonder that a drug clerk
frequently puts up morphine when
the recipe calls for caraway-seed OF
some such harmless drug.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

The ticket does not profess to be a
shining shore, or absolutely philan-
thropic, self-denying, golden-rule tick
ct. It's saintliness is like that which
belongs to bull in corn field, and
which impresses those who are deter
mined to go across the field that they
had better be content with going
around, looking In cautiously through
the bars. tits horned ticket, with no
nub ON either horn, but with brisket
like buffalo and an immense tossing
power. 1t has its nose to the ground
and its tail in the air, and already acts
as if its horns were itching to gore
somcthing-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-06-21

An exchange advertiscs plymouth
Rock eggs" Boarding houses using
gutta-percha beefstcak and baseball
apple dumplings should try some of
the eggs laid by Plymouth Rock.
Give this your at-hen-shun.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
THE GENERAL RESULT.

Both committees still claim New York by
small pluralities The Republican committee
and Mr.. Blaine assure the party through
out the country that they have accurate
information which shows that the Re
publican plurality is about 1,500 The
Democratic claim is about the same, but the
infammatory appeals, the vigorous denuncia-
ton of uncommitted "frauds," and the APP
peal for money at once to use among the
county canvassing boards which meet on
Tuesday next are very strong proof
that the Democrats have no confidence in their
own claims, but propose to rely on Mr.. Man
ning's returning board for success. AS the
journal said yesterday, no satisfactory or con-
elusive result can be known until the returns
are officially canvassed. This will be done on
Tuesday next by the various county boards, but
after that the State canvassing board must 60
over them. 1t is useless and utterly without
purpose to stand about or to wait for the fuc-
tuating and often baseless reports given out
by this man or that. Both parties claim the
State, and will continue to claim it until the
official PRONUNCIATION of the result ends the
controversy. This is the situation, and so it
will remain
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and uncomfortable hunger. 1t is ominous and
criminal, but it has no terrors. The peaceful
methods of the law will proceed to the end,
as they did in 1876. The country can and
will stand the strain of another disputed cleo
ton, if need be- Popular government is
worth the effort at self-control necessary to
show the world that these disputes can be set
tied legally and honorably. The madness of
the Democratic leaders, who are endeavoring
to incite violent feeling and to intimidate
the whole country, will only end in disaster
to the party in whose interests it is under
taken. The weakness Of the Democratic party
is and has been its resort to passion and VIC
lent methods when GOODNESS and patriotism
were demanded. It is now giving the coun-
try another exhibition of its tigerish nature,
so well portrayed by the pencil of Mast durlng
the years when Harpers Weekly was on D.
side of decency and of law and order,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08

THE conscience and Judgment of the coun-
try will be heartily with Mr.. Blaine, as ex-
pressed in the dispatch from Augusta. There
can be no question that the offensive and bull
doing proclamation of Daniel Manning, fol
lowed, as it is, by one equally urgent
from "Seven-mule" Barnum, and the APP
peal for money Ito secure an honest count"
is the beginning of an attempt to inaugurate
the same bulldozing tactics in New York that
prevail in the worst of the Southern States.
Are the people of the North ready for thatl
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monds Her two little daughters, one in pink and
white and the other in picturesque costume of coffee
colored Indian silk and white hat assisted their pretty
redheaded mother.
IHE salary of the Baptist pastor at Granville Neb
is $lOo year The recipient does not try to live on
IT, out works at his old trade of shoemakng. His
congregation do not object to this way of providing
cheap ministry to them, but they have made tremen-
dous row because on several Sundays in making an
nouncements from the pulpit he included a notice
that he would mend shoes better and cheaper than the
opposition cobbler.
A scHooLMAsTER in Iowa called his prettest pupil
to his desk and asked her if she would marry HIM
she replied promptly that she would not "If you
were the last man earth, and was forty instead
OF sixteen, she added II wouldn't take you" Re-
Stunning his character of pedagogue he decided that
her language was disrepeetful and ferrued the hand
which he could not get matrimonially The girl now
sues him for damages.
SIR MOSES MoNTEFroRE, the aged Jewish philan-
thropst is hale and hearty and is rot afraid to look
time full in the face. is said that he has engaged
his private secretary for another term of five years.
Though changed Of late he possesses every faculty as
acutely He said the other day: "A man of
my age oughtnt to grumble but I feel my eyesight
isn't as good it was" Always after dinner he
drinks the Queens health
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08

A BLOODY innovation has been introduced in
Montreal that unless counteracted, will imperi
modern society. Man there-good deal like
man in other parts of Canada-got into debt to
his landlady for $3.50 for board, and squared the
account by going to another house, but failed to
pay up. Another man-young, and doubtless
sweet on lan1lady-hunted up first man and
gave him beastly pounding We know, backing
his eyes and mussing up his features generally;
kind man interferred to save life of No. l, when
he, too, got swinging blow on the nose Now,
we hold that this state OF affairs is simply dread
full If every man who skips board -bill-in
Canada or elsewhere-is to be pounded up and
mutilated then we may as well welcome civil
war. What's the use of deluging the land with
blood for little thing like that, with no flags
no bands, no music, no bounties, no pensions
and no glory2
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08

man with a reputation that, if known, would
debar him from service as coaehman in any
mans family. Yet they were willing to MAIZE
this man President to lead in movement Tor
'Teforln." The shame of such ?. consuynma-
ton was simply sickening, AMI it must ever
remain warning to decent men to be on the
alert when such things an seriously proposed,
for it has been cOnolWively shown that men
of standing can so 1.r forget their manhood
and self-respeet AZ, to put on the badge of
shame, and to assert that it is an honorable
thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
A REMARKABLE THING.

The most marvellous thing of this campaign
has been the fact that so large number of
reputable men gave countenance to the cleo
ton of man of the turpitude of Grover Cleve-
land, and attested the sincerity of their in
dorsement of his candidacy by voting for his
elevation to the presidency. A man of low
instincts, small man fitted to small things,
a man who degraded his profession as an at
| torney by becoming common hangman; a
man who has not grown an inch mentally
from the time he served as sheriff, he has been
the victim of kindly fate, astounded, as much
as one of his dull nature could be- at his rapid
and unaccountable promotion until the alb
surdity was crowned in his nomination to the
chief magistracy of the American Republic
Nothing less than absolute moral madness
could have actuated his champions to persist
in his candidacy after the cover of secrecy had
once been lifted from his real character, and
it was laid bare in all its hideousness A few,
not altogether blinded to shame, faltered and
buHeu pdChJ uuWllilHS 10 sJuiJlly themselves
and to place the stigma of shame upon the
Nation. The fidelity to this mans cause is
simply incomprehensible. Compelled by un-
Improbable evidence to admit his shame,
and to confess that he had added cruelty and
baseness to the sin of usefulness it was but
natural to expect that every self-respecting,
protesting Republican would at once turn back.
But, with few honorable exceptions they
all stood firm, while one, rising above his fell
lows startled the moral world by boldly as
serting that large majority of the voters of
New York were guilty of like practices that
had been charged against the Democratic
nominee. To what excuses may not men go
who can gain their consent, and to profess en-
thusiasm in the support of such character
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
Political EbullitiOn.

Peoria tIll) Transcript.
The excuses which attend political elections
in this country not to be regarded as peculiar
to ourselves, or used in disparagement of our
people or institutions In all free countries
where popular suffrage is known there will he
ebullitions and some disorder when the multi
tudes are excited by partisan victory, Consid-
ering the composite character of our population
and the great license which distinguishes polti-
cal campaigns, it is quite remarkable how well
the peace is preserved in the selection of our pub
lie servants by the medium of the ballot.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
Beecher's Opinion of the Democracy.

An Address in 1880.
"What when you come to the very marrow
OF 1t, Is the reason that the Democratic party
has come to scorn in this land? for l am go
ing to talk plainly tonight. l don't ask what
are the sources from which votes have been
gathered, but why is it that, taking the coun-
try through, men of most feeling, most re-
igion, most civilization-men most sound in
business relations and men who stand highest
in manhood-what is the reason that they
are steadily embodied and embattled against
that party. 1t is because they have no conf
dence in its integrity 1t is because it is rot
ten to the very center and core; not every man
that Is in it, but the thing called an organized
party, which, in its recent manifesto before
the work of election had begun, stultified it.
self by making the amazing declaration that
1t renewed all its traditions and all its issues
that is to say, its base subservience to slavery,
Its condoning secession, its refusing to help
the land through the great struggle for eman-
clpatlon and for liberty, its obstruction to
every step of reconstruction, its blatant and
persistent folly in resisting ali honesty in re-
gard to currency and money matters-these
things, so many black streams, don't come
from anything but black pool at headquar-
tiers and at headwaters. It is party that has
truckled to the baser relations and passions of
men,"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08

Mr. J. f. WALLICK sends card, which the
Sentinel declined to publish, in which he ex-
plains why the bulletins he sent out at first
showed Republican gains. The reason was
that the returns from the counties giving
Democratic majorties and gains We're held
back. The figures he presents are startling
They indicate where and how the Democrats
obtained their plurality. If there are any
'doctored' returns in the election of Tuesday
here is the place to look for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08
State supply of Ballots.
I'D Mass. J RepubIican.

oPIIHRHeIu lMass.J Kepubcan
The State ought to furnish single ballot for
each voter. containing the names of all candi-
dates for State and national Offices, registered
up to reasonable time before election. Then
the voter could put mark opposite those names
he wishes to vote for. The present license Of
furnishing ballots is not only wasteful and an
excuse for tho raising of vast campaign funds,
but leads to such complications and trickeries
that the voter will soon have to engage the best
lawyer in town to take with him to the polls TO
see If his ballot is legal. In England and Cali
fOrnia the government furnishes the ballot, and
it would have been much more sensible if Mass
achusetts had adopted Tho plan of furnishing an
official ballot instead of spending $35, 900 on
ballot-box guaranteed to make men honest by
machinery.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-08

York was 1915 per cent, while including New
York the average was 37.7. The amount in
this city was 81, 335, 327 which was greater
than that of ten other cities which make re-
turns. The decrease here was 179, which
was less than the average. The only cities
which show an increase are Providence, R. l.,
Kansas City and Detroit. When the political
excitement has subsidized marked improve
ment in business may be expected.