Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-09-24
POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

H. d.
ic State Committee, has resigned, and
will support Blaine and Logan.
The Car Drivers and Conductors
Association of New York City has
1000 members. Most of them are
against Cleveland.
"A Republican First Voters Club
at Buffalo numbers 900 members. A
Cleveland First Voters Club" has
only 200 members.
The Blaine and Logan Club of the
Twentieth Assembly District, New
York City, has more than 500 members
Half of them are Irish-Americans.
The New York San says 100 Re-
publicans of Greenwich, Conn.,, who
had decided to vote for Cleveland
changed their minds on account OF the
Halpin scandal.
The N. Y. San has the following:
"A correspondent suggests that a hang
mans moose would be a proper badge
for the supporters of Mr.. Cleveland.
Well, why not?
Logan is accused of running on his
War record. But that isn't half as
hard work as running away from ones
War record, is it, Mr.. Hendricks?-
Philadelphia Press.
In Ohio Democratic officials are
turning out of the work houses and
city prisons every incarcerated rascal
who will pledge himself to vote and
work for the Democratic ticket,
Congressman Potter, of New York,
frank, honest man. says he does not
know of one Democrat in his district,
the Eleventh, that will vote for Blaine.
He knows many Republicans who will
vote for Cleveland.
General Mcclellan has been max
ing a prediction to the effect that CleYe
Ian is a failure in politics, as he was in
war. Cleveland will be elected in the
same way that Mcclellan took Rich
mOnd.
"A correspondent of the New York
Sun, who is travelling in New Jersey,
reports that he has never seen the Dem
ocratic party in that state SO divided
as it is at present. Fully 10 per cent OF
the wOrkingmen, he affirmS, are OPP
posed to Cleveland.
AS St. John gets $50 per night for
advocating his own cause, it is to his
interest to keep the ball rolling. AS a
financial venture it is the best thing
lost his grip on the railroad companies.
Kansas City Journal.
"A few days ago the Democratic
press were harping on "thc straws"
seen in the elections pending. Well,
mont and Maine? Are they Of the
kind to draw Democratic fluids to tick
lie the Bourbon stomach?
In a special dispatch from Ohio,
@Gath" telegraphs: "Ohio is for Blaine
in October. have looked into it, and
feel that it will be the British party's
Waterloo. Yet not sinew will be
spared. The Germans are coming to
the front for Blaine like fellow men,"
MIR. Hendricks, twenty years ago
this fall, gave vent to the fervent hope,
in a public speech, that the people
would rise in their might and hetrl The
smutty old tyra1a at Washington (mean-
This is the man the Democratic thin
ble-riggers are asking the patriotic
masses to vote for and elect to the Vice
Presidency.
1T would be interesting to know
whether there is any truth in the asser-
ton that wherever in Maine the Boston
Independents sent their speakers and
used their strongest efforts to proselyte
voters there the Republican gains were
the largest. AS nearly as we can ascer-
tain the heft of the Independent move
ment is always "over in the next
State"
And now they are accusing Thorn
as A. Hendricks of treachery to Cleve-
land! AS If anything but treachery
could be expected OF this man, whose
career has been marked from first to
asst with perfidy-perlidy to his coun-
try, his party, and his friends. Men do
not gather figs of thorns nor grapes of
5histles. Hendricks has always been
The incarnation Of treaehery; he has
;hrived by it, and he will pursue it to
he end as the business in which he has
always engaged and prospered.-Chi-
ago NeUs. -
A great many clerkships and pub
lie Offices now being filled with hood
lums might with much more decency
be held by women. A woman en-
ployed in an office would not be smok-
ing cigar with her feet up on desk
when citizen visits the office for bus
mess or information. m o. Picayune.
-a--
hoo 1,aap pn+;naJ