Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-10-28
To The Democratic Leaders

in this campaign show beyond ques-
ton that Mr.. Blaine cannot be elect
ed by Republican votes. The desper-
ate fight made by him and under him
in Ohio resulted in an absolute fail
ure to command majority of the
votes, or to get one-half the plurality
which was easily got in the October
election of 1880. The demonstrations
of the business men in New York,
the powerful and energetic revolt in
this State of the independent Repub
licans, the threatening organizations
Of the same kind in Connecticut and
Massachusetts, the prominence,
weight, and influence of the recent
accessions to the Cleveland Republi-
cans, establish beyond doubt the
fact that Mr.. Blaine cannot command
by many thousands the normal vote
of his party. 1t is, moreover, clear
that very large number from his
own party not only reject him, but
are giving their hearty support to
his opponent.
Mr.. Blaine and his managers un-
derstand this. Their minds are now
fixed, as last resort, upon depriving
Gov. Cleveland of the support in his
own party to which he is entitled.
To this end they are bending all the
resources at their command. The
committees of the Democratic Party
should know what this means. They
have seen the vast and thoroughly
organized machinery Of the Repub-
lican Party steadily perfected through
a quarter OF Il century Of unbroken
possession Of power. Whatever train
ed skill can do with enormous patron
age, with the money Of the lobby, OF
the star-route milliOnaires, ofthG mo-
nopolists and the corporations, OF
Gould and Field and Elkins, will be
done. Mr.. Blaine has pat Gen, But
Ter in the field as hired tool and agent,
doing his work and subject to his or
ders in the same relation that the un-
principled old humbug maintained AS
counsel of the corporations. Buffers
sole cnd now is to divide the Demo-
cratic Party, and he is labOring for
his reward with all the audacity and
all the shrewduess which q life spent
in public rascalily has given him.
He has been shown up to his delGded
followers in Maryland, and they have
publicly rcpudiated him. lie stands
out now in his true colors. His pur-
poses, his motives, his methods are
known, and he can now have the sup
port only of dupes or of accomplices
Ii remains for the Democratic man
ayers to dispose of him. Victory lies
within their grasp. The independent
Republicans, obeying with courage
and fidelity the voice of duty, have
done their part. They have exposed
the unfitness of Mr.. Blaine and made
it impossible for him to win the votes
he needs from Republicans. They
have vindicated the good name of
their own party and purged it of the
disgrace of Mr.. Blaine's candidacy.
They have convinced the reason and
aroused the conscience of the better
class of the old and honorable party,
and now they turn the dishonest candi
date, stripped of his disguises and
expSed in all the nakedness Of his
greed and corruption, over to the
Democracy. Gentleman of the DEM
ocratic committees will you see that
your votes are brought out for the
candidate who has won and who de-
serves the unprecedented support
of the honest men among his politi-
cal opponents? Will you secure for
him a support among followers as
earnest, as loyal, as effective, and
complete? If you will he will be the
next President of the United States.
You have desperate and powerful
foe to contend with, but that foe is
already crippled and half disarmed.
lie depends now solely Oh the agen-
cies and agents in your party of the
same sort that forced him upon ours
and have compelled decent men to
repudiate him. That dependence
will be vain if you will use every
legitimate means to defeat his plot.
now laid bare, and to bring out the
strength of your own party. tits in
your hands to prove that the Demo-
cratic Party, so long and so deeply
distr1sted by the country, is capable
of being an effective instrument of
honest government. You have a
candidate whose election will bring
about that end. You have honest
Republican allies enough to secure
that election if you do your duty. If
you fail, the doom of the Democratic
Party is sealed, and its downfall
will be not only disastrous but dis
graccful.-N. Y. Times, Rep.