Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-03

conscious OF ever having thought |
So" Mr.. Edmunds closed his letter
by affirming his intention of voting |
the Republican ticket.
More weeping and wailing and
crashing ofteeth for the Democrats.
John Kelly announces his intention
to place Tammany city ticket in
the field at the coming election, just
to show the machine managers Of
the State that he controls more
Democratic votes in New York than
they do. Already they charge him
with desire to trade with the Re-
publicans and to sell out Cleveland
for the Mayors chair, but Kelly
says they do not in this, as in other
matters, " tell the truth"
George William Curtis is thus
mentioned in resolution passed at
the largest political meeting ever
held at Staten Island:
Resolved, That the true Republi-
cans of Richmond county, who have
always faithfully adhered to the
regular chosen candidates of our
great party, view with regret and
disgust the ignoble desertion of one
whom we were formerly proud to
honor as delegate from our county
to all conventions, and who now
turns his back on his old associates
and publicly proclaims himself
traitor to the cause he professcd to
love, and false to his own express
sions in the convention which nomi-
mated our next President, James G.
Blaine.
General Logan is running on his
war record" remarks Cleveland or
gan, and Mr.. Hendricks is trying to
run array from his.
According to the Albany Argus
| Dem.) Gov. Cleveland did not
write TO the Ohio Democrats that
protection was Gan irrevelant ISSUE"
but that it was an innocent discus
Sion" There is broad and states
manlike view of the matter, almost
as noteworthy as Gen. Hancock's
remark that the tariff was local is
sue.
| Democrats pretend to be disgust
ed because Mr.. Blaine is "exhibi-
ting himself" as they call it. The
real secret of their disgust, however,
is the popularity of the great states
man among the people, as shown by
the ovations accorded him.
General Thomas Ewing, the staunch
Ohio Democrat who has known Mr..
Blaine for many years both in pub
lie and private life, said Of him a
few days since: i" He is my kins-
man and intimate friend. In every
private relation of life-as son, hus-:
band, father, friend--I know no kind
er, purer or better man; and among
our public men he stands unsurpass-
ed as an embodiment of the spirit
and genius of the American people.
don't believe if every letter he
ever wrote and every word he ever
uttered were published to the world
that they would fasten on him sin
gle act or thought of official cor
ruption. If man be true in all
private relations, as from his boy
hood | have known him to be, he is
not likely to be false to the people. !"
Judge Noah Davis, the veteran
New York jurist, in recent speech
said: have now for 80 years oc-
cupied, with slight intermission, a
seat on the bench of the supreme
court, and have had long expert
ence in examining and determining
cases involving the most careful in
vestigation and weighing of evil
dence. I aflirm-having given care
full attention to all those Mulligan
letters that there is not in them a
particle Of evidence that should i'm
pugn in the minds of the American
people the honesty, integrity, and
fitness of James G. Blaine for the
presidency Of the United States"