The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-11-29
The Outlook.

The outlook of the Democracy and the
free Republicans on the Presidential
campaign is more favorable now than
the prospect of any other party in Au-
gust ever was, which was successful at
the polls, in November. If the election
were to be held to-day, Blaine and Lo.
gan would barely carry nine States out
of the thirty-eight. Their chaLee for
any larger number than that is at pres.
ent extremely unfavorable.
Events which have occurred, and
events which assuredly will occur, justify
the assertion that the Democratic vote,
with substantial so.id.ty. will be cast
for Cleveland and Hendricks. The eff
fort to divert to Blaine a portion of the
Labor vote was no sooner made than il
failed. 1t resulted in showing that
| Blaine was a millionaire, by the grace
of corrupt contracts, of paid-fOr votes,
Of marketed rulings, of subsidies from
corporations and of speculation in all
| the powers of the trusts which he has
betrayed. A monopolist and rascal
does not commend himself to the men
who honestly toll. The other effort, to
| get foreign-born citizens to support
Blaine, also failed Neither the Irish
nor the Germans want a Known othing
and Prohibitionist, aud Blaine's denial
that he WAS either has but illustrated the
versatility of his mendacity. Every
endeavor to divide or reduce the Demo
cratic vote has failed. Leaders or
would-be leaders who are hostile or luke,
warm to Cleveland and Hendricks will
be run over by the rank and file.
The Line of assault on Governor Cleve.
land has also collapsed. For weeks it
was confined to generalizations. When.
they were reduced to particulars, the
particulars were found to be lies. The
lies have recoiled on their authors. Gov
ernor Clevelan6's record, for instance,
relative to legislation for workingmen
has been found to comprize more legis-
lation for the laboring class than has
been chargeable to the record of all
other Governors, past or present, put
together1 HIS record on behalf Of
American citizens aproad has been dis
covered to be replete with an equal love
for liberty and for law. His opponents
record. is very brave--in q letter OF
acceptance to catch votes. Elsewhere
4 it has been full of evidence of desire
to let unjustly imprisoned foreign born
citizens rot in British jails, TO disenable
them from returning to the United
States TO vote the Democratic ticket
James Russell Lowell, as an English
! lick-spittle, has been outdone by James
G. Blaine.
On the contrary. che exposure of the
public record of Blaine has been truth
fully fatal to him at every point. He
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Nothing and afterward . V.scally As
semblyman. He then became q claim
1 or bber for railroad sharks, and the &C
complete of Simon Cameron in tie
crimes which drove the latter out of the
War Department. He then got elected
to Congress from venal district, and
for six years he jobt-d the Claims COM
mittee and the Appropriation Commit
tee in the interest of his pocket AS
\ Speaker, for six years, he was chief of
the back pay and of the Credit Mobn-
Ter Congresses and the hero and bene-
lficiasy Of the Mulligah letters, the only
epistles on record in which rascal has
not done to virtue even the poor
homage ,of assembling his depravity.
In the Department of State he sought
to employ the power of this great Re-
public on behalf of miserable guano
claim. while public attention was abb
sorbed in the case of dying and muir.
I.dered Chief Magistrate. +.
These facts are sinking deep into the
public mind. The impression they are
making ensures every enlightened, re-
spectacle citizens vote for Cleveland.
1t is disreputable to be a Blaine man.
T. l., h., Il A<,-
is more difficult to get Blaine newspa-
pers to examine the public record o.
the man than it is to get gentlemen tc
crawl. through the sewers of city
Those papers know that he is dishonest.
They realize that it is not within the
resources Of ingenuityto make the facts
in his ease appear tolerabe. Conse
quently they have taken to empty Wifi
cation of the Democratic party aud t.
. the plying of unnameable abomination.
I against Cleveland AS result, the
sturdy masses of the Democracy wers
never so united and determined. The
Independents were never so combines
against the Republican party. The fret
, Republicans were never SO numerou!
or SO resolved to aid the reform Democ
racy. The foreign-born citizens of al
politics were never SO committed to sh,
Democra " as now. =, - as
Republican olliceholders, corrupt ring
masters, beaten bosses, conspirip!
!, cranks, bowling dynamiters, roaring
} communists, chevaliers of industry
> professional crooks, and the victims o
} the weaknesses, tine vices and the inner
itances which outlaw men, for cause
r from respectable consideration, are sup
! plymg to the Blaine canvass all its &C
: tivity and making it as noisome as it
: noisy. The earnest, honest, laborious
3 stable, scrupuIous and patriotic fOrce
in citizenship. whether that citizenship
{ be native or adopted, are a unit TO
Governor Cleveland. The great ms
. jority for true Demo cracy and reform
. hitherto found in part in one party AM
r in part in the other, has been brough
{ into union by the excellence OF the Dem
! ocratic candidates and platform. tn