The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-16

ideas end character of MIR. Blaine, as q
public man, than is the sensitive and
proud integrity of the American man OF
business embodied in the greedy, tricky,
shifty and dishonest adventurer and
speculator who wrote the letters to Mr.
Fisher.-M. Y. Times (Ind.)
Not Necessary to Make Charges.
1t is not necessary for the Democrats
to state and elucidate single charge
against James G. Blaine to demonstrate
not only his shameless, constant and
versatility of popular belief in that corrup-
ton. The newspapers that now vie
with each other to be considered the
leading Blaine organs have in their mo-
ments of sobriety and candor in the
past furnished those who now oppose
their candidate with all the ammuni-
ton that they could possibly desire.
| This is true with very few exceptions.
! Even the New York Tribune and Boston
| Journal have at one time or another in
| their existence indicated doubts Of Mr..
Blaine's probity. But the leading pa
| pers of New York State and the West
the Troy Times, Albany Journal,
| Buffalo Express, Buffalo Commercial,
| Utica Herald, Cincinnati Commercial
| Gazette, Chicago Tribune and many 9TH
ers have recorded judgments against
Mr.. Blame, upon which the Democratic
party ought to be willing to resti its case
at any time. The present painful at
! tempt OF these papers TO make Mr..
Blaine's past reputable in view of what
| their unbiased verdicts have been is not
calculated to convince their readers
or make their special pleading respect
ed. How Ikea prophecy the following,
from the Buffalo Commercial of May 6,
now reads:
Edmunds only added force to tho fact that
| if Blaine manages by hook or crook (he can
nomination, his party will be put upon the de-
| fensive with a candidate of whose record they
are ashamed, whose future makes the bust
sfstently opposed by every truly independent
newspaper in the country; and whose cleo
mysterious agency, would be regarded as the
triumph of demagogism.
That is what the election would sig
Nifty, but to the triumph of demagogism
we must also add the triumph of cor
ruption. Eight days later the Commercial
declared some more frozen truth as fol-
lows: rs+.
Outside of a ring OF politicians who have
| found. In Blaine bod fractional leader, ready
| for raid where spoils' were to be found,
| there was no regret expressed, nor was there
| any felt. when h name was stricken from the
| list of Cabinet Ulcers. The man was at that
time tested and found wanting. We do not
turn over the deileI pages of his record as
j member of the National Legislature. The
| his career then to mark him as a man impul
| slve, dangerous aud unreliable. r-
''These be strong words, my mast
ers,' but none too strong for the appli-
cation that was made of them. How
can a newspaper face its own honest ut
terances of less than five months ago
and expect to carry any weight of in
fiuence with Supplying arguments, Ia
boriously and speciously prepared to
meet partisan emergency? When
Judge Tourgee in his attempted defense
of Blaine at Dunkirk. II. Y. was con-
fronted by the estimate of his character
and record to which he had signed his
name a few months before, he retired in
confusion from the contest. He showed
that he had enough sense of the talsity
of his position, to blush for the incon-
sistency and insincerlty into which, for
party reasons, he had rashly permitted
himself to be betrayed. Were it not
for partisan urgency Mr.. Blaine would
not have single honest defender in the
country. ost. r.
The Twelfth Amendment.
The provisions of the Twelfth
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States relating to the manner in
which President and Vice-President
shall be se'ected in case there is no
election by the Electors chosen by the
| ,,aor,1a ar.a o,t1.ic1S tbot iS III ffio II
to conceive what the real object of the
trainers of the instrument was. In case
no candidate shall re Give a majority of
the Electoral votes, the selection of a
President de7olves on the House. of
Representatives, which votes by States,
each State being entitled to one vote.
Upon the Senate, however, rests the
duty of selecting Vice President.
While there does not now seem to be
probability of the election being
thrown into the House, should such be
the case the vote would doubtless
stand: For Cleveland 81, for Blaine 16,
tie l.
The following States show Demo-
cratic ma critics in their House deIega-
tions, and would, of course, vote for
the Democratic candidate for President:
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Con-
necticut, Delaware, Georgia. Indiana,
Kentucky, Louis ana, Maryland, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, Nevada. New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West
Virginia and Wisconsin. This list
includes all the Southern States except
Florida, in which delegation there
would be a tie. and Virginia, where the
Readiusters would probably cast the
vote of the State for Blaine. The North
ern section embraced in the list is not so
large, but it contains such important
States as New York, Ohio, Indiana and
Wisconsin.
The States that would vote for Blaine
are Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire.
New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island. Vermont and Virginia.
| In case the election of the President
should be thrown into the House the
Senate would have the privilege of
electing the Vice-President. The Sen
ators would vote individually and not
by States. They would, of course, elect
Logan Vice-President.
As before stated, however, it appears
to be about certain that the next Presi
dent and Vice President will be chosen
by the Electors, and there is little doubt
that their names will be Grover Cleve-
land and Thomas A. Hendricks.-Sn-
ca,a'sah { Ga. Ne,0S.
Perhaps Blaine wanted to use his
letters to Fisher as Republican cam.
paign documents. That's the reason he
offered Mulligan, through Fisher, S10..
600 for them. He wanted to get ahead
of the Democrats them, as
1t were. In the work of vindlcation.