New-York tribune., 1884-10-13
OUR FRIENDS. THE ENEMY.

OUR FRIENDS. THE ENEMY
Out of the fifty our count,s in the state forty
elected Democratic count, officers. and in that number
| Virginia letter To The World.
Exactly. And on that ground alone the Demo-
Gratis feel confident. Because forty counties they
have the power to cheat, control the ballot boxes
and make the returns. they feel sure that popu-
lar majority can beat them. Perhaps they are
right
Because no personal interest or private weakness
political fear mas ever affected one Of his public acts
| lNeW-Yolk Times.
| This particular le-provcd 10 be lie by The
| Times own staements-seems 70 be favortc with
that journal Ii d0es serve 70 advertise the paper,
| for everybody VINO reads IL j. moved to quote Its
| honest statement of Cieveand'S surrcrder to the
New York rings. As usual, the LINES works Tor
revenue only"
| Whatever shall be the result "a Ohio. New-York has
| passed beyond Blaines reach.-lIhe Times.
| Let us put this on record, too. Alb ut a month
hence The Times will feel cheap whenever it
this statement quoted. However, those who IN list
upon relying upon that paper for information, will
have TO get used to dishonesty cooner or later, and
may we'll begin now.
However the Presidential election may result one
SraufJ ing fact has been Developed Ly the present can
paign. The war issue j. dead and buried The grieyed
ghost OF the solid South has been lad.Ihe World
| This at tn inst INDIGNATION of the Repub-
cans, III view OF the mos dastardly and infamous
outrages ever perpetrated by any party. may "a
well be widely noticed. The grieved ghost" the
Democrats Will find has not been land, nor will it
be until a man can vote as he chooses without fear
If ass s,inaton. Ii Grover Cleveland could get 10
electoral votes by organized murder a means he
would nave less chanc, of election than St. John.
t tlc
perhaps aS in ohcr years. IN fact some OF our cai-
ali-s who rly aided the Republicans suspected
ot having sent funds to the other side Boston letter to
Hartford COurant.
1t has been suspected that of the rich Boston
merchants were helping TO buy votes for " reform"
in Ono. As they probably know. being intelligent
men, how " the cOal-ol crowd in Ohio operates
upon pubic opinion, II may be assumed that they
intend to have their money used just as it dOub-
less will he used
In New York City the moral thugs are orsanzing As
IL they had not exposed themselves cnogh already 10
the OF decent citizens upon the syracuse
Journal.
Why not' Are these the people who support the
"moral leperV
Frank Hurd. the eminent frectrade member OF Con
Of the House OF Rep csentatives here
that he believes Ohio Will 90 Democratic next week, be-
cause her people believe III the principles Of Tree uae
Washington Dispatch.
Mr.. Frank iurd is altogether too frank. Demo-
Gratis in TINS state and in NewJersey will not
thank him for confesSng the truth which every
other Democratic candidate for Congress in OHIO
is trying to conceal.
The Democratic party of to-day is not the Democratic
party of twenty years ago. political party Is not an
uuChtngng OrganlLdton" the same yesterday, to-day
and forrN cr"l Boston Herald.
Granted; it is not the same. In point of fact, it
is a great deal worse The same dlsoyal spirit, the
same stupid adherence to dead ideas. there, and
added thereto habit of committing crimes from
which either the old planters or The rebels of
twenty-five years ago would have recolled with
shudGer.
We hold the Democratic majority directly responsible
for he antics blundcrs and crimes of the Cttcnden adj
mini,tration.-St Louis POst-Dispatch.
This is the opinion. it seems, OF Democratic
journal, as to the present Democratic Government
in Missouri In the same article it expresses the
opinion that the election of Ford would be, the
whole good thing, particularly "as proof that
in Missouri the people are the masters, not servants,
of the political parties"