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Sunday thoughts for Workingmen

Four years ago about this time the
Republican managers solemnly an
nounced that unless Garfield should be
elected, mills and factories would cease
to run, wages would be cut down values
would be depressed and workingmen
thrown out of employment.
Republican business men, employers
and mill owners, were made to say to
their employees that if the Democratic
party should be successful shops and
factories would close business would be
stagnant, wages would be reduced, and
the people suffer, on the other hand, if
the Republican party should triumph
the country would be more prosperous
than ever.
We are reciting plain facts of history.
There is not working man, not an in
telligent citizen but knows that this cry
was raised in 1880, that this means was
made use of to frighten people into vot-
ing for Garfield and that to this scare
the election of Garfield was largely ow-
ing
Now the same game is being played.
| The Blaine managers have raised the
same old cry. They have brought out
the same screcrow. They are under
taking for the second time to frighten
people into voting for corrupt and dis.
honest man and a venal and plunderine
party by setting up cry that this man
and this party are essential to the con.
tinued prosperity of the country. They
have induced the same Republican bus
iness men, employers and mill owners
to make the same proclamation that
they made four years ago, that the tri
umph of the Democratic party means
CLOSING of many American mills ant
shops with all the trouble and distres.
to our people that would be involved il
that.n
Now, let the people remember tha
these same men in 1880 made this same
promise. They said if Garfield should
be elected prosperity would prevail owe
all the land. Then as now, they de
clared that the happiness and prosper
ity of the people depended upon th,
perpetuation Of the Republican party
in power. S.,
What has happened? Garfield wa
elected. The Republican party wa
given a new lease of power. Did th'
country prosper more? Did the mill
cease to close? Has labor been bette
employed? Has there been less suffer
ing? Has there been more prosperity
Is the country in better condition nov
than when these promises were made
Are it's industries in better condition
Are there fewer men out of employ
ment?-Springfield Transcript.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
A Pen Picture of Cleveland.
TAlbauy Letter to Chicago News

lAlbany Letter to chicago NeWs.I
| have Just come from a pleasant
fifteen minutes chat with Gov. Cleve.
land. Havingno commission to inter.
view the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, he was allowed to do the
interviewing while | answered his
questions and took q mental photo.
graph of Mr.. Blaine's formidable rival.
The Executive Mansion is situated
about quarter of a mile from the
State Capitol, and if Gov. Cleveland
never takes any more exercise than
walking to and from it to his home his
weight will remain unreduced whether
he is elected to the Presidency or not.
Mental worry will never bring loss of
flesh to the calm, self-possessed man l
saw tonight. On sending in my card
| was ushered into the parlor where
Gov. Cleveland had received the noti-
fication of his nomination. From the
library across the hall came the mur-
mer Of voices, which stopped as the
servant presented a card which repre-
sented the freedom of the press. The
library had the air of being used, the
parlor felt and looked like the spare
room Of an old-fashioned country house.
Every article of furniture wore an ex-
preston of grim determination not to
appear pleasant. Presently the Cover
nor entered. He is something under
six feet tall and very thick-set every
where. His dress answered all of the
descriptions I have seen of it-a plain
black Prince Albert, with white shirt
front and black tie. There is more
character in his face than the photo
graphs aud Autographs credit it with.
1t is heavy, but the lines of the fore
head and about the eyes betoken
thought. The latter are set well apart
and the former is broad and full. His
hair is rather scant on top and a little
forelock divides the upper part of his
forehead with its thin partition. Neith-
er is his mustache the thick, butcher
boy looking thing it is pictured. Tt is
not very heavy and is characterless.
The mouth beneath it is strong, de-
cided feature of the mans face. 1t is
not very refined in its lines, but is calm
resolute, and feerless. No one would
think of suggesting sentiment in con-
nection with Gov. Clevelands mouth.
He has strong aquiline nose. In per-
sonal address he is quiet, dignified and
self-possesed. His voice is pleasant,
without having any extraordinary
charm. He talks easily and does not
answer question or suggestion with
out seeming to turn it over soberly in
his mind. He is a good listener. I
should say that careful deliberation and
infeXible self-will were the two chief
traits of the man talked to this Sun
day night. Any attempt to hurry him
to conclusion on a subject he was
considering would apparently be as
futile as to move him from a course he
had determined to follow. He is not
the kind of man to be unduly elated
should he be elected, nor will he be over
whelmed if the ballots are against him
next November.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

public men who have boldly acknowl-
edged the truth as To their connection
with matters far more damaging than
this, and have not suffered by 1t. He
can also recall number of men who,
engaged i'm the same transactions, have
tried to lie their way out of them, and
have gone down hopelessly under the
weight of public contempt for their
cowardice and dishonesty. He seems
bent on enrolling his name with the
latter class. Every day that passes
strips from him something of his claim
to be "dashing," aggressive" "au-
dacious" man. The attitude in which
he stands before the public is becoming
pltiable. The journals that felt bound
to warn the country of the danger it
would incur from his supposed RASH
ness and boldness find themselves re-
leased from any such duty. An exam
ination of his public career shows him
to be weakened, shallow, irresolute
cunning and cowardly. In bis private
career every new disclosure deepens
the impression that he is disgusting
sneak and falsifier.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
Homeless Mon aud Women.

In this land ihrlr very little ex
cuse for n homeless man. He is n So
cial tramp. As n rule. he can offer
but poor excuse for his condition. But
the minated and homeless women,
whose brows NAV never be crowned
with the bays of household authority,
claim not our sympathy, but our es-
teen, our admiration. Because it is
not always her fault that she has no
home. Sometimes she hasn't had a
chance. And we love these unselfish
and devoted lives, which work in
single harness. and carry so chcerfully
life's burdens and cares. with none of
those beautiful incentives to duty
which animate the married sister, For
she, the patient, CHEEKY cleaner, has
never caught the speakers eye. and to
her Boaz can never be more than n
brother-in-law. Alone she sings and
'igleans and gathers after the reapers
among the sheaves," and finds no
special grace in the eyes of Boaz, which
is boss No man reaches her the parch-
ed corn, and passes her the vinegar
for her morsel, and no indulgent reap
er streweth her way with handfuls of
barley. What she gleaneth, she car
rieth home and hath for her own, un-
less, peradventure, she hath her sis
ter's husband and family to support.
She may never have any cigar stumps
to pick off the piano, no pipe ashes to
dust off the window sill; no muddy
foot-tracks to brush from the hall car
pet; no one to whom she can gladly
give up the rocking-chair and new
magazine; no one to drag up stairs and
put to bed election nights; no one to
hide himself behind the morning paper
at the breakfast table; no one to get up
in the cold winter mornings and build
the morning fires; she seems to have
none of these joys that make her sis
ter's life q song. Sometimes when l
look at one of these lone women, and
think that she may not know what it
is to see the man who has given her
his name for the crown of her love,
splitting his eager face over half pie
at railway dining station, and hold
ing his disengaged hand over the re-
naming half to keep some other hun
cry man from getting it, l pity her.
For she is starving. Not for the pie;
oh, no. She can get plenty of pie.
But for the love of some true-hearted
man. Woman's sympathetic. depend
ent, trusting nature feeds on love, and
her life, her heart, her voice, is never
reused to the broadest, fullest capacity
for expression and action, until she has
blessed and filled some mans life with
the measureless riches of her maiden's
love. and then found some other wo-
mans photograph in his overcoat
pocket. Burlington HasOkeye.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
A Battle Of Ants.

A number of persons were standing
in front of the City Hall, Denver, the
other afternoon. A large number OF
ants were noticed running about on the
steps and ground, constantly aug
mented by numbers from unknown
quarters. Examination revealed the
fact that the ants were winged and
were tumbling from the air. Further
investigation showed that the ants
were of two species, and that battle
begun in the air was raging on the
ground. One of the species of the
warning insects was large and red,
with wings the size of house fly; the
other was small red ant, with q
black head and small wings. They
were in superior numbers and attacked
their enemies by twos, fours and scores.
Several balls of the ferocious warriors
when separated showed as many as
thirty small ants on one large one.
Here and there could be seen single
combats, the small ants in every case
victorious. Those that were clinched
in the air remained clinched on the
ground until one OF the other was van.
quished and dead.
But as a general thing they fell to
the ground and at once prepared for
battle. Each side was under leaders,
who massed their forces and marched
them with military precision upon the
foe. Skirmish lines were thrown out.
The lines advanced, retreated, advanc.
ed again, and then the battle became
general. The rules of civilized war.
fare were observed for while, but be.
fore the fight was over it was a go-as'
you please affair. The small ants
were in the majority but their oppo.
nents were giants compared with
them and they crushed the pigmies in
their strong mandibles US an alligator
would gnat.
For at least half an hour the battle
ragged. The ground was thick with
the dead and the dying, the latter be-
ing dispatched wherever found. AT
last the giants were routed. They fled
ANONYMOUSLY, pursued by the pigmies,
who slaughtered them by scores while
in full retreat, some flying, others run
ming to escape with their lives. The
visitors acted as if they wanted to
crow, and PROBABLY did, but if they
made any noise the spectators were
not aware of it, if the vanquished
were.
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More Blame Falsehoods.
From the New York Times, Oct. 1st.]

From the New York Times, Oct. 1st.]
That Mr.. Blaine should own, or
should have owned, an interest in Ohio
coal and iron mines where trouble had
occurred with laborers, is not necessari-
ly discreditable to him. Better men
have done the same thing without in
jury to their reputation. Many as bad
as he have done so, and not been low
cred by that fact in public estimation.
But that Mr.. Blaine, having had such
an interest, should lie about it is at
once disgraceful and characteristic.
We repeat that the ownership of the
property he subscribed and paid for
was not in itself dishonorable. 1t is
the lying about it that disgraces him.
He might, and if he had been an hon.
est and brave man he would have re-
piled to inquiries about the matter that
he had, from December 1880, to May,
1882, been the owner of share in a
coal and iron land company which he
had sold for bonds in another company;
that he was not stakeholder in the
latter company and had no voice in its
management, and declined to be held
responsible for it. Had he done SO, that
would have anded the matter. He
would have lost no votes by it, and
would have gained the respect of can
did men. Mr.. Blaine can have no diff
Guilty in recalling, in his twenty years
in Congress, numerous instances OF
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
THE NORTHWEST.
MIR. Blaine and the Hooking Valley
Mines.
New York Evening Post.

NcN lOAh NS''
Some weeks ago we adverted to the
fact that, although Mr.. Blaine had de.
MED utterly that he ever had any inter
est in the Hooking Valley mines or in
any other mines or lands in the State OF
Ohio, yet statement had been pub
lished in the New York Tribune at the
time when the Hooking Valley inter
ests were united, showing that Mr.
Blaine was one of the parties interested
in the consolidated company. We re-
marked that it was not in any sense
discreditable to Mr.. Blaine to be one OF
the owners of the Hooking Valley con-
cern, unless being an owner, he had de-
MED such ownership when the troubles
with the miners seemed likely to cost
him some votes in the State of Ohio.
Wepublish another in place indisputa-
BILE proof that Mr.. Blaine subscribed and
paid S25, 900 for one share in the Hope
Furnace tract, situated in Vinton and
Athens Counties, Ohio, on the 18th of
December, 1880; that he received
through Steve Elkins as late as May
25th, 1882 $4,000 of the bonds of the
Standard Coal and Iron Company, and
in short that his letter to HI. S. Bundy
denying such ownership was another
glaring falsehood to be added to the al
ready formidable list which stands
against him. We reproduce the evil
dence in parallel columns.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

Woman's best friend for relieving the
mar? pains and weaknesses incidental
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cry unnatural drain and creates per,
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1t purifies the blood, strengthens the fe.
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weakness, producing dreamless slumbel
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tions. 2t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

For some time past Republicans
have been industriously circulating a
3X6 folio purporting on the title
page to be Cleveland's record. The
inside pages were blank, not spot or
black mark or cloth marred the paper.
1t was clean as though it had never
passed through the hands ot Repub-
lican. We reproduce the inner pages,
with slight amendment:
CLEvELAND'S RECORD,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

BLAINE's RECORD.
"What I want is
a., ooo $4,000 first mortgag, bonds.
$4,000 land bonds.
and also FIR collateral to the notes for
S25, 900 an additional $50, 1000 of Land
Bonds.-J. G.. Blaine"
81 have your positive contract to
deliver to me Sl25,000 land bonds
and S32, 5000 FIRST mortgage bonds
j. G. Blaine
pray let me know what am to ex-
pect.-J. g. Blaine"
81 do not feel that l shall prove a
dead head in the enterprise if l once
embark in it. see various channels
in which l know | can be useful
j. G. Blaine"
"lt will be in my power to cast an
anchor to windward if you desire 1t.
j. G. Blaine
"B'aine will be an important man
for us to have feel all right toward
us, ,'-Caldwel to Fisher.
'1 am anxious to acquire the il ter
est he has promised.-J. G.. Blaine" ."
81 can do something l am sanguin
with Col. Thomas a. Scott. G..
Blaine"
"You have received your full pro,
portion of the bonds to which you
were entitled under the eastern con-
tract but taking into consid-
Grafton the $1,000 bonds you sold
Tom Scott our relative positions finan-
cially in the Little Rock and Ft Scott
railroad bear wide contrast. Fish.
er to Blaine.
"Burn this letter.. G.. Blaine"
"Do not let my name be mentioned.
j. G. B!nine.
"l9 D. HI. G. Blaine.
The Spencer Rifle contract.
The Northern Pacific swindle.
The Chili-Peru guano scheme.
And so on from the beginning of
his public lite Blaine's record is black
and foul with many stain of jobbery
and corruption. 1t is black letter
print from tide to fDis.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
a Telephone Fraud.

Irate Customer-"Why can't you fal-
lows be honestP That telephone you
put in my store is 4 fraud. You said
that words could be distinctly heard
for twenty miles"
Telephone MAXWELL, they can"
They can't, l say. They can't be
heard five blocks"
'Oh, you are mistaken.
But | am not. yelled myself
hoarse at a man last evening only five
blocks away, and he could not hear q
word | said. He said So.
Queer. very quncri but, by the way,
what was it you SAID 10 himP"
Il asked him when he would be
around to square up his account. -
III. lad lphia LaI.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

Mr.. Blaine's letter to Mr.. Bundy,
which is reprinted in full elsewhere,
goes on to say that about five years ago
he loaned $12,5OO to the Standard Oil
Company, taking the bonds of the COM
pany as collateral, and that anybody
could have the obligation and the secur-
ity by paying the debt. 1t was regard
ed by the public as strange thing that
the Standard Oil Company should be
borrowing money by an issue of bonds,
but no explanation of this mystery was
furnished. The explanation which now
occurs to us is that Mr.. Blaine wrote
standard Oil Co., when he meant the
Standard Coal and Iron Company, but
here we are confronted by the fact that
he says the loan was made five years
ago, whereas the Bonds of the Standard
Coal and Iron Co., We're delivered to
him only two years ago.
Thls, however, is only side issue.
The fact that he was one of the owners
OF the Hope Furnace enterprise in the
State of Ohio, and that he denied his
ownership in terms so broad as to every
kind of interest, past or present, in
coal, iron or lands in that State is per-
fectly clear. 1t seems from this and
from what has gone before as though
Mr.. Blaine could not tell the truth
about anything. His falsehoods are as
reckless as they are unprincipled. He
was aware that his interest in the Hope
Furnace tract was known to others.
He took the risk that they would keep
the secret till after the election. We
suppose he will now say that his letter
to Bundy was consistent with the
most scrupulous integrity and honor"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

The Burdock Plant is one of the best
dieretics or kidney regulators in the
vegetable world, and the compound
known as Burdock Blood Btters is un-
surpassed in all diseases of the kidneys,
liver and blood.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

I thank God that you ever invented
such a medicine for Catarrh. I have
suffered for five years so I could not lie
down for weeks at time. Since Ihave
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throat. By few applications of Ely's
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was cured by one bottle.-Charlotte
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

The English Foreign Office spends
$4,000 y year for messengers, dis
patching weekly service to Constan-
linople, and fortnightly one to Berlin
and ST. Petersburg.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., of New
York, is now said to be the authoress
of the novel. Those Pretty St George
Girls"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

If you are tired taking the large old
fashiond gripping pills try Carter's Lit
tie Liver Pills and take some comfort.
A man can't stand ererything. One
pill dose. limo
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

"Who owns the bowels of the earth?"
howls an exchange. If there are any
railroads or national banks there ask
Blaine
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THE FALSEHooD.

BAR HARBoR, Me-,
July %, 1884.
Hon. II. s. BUNDY:
In answer to your fa'
favor, I beg to say that
I am not and never
have been the owner Of
any coal lands or iron
lands or lands OF any
character whatever in
the Hooking Valley,
or in any part ofOhio,
nor have ! at any time
owned a share OF
stock In any coal, iron
or land company in
the State of Ohio.
& II Il 4
j. q. BLAINE.
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J.N.DENNIsoN, Agt.


NEW YORK, May 25, 'S2.
Received cf ]. Henry
Brooks $50, 900 of the first
mortgage bonds of the
Standard Coal and Iron
Company on account of
ia mes G. Blaine, num-
bered from 351 to 400 in
elusive.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-16

BosroN, Dec. 15. 1890.
Received of James G.
Blaine $25, ,1S7.50 being
payment in full for one
share in the association
formed for the purchase
of lands known as the
Hope Furnace Tract, sit-
uated in Vinton and Ath-
ems Counties. Ohio. 1his
receipt to be exchanged
for certificates when pre-
pared.
in. DFNNIsoN. Act
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THE PROOF,


SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, Dec. :
30, l3thl 1880. \
DEAR SIR.--Find en-
closed my draft for $25,-
90 in payment of my
subscription to the Hope
Furnace enterprise, touch
ing the interests 1 have to
ask that whatever 1t may
amount to you will per-
NIT its payment to be
postponed until some
matters between Mr.. Lee
and myself are definitely
adjusted.
Very resp'y,
j. G. BLAINE.
Mr.. DRNNIsoN
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CLEvELAND's RECORD.
A Public Office
is a
Public Trust
"Tell the Truth.

Now contrast Clevland's record with
the tattooed record of the Republican
candidate:
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And so on from the beginning of
his public lite Blaine's record is black
and foul with many a stain of jobbery
and corruption. 1t is black letter
print from tide to 6Dis.