The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-11-08
POLITICAL ITEMS

good enough for Indiana Democrats, as
Blaine and his gang of plnnderers will
find out to their sorrow in November.
--rhe National Republican Com
mittee has issued a circular calling for
campaign contributions. All. now the
pocS Government employees will catch
It!
General Logan. the Republican
candidate for Vice President, has COM
menced the task-a fearful one-of de-
Tending himself. = Richmond Ka.)
State.
Governor Grover Cleveland is now
Eat home" in New York. but the peo-
pie will move him next November to
Washington, d. c. And let US not for
get it.
1t is amazing with what alacrity
Republican steers are jumping over IN
to the Democratic pasture field, where
the grass is tall, and promises to be
taller.
Tin the meantime" says the
Cleveland Herald. 1.-THE Republicans of
Ohio should not forget that they have q
State campaign of their own to look
after this fall. !" This is very solemn
truth.-E'nqmirer.
in the opinion of the Chicago
Ne,os the "cock-eyed goddess of re-
form" is ''widdcr'' '.from Boston or
Massachusetts or somewhere down that
way" If the ''widder" hears of this
she will say something to the News
man.
-Nasby, who is still inficting his
bad spelling on the innocent and help
less patrons of a country newspaper.
declares that John A. Logans sem
fences are grammatical and forcible.
General Logan should have this certifi-
cate framed. t
So far as Blaine's nomination
concerns himself it was the mistake of
his lie. He could better have afforded
to go down into history wrapped in the
drapery of Garield's memory, than to
be known to future generations as the
defeated tattoOed candidate for the
Observation-Disclosures (Va.) State.
The Republican party will cele-
brate its thir.ieth anniversary next
month. John A. Logan should be
present and give a bit of his early
history. How many slaves did Logan
own thirty years ago and what became
of the cruel bill which he had passed in
the Illinois Legislature against the
negro?--Rictmond Val State.
The Portland (Me.) Advertiser,
Qnd. }, published in Mr.. Blaine's State,
says: mir. Cleveland's strength as a
candidate consists in his conservatism,
his straightforward business methods,
his exceptional standing with the inde-
pendent and reform clements, and his
ability to inspire people with the be-
lief that he means to serve his party by
serving his country and not otherwise.
Some of the fault finding Repub-
lican papers are grieved because Gov
ernor Cleveland does not resign his
Office. Mr.. Cleveland has learned
something from Biaine's experience.
The last Office Blaine held he resigned,
and he has been out of q job ever
since, with fair prospects of being .
tramp the rest OF his political life.--
Cincinnati Inquirer.
The work of collecting money
from Government employees goes right
on. This matter is chiefly noticeable
because the practice of thus raising
campaign funds is in fragrant disregard
of every profession of the party which
is engaged in it, and because it illus
trates the hollowness of Republican
promises. What is the value of party
pledges which bind their authors not
moment?
A dispatch to Republican paper
states that Governor Porter (?) saws:
'.New York will go Republican by q
nice majority" This is bringing it
down to fine point. We often hear of
overwhelming, immense, grand. great,
handsome and good ma critics, but
when majority is whitfield to mice
one, we begin to think what little
thing may overthrow it--Sk Louis Re-
publican.
If ever an old political rat got his
tail mashed that idential rodent was
William E. Chandler, putative Secreta-
ry of the Navy, when he ventured to
coutrovert the facts and conclusions
stated by Mr.. Hendricks in his recent
speech at Indianapolis. Mr.. Hendricks
re, Joins and puts him to open and appar-
ent shame. Mr.. Chandler is complete
ly and forever knocked out. Next!-St.
Louis Republican.
The Republican party has few
public men whose records are clean;
but it is conceded on all sides that al.
most anybody the Republicans could
have nominated would have been less
oh ,,ectionable than Blaine. Blaine's
record can not be hid nor in any way
gotten rid of. The record is known
and read of all men, and thousands of
Republicans have already said: 1t viii
not do. --Erctangc.
"a prominent Democratic polii-
clan said yesterday" according to the
Philadelphia Times. ION the authority
of New York delegate who was one
of Cleveland's warmest supporters in
the convention, that in the event of the
latter's election Mr.. Bayard would be
his Secretary of State and Samuel j.
Randall would be Secretary of the
Treasury. Mcdonald would also, he