The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-03
POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP.

IT is learned that w. II. Vanderbilt f New
! York, has made a handsome donation to the ma
/ tional Democratic committee
/ THE only prominent candidate for Office before
! the people this year who has been convicted of
! having been a Know-nothing is Isaac p Gray,
! Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana.
IT has been announced that Cleveland will go
home to Buffalo to vote. The Buffalo CONNER
cial inquiries about his right to vote there as he
! protested against paying taxes because he was
no longer resident of the city
! WHEN Lord Brougham declared in the British
Parliament that "the destination of American
manufacturers is an object of English solcitude g
| he furnished to the American voters of 1884 an
| excellent argument for the defense of the Amer
lean protective system.
CNCINNATI Commercial Gazette: New York
is reasonably certain for Blaine. 1t is preposter-
GUS to presume that man of Clevelands beastly
character and intense dullness, and political
| stupidity, as well as moral obliquity and con
temptible qualities, in all except animal respects
can carry any but the rebel slave States
| PHILADELPHIA Press: Hendricks is trying to
convince the farmers of Illinois that the Repub-
licans should be turned out because wheat is low
This might be effective if a large proportion of
| his audience had not a very clear recollection of
Illinois farmers using their corn for fuel under
Democratic administration because it was cheap
er than wood.
DR.. TUCKER, of Plymouth, Richland county,
Ohio, who has, for several years, been a leading
and prominent Prohibltionst in his section, has
just announced a determination to vote for
Blame and Logan. His reason is that he dare
not vote tor his favorite, St John, and possibly
aid TO defeat the party that stands pledged to
maintain the rights of free men to the fran
chise, despite terrorism and tissue ballots,
PITTsBURG Chronicle; Mr.. Hendricks knew
his audience and how to move them in his speech
in his old home in Shelbyville and therefore ex-
claimed at the right point in the rising enthu-
siasm that only a few dudes had objected to his
personal appeal for votes dude is always
supposed to be well dressed, and if anything
will rouse Shelby county Democrat it is the
idea that man with good clothes should pre-
tend to have political opinion.
GEN. GRANVILLE E. DODGE says of St. John:
Il wonder that the temperance people allow
themselves to be deceived by charlatan like
that We had no respect for him when he was
Governor of Kansas l have always made it a
rule never to buy any body who wants to sell.
Here he is in the disputed States only, making
his crusade, instead of going to the Prohibition
States where there Is some reason for him being.
That fellow the Republicans would not buy, and
the Democrats are not going to realize on him"
PHILADELPHIA Press: A representative of
leading New York city Democratic paper, who
accompanied Governor Cleveland on his trip to
Buffalo, short time ago, in narrating his expe-
rence to a Republican in Jersey City, said
What l saw on that trip changed me to a Blaine
man. Cleveland would do first rate for an ex
pert in the liquor business, and he makes a very
entertaining story teller for men whose tastes lie
in certain direction, but when it comes to
choosing President have prejudice in favor
OF gentlemen"
New YORK Sun: Mr.. Cleveland has been
proven to be worse in moral quality than pick
pocket, a sneak thief or a Cherry street de
bauchee: more dishonest, falser, baser-a wretch
unworthy of respect or confidence. Yet, because
his dishonesty and vilany have been practiced
upon a defenseless woman and helpless little
child-his own child, too-AIr Curtis does not
blush to stand up before the people of Brooklyn,
and, with his musical and beguiling voice, and
all the grace of gentleman, to advise them to
vote for this debased creature!
THESE are the main arguments which Pro
| fessor George F. Wright of Oberln, thinks
should control the vote of every honest Prohibi-
tionist The Democratic party, as a party, does
little but obstruct temperance and kindred legis-
laton; the hope of the temperance cause lies in
State legislation and not in National: the Prohi
bitionsts show their utter undtness for the task
| they propose by the way they belittle the ordi
nary functions of the United States government,
| forgetting that sound currency, national honor,
and an undisturbed condition of business are
closely related with all the moral progr IS of
| people; the objections to Mr. Blaine's character
are not well founded and he has behind him
| good party; Mr. Cleveland has behind him a bad
party, and his private character, on the best
showing, is scandalous in the extreme"
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