The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-30

cial and industrial policies under which the ma
ton has prOspered so marvelously since the
close of the war [ssNever, never I do not,
I cannot believe that you will do it, because
patriotism, as we'll as by every consideration
OF enlightened self-interests. prolonged
cheering.]
A Hoos1er Mark Tap1ey.
It has been reserved for the Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Indiana, who
has rendered himself conspicuous several
times during the campaign by his ridiculous
antics, to discover that the Democrats won a
victory in Ohio and to order general jollifca-
his State. In his genral order he says:
To tho Democracy of Indiana: The State
Central Committee of Illinois purposes to have
10000 people to welcome Gov. Hendricks to
Chicago Wednesday next, Oct ~. While this
grand. demonstration is taking, place in Chicago
citrate in every city and town in the State the
grand victory is West Virginia and Ohio. Light
every torch, kindle bontires, bring out the
bands and clubs, and let the young and old re-
joice. The Democracy of Illinois, Iowa, Mich
igan,and Wisconsin will all jollify the same
evening E. B. HENDERSON,
Chairman State Central Committee.
Of all the Democratic Chairmen in the coun-
try this Indiana Mark Tapley is the only one re-
solved to be jolly under difficulties. Even
cratic National Committee, and his lieutenant
German, have issued wailing appeal to the
Democracy to make last desperate effort OF
everything is gone to ''the dernnition bow.
vows"
What is this so-called democratic victory in
Ohio and West Virginia which the Indiana
chairman wants to celebrate with torches and
bonfires, brass bands and -bannerss. Let ua
examine it's dimensions In 1882 the democrats
carried Ohio by 1905 votes. In 1883 they car
ried it BY 1882. That majority has disap-
peared. The republican majority over the
democrats ON canal commissioner, where there
was no scratching, Was about 1850 That
was the straight republican majority in the
state. The aggregate majority Of republican
candidates for congress in the twenty-one
gerrymandering,, is 1S,4ls, which represents
the Republican preponderance on Congression-
al issues, and will be still further increased in
November for Blaine and Logan The netsRe-
publican gain'in the State since last year is over
$4,000. This may be Democratic victory"
and cause for rejoicing, but it does not strike
the average voter in that light, and nobody else
except the Indiana Chairman, who evidently
can't tell when his party is routed, horse, foot,
and dragons.
tory in West Virginia. Hancock's plurality
in 1880 was II 14S This has, been cut down tc
less than 4, 600, with the prospect, as shown by
the Republican gains, that two of the four seats
in congress may be filled by republicans in Nov
ember, with fighting chance left to carry the
state; and this is one of the old southern slave
states! The net republican gain in the states
of Ohio and West Virginia has been nearly 49,
Just how many Hoosier democrats will be-
ieve Henderson that these results are demo-
cratic victories is not known, but We should
like to see them stand up to be counted Chi
cago Tribune.
Stewart L. wooaford to Beecher.
During his speech at the Brooklyn rink
Stewart L. Woodford paid his respects to tho
slanderers of Mr.. Blaine in the following
terse language:
There lives in this city one Of the most elo.
quent clergymen in the land, and one whose
most eminent character. I believe most
thoroughly in the honesty and purity of thai
gentleman. My confidence and faith in tha
man are absolute. But not many years age
there came an hour of trial to that gentleman
when there was nothing between him and utter
ruin but the confidence of the loving hearts Of
the people of Brooklyn. There were letters
produced and read upon public trial theL
held in this city, and which lasted many months
Had those letters been read and interpreted il
Schurz in reading and explaining the Fisher
letter against Mr. Blaine they would have driv-
en- that clergyman from every pulpit in the land
and from every home and fireside in the country
Immense and prolonged cheering, mingled with
cries of 'sThat's so!"l And why, my friends, was
not that base attack upon the character of this
man successful? Simply and alone because
the good people of Brooklyn had faith in the
honesty and integrity of their neighbor:
[Great cheering We stood firmly between
him and his slanderers, and we savec
him. [Great applausel I want for my Ole
friend who entered the Fremont campaign with
me in 1856; who for thirty years has lived in
the full sunlight of public life, who faced Ben
Hill and his rebel colleagues, whose name is for
ever associated with all the great issues which
the Republican party has carried through
want for that man the same kind of justice
from the people of Brooklyn that they have
exercised in the past Let B rooklyn be to-day
as just to the statesman as she was few years
depths to which this political canvass hae
stopped are enough to bring a bluslnpf shame
to the check Of every honest American
said when the Democrats went into the
home of our candidate and slandered the
woman who is wife, mother, and grand
mother, surely the men and women OF
this land who know what fatherhood an6
motherhood mean will rise up and bury this
Democratic party forever Whatever may be
the result of this campaign, 1 believe it will
teach lis one thing very effectually, and this is
that hereafter we must be gentlemen in politics
and not blackguards. use that word deliber-
what mean. The attack upon Mr.. Blaine's
home and wife and family was. and is black
guardism, pure, simple and unadultrated.
The deoency of the people requires to-day that
this attack be condemned by the utter and
crushing defeat of the Democratic party and
the Democratic candidates. 1t will be. icon.
tinued applause]