The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-10-18
POLrrICAL POINTS.

If ex-Sheriff Cleveland Will give
the Republican party plenty OF rope IL
will hang itself.
- Ben Butler is reported to be
'tired out" Well. the country IS q TIL
he fatigued, too.
-" Blaine is everything" says the
Milwaukee Wisconsin, ''that Cleveland
is not" So glad.
Blaine and Logan will both take
the stump. They see the ne essity OF
somebody supporting the ticket.
AN early spring pea has been
named after Governor Cleveland. Inc
pea is secure from November FROST
any ay.--Rochester Herald.
President Arthur speaks very dis
paraeingly of Republican prospects.
While on this sui, ect we may say that
MIR. Arthur is likely to vote for Blaine
and Logan, but it is no sure thing that
he will. Cincinnati Enquirer
The aggressive Mr.. Blaine is not
kicking for an aggressive campaign.
He prefers to dodge under the hedge,
but he will be obliged to come out and
face the music all the same He Will
please accept this as notification.
The repugnance some Republican
editors display toward Grover Cleve-
land because he was once Sheriff sug-
gests that their acquaintance with Sher-
IFS has not always been of the hail-fel-
low well-met sort. = Cincinnati En-
quirer.
kelly can make his bargain with
Blaine as soon as he pleases. He is
like the truant husband who, on being
reproached by his wife for coming
home so late at night, replied that he
had no other place to go.-Fhstadetphto
Times.
We are told that Steve Elkins and
Malone had conference yesterday
which ".closed with the assurance by
Malone that he would support the
Blaine and Logan ticket" This being
the case, the Democratic party will no
doubt throw up its hands and quit right
here. Exchange.
Now that Cleveland has been
nominated Mr.. Blaine had better initiate
Davy Crockett's coon and come down.
If he is looking for more promising
field for his efforts let him form q
partnership with Capt. Costentenus. or
one with Miss Hurst to supply the pub
lie with magnetism to order.-Bufdto
Courier.
. The Democratic Presidential
ticket has one great advantage over the
Republican in not having any tail to be
waggel by factious opposition. No
blush of shame can leg timately find a
Judgment on the cheek of any man at
the mention of Cleveland's and Hen
bricks names. There is no flavor of
railroad lobby or stolen Indian lands
about them. Richmond (Va.) State.
The Democrats have offered to
the country clean and capable man.
He is the candidate preferred almost
unanimously by those who bolted the
nomination of Mr.. Blaine. He appeals
directly to the common sense OF the
people, and his record Is assurance that
he will give them if he is elected safe
and able administration. 1t is our hope
and belief that the people approaching
these things, will elect him by . de-
cisive and unmistakable majority.
iGntG Constitution.
Governor Hendricks response to.
Secretary Chandler's sensitive attempt
to defend his administration OF the Ma
val Department is indeed crusher; but
he might have crushed the Secretary
fatter still had he descended to the lat
ter's level. 1t would have been a per-
fectly fair retort to his twaddle about
''any attempt to make political capital"
to ask what he was doing in attempting
to show that Democrats were RESPONSE
BILE for his retention of incompetent
men in the department Detroit Free
Press.
The Blaine organs in the same
breath declare that Blaine is the hearty,
enthusiastic choice of his party and
point, in proof of it, to his votes in the
Chicago Convention. But Cleveland,
they say, is not the choice of his party
and his name is received by it in glum
and sulky silence. On the first ballot
Blame had 282 votes, and was nomi-
mated on the seventh by 522 votes.
Cleveland on the first ballot received
1872 votes and was nominated on the
second ballot by 68S votes. Which one
was the choice of his partyP-Desrois
L,sroo ID,