The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-08-28
Political Drift.

The break among the Irish-American
Democrats has become general. In all
sections of the Union they are going over
by the score and hundreds to the support
of Blaine. In addition to the large de-
monstrations hitherto held in New York,
another Irish Blaine and Logan club was
formed on Tuesday night.
Addresses were delivered by VIM. Sulli-
van and others. Mr.. Sullivan said, among
other things:
When men like Butler went to Chicago
to voice the sentiment of Northern labor,
they were hooted down by the Southern
lords and gentlemen, and when it was
understood that Cleveland was opposed to
labor he was Immediately chosen. AS
Rev. Mr.. Beecher, Mr.. SchurZ, the Harpers,
and Puck came in the front door the Irish
supporters of the party were hustled out
the back door. L, for one ,.say that we have
gone out to stay.n
Nh. Patrick Logan declared that Gov
ernor Cleveland had done nothing in the
interests of the working classes, who
would now proceed to bury him so deep
that Gabriel's trump would fail to awaken
him on resurrection morning.
The lriSh," continued Mr.. Logan,
''haye been bridled and saddled and driven
to the polls on election-day by the man on
the corner, whose boast it has been that
he could buy our votes with a glass OF
whiskey. That day is past. The INDIE
pendent Democrats of New York will
teach the self-constituted leaders of the
party lesson they will not forget. Cleve-
land is the standard-bearer of England
Blaine bears aloft the unsullied flag OF
America. :"
Other speakers followed in the same
strain and the enthusiasm was unbounded.
An enthusiastic meeting of over 400
Irish-Americans, formerly Democrats, was
held in Baltimore Friday night, at which
number of stirring addresses were de-
livered, and resolutions favoring Blaine
and Logan were adopted. The Democratic
roughs tried to break up the meeting, but
their efforts only resulted in arrest. There
are now Republican Irish-American or
CARNATIONS in seventeen wards of the
city, and the infection is spreading.
| The fact that Mr.. Blaine was nominated
on a platform endorsing protection to
American labor, and that the Democratic
| platform declares substantially in favor of
! free trade, has decided Prince A. Sawyer,
of Maine, to vote for the Republican
| ticket. Mr.. Sawyer has been a Democrat,
and was Governor GarcelOn'S deputy Sec
rotary of state.
Mr.. r. ?. II. Staub, a prominent Demo-
cratic lawyer of Baltimore and an ex-
| Confederate soldier. will stump the State
of West Virginia for Blaine and Logan.
The Southron, of Gainesville, Ca, which
has come out strongly for the Republican
ticket and the promotion Of prosperity at
home, finds sufficient encouragement in
| the present temper of the South to say F.:
1--WE should not be surprised to see half
the Southern States go Republican four
years from now if Blaine's administration
is conservative, American, comparatively
non partisan and able, as it no doubt will
be. The masses of the people in the South
are heartily tired Of feasting upon Bourbon
sentiment and half rations, living in log
huts and wearing ragged clothes"
If Blaine is finally elected because the
Democratic convention refused to hear
argument and willfully preferred the one
aspirant who was sure to disrupt and
break down the Democracy, whose is the
| fault Is it ours? Is it the fault of
those who raised their voices earnestly
against it before the fatal error had been
cons animated No, no, a thousand times
no! 1t is the work of the blinded and
misguided manipulators of the conven-
ton, deaf to reason and obstinate in their
purpose. If Blaine is finally elected, the
deed is theirs. On them, and not on the
Sun, nor on the thousands of earnest Dem
ocrats whom they trampled down at
Chicago, the responsibility will rest.-N.
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