Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-09-21

now. 1t is a chance between Mr.. Cleveland
and Mr.. Blaine, for although the nominal
candidate against President Cleveland is
Benjamin Harrison, every one knows that
Harrison's election would mean Blaine
administration. Is the country prepared
for that2 The Republicans who hesitated
about voting for that in 1884 have still great
er reason for hesitating now. Blaine's ambi-
ton is high-so are his animosities deep.
GEN. BUTLER ON THE STUMP.
Gen. b. +. Butler has stepped on the plat.
form and made tariff speech. AS the peo-
pie are now deeply interested on this sub.
ject the more speeches and the more light
the better At least it is to be hoped so.
There are few who will deny truthfully
the fact that Gen. Butter has one of the fin
est and best improved intellects in the coun-
try, but unfortunately he has so managed as
TO place it to bad purpose. That is TO say
he invariably gets on the wrong side, or the
losing side, or the side that has no outcome
to it. Then as politician he has been re
markable for his Inconsistencies With him
it is always the unexpected which is going
to happen. Eight years ago he was a reve
nue. reformer of the most decided type
-Four years ago he got as near free trade as
a man can generally get, seeing that thu
annual expenditures Of the government are
something over $400OOO,O00. And now -hs
is war tariff advocate, strong in its defense
and with absolute convictions that it is right
and just
1t has been asked, what can be done with
such man as this in politics-what ought
to he doneY Pay attention to his speeches
and discuss them as containing vital prin'
ciples? Who knows but what he may
change his tariff coat again before the
Campaign is over9 Define his political
status and let him go2 That would be
hard To do, for he is neither Republican nor
Democrat, neither Prohibition nor independ
ent, neither united labor nor anything else
much except free lance upon every and
all occasions
1t would be better undoubted 10 let him
run. He most surely has no use for the
Democrats, for in his New York speech he
charged them with disoyalty en- mdsse, and
that if it had not been for the high protec
tionsts the Union would have been dis
rupted II was the high tariff he declared
which saved everything.
Gen. Butler does not believe this either
in line, sentence or paragraph. In truth
50 far from believing it, he knows thnt such
claim is too absurd even Tor demagogy itself
in its most servile form, TO think of setting
up. Take Missouri as an example. 1t was
a slave State. Outside of st. Louis it did
not have probably anywhere near 5000
high tariff people. 1t cast only some l7,OOO
votes for Lincoln, and yet it sent To the
Union army nearly one hundred and tel
thousand soldiers. Did any one ever accuse
the Illinois people OF being for high tariff
II State that Is agricultural pure and simple
or it is nothng-and yet Illinois sent TO thu
Union army nearly two hundred and sixty
thousand men. One might give the aggre
gate SO furnished OF every agricultural State
in the Union, but these citations alone are
tellectually weighted as Butler is incapa
BILE of rising above the shoddy pleas ant
take the specious arguments OF the dema
gogue.
,ssi.$tay Republican ssurhp speaker will lug
in something about the war and about the
part that Democrats took in it-every sin
| gle statement being false Of this nature
that Gen. Buffers speech was not sur
prise Sensible people are of the opinion
that the Union was saved through quite II
number of causes. First the printing ma
chimes did their work IN printing green
backs and bonds by the bale. The blockade
did its work well by drawing an iron Gordon
around the South. Foreign enlistment was
also most important factor. Superiorit,
in numbers, in arms and in equipments o
every kind told heavily the last two years
of the struggle Emancipation was another
powerful element of victory to the North
And then the South helped To whip itse
by furnishing thousands OF soldiers to the
Union arm, some nearly one hundred
thousand.
But while all this was going on Gen
Butler or no Gen. Butler, the universal be
licl was that the manufacturers, with II wal
tariff that was ad led to by every Congress
were far and safe in the rear coming money
hiring substitutes buying bonds at so cents
ON the dollar and demanding their payment
in full in gold, and knowing no more OF the
terrible four years struggle than what the,
read in the newspapers.