The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-09
Frederic Haskin's Lett
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS.
XyI-The Cleveland-Blaine Race Of lsa4

i uc IVouAt Wdo q UilIcI, NAM
singing campaign.
Everybody looked Inn.
York as the pivotal statA !
MIR. Cleveland and Mr.. Bill
labored under great difnculus
Blaine had the implacabls
Of Roscoe Conkling. TIN
cost him the presidency, h
were q thousand Conklius =
Oneida county who voted al
land. On the other hand. c.
had the enmity of Tammar
and the intense hatred Of q
A. Dana, editor of the Nsv
Sun, and the ablest joufnan
the land. The Sun was 1
straightout Tammany orsu
Dana had a personal On
against MIR. Cleveland. He
the Tammany opposition 10 d
land, and after the nominate
bolted the ticket.
Dana and the Sun supportel
eral Butler, the third party .
date, and always had a good
FOE the Prohibition candidate
ernor John P. st. John Of 4
Buffers candidacy was a mis-
fiasco, and the Suns following
ed straight for Blaine when
ton day came around.
How Blaine Blundered
Blaine made a stumping tu
the middle west and was web
as few men have ever been.
was no doubt in the minds OF
er Republicans or Democrats
he had made votes for himself
that he had swung the tide b
favor. On his way back eas
stopped in Indiana to visit BIZ
ter, who was mother superior
Roman Catholic convent. This
ed attention to the fact that
mother and sisters were ds
Catholics and was liable to b
a religious issue into the camDd
Instead Of going direct to
home in Maine, Mr.. Blaine Stou
over in New York city and the1
committed a fatal blundef,
dined with Jay Gould. a fact VI
the Democrats seized upon to d
his intimacy with the Napoleon
finance in Wall street. That :
ner undoubtedly cost Blaine u
votes.
But the climax was reached
the Burchard incident. Mr.. BIZ
had been accused of so many I'D
BILE things that it was thought l
to have a delegation of pronil|
clergymen call on him to show
country that the Protestant nd
tiers of New York trusted him.
Blaine received the delegatiM
the grand stairway at the old n
Avenue hotel. The address On
! part of the delegation was ID
cred by DR.. Burchard, an I
Brooklyn preacher. At its d
came the fatal phrase in desr
ing the evils against which BID
stool: Rum. komanism and
bellion," ~ -.~ arr.
Beaten by Three Words
Rum, Romanism and Ra
lion" The Democrats took II %
the instant, although Mr.. Blaine
layed a whole day in discldE
F., sympathy with this speech. n
were but two days until eleca
then. and the disclaimer did
reach the voters. In New y
there we're certain unscrupul
ward-workers who told the
that Blaine himself had denoun
the triple evils of Rum, Ron
ism and Rebellion"
Despite the frantic efforts Of
Republican legions, despite q
bitter denunciation of the d.
Gratis, the fatal ALTERATION 81
its work. Many good Catholics !
had been persuaded to turn 0
their Democratic leaning to vote
Blaine changed their minds Y
and voted the straight Demon
ticket. 1t was in the days o.
ascendancy of the Irish vote in \
York.
| Either the Conkling defectlm
Oneida county, the Burchard On
the ST. John Prohibition vots
the Butler vote was sufhcien
turn the scale. If any one OF y
things had not happened, If the /.
lost by anyone had been sava
the Republicans, Blaine would
been elected and Grover w
land never would have been n'
of in national affairs. BY !
trifles, accidents and anlnlos'
are the affairs of a republic y
enced.
! An amusing feature OF the ~
ton of the somewhat starting :
that a Democrat had been en-
president, was the wailing o.
ignorant negroes in the soula.
: publican politicians had =,
them that a Democratic presA
meant an instant return TO s1.
The same politicians had PROF..
each negro 40 acres and q mu'
the event of Republican sue'
The 40 acres and a mule stol!
not come true in the past D@
negroes feared the woe OF y
cal prophecy might be true;
) some sections it required We.
!. reassure darkies and to maks
/ understand that Cleveland v
do them no harm.