Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — Blaine From a Republican Point of View. [ARTICLE]

Blaine From a Republican Point of View.

Blaine, of Maine, for whom, it is said, ladlhna Republican delegates to the Chicago convention will cast their votes, is the same sort of a hair-pin now that he was in 1876, and what he was then high Republican authority ought to be conclusive. On June 8, 1876, the Chicago Tribune, in discussing Blaine’s unfitness for president, put forth its views as follows (we copy from the Chicago Inter-Ocean): We will assume that the friends of Blaine shall capture the Cincinnati convention, shall take the responsibility for the integrity of the Spencer rifle contracts, in he Little Rock and Arkansas railroad stocks and bonds, in Jay Cooke’s Northern Pacific wildcat operations; What then? At once Mr. Blaine’s personal and official record will be the issue. His letters, speculations, and his book of sales become the Republican platform; his sales of bogus railroad securities become the evidences of the absence of any connection with jobbery; his own boasted decisions as speaker, whereby he “saved” the legislation which was necessary to give a sufficient seeming value to the bonds to Sut them on the market, become the epublican evidences of the reform labors of their candidate, and, when bankrupt and overwhelmed by the demands for the return of t 1 or money by those who purchased the useless scrip from him, the intervention of the Pacific Railroad company, by paying him enough to pay all his debts, will become “proof” that there is no bond, or sympathy, or interest between their candidate and the vast oomporatlons who are now asking from the Government several hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidy. It will be ueless to try to evade that issue. •- In every joint discussion the Re publicans will have to defend Blaine’s

railroau | otes, Blaine’s reports of I sales, Blame’s letters, Blaine’s appeals I for money, and Tom Scott’s or some- { body’s payment of $61,000 to enable him to pay his debts. The Republican speakers and press will be kept with their noses on the grindstone and forever maintaining the propriety of electing a man to n* form abuses whose whole record is mixed up with an active participation in the abuses which are to be reformed. In the name paper is an editorial a column long al tempting to show conclusively: 1. That Blaine, in of bi-, explanation, was n iced, up with tie Spencer rifle contract. It says: It sterns that Mr. Blaine admits in his own letters that he received the .stock without paying for it, and that he drew dividends on that stock all the time he was in Congress, and while assisting the company in securing legislation to avoid paying their taxes. 2. That he was mixed up in fictitious stock of the Northern Pacific railroad, and that Ire tried to dispose of this stock for $25,000 cash. 3. That he undertook to “job or dispose of $130,000" clock of the Little R<ek and Fort Scott railway “tor cash," and that he received as a commission tor selling, $-’>2,500 in first mortgage bonds and $130,000 in la id grant bonds, without paying any money himself.” “Tho ccmniission or gratuity received by Mr. Blaine,"continues the Tribune, “would appear Io have come from his saving, whte speaker of the House, the bill which' renewed the land grant after it had lapsed.” 4. That the Little Rock enterprise laving gone wrong, Caldwell relieved him of $75,000 of the bonds by getting Tom Scott to put theta off on *he Union Pacific company for $64,000 in cash. In its issne of the 9th the Tribuhe announces that the “prop has been knocked from under Mr. Blaine’s explanation,” and says that the letters read by nim in the House “prove more than ever was charged againstidm.” On the 10th the Tribune grows still more malicious, and says that his coi laborers In Congress have exposed i hl» record. “They kndw him,” says the Tribune, “as the man who had voted for, or failed to oppose, every subsidy.” 'They knew him as the man who had voted for the audacious robbery by which the Government lien for i’s $64,000,000 advance to the Pacific railways was changed from a first to a second mortgage? r “They knew him as t lobbyist be«4Jore he enteied Congress, seeking contracts for the supply of arms. “They knew him in Congress, and while as speaker, as the inside friend of wildcat corporations; concerned in legislation to benefit such corporations; ruling as speaker to save their bills, and as claiming rewards for his official a< tions; as engaged in selling the worthless bonds of such corporations, receiving large gratuities therefor, as confessed in his letters; and, finally, when pecuniarily involved, getting the Pacific Railroad company, as it seems almost certain, to give him $64,000 in cash for what was notoriously not worth 61,000 cents. — These letters are all Mr. Blaine’s —his own record of his own operations as a jobber in contracts, in railroad legislation, and wildcat securities.” It may be possible to paintablacker record, but it will require labor. — Tho foregoing is the Tribune’s estimate of Blaine, and the Inter-Ocean gives, it fresh publicity. While this work is going forward to crush Blaine, other Republican papers are equally distinguished in setting forth Grant’s notorious iniquities while president, and John Sherman in other quarters is pronounced equally unfit for office. A beautiful set, indeed! Indiana Republicans are welcome to look upon the Blaine picture, as published by the Tribune and republished by tho Inter Ocean.

See advertisement of Mrs. Chilcote in another column. We hear Burten Hutson spoken of in connection with the marshalship of Rensselaer Commissioners’ Court in session this week, making settlement with Township Trustees. John Eger is visiting parents and friends at this place, and is heartily welcomed by old associates. The I. O. O. F. of Rensselaer will celebrate Fellowship in the United States, on the 26th inst. Burten Hutson is a first-class gardener, shrubbery-planter, etc., and will be pleased to receive orders from all disiring such work done. The residence of John Florence, in Barkley township, was destroyed by fire, Monday night. Most of the household goods, we believe, were saved. The great cheap store of Sharpe, Gray & Co. will probably be open for visitors Saturday morning. But sho’d their goods fail to get here in time to do this they will be open Monday morning without fail. Mrs. Archibald Purcupile, Mrs. ML. Spitler and Louis B. Warner returned from Indianapolis to-day where they have been attending the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, as representatives of Evening Star Chapter of this place. They report the Order as being in a flourishing condition, and are lavish in their praises of the manner in which they were received by the members of Q leen Esther Chapter of Indianapolis. Mr. Warner was appointed by the Grand Matron as Grand Lecturer, an important position, and one which he js well qualified to fill. A party was given the little folks on Monday, the 12th inst., at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Price in honor of the fourth birth-day of their son, Max. Invitations were issued to the following parties: Misses Nellie and Linnie Kelley , Ida Millikan, Gertie Downing, Nettie Price, Carrie Clark, Nellie Moss, Lucy Nowels, Florence Duvall, Mary Bell Purcupile, Linda Dwiggins Mabel Wood; and Masters Frankie Jones, Harvey Kannal, Roland Purcupile, Paul Wood, Willie Hammond,

Hallie Downing, Arthur and Alva Herriman, Kirgie Spitler, Evart and Tilde No wcls, Earl Millikan, Frankie J<tmes, Charley Duvall and Cory Priced 7> All resting in town with the home on account of on band at an early hour eager to enjoy the spoits of the day. Soon the. last company of little ones arrived jiccompanied by Mabel Hopkins who was unthoughtedly overlooked. Be ing assured by the warm welcome received she soon became as inttresicd ns the rest of the party. At half-past four a repast was served consrstingof ico-eream. cake;candies, nuts, pop corn and lemonade.— This in the estimation of the little folks was, in point of interest, on a par with games of any kind. After refreshments many little tokens of regard were presented to the diminutive little host which were joy fully accepted by him in the usual childlike manner, and, without making any presentation speeches, or listening to any acceptation speech, the little ones at 6 o’clock donned their wraps and caps ami smarted home re. joining over the good times bail at Max’s birthday party. Good times are coming. The advent of the new cheap store of Sharpe Gray & Co., insure good times to our people, us these gentlemen propose to sell goods so low that they wiil be within the reach of all. They wiil be found in the frame, opposite McCoy & Thompson's bank.