Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Hon. W. M. Springer, of Illinois, announces himself a candidate for Speaker of the House of Representatives, and claims three votes from his State. George L. Buffin (colored) has been confirmed as Justice of the Charlestown (Mass) District court. Cornell Jewett/ in a New Jersey weekly, is pushing H. A. W, Tabor for President of the United States. Ex-Senator Blaine is out in a public letter, in which he unfolds a scheme of allied Federal or State taxation, which he claims he has long reflected upon, and the objections to which he is now fully prepared to hear. Mr. Blaine declares that both Protectionists and Free Traders in great numbers now desire the abolition of the entire internal system of Federal taxation. He believes that there will at once be an allianoe of legislators in Congress who hold entirely opposite views on the subject of protection, but who will work together for free whisky, tobacco and other things which now afford internal revenue to the Government. But Mr. Blaine is opposed to free whisky. He believes such tax should always exist, to be collected by the nation and given to the States in the proportion of their population—that is, Illinois would pay the most and New York would get the most. The gist of Mr. Blaine’s plan is, first, to find that the nation can spare $86,000,000 of tax on whisky; then to pay this sum to .the States, and thereby lift that amount of tithes from farms, homesteads and shops. Mr. Blaine has figured the plan out and appends a table, two items of which show that under his apportionment of the $86,000,000 Illinois would get $5,285,000 and New York $8,893,000. Such is a brief sketch of the leading features of Mr. Blaine’s scheme. Recent elections in Spartansburg, Winnsboro, Orangeburg and Marion, S. C., turned on the question of license or no license. The no-license party succeeded through the co-operation of the colored voters.