Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Rough on Blaine. [ARTICLE]

Rough on Blaine.

The following is a stanza from a book jtist published at Washington by J. Webb Rogers. Just who J. Webb Rogers is does not appear, but it is suspected that it may be a non deplume assumed to conceal the identity of Private Secretary Rogers and Webb Hayes: Go trade in guano—wave the bloody shirt; Defame the dead; renew a nation s pain; Run from Guitean; eat any kind of dirt. Be anything bnt Whittaker or Blaine! In a foot note the allusion to Blaine is thus explained; “Blaine, now almost forgotten, was once a prominent politician who traded in gnano while Secretary of State; ran from Gniteau when the poor fool shot Garfield; was remorseless in keeping up the war which he had only seen at a distance, and, like Cadet Whitaker, pretended that the South was about to cut off his ears, which he richly deserved.” Gov. Hendricks has gone abroad for nothing but health and recreation, yet a Republican paper in Indiana puts forth the following resplendent falsehood about him: “It is now understood that ex-Gov. Hendricks’ mission to Europe is to raise money from the English free-traders to defray the expenses of the 1884 campaign. It is thought by the Democratic leaders that with the solid South and the assistance of the free-traders of England they will be able to elect a Democratic President, which may be true. But, if the solid South and the free-traders of England elect the President, won’t they be likely to control the administration? This u a question worthy of most careful consideration by the people.”— Chicago Times,