Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

It is said that Blaine has had a good deal of difficulty in constructing that portion of his book which refers to Conkling and the Mulligan letters. Brewster, the old dude in charge of the Department of Justice, makes his predecessor responsible for the bold robberies perpetrated in his department in the name of law. Despite all the ’ talk in the newspapers about Henry B. Payne and the Standard Oil company, nobody has yet succeeded in establishing any connection whatever between the statesman and the oleaginous monopoly. The story sounds well to the opposition press, and an effort at substantiation plight spoil it.— Chicago Herald. Mahone is a very much disappointed man just now. In anticipation of speeches being made by Senators Lamar, Vest, and all other Southern Senators in answer to his speech on the Sherman resolutions, he had carefully prepared a response which he intended to deliver. His first speech was a very poor effort, and he was relying on the second one for the heavy work. He was talon completely by surprise by the silence of the Democrats, which destroyed all the value of this speech.— Chicago Tribune,