Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — James Guano Blaine. [ARTICLE]

James Guano Blaine.

The New York Evening Post of the 7th inst. published an editorial article devoted entirely to James Guano Blaine’s record as. a public officer. The Poet is a Republican newspaper, and as such occupies a position in the front rank of the organs of the party. Indeed, if ability and integrity are to be considered, the Post’s position may be said to be,in advance of any other Republican organ in the land. We reproduce the Post's article that our readers may learn from a Republican source some facts relating to Blaine’s public record. Blaine is credited with being in the lead os the Republican candidate for President, and the Post places him in the lead as the most corrupt of those whose names have appeared as applicants for the Republican nomination. It is not to be assumed that the Republican delegates to Chioagp will object to Blaine because he is known to be corrupt, because be has been guilty of the most disreputable transactions that ever stained the record of a public man; but, desiring to win, they may regard it prudent not to put before the country a standardbearer whose reputation for rascality is as well established as his reputation for brilliancy of intellect. At any rate, it is emminently the part of prudence for the people to be thoroughly advised in regard to the material out of which the Republican party propose to make a President. The people do not care to have in the White House a cultured . scoundrel—a venal villain—and the Republican bosses who assemble at Chicago will doubtless give the facts as set forth by the Post prudent consideration. They are not told for the first time; but it is well enough to keep the facts before the people, because they show the drift of tbe Republican mind to treat with indifference the crimes and crooked ways of distinguished Republican bosses. —Indianapolis Sentinel.