Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — Mr. Blaine and the Administration. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Blaine and the Administration.

[Washington Special.] Thus far the Administration has not shown the least desire to promote the success of the Chicago ticket. Close friends of Mr. Blame do not conceal tlie-r dissatisfaction at this lukewarmness, hi or do they refrain from accusing the President, personally, of coolness toward the nominations of his party. The only sign of favor given at W ashington was the telegram from the President announcing in formal terms that he would support Mr. Blaine because he was the regular candidate. This cold comfort is not acceptable to enthusiastic managers like Elkins and Chaffee, who are running the campaign, who have proposed to make it live] y with the aid of the Administration, and who have a large stake on the success of their efforts.

The friends of Arthur and of Edmunds know perfectly well that if Blaine should win they would be proscribed. In that event, they would expect as radical a change in the persons and in the policy of the party as if the most pronounced Democrat was made President. Indeed they are free to say more generous treatment might be expected from a Democratic President than from Blaine, who is full of resentment against the Administration and its chief supporters. Mr. Blaine was quite willing and even anxious to get favors for his family from the President, and to billet sons, brothers, and cousins of several degrees on the Treasury. But he has nq,grali( ude for this treat*, ment when personal ambition 1 and selfish interests are concerned. Why, then, should the President or the cabinet go {out of the way to help Mr. Blaine?— They will nrobaby vote for him, but it is asking too much to require them to take off their coats and to unstrap their purses to put an open enemy in the White House.

. There is no confidence in the circles of the Administration that Mr. Blaine can be elected. The reports fr im the best informed sources are unfavorable i o his success. The argument most effective in procuring the nomination at Chicago was that the October State of Ohio would lead off with a great majority, and thus largely determine the result in November. The German-Ameri-can citizens hold the balance of power in Ohio. They elected Governor Hoadly by more than 12,000 majority over Foraker, under very adverse circumstances, and in an aggregate vote verv nearly equal to that of the iprecedmg Presidential election when Garfield’s majority over Hancock exceeded 30,000. • The great change in so short a time was caused by the sumptuary legislation which drove the Germans, who|had hitherto been the mainstay of the Republicans to the other side. They would n..t submit to an

encroachment on their personal rights, and they abandoned party to vindicate a principle. * nat is the present situation? There are seventeen Republican papers published in the German language in Ohio.— They naturally exercise a large influence over that population. Every one of themnas declared against Blaine and Lcgan. Hence the outlook for the Chicago ticket in that State, which was thecorner-stone of Blaine’s strength in the convention, is by no means cheerful. A similar sentiment prevails among the German-Americans in Ind iana, Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa, and other Western States, which is also largely shared by those in the great Eastern cities. If this vote should be detached from the Republicans as now seems probable, it is difficult to discover

how the loss can be. made up, without so m e unexpected change m the relations of par* 1168.