Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Promise and Non-Performance. [ARTICLE]

Promise and Non-Performance.

[lrish-American.] Mr. Plain •. not so very long since was—as United States secretary of State in the ve y position in which to exercise the nob’e duty in behalf <d several Irish-American citizens, who were locked up—untried and uncharged with crime—iu English jails, "hat is the record! Where was the “ U iume<i Knight'* then! One blast upon the bugle horn of bis “agressive Americanism were worth a thousandldemugogue bids from the election huskings now. But the record is a blank —as blank as are *t r. Blaine’s chances of fooling the public, and especially the uaturlized voters, into supporting him at the coming election* The Baptist weekly, the Examiner, says: -‘Grover Cleveland is now in the second year of his Chief Magistracy of the State of New York, and it is not doing too much to rlace him in the frout rank of the best Governors the Empire State has ever bad- As General Bragg said at the Chicago « onvention, his best commendation is the character ot the enemies he has made. He has proved himself to be a State Chief Magistrate who his placed principles above party. Having done everything well be has undertaken to do, there is the best reason to believe that if elected to the Presidency of the United States he will prove himself to be equal to its high and responsible duties, f’e has said, what lew men could say who have received the National nomination for its highest office, that it is au honor which he has never sought.”

The call tor the Irdependent Conference in this city on July, 22, which we publish elsewhere, is in the right spirit. It does nothing except request all Re publicans, and Independent voters “who think the interests o' good government aad public morals demand the defeat” ot Blaine and Logan to assemble in conference to agree upon a common course of action. What that couise will be there can be bnt little doubt. A mi-Blaine Republicans are entirely unanimous, so far as we are informed: in their determination to vote directly for Cleveland, and tnus make their rebuke of unworthy Republican management as emphatic and damaging as possible,— New York Evening Pont. It is sometimes the case that parties are factionized because of a difference of opinion upon que.tions of especial importance, such as the tariff, currency, e c., but the Independent Republicans refuse to support Mr. Blaine because his record is that ot a dishonest man. He lack? integrity. He is known tr be yen nl. and Independent Republican papers furnish the proof tl at the binding obligations of an oath were not sufficient to make him tell the truth-