Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Truth is Mighty and Will Prevail. [ARTICLE]

Truth is Mighty and Will Prevail.

General John F. Farnsworth, formerly a Republican member of Congress from Illinois, but now a distinguished lawyer in Washington City, D. C., recently told a Chicago reporter that Grover Cleveland would he elected President of the United States tliis fall. He said: “The present contest between Cleveland and Blaine will he an interesting one as proving whether there is more of honesty and decency than dishonesty and indecency in the country. It will he a personal campaign and will be a test whether the best or the worst classes of people rule this country. As the case now stands, Cleveland is an honest man, of clean record, who has done his best—and perhaps diminished his popularity in so doing —to give New York an honest and good government; Blaine is a man who has prostituted his abilities and his chances to serve the interests of his country to his own personal advantage. There is a wide difference between the two men, and the country can choose.” “But will Cleveland be elected ?” “I think so. I am not ready yet to believe that the country is given up entirely to the rapscallion vote, and that is the one that is for Blaine. I was in New York the day after Cleveland was nominated and the enthusiasm there for him was intense. Thousands of men who had never voted anything but the Republican ticket declared that they would support Cleveland in preference to Blaine, and they were all men of influence and standing. The only opposition to him is on account of his vetoes, and the bitterest of liis opponents do not ascribe any dishonest motives to him on that account. They simply say they think he was mistaken. On the other hand, the leading papers support him, and give good reasons therefor. This teeling has not yet spread to the West, and when it comes it will puzzle his Chicago backer to explain his attitude of eight years ago. “In New York the self-respecting voters have left Blaine, and I think the feeling will extend to the West.” “How will the Irish vote in New York go?” “That, of course, can not be now told. It is too early in the campaign. After all the speeches are made and the issues fully understood, I doubt if Blaine will get any Irish vote except the dynamiters and those that hope for a war because anything in the shape of an uprisal would do them good. That, however, is a double-edged sword, rather sharper on the back-stroke Ilian on the forward, and the Irish laboring man who has a family to support, and no Republican office to hope for, will prefer a good government under Cleveland to a bad one under Blaine. At least such is my opinion.” “How is Cleveland’s nomination regarded in Washington ?” “As the wisest that could have been made.” Cleveland and Hendricks will sweep the country, and don’t you forget it.