Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — Not How, When And Where. [ARTICLE]

Not How, When And Where.

When critics object to Mr. Blaine for the reason that ids character is smirched, the demand is sometimes made for day. hour, and place of the alleged delinquency. If the objector dosen’t happen to have a diary in his pocket with a full bill of particulars written out at length, he Is not likely to answer, as he could scarcely be expected to carry this information at liis to gue’s end continually. But this argument, is not conclusive however pertinent or knockdown it m®y seem. Few men can tell the day of the week they were horn, or married, or even the birthday of their eldest child, or when they earned their first dollar. But they'are confident, nevertheless, that they were born, or married, and that their eldest son is on baud for breakfast and mischief. So it la with Mr. Blaine’s delinquencies. They know that the Fort Smith bond existed and that there was something crooked about them They have the evidence of their intelligence concerning the Northern Pacific bonds, while the Mulligan letters, and the sunstroke, and the guano, and the South American policy of brag and bluster, have left ineffaceable impressions of suspicion. They know that the evidence was once taken and that the verdict was made up in their own minds. There must he serious objections to a note-book and affidavit candidate. Honest men are not anxious to be put on ihe rack concerring the men they support whenever they meet each other. They rather prefer to take a large view of a candidate and to agree that their own affiliations are with' respectability and that the general character of the nominees they favor is honorable and straightforward. They do not care to go about loaded With enough tacts to carry on a high-school and then run the risk of findiug some opponent who has more facts on the other side Winning campaigns are not conducted where this kind of arguments are necessary.