Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

Grover Cleveland is a poor man, comparatively speaking. Although he has jseld several offices of high public trusj he has never abused them to personal advantage. In his present capacity as Governor of New York, the opportunities for money making are practically unbounded, but no man has yet dared to whisper a suspicion that he has been a victim to temptation. Grover Cleveland’s integrity is nowhere questioned. James G. Blaine was also once a poor man, and comparatively poor when he became Speaker of the House of Representatives. He had also held several offices of public trust, and while opportunities for money making were never so favorable as they are to a Governor of the great State of New York, clothed with the supreme power of tfie veto, he has managed to accumulate several million dollars within a marvelously short time, and with apparently no expenditure of Gabor. In his explanation of this remarkable difference, Mr. Blaine himself has given documentary evidence. Here is one of the selections: Augusta, Oct. 4, 1869. Mv Dear Mr. Fisher : Find inclosed contracts of parties named in my letter of yesterday. The remaining contracts will be completed as rapidly as possible as circumstances will permit. I inclose yon part of the Congressional Globe of April 9, containing the point to which I referred at some length in my previous letter of to-day. You will find it of Interest to read it over and see what a narrow escape your bill made on that last night of the session. Of course it was my plain duty to make the ruling when the point was once raised. If the Arkansas men had not, however, happened to come to me at their wits’ end and in despair, the bill would undoubtedly have been lost, or at least postSoned for a year. I thought the point wonld iterest both yon and Caidwell, though oocuring before either of you engaged in the enterprise. I beg you to understand that I thoroughly appreciate the courtesy with which you have treated me in this railroad matter, but your conduct toward me in business matters has always been marked by an unbounded liberality in past years, and, of course. I have naturally come to expect the same of you now. You urge me to make as much as 1 fairly can out of the arrangements into which we have entered. It is natural that I should do the utmost to this end. I am bothered by only one thing, and that is the indefinite arrangement with Mr. Caldwell. I am anxious to acquire the interest he has promised me, but I do not get a definite understanding with him as I have with you. I shall be in Boston in a few days, and I shall then have an opportunity to talk over matters fully with you. I am disposed to think that whatever I do with Mr. Caldwell must really be done through you. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher. Sincerely, J. G. Blaine. W. Fisher, Jr. If Mr. Cleveland has written any such letter as the above the world is ignorant of the fact. The truth is that he is incapable of such a thing. Grover Cleveland is honest. James G. Blaine is a jobber. That is the difference.