Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — Page 3

STEEPED IN CORRUPTION.

§■ Republican Review of the Re- ■ publican Party’s Record. SB the History of Extravagance and H Shameless Jobbery That Has H Disgraced Their Party H Since the Advent H of Grantlsm. §H The address to the public bv the Committee of labile Hundred, represendng the anti-Blaine P.eof Massachusetts, contains the follow- ■ *We are told that the past of that party is and that we are therefore bound to |Hnpport its candidate to-day. We yield to in our pride at its great achieveor in our devotion to its principles, but the lesson of its past is forgotten its principles are abandoned, its name can not command our allegiance. The is uot what the Republican party lias but what it will do; not what it was, but jHrbat it is; not whether Lincoln and Seward and Bnmner and Andrew and Stanton and Fessenwere great men and leaders, but whether and Robeson and Keifer and Elkins and and Kellogg are men to whom we can confide the future of our coufitrv. bor years corruption in high office has been jjHxmspicuous. It has shown itself in every deof the public service. W T e have seen a 1 resident driven into private life by proof personal dishonesty; a Secretary of War imfor participation in felony; a Secretary the Navy charged with corrupt practices aud office under a cloud of suspicion, only to as a Republican leader in the House of a Secretary of the Interior ■forced from his office by charges affecting his and official character; an Attorney compromised by evidence of petty ■brand, We have not forgotten Colfax and BelKnap and Robeson and Delano and Williams. “In the Treasury Department we have seen officers implicated in Sanborn con■fcracfs and suspected of complicity in the gigantic ■conspiracy to defraud the revenue known as ■the ‘ whisky ring,’ and the private secretary of ■the President indicted as a conspirator, while ■the Minister who sought to punish the criminals ■was dismissed from office, in the Postoffice ■Department we have seen an Assistant Secre■tarv conspiring with Senators of the United ■States in ‘ star-route ’ frauds, and the conspira■tors boldly defying the Government, which was ■powerless to secure justice in its capital city. ■we have seen the last Republican Speaker dis■graced by proof that he had shamefully abused ■his appointing power, and in the face of this evi■deuce, which has destroyed the confidence of ■his constituents, again the chosen candidate of ■the Republican party for the same high office, ■in the Signal Service we have seen a superinfend■ent, in the Treasury Department a chief (jferk, ■and in other departments trusted officers, guilty ■of stealing the public money. We haVe seen ■the guilty protected, but we have yet to see ■them punished. We have seen the whole pa■tronage of tne Federal Government used openly ■to support a leader in Virginia whose principles ■of repudiation and whose methods violate ev- ■ ery rule of political morality. We have seen ■the public business neglected, the reform of the ■civil service sneered at, and political assess ■ ments levied in defiance of party promises and ■public opinion, until the wave of popular indig■aation forced a reluctant Congress to inaugu- ■ rate relorm. The evils of a debased currency ■have been disregarded; our navy is a monument ■of maladministration; the surplus, with all its ■ temptations to extravagance, remains substan- ■ tially undiminished. ■ “Finally, we have seen the Republican party ■relying for its continuance in power not on its ■own achievements but on the mistakes of its ■opponents, and we have seen its leaders not ■-seeking to prevent but to encourage these mis- ■ takes, in order that thereby, at their country’s ■ expense, they might be furnished with argu- ■ ments for their continuance in power. We have ■seen all these things, and have been told that ■ the party must be reformed from within; that ■ our remedy lay in its caucuses and conventions. ■ For years we have yielded to this advice, and ■ have struggled against the men who have ■ sought to use the party for base, personal ends. ■At times we have thought them beaten, and ■ have hoped that the party, which was once so ■ great, might emancipate itself from the control ■of the men who had degraded it, and reassert ■ its original character. Instead, we now see ■ these men promoted and their influence in- ■ creased, while under their inspiration the party ■ turns its back upon its principles, and, in place ■of declaring in clear words its., policy on tbe ■ questions of the day, by equivocal declarations ■ And unmanly appeals to prejudice, seeks to ■ secure votes only to perpetuate the power of its ■ managers, and not to advance the prosperity of ■ thenountry. ■ “Its candidate for President is a man charged ■ with the basest of public crimes—the abuse 4 of ■ official power for his own pecuniary advantage ■ —who for eight years has never dared to demand 9 that full Investigation of the charges which his ■ political associates would gladly have accorded, ■ and by which alone those charges can be met. ■ Upon the evidence already produced we believe ■ Rim guilty, and we know that many of his prom- ■ inent supporters share our belief. Their decla- ■ rations before his nomination, their silence or ■ their guarded language in public addresses ■ -since, are conclusive evidence of this He is ■ «onvtcted by his own statements of deliberate ■ falsehood on the most solemn occasion. The ■ men who in the past have disgraced the Repub- ■ lican party are united in his support, and ad- ■ mitted to a controlling influence in the conduct ■ -of his campaign, while of the honest men who ■ Are joined with these the leaders are largely ■ either holders of or candidates for public office, ■ who urge their fellow-citizens to follow them 1 mofieto preserve the party than because they ■ - Approve its chief. In fine, the Republican party ■ has to-day no policy which it dares to avow and ■ a leader whom it can not defend. At this very I moment it forms an alliance In West Virginia I with the advocates of dishonest money; in 1 Washington political assessments are attempted I under disguise. I “It is idle to hope that, with such leadership, the abuses of the past can be corrected or the party reformed. Under the influences which now dominate its councils the tendency must be downward: andthereis.no clearer proof that this tendency exists than the fact that honest men are found ready to tolerate and excuse •offenses which a few years ago would have made the offender Infamous. We see in in■creasmg fldelity to party great dangers to our Government, and it is an omen of disaster when Ihis fldelity leads men of character and position to throw their influence in favor of dishonesty and to mislead their fellow-citizens by misrepresenting the facts and obscuring the Issue. The fascination of the name Republican’ has made men blind to offenses which Otherwise they would condemn. It is our imperative duty, therefore, to disregard the appeals to party spirit, which, in the language of Wa&iington, it is ‘the Interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain,’ and to •consider how best we can stay the progress of oorruption in the Government of our country. “Leaving to Congress the great questions of policy which must be questions of And reserving the right to vote in Congressional elections for such men as represent our opinion •on these questions, intending in the State to vote in the future as we have in the past, we see Ih the Presidential contest' a simple issue. Our platform is the single principle that none but men of proved integrity should be supported for public office, and that the use of official power for personal ends is a breach of trust which should disqualify for the public service those who are guilty of it. A party nomination which violates this principle must not only forfeit our support but incur our unswerving opposition. By the nomination of James G. Blaine the Republican party has thrown down the gauntlet .for partisan government. The Democratic party answers the challenge. Its •candidate is the acknowledged champion of reform and political honesty. The issue is thus joined. The leaders are representative men, the foremost of their kind, and we cannot for an Instant hesitate in our choice or donbt what the true interests of onr country demand. We do not ally ourselves -with the Democratic party, •still less sanction or approve its past, but its present candidate has pr. ved his fldelity to the principles we avow, and in the coming election he commands and will receive onr support. “For these reasons we urge our fellow-cltfeens to unite with ns in our efforts to secure the election of Gov. Cleveland, and to organize In their respective neighborhoods, that the vote of Massachusetts may be given in November for honest government.”

WHAT IS HE ?

‘Jim Blaine Attempting to Carry Beer Upon One Shoulder aud Cold Water Upon the Other. The Chicago Herald , an independent journal, thus comments upon Blaine’s cowardly dodging of the prohiDltion question: IT CANNOT BE DODGED. Dispatches from Maine state that Mr. Blaine refused to vote on the prohibition question. It was a State election and prohibition was an issue. In a speech delivered from the porch of his residence in the evening he said the tempcranoe question was a State and not a national issue,

and that it would be impossible for anybody to bring it into the national canvass. If that is so, why did Mr. B.aine reruse to vote yes or no on the proposition to prohibit the liquor traffic in Maine? It was a loca election, and the question was presented to him as a local issue. In refusing to vote at all he neglected his duty as a citizen, and attempted to curry favor with two hostile interests. This cannot be done. Mr Blaine cannot run for President as a Prohibitionist and as a liquor man both. He cannot receive support from the temperance unions, the Good Templars, the Prohibition leaders, and the religions press because he is a Prohibitionist, and from the Germans, Bohemians, Scandinavians, the brewers and distillers and saloon-keepers because he is a personal liberty advocate. If he was a Prohibitionist he would have voted for the prohibitory amendment. If he was opposed to sumptuary laws he would have voted against it. What la he?

HOW MAINE WENT.

Money the Motor by Which the Party of Great Moral Ideas Win an Election. < Disgraceful Scenes of Bribery and Corruption in Augusta for a Few Votes. A special to the New York World from Augusta gives a faint conception of the amount of bribery and corruption by which the friends of Mr. Blaine secured a paltry majority for the Republican ticket. It says: “The apologists of Mr. Blaine have been bnsy all day trying to justify his cowardly dodge of a vote on the prohibitory amendment yesterday. He tried to explain it himself last night, when he said he did not vote on the question because it was a State issue. The election of Robie was also a State issue, bat he voted for it. His Prohibition friends, like Neal Dow and Anson Morrill, are ready enough to forgive him under the circumstances. They would have forgiven him almost as readily if he had voted against the amendment, if it were evident to them that he would gain a political advantage thereby. The party which supports Blaine here and keeps him in power is as bad as he is. It would follow him to any extremity and excuse him for every wrong. In Augusta he has built up a political system that is thoroughly illustrative of his character. He it was who made bribery at the polls a fine art, and who fastened upon the civil service of this State a set of bosses and strikers whose chief wortt is to serve party ends in ways good or bad. All the political dirty work in Augusta is done by officeholders. They are nearly all Prohibitionists and church members, from Joe Manley, the eminent Postmaster, down to the watchman at the State House, but they will make a compact with a rumseller in the twinkling of an eye. Some of the more richly plumaged ones get drunk when they are outside the State limits. Mr. Manley knows this is not a slander. There are forty clerks in the postoffice of the city of Angusta, the whole population of which is not over eight thousand. That is about as many as are generally found in postoffices of cities having a hundred thousand inhabitants. These clerks are expected to do political duty. The forty clerks of the postoffipe are forty political messengers whom Boss Manly sends hither and thither on whatever mission he sees fit. These chaps and others were out in full force Monday, and helped to distribute the huge corruption fund that was given to carry this city for Robie by an increased majority. Dozens of men who have heretofore voted the Democratic ticket sold out for a fixed price to bribers after they had learned that there was no prospect of remuneration from their own j-irty leaders. Some of them were so persistent and anxious that they came to a Democratic leader and said that they had been offered $lO by Joe Manly’s agent, and that they would not desert their party it they, could get bnt half that sum. They were sent back, and it is supposed, took the money from the other side, for they voted the Republican ticket. I mention these facts to indicate in some degree the corruption that prevailed at the election on Monday. It is not a statement out of the way to say. that 15,000 men in Maine sold their votes. The Republicans have won a dearly bought victory in Maine—dearly bought, both because of the actual dollars and cents it cost and of the sacrifice they have made of the most sacred principles that underly.a free government. If a truthful account of the briberv practiced throughout the State yesterday could be given, it would not be believed. The bold, andaoious, and insolent purchase of votes right here in Augusta is simply incredible to one Who did not see it. The only way the American people could be convinced of such wholesale oorruption of the ballot would be to look down and behold for.themselves men bought and marched up to the polls in herds like so many servile beasts. It must be a matter of some humiliation to the friendß of Mr. Blaine to know tnat the most flagrant outrages in the whole State were permitted in his own city, where the voting population does not exceed 2,200. Talk of CoDiah and Danville, of Southern proscription of the negro, of any wrong or injustice to individual freedom or the public welfare!”

An Independent View of the'Result. [From the Chicago News, Ind. Rep.] Republicans have every reason to congratulate each other on the fact that the Maine campaign was so skillfully managed that the result—a plurality of over 16,nOO—has the appearance of a famous victory. Democrats can also congratulate themselves that “’twant no wuss.” Our dispatches this morning show that the Republican leaders really hoped for a plurality of over 20,000, Hannibal Hamlin putting it at 25,000. Bnt they refrained from any rash predictions, and studiously discounted by 50 per cent, the majority they hoped for. There are several things to be considered in arriving at any just understanding of Monday’s vote in Maine. It was the first time in four years that the Democrats nominated a man of their own and ran him without assistance from Greenbackers. Their victory of September, 1880, was through fusion, and In 1882, when Robie carried the State, Plaisted was the nominee of both Democrats and Greenbackers. The highest vote for a straight Democratic ticket in Maine in a Presidential election was 60,423 for Tilden, in 1876. The total vote this year is in thA neighborhood of 140,000. This is 7,819 below the vote of September, 1880, and at least 15,600 below what a full vote would have been this year. It is not difficult to account for this stay-at-home defection. Thq Democrats made ne attempt to get out their vote, and the Independent Republicans had no reason to Interest themselves to increase Robie’s majority. It is no part of their scheme to heat local and State Republican candidates. Had Robie needed their votes he probably would have got them. Their places In the Republican ranks were taken by the returning Greenbackers who seceded in 1880. When everything is taken into consideration—the wonderful and unceasing activity of the Republicans with oceans of money and the apathy of Democrats with no funds—the wonder is not that Robie’s plurality is so large, but that it Is not larger.

G. A. R.

Logan Virtually Expelled for Not Paying His Dues—Bolting from Blaine—A Bepublican Grand Army Man Fires Hot Shot Into Logan and Blaine. [Albany dispatch to New York World.] The following letter has been sent by Mr. H. C. Hunt, a member of the Orand Army of this city and a well-known Republican, to a friend, also a member of the G. A. R.: Dear Sib : I have been known to you for many years as a most uncompromising Republican, and I am now going to surprise you by stating that for the first time in my life I cannot support the nominations of the Republican party. If there is an organization in the world to which I am attached it is the Grand Army of the Republic, and when I see that they are trying to .use it for Surely political and partisan ends, I believe it i time for an honest Grand Army man to rebuke such attempts to lead us like cattle to the shambles by either voting against the candidate or not voting at all. There is another reasontwo in fact. Onr party has nominated a man for Vice President whose record as a Grand Army man is not very creditable to our organization. He was virtually expelled because he thought so little of it as not to pay his dues. Then, again, for the first place on the ticket, our /party has nominated a man who has been assailed as corrupt by the very best elements in that party; and this very day there is no Republican paper or orator to offer the slightest defense to the charges brought against him. Therefore, for this election at least, 1 shall vote for the reform Governor—Grover Cleveland. Yours truly, H. (L Hont. ' - - - ■ ■ -■<**' l ,<*<l ’ If Cleveland was a good enough man for Mr. Blaine’s friends to make Governor of New York, perhaps some Republicans may think he Is a good man to make President.—ijoscoe Conk ling.

ANOTHER PHARISEE.

CoL George £. Waring, Jr., Renounces Blaine and Joins the Cleveland Column. He Knows the Great Reform Governor to Be “a Honest, Fearless and Just Man.” The following letter was written by CoL George E. Waring. Jr., accepting the Vice Presidency of the Independent Republican Club, of Newort, R. I. It, has just been made public. Col. Waring has never voted any bnt the Republican ticket, except In 1872, when he voted for Mr. Greeley, of whom he was an intimate personal friend. As Secretary of the National Board of Health, and Dy his writings on agricultural subjects, CoL Waring is very widely known: Newport, R. L, Aug. 18. Charles Acton Ives, Esq., Secretary: Dkab Sib : I accept with pleasure the appointment of Vice President of the Independent Republican Club of Newport lam in full sympathy with the revolt against the nomination of Mr. Blaine, largely for the reason that I have always been in sympathy with the Republican party, and desire to save it from disgrace. If the party is in the future, as in the past to serve as the medium for the maintenance of the principles on which It was founded, It most be taught now the need for adhering to them. Little by little Its control has passed into the hands of those who disregard them, and now its national convention has imposed upon it a candidate who has given occasion for grave doubts as to his official honesty. He is charged with conduct worthy only of public condemnation. He and his advocates seem powerless to clear him of these charges. They seek to secure his election by emphasizing the importance of secondary side issues. Under existing circumstances, side issues are insignificant. The only live question now is the character of the man himself, as shown by his own official conduct, and, Incidentally, the probabilities as to his future official conduct were he made President, The tariff, as a campaign issue, is *a tariff for politics only.” In any case the President has little influence over it,and Republican and Democratic Congressmen generally act upon it according as their action may affect their re-election to their seats. The popular will, in this case born of personal interest, will probably always find its expression in this way. Confronted as we now are by the candidacy of a suspected man, our attention should be concentrated solely on his defeat. A distinguished* officer of the Government told me that Re was for Blaine because he thought that “this nation should be spelled with a very big N,” and that it is time for its power to be manifested among the nations, of the earth. He thought Mr. Blaine would give reality to this idea. I agree with him; I think he would. It seemß to me that—next after his personal taint—this Is the great reason ifor opposing him. We are now strong in all that goes to make a people great, and we have become one of the ohief factors In the world’s future problem of peace and prosperity. Onr wealth and our strength have brought duties and responsibilities. The world no longer needs to be told of our power, nor can we seriously threaten to use our power without disturbing the world’s peace. Henceforth our fairest initial letter Is to be carved with peaceful industry, tranquil growth, growing wealth, and, above all, a pure and faithful administration of wise and just laws, by honest and universally trusted officers. Mr. Blaine, with his tarnished fame and his "big N," is not the man for this work. We see already the beginning of the effect of his nomination. When such men as Hoar and Hawley and Long, realizing as they do the depth of the cloud under which he rests—a cloud which they themselves have helped to deepen—when these men talk of tariff and civil service reform, and the grand old misguided party, and swallow the Mulligan letters in silence, what hope can we have, If Blaine Is elected, of the young men who are now taking their political bent ana who are some day to mold and direct our Government? As for me, If need be, the party may go to the dogs, and men to whose skirts we have hitherto pinned our faith may sink to the shades; I, for one, shall not raise a hand to save them, if that hand must cast a hallo for a man I cannot trust. Happily for ns, the Democratic party has at last, and for once, been wise. It baß’accepted the only real issue—the issue of personal character—and has nominated a man who is, in all official qualities, the exact opposite of Mr. Blaine. I have had the advantage of a personal acquaintance with Gov. Cleveland, and of some official intercourse with Idm. I know well many of the men among whom his manhood has been passed, and I say, of my own knowledge, that, though a Democrat, he Is not a politician; that he is a strong, honest, fearless, and just man; that he Is a civil-service reformer, not by conversion, but by conviction; and that no political or other Influence can ever move him which does not first convince his sense of right. I predict that under him fewer Republicans will be turned out of office than would be turned out under Mr. Blaine. Very respectfully yours, Geobge E. Waring, Jb.

A REPUBLICAN WAIL.

Blaine’s Frightened at the Situation in the Sucker State. The Editor of the Chicago “ Tribune ” Admits that if thejhection Were Held To-day It Would Go Democratic. [New York telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean, Blaine organ.] The Hon. Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, was here last week, and had a prolonged interview with Elkins and others, of the National Committee, in which he made an earnest appeal for financial aid for the State Committee of Illinois. He represented that the latter committee had been unable to raise the necessary funds, and had no means for prosecuting the canvass; that the Democrats were unusually flush with money, which had been furnished them in large quantities bv the distillers, brewers, and gamblers, who are determined to eleot Harrison Governor and secure the Legislature, and unless immediate and plentiful aid was given, the Republicans would not be able to carry the State for Blaine. Mr. Medill exhibited a convincing array of figures which were intended to Bhow the relation of the German vote and that of the Prohibition party to the canvass, and argued that unless something could be done to recover strength among the Germans, and counteract the Prohibition movement, the usual Republican vote would be reduced by an amount .much larger than the majority given for Garfield four years ago. If the election were to take place to-day, Mr. Medill said, there was no doubt the Democrats would carry Illinois by a considerable Slurality, and the only hope the Republicans ad was in the votes they could gain between now and November. In order to gain any it was necessary to have a large fund of money, which, under existing circumstances, could not be raised in Illinois. Mr. Medill represented that the demoralization In the State Committee was very great, and would be disastrous to the party unless greater harmony and activity could be secured. Those who were ordinarily very active in Presidential canvasses were Indifferent and unwilling to take the lead, and their apathy made the outlook very discouraging. The committee told Mr. Medill that a call of this sort and such representations as he had made were received with great surprise from a State in which the candidate for Vice President was the acknowledged leader, and asked him why Gen. Logan’s friends did not take hold and £ursue an energetic canvass. He replied that iogan’B friends were not those who usually contributed largely to campaign funds, and that their resources had been exhausted. He was told that the committee had calls from doubtful States, which it was absolutely necessary to meet, and could not pay the expenses of a canvass of so wealthy and powerful an organization as the Republican party of Illinois. They were very much discouraged by the news he brought, but thought it would be better for him to present the case to Gen. Logan himself, and not call upon the committee to oondnct his canvass for him.

Another Loud Plaint. A gentleman signing himself “A Republican, with No Ax to Grind,” writes as follows to the Inter Ocean: It can’t be disguised or laughed down that Carter Harrison has more than a ‘fighting chanoe” Of election. lam Informed, on what seems to be good authority, that the minds controlling the labor Unions are Democratic almost to a man, and that the unions oan be counted as nearly solid -lor .HardsoaT ■* U nless our oommltteemeu wake up from their Rip Van Winkle sleep and go earnestly and tuthfully to work they will find next November ' 7 7 . r *

that a cyclone has swept over this State, It not over the country, and they will be buried in the debris.

ILLINOIS POLITICS.

Miserable Failure of the Irish AntiCleveland Demonstration in Chicago. Bepublican Despondency The Party Leaden on the Verge of Openly Conceding Cleveland's Election. [Letter from Chicago.] After weeks of advertising In newspapers and upon blank walls, the "great anti-Cleveland Irish demonstration* in Chicago came oft Saturday night. And such a demonstration! The only thing demonstrated was that the Irish of Chicago, as heretofore, are practically sold for the Democratic ticket. About 1,000 responded to the call, one-third of whom were boys. There were as many Cleveland as Blaine men In the hall, and every mention of the reform Governor's name brought forth cheers. The mention of the tattooed candidate’s name was greeted by mingled cheers and hisses. The Chicago Triuune, Blaine organ, prints a most laughable report of this meeting, using such head-lines as "a great outpouring of the enemies made by the monopolistic candidate:* "a dastardly attempt of organized roughs to break up the meeting, etc., and says that the “mention of every prominent name (in the list of Vice Presidents) was greeted with applause.* So great was the outpouring that less than half the halhwhere the meeting was held was tilled. The managers, foreseeing that the affair was going to prove a miserable failure, locked the doors leading to the gallertea, where more than half the seating capacity was located, and by this means secured a respectable sized gathering In the lower part of the auditorium. The “dastardly attempt to break up the meeting* consisted in cheers for Cleveland and the plying of the speakers with questions which they either could not or would not answer. And as to the greeting of “every prominent name with applause,’ why, It Is enough to make a wooden Indian laugh. The only names of any prominence, or that were even ever heard of before, were John B. Finerty (who was conspicuous for absence) and Patrick Crowe, the dynamite crank who became prominent at Peoria in oonneotion with an alleged Infernal machine that was to blow England to h . This miserable fizzle of what was hoped would convince the country that there was an Irish defect, on from Cleveland has had a terribly depressing effect upon the Bepublican leaders In Chicago. They were chapfallen before. They are now disheartened and despondent. They feel In their Inmost hearts, and to one another confess, that they are beaten. They see the hand-writing on the wall. They feel that Blaine's doom Is sealed. Ho mote It be. In this connection it may be stated that Mr. Joseph Medill, the editor of the Tribune, has been to New York to make an appeal for campaign funds; that ho told the National Republican Committee that if money was not forthcoming quickly and lavtshiy the Republicans were beaten In Illinois; that if the eleetlon were held now it would surely go Democratic; and that the only hope of averting defeat was the unstinted use of "soap* from now on until November. A New York dispatch to the Inter Ocean, a loud-shouting Blaine journal, is my authority for these facts. Another correspondent of the Inter Ocean, signing himself a Republican, also sounds a note of warning, and tells his alarmed Republican brethren that unless they wake up and throw more vigor (“soap” he probably, means) into the campaign, they will be overwhelmed by a political cyclone in November. He admits that Carter Harrison has more than a fighting chance, and says that it is foolish to disguise the ugly fact. The independent Republicans of Chicago have effected an organization, and propose to do some effective work against the tattooed knight. Some of the solidest men of the great Northwestern metropolis have identified themselves with the movement. Among those who figured at a conference held a few days ago are noted the names of Gen. A. C. McClurg, the millionaire book publisher; Hon. A. M. Wright, a very wealthy merchant, and late Republican candidate for Mayor of the city; Franklin MacVeagh, the largest wholesale grocer in Chicago; H. A. Gardner and Wm. T. Baker, prominent merchants, and a number of other leading citizens who hav,e heretofore been found doing effective work for the Repnblioan party. While not abating one jot or tittle of their allegiance to the Republican party, these men declare that they cannot support a dishonest and dishonorable man for President, however “brilliant" or "magnetic* he may be, and they propose to enter actively into the campaign for Cleveland and honest government Uhe revolt against Blaine in Chicago is said to be more formidable than the most ardent Independent Bepublioan dreamed

of six weeks ago.

SHE IS FOR CLEVELAND.

The Mother of Charles S. Parnell Speaks Out. Irish-Americans Told They Have Nothing to Expect from the Republicans, and Advised to Vote for the Democratic Candidates. [New York special to Chicago Herald.] Mrs. Della T. Stewart Parnell has been In this city for several days. She was seen to-day by a reporter. After speaking of politics generally she said: “I think Gov. Cleveland is the man for the present crisis. The other leaders of the Democratic party are fine men in their way, but Cleveland, with his cool, critical power of thought, and the nicety with which he weighs matters, Is the man wanted at tbe helm. He has proved himself the true friend of the? people. The Democratic party has always been the friend of the people. The Republican party is just the contrary." "Has your son expressed an opinion In regard to the platform of the Demooratio party?" “He is thoroughly In harmony with the principles enunciated so ably, albeit so briefly, in Cleveland’s letter of acceptance. As to twisting tbe British lion’s tall, he Is doing that himself. "How would you advise the Irish-Americans to vote in the forthcoming election?” "I would earnfestly advise them to vote for Cleveland for tne sake of their oppressed native land, and also for’fcie sake of the land of their adoption. They have nothing to expect from the Republican party. That party has been dead against them all along, and adverse especially to the National party in Ireland. There seems to be wrong leaven In it. The Democrats have not been able to do anything in twenty-four years, but we know what the antecedents of the party were and the record which they made for seventy-five years and more. Ret me call totyour recollection a very important fact, which aU Irishmen should know. In the centennial year my son and O'Connor Power came to this country with an address from the Irish nation to Grant, who was President then. They offered to him the address, which only contained the expressions of the good-will of the Irish people for him, his Government and his country. What did he do? Receive It? By no means. He refused to receive it. It was subsequently presented to Congress, and by that body, which was then Democratic, It was accepted, and an appropriate response was made. Gen. Grant, it appears, rejected the address because he feared that If he acted otherwise he would offend the British Ministers. The English Ministers are to-day more afraid of ns than we are of them Whenever an Irish national issue has been at stake it has been the Demooratio party that has fought for It. The Democrats displayed wisdom in selecting Cleveland as their standardbearer, He is the right man for the place, being possessed of character, intelligence, and, what Is of supreme importance, honesty. He Is alive to the .issues of the hour and can be trusted with the management of affairs here.” “Are you honeful of success?" -rH he is not elected I will give up this oountry in despair—l will despair of tne success of Ireland’s cause.” It Is my deliberate opinion that Mr. Blaine acts as the attorney of Jay Gould. Whenever Mr. Thurman and I have settled upon legislation to bring the Pacific Railroads to terms of equity with tbe Government, up has jumped James G. Blaine, musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Gould’s lobby, to fire in our hack.—Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont. Mb. Blaine’s sunstroke stopped the investigation of the Mulligan business in 1876. Does he believe that a serious illness may stop it in 1884? —aoM*aatf#’’* **—•»«— -

APPEALING TO THE DEAD.

Ohio Republicans, in Their Despair, Call Upon the Late Senator Morrill. Indignant Eeply of His Widow—What the Deceased Statesman Thought of James 0. Blaine —A Terrible Arraignment of the Bepublican * Leader. [Augusta (Me.) special to the Chicago Herald] The late Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, represented the purest and best methods In politics. When Senator Morrill resigned the Benatorship to accept the Treasury portfolio under Grant, as will be remembered, Mr. Blaine was appointed his successor. Senator Morrill died here eighteen months ago. His widow, who is the daughter of the late Mr. Vance, who In his day was one of the most prominent citizens of this section, lives in a pleasant home on Winthrop street, this city. She is a ladv evidently of great force of character, and was the valued associate, confidante and helpmate of her distinguished husband, both in the Executive Mansion in this State and during the many years of his' residence in Washington as Senator and Secretary of the Treasury, Mrs. Morill was recently surprised to receive from Ohio an official letter directed to her lata husbad. Opening it she found it to be a very importunate appeal to Senator Morrill to visit Ohio and to lend his aid in saving the State to Mr. Blaine. Mrs. Morrill turned the sheet over and wrote on its back an indignant reply and mailed It forthwith to the gentleman who had signed the appeal. In conversation to-day on the subject or the Ohio letter Mrs. Morrill said: ''Borne six weeks ago I received a letter from Columbus, Ohio, on a sheet with a printed head representing some political organization. I was so surprised and indignant at its contents that I did not particularly -notice whether it was from a State committee* a county committee, or a political club, but it was signed by a Mr. Brown, as chairman, and a Mr. Ogden, as secretary. It was, as well as I oan romember it, about as follows: “Senator Lot M. Morrill: “Deab Sib—The situation in Ohio is a critical one. Tho party Is in trouble on account of the attacks on Mr. Blaine as the oapdidate of the party. Your well-known ohar'acter as a pure and upright statesman, and coming from Blaine’s own State, you could refute the oharges as no one else can. We hope you will come to us in this emergency and make as many speeches as possible. “I was indignant and amazod that any Republican should be ignorant that my husband was dead. I was more indignant that he should be asked to assist in making Mr. Blaine President. lat once sat down and wrote on the back of the sheet this reply, as near as I can remember it. lam now sorry that I did not keep copies of both tho letter and of my answer: “To Brown, Chairman, Columbus, Ohio; lam surprised and shocked to receive such a communication. I thought every citizen of this country knew my husband was at rest lam in mourning for him; but as much as I mourn ills death, I thank my Father in heaven that he called him home before the party that he loved so wffil and did so much for had so disgraced itself as to nominate so wicked and corrupt a man for the highest office within tho gift of the Amerloan people as I know and my husband knew James G. Blaine to toe. If he were alivo he would not support Mr. Blaine, or any suoh man, oven at thebidding of his party. “Chablotte IX Mobbill.

“My husband,” continued Mrs. Morrill, "was visited by Mr. Blaino at the beginning of tho Congressional investigation into the Little Rock Railroad bonds. Mr. Blaine, as he did to Mulligan, importuned my husband with tears and entreaties to use his influence to save him. When my husband resigned to go into the Cabinet it was generally understood, and my husband so understood, that Governor Chamberlain would be appointed to rill the vacancy. Instead, and to the surprise of every one. Governor Connor appointed Mr. Blaine, then a Representative in Congress and under charges in that body, to the vacanoy." As Mrs. Morrill Intimated, the appointment of Mr. Blaine to the vacancy was evidently to save him from the further Investigation and the inevitable incriminating verdict of the committee. Governor Connor had his reward. He is now Pension Agent for this State, the best office next to the Collectors Mp. Blaine’s Treachery to Senator Morrill— The Feeling in Boston. [Boston speolal to Chicago News.] The letter of Mrs. Charlotte Morrill to the Republican Committee of Ohio, which sent a request to her deceased husband to come out and help them in their extremity, has made a profound impression here. Mr. Morrill was a pure, incorruptible man, and was highly esteemed in Boston, where he was about as well known as in his own State of Maine. By many Mrs. Morrill’s letter, coming as it does from one who undoubtedly knew the real opinion her husband had of Blaine, is regarded as the severest blow which has been dealt the Republican candidates in the opening of the campaign. It has created an undisguised feeling of gloom among the followers of Mr. Blaine. He whose testimony is thus given by one best able to give it and best autnorized to do so is not now to be traduced and declared an unfit witness. He knew Blaine well, had been with him m Maine polities since IBM, and the estimate ho placed on him was founded on evidence of the most indisputable character.

GARDEN CITY.

Those who are well Informed of the relatione that have long existed between the Morrill and the Blaine families are not surprised at this letter. Mrs. Morrill has not spoken to Blaine or Ms wife for several years. The last interview Blaine ever had with Lot Morrill was In 1876, when the Congressional investigation pertaining to the Mulligan letters was in progress, and when Blaine conceived the idea of getting irito the Senate, and thus to escape the probable conviction and expulsion. He went to Morrill, who «fvas then in the Senate, and besought him to resign and accept the Secretaryship of the Treasury. Grant was President, and he had agreed to help Blaine out. Blaine told Morrill that Gov. Connor, then in the Executive chair of Maine, would appoint Gen. Chamberlain to the vacancy made in the Senate. Morrill consented to resign with that understanding. Imagine his surprise when Gov. Connor appointed Blaine himself to the vacancy. From that time forward Morrill had no confidence whatever in Blaine, but believed him to be an unscrupulous rascal. But there are other causes that played their part in putting Mrs. Morrill in a frame of mind suitable for writing that most damaging letter. A story is told to the effect that an incident occurred some years ago in Washington, not of a political nature, to which Mrs. Morrill was an accidental, unexpected, and greatly surprised and indignant witness, and that from that moment to the present she has had the most unbounded contempt for Blaine. She evidently knows a good deal more than she has yet told, and if she concludes to tell it all, there may be something rivaling the Kentucky story which figures in the now celebrated Blaine libel suit. The feeling against Blaine in Boston and throughout the State is unquestionably growing both in extent and intensity. Nowhere have been heard such determined expressions against him, and it is a remarkable fact that those who denounce him with the greatest severity are old Republicans. The independent movement here is going to yield surprising results. Should the revolt continue to grow as it is now growing, Cleveland will certainly carry the state. Very many careful men already believe that be will do so. Some of the reports that are being made to the Independent State Committee show great defections.

Casting aside what Blaine was thirty years ago, what is he now in his mature Manhood? His party has indorsed him for the Presidency, thereby accepting his political acts and record as entitling him to the highest office in the gift of the people. These embrace his Know-nothing editorials, in which he sought to stop Immigration, to disfranchise foreign-born citizens, and to destroy the Catholic Church in America. They embrace his prostitution of the Speakership for pay and his work for corporations for stocks. They include his infamous letters to Fisher, which he obtained by fraud from Mulligan and destroyed, in defiance of his plighted word to restore them. They embrace bis cohabiting with corruption tor dishonest money, as charged by the St Louis Globe-Democrat only three months ago. They include his Infamous treatment of McSweeney and other Irish Americans Imprisoned In English jails while he was Secretary of State, whom he made not the slightest effort to release. ’ They embrace his attempt to seize guano Islands of a friendly South American power, while that country was prostrated by a recent war. In short, they Include his whole political career, which has been one of plunder, corruption and infamy. These are enough to beat him.—lndianapolis Sentinel. How any man can vote for Blaine and feel a conscientious scruple abont voting for Cleveland on the ground of morality surpasses my conception, for 1 regard Blaine as one of the most corrupt men in pecuniary affairs that we ever had in onr Government.— Henry Ward Beecher.

What Is He Now ?

THREE SPEECHES.

'Heveland Talks to the Fanners ol Elmira, N. Y., About Agricultural Hatters. Blaine Makes a Political Address at Augusta, Me., and Butler Speaks at Dec Moines, lowa. Cleveland. Fifty thousand people attended the opening of ffie New York State Fair, at Elmira, on the Bth nst. Gov. Cleveland, accompanied by his Private Secretary, Col. Daniel Lamont,and Adjt.len. Farnsworth, arrived |n the morning. At lie Governor’s special request no demonstration •me made aside from a salute of twenty-one runs by the Cleveland Battery. The party was net at the depot by Lieut.-Gov. Hill, Mr. M. H. Vroot, and a number of prominent citizens. The Irive about tbe grounds was a veritable ova■ion, and when the sights had been Been and the Governor's arm ached with pain, he arose in his .-arriage and in answer to the demand for a ipeech, said: I regard these annual fairs as something connected with the State Government, We boast >t our manufactures—oxcoeding, as they do, argely those of any other State —but our supremacy is clearly shown when we recall the ■aot that in addition to our lead in manufac■ures the value ot our farms and their products s second only among the States. The real value >f the farmer to the State and nation is not, jowever, fully appreciated until wo consider ■hat he feeds the millions of our people who are ingaged In other pursuits, and that the product if his labor fills tho avenues of our commerce tnd supplies an important factor in our financial -elatlona with other nations. 1 have not come to ittempt to please yon with cheap and fulsome praise, nor to magnify your worth and your imortanoe; but I have come as Chief Executive >f the State to acknowledge on its own beaalf that our farmers yield full return for the oeneflts they receive from the State Gcvirnment I have come to remind yon of :he importance of the interests which yon have in ffiarge, and to suggest that, notwithstanding ffie farmer's independence, he eannot and must uot be unmindful of the value and importance o the interests he holds in a Just and economis'd government. It is his right and his duty to lemand that all unjnst and inequitable btfrdena apon agriculture and lta products, bowover mused, should be removed, and that, while the ’urtherance of the other Interests of the State lave due regard, this important one should not pe neglected. Thus, by his labor as farmer, and n the full performance ot his duty as citizen, he will create and secure to himself his share of the ■esult of his toll, and save and guard for aM the people a most important element in the proserity of the State. The Governor was frequently interrupted by ffieers and applause. When be had finished he held a levee in the sent of the President of the association, and ffiousands crowded about him to grasp his hand. Seven thousand men were in line at night in » parade in honor of Gov. Cleveland. The procession was two hours in pa»slng the reviewing stand. After the parade dismissed ■he Governor entered the hotel and held an inormal reception. In tho course ol the evening le was presented with a banner bearing his portrait, the head encircled by four stars, typiying “sobriety," “Justice," "honesty,” and “reorm. Behind the hills was the sun Just •lMng, and labeled "victory.” After a general tandshaking the Governor retired for the night.

Bluinc. , The Republicans of Augusta;Me., held ajnbleo on the night of the State election. Blaine •vaa serenaded, and in response spoke oe folows: Fellow-citizens and old friends The Republicans of Maine may well congratulate themselves on the magnificent victory •vhicli they have won. Four years ago this iventna we were overwhelmed and humiliated by the Joss of the State. We rejoice now over ffie unparalleled triumph which is registered by -.he oholoe of both branches of the Legislature, <y the election of all the Representatives in Congress, of all the county offloers ‘ln jvery county in the State exoept one. and by a popular majority for Gov. Roble of perhaps 18,000 votes. Our canvass has been conducted on one great issue. It is the issue of oroteotlon to American labor. The tariff has been almost the only question discussed m our canvass, and tbe people have responded nobly, t hey know the details of the Morrison tariff bill. They know that the Morrison bill, enaoted Into law, would seriously eripple, if not utterly destroy, the leading industrial interests of Maine; that it would reduce the wages of every laboring man, and stop every new manufacturing enterprise In the State. Many Democrats in Maine who nover before wavered in their allegiance to the party have ranged themselves today on the side of protection to American industry by voting tho full Republican tioket. Party discipline is powerless against the convictions of men. The Issue on the tomperanoe amendment to the Constitution has been very properly and very rigidly separated from the politics! contest of the State to-day. Many Democrats voted for it, and some Republicans voted against It. The Republican party, by desire of the leading temperance men, took no action as a party on the amendment. For myself, I decided not to vote at all on the question. I took this position beoause I am chosen bv the Republican party as the representative of national issues, and by no act or mine shall any question be obtruded into the national campaign wliioh belongs properly to the domain of State polltios. Certain advocates of Srohlbition and certain opponents of prohlblon are each seeking to drag tbe issue into the national canvass, and thus try to exclude from popular consideration questions which press for national decision. If there beany questions that belong solely to the police power of the State It Is the control of the liquor traflio. and wise men will not neglect national issues in a year of national contest. Judldon* friends of a protective tariff, which is the practical issue of tbe campaign, will not divert their votea to the question of prohibition, whloh Is not a practical issue in the national campaign. Ido not disguise from yon that lam profoundly gratified with the result. Desirous of the good opinion of all men. (am sure I esteem beyond all others the good opinion of those excellent people among whom (nave passed nearly all the years of my adult life, who knew me intimately from young manhood as a fellow-citizen, neighbor, and friend. 1 return my thanks for your call and still heartier thanks for your great work of to-day.

Butler. Gen. Butler encountered a hearty reception it Dee Moines, lowa. The depot platform, says i Des Moines dispatoh, was crowded with thou* lands of the Massachusetts statesman’s admtrits and friends, who received him with cheers. The band played “Marching Through Georgia,* rod Gen. Butler, flanked by Gens. Weaver and Gillette, walked to the Aborne House, where he held a reception for two hours, shaking hands with a large number of people. A committed of ladfos, representing the woman suffragists of Polk County, waited upon the General, being given the first place of honor by Chairman Gillette. Upon being introduced to the General, Mrs. Bellangee, chairman of the delegation, made an address, to whioh Gen. Butler replied: Ladies: I thank you for this interview. I jould not speak and act otherwise In connection with this subject consistently with good sense rod sound statesmanship. I have no more doubts of woman's rights to citizenship under the constitution than I have of the constitutionility of our legal tender currency. It may take tome time to bring it out right, but it will come. The good sense of the American people will convince them that they can trust the ballot with all powers, in the hands to which they have committed the children and the homes of the naflon. In the afternoon the general addressed the people. The greenback element was largely represented. Many farmers, mechanl s, and soal-miners were present. Applause was frejuent and hearty, and from comments beard at Sts close the greenback heart of lows is beating with high hope. There is no doubt here that ;he General’B visit has stiffened the backbone of ;h4 green backers and not displeased the demounts.

Earl Spencer Hissed in Cork.

Says a dispatch from Cork: Earl Spender, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, paid a visit to Castle Island, near here. He was aissed by the people of the place as hb passed through the streets. A black flag >n which was printed a description of Earl Spencer as a murderer was displayed, rod was seized by the police. A pumpkin-vine ninety feet long ia growing in a garden in Bowling Green. Ky. Between 600 and 700 dwellings ar» purued every month in this country.