Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — ANOTHER PHARISEE. [ARTICLE]

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.