Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — A REPUBLICAN WAIL. [ARTICLE]

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.