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

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.

GARDEN CITY.