Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — What Is He Now ? [ARTICLE]

What Is He Now ?

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.