Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — WILL VOTE FOR CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

WILL VOTE FOR CLEVELAND.

Gen. B. H. Bristow and Gen. Francis A. Walker Express Their Purpose Unreservedly. Bishop Huntington and Edward Eggleston Also Found Among the “ Pharisees,” Gen. B. H. Bristow, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, has announced his Intention of supporting Gay- Cleveland. In an interview at Saratoga Mr. Bristow said: I shall vote for Cleveland as an emphatic protest against the nomination of snch a man as Blaine. It is the only way 1 can protest against the candidacy of bo dishonest and corrupt a. man. I’don’t call it a Democratic vote; I call .it an honest one. lam not m love with the Democratic party, and am not a Democrat. Gen. Francis A. Walker, Chief of the Census Bureau, said in an interview at Washington: "I shall vote for Cleveland, bnt I am still a Republican. The Republican nominee has always had my support except when Grant ran the second time. Then 1 did not vote. In Massachusetts, mv State, the candidacy of Butler has taken from the’Democrats 20,000 of the most disreputable voters. On the other hand I believe that folly 15:000 of tho best and most in-

tellleent Republicans will rote for Cleveland. The Independent movement is Urge and well organised, bnt it is doubtful whether it will counterbalance the Butler defection. It looks somewhat now as though the Blaine managers were becoming afraid of the spirit they bad evoked In Butler. He is not who'ly under their control and seems to be hurting the Republicans as much as any other party.” In a letter from Edward Eggleston, the wellknown anthor, dated from Lake George, and addressed to the Secretary of the National Committee of Independent Republicans, the wTiter v gorousiy discusses the causes for the Republican bolt, and diaws a striking contrast between Gov. Cleveland and Mr. Blaine: He says the first thing that impresses the observer from a quiet point of view is that the voters who are driven from theirplaces in the Republican ranks by Mr. Blaine’s candidacy are for the most part men of a very high order, and that he does not find one of the pot-huntero of the party among them. They are leading business men, young men of high aims and aspirations, prominent lawyers, clergymen, college professors, distinguished writers, and c&rerul students of history and the science of government Some of these deserters from the Republican party are the ornament and crown of the Intellectual life of the nation. The writer disclaims any thought of saying t’hat Mr. Blaine does not number among his supporters many excellent people. The strength of the party attachment ana superstition, the force of political habits and associations, arc so great that Mr. BUine will get the votes of many thousands whose lives and principles are as superior to his as uprightness is to venality. The proselytes whom Gov. Cleveland repels are almost to a man either interested and unsavory monopolists, foreigners seeking to embroil the country, or political riffraff. If Mr. Blaine, he says, should succeed in this confused and quadrilateral canvass in snatching the Presidency, it will be by the aid of good men who have a superstitious veneration for their party, and by men who openly declared his unfitness until he was nominated. Among the prominent men of the country, says a correspondent of the Springfield Republican, who spend their summers in the delightful old oounty of Hampshire is Bishop Huntington, of Syracuse. N. Y., who resides for the summer in an old-fashioned farm-house somewhat modernized, in the quaint and historical town of Hadley. Your reporter had a very pleasant chat, the other day with this well-known theologian on the political aspect of the day. While the Bishop s tastes and work do not lead him into politics, yet he is a keen observer of what is going on in the political world, and his deductions are made after mature reflection and careful investigation. As to his own position the Bishop said: “I class myself with the Independents, for I am in the habit of voting according to the character of the men placed in nomination.*' In reply to a query aa to hU opinion of Mr. Blaine, he said: “ Well, I have no deaire to publish my opinions to the work!, nor do I care to hold them back. I have never been in favor of Blaine, whom I recognize aa a trafficker in official influence, and I am very much pained to see ao many or my New England friends yielding np the high standard of morals ao requisite to the Presidential candidate in the past. Nothing has been said in this miserable attempt which can bring him into the society of the pure statesmen of the past. It would indeed be deplorable if the yonug men of this nation should be informed by this election that the people of the United States eon dene tho offenses proved against James G. Blaine. The moral effect would be very depressing "should they be told by his election that they can lie, defraud, become demagogues bribe givers and takers, and still not forfeit the public confidence. It is a humiliating spectacle to see so many men like Hoar, Dawes and others twisting his dishonored record in such a way as to become a deliberate attempt to make his conduct reputable. To me the action of thoso who sneer at the attempt to purify the political atmosphere is contemptible.”