Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Some of Mr. Blaine’s Mistakes. [ARTICLE]

Some of Mr. Blaine’s Mistakes.

Mr. Blaine made a mistake when hr .:/ e his sanction to Kdowuo'uiihgism thirty years ago. He did not forsee then that the time would come when he would be asking for Irish-American votes to help elect him to the Presidency. He made a mistake w l ' i lie dictated, or inspired, ai any rate distributed, the Madigan circular, nine years ago, and forgot to cover his tracks. He forgot that chickens of that breed come home to roost.

He made a mistake eight years ago when he read a garbled series of the Mulligan letters to the House of Representatives. He forgot that there were others of those letters which he had not succeeded in obtaining from their custodian under false pretenses. He made a greater mistake when he allowed his injudicious mouthpiece to attack stainless character of James Mulligan and provoke that gentleman to publish the rest of those letters. He made a mistake when he attacked the State of Massachusetts in the Senate of the United States, and rejoiced because the ‘old women’ represent that Commonwealth in the Senate were unable to reply to him. He made a mistake when lie turned a contemptuous ear to the appeals of Irish Arnerl can citizens, unjustly impriH oned in British dungeons, for a fair trial and the protection to which their citizenship entitled them. % He made a mistake when he used the great influence of his position as Secretary of State to support a thousand million dollar swindle against the helpless government of Peru. He made a mistake when he instructed the Half-Breeds in New York to slaughter Secretary Folger at the polls and' aid in the election as Governor of the man who is to-day liis formidable competitor for the Presidency. To come down to the present year, lie made a mistake when he inspired a cowwraJy attack of Governor Cleveland’s private character which now, however, shamefully recoils on himself.

He made a mistake when he contemptuously ignored a polite invitation from the Irish National League' to be present -it the Boston Convention, while pretending to pewae as the great friend of Irish-. Americans at home and abroad. Some of those mistakes are only the blunders of a shallow politician, but most of them are mistakes which are otherwise know as crime*. From his own standpoint of morals he lias made no mistakes, because he has made money, If the acquisition of money were the test of worth, Mr Blaine is more deserving of the admiration of his fellowcitizens than Governor Cleveland, who has remained poor throughout his public life. The people do not want to invest with the great power of the Presidency a man who has proved himself a blunderer m every place where he has not proved himself a knave. A greater mistake than any made by Blaine would be that made by the country should it choose such a man for its ruler. Happily there is no danger for for such a misfortune.