Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — Compare the Records. [ARTICLE]

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After the election In Maine Mr. Blaine thought he owed his neighbors an explanation, and he made it. Ho dodged the vote on the prohibition amendment and when he found that he was observed, unbosomed himself in his own characteristic way. His cowardly evasion and Gov. Cleveland’s manly declaration on the question of prohibition deserve to be placed side by side, so ail who run may read them: * BLAINE’S SPEECH. CLEVELAND'S LETTER. For myself, I decided In a free country, the not to vote at all on the curtailment of the abquestion. I took this solute rights of the inposition because 1 am dividual should only be chosen by the Republi- such as are essential to can party as the repre- the peace and good orsentative of national der of the community, issues, and by no act of The limit between the mine shall any question proper subjects of govbe obtruded into the ernmental control and national campaign those which can be which belongs properly more fittingly left to to the domain of State the moral sense and politics. Certain advo- self-imposed restraint cates of prohibition aud of the citizen should be certain opponents oflcarefully kept in view, prohibition are eachiThus laws unnecessariseeking to drag the is-!ly interfering with the sue into the national.habits and customs of canvass, and thus tend-Any of our people which ing to exclude from Are not offensive to the popular consideration'moral sentiments of the the questions which civilized world, and press for national de-,which are consistent cision. If there be anyiwith good citizenship question that belongs and the public welfare, solely to the police.are unwise and vexapower of the State, itiAtious. the'control of the liquor traffic,' and wise, men will not neglect national issues in the year of a national contest. It was supposed that Mr. Blaine voted as a citizen of Maine, but it seems that he voted, or rather dodged the vote, as a candidate for the Presidency. Let us wait and see what the freemen of America will say to the shuffling, double-dealing, hypocritical demagogue as compared with the straightforward, courageous, and incorruptible Governor of New York. The more the records of these two men are examined the plainer it appears that but one answer can be given: Turn the rascals out.