Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — Why Conkling Can’t Support Blaine. [ARTICLE]

Why Conkling Can’t Support Blaine.

Pray give my compliments to Mr. Blaine and tell him I am not engaged in criminal practice.—Roscoe Conkling. It is my deliberate opinion that Mr. Blaine acts as the attorney of Jay Gould. Whenever Mr. Thurman and I have set* tied upon legislation to bring the Pacific Railroads to terms of equity with tbe Government, up has jumped James G. Blaine, musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Gould’s lobby, to fire in our back.— Senator George F. Edmunds, of Vermont. It would indeed be deplorable if the young men of this nation should be informed by this election that the people of the United States condone the 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. — Bishop Huntington. If Cleveland was a good enough man for Mr. Blaine’s friends to make Governor of New York, perhaps some Repub* Means may think he is a good manto make President.— Roscoe Conkling. “Blaine is an important man for us to have feel all right toward us.”— Caldwell to Fisher.