Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — HARD TO PLEASE. [ARTICLE]

HARD TO PLEASE.

Our republican contemporaries are hard, very hard, to please. G. Warren Fisher and James Mulligan, of Boston, recently give to the world a second edition (a third edition being in abeyance) of what are best known as the Mulligan Letters—letters of the republican candidate for President of theUnitedStat.es Mr. Blaine hails theii publication with delight and expresses a wish that “they wiP b“ printed in every republican paper throughout the land.” adding: “there is nothing in them inconsistent with the most scrapulous l-onor and integrity.” The maj or and minor republi can organs, with one consent, deciare these letters a “perfect vindication” oi their candidate, and with equal unanimity disregard their candidate’s wishes so publish them. James GBlaine may be playing “bluff,” or his apologists may see through other lenses the darker disclo.ures of the official venality of the travelling beggar for votes, but that is not the question just here. The organs of the white leathered candidate denounce the circulation of this “perfect vindication” in the wake of Mr. Blaine’s peripatetic tramp as “scandalous” and dis ■ raceful.” Are they wiser and more astute than the “magnetic” Maine man in comm and of the republican hippodrome? But this is not all the eccentricity which a study of the columns of our esteemed republican contemporaries reveals. Mr. Fisher, one of the “vindicators,” of whom Mr. Blaine writes in exalted praise, and gratefully for "courtesy” and “unbounded liberaiis ty” towards him. is stigmatized by bis orgahs among other obnoxious forms of phraseology as a "broken-down drunkardand of Mr. Mulligan, even after the tearful and drama.ic scene exhibiting Mr. Blaine on his knees imploring Mr. Mulligan, for the sake of his wife and six childien, to spare him exposure, Mr. Blaine speaks iu no other than words of respect, this other “vindicator”, those organs denounce as a “self-convicted liar,” and both as “sharpers and thieves," and as “precious a pair of sharpers as go unhung.” Why this fusilade of epi tbets, for we have copied but a very few of the co - pliments they have ex. hausted Webster and Wocester t 0 employ, if the letters are “perfect vindicators," and a fortiori, tl.ose who give them to the world his “vim. dicutors"? Really, are not our republican contemporaries of every degree eccentrically hard to please?