Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — A Republican Elector’s Trouble. [ARTICLE]

A Republican Elector’s Trouble.

A vacancy on the New York Blaine Electoral Ticket is probable. One of them who culls himself “one of the unfortunate 36 Republicans who have been designated to cast, if elect ed, the electoral of this (t at) Btat e fur that eminent politician. James G. Blaine, writes to the N. Y. Times: ‘ “If perchance we are elected will it be legal to cast my (bis) ballot In the following manner: “Electoral vote District. In order to advance the work of the ‘party of moral ideas,’ the ‘grand old Republican party,’ in order to promote honesty, economy and political reform iu the administration, this vote Ij cast ro elevate to the chief place in the party and the Government, the unsuccessful stock broker and bond manipulator. that eminent ttickster and tried end proved liar, James 0. Blaine, magnetism and civil service ret orm forever.” And follows with: “If you can enlighten me in any way so that I can vote the i epubiicap ticket and still retain my self respect as an honest man you will- greatly oblige other Republicans still groping io daikness. ” We quote part of the Times’ pointed answer to its befuddled correspondent: “To tboire whom partisanship blinds < r native dullness robs’of ths power to distinguish any of the grades of wrong-doing below arson and highway robbery it may seem that the act of voting for Blai e in volves no question of self respect.— The Elector whose letter we print is evidently of another opinion, and while there is a very remote probability that he will ever bn called upon to exercise the function of his office, w sec no course open to him but to resign from the ticket and (plainly give his reasons,”

The Bank of the Republican Corruption Fund this year has the following officers: President—James Guano Blaine, of Maine. Cashier—W. W. Dudley, of Indiana. The depositors are Vanderbilt, Gould, Fields, the several great mo - nooolies, the several collectors of assessments from government clerks Elkins, Jones and others. W. W. Dudley, Pension Commissioner frequently complains of lack of clerical force in his department, and yet he can assume the duty this campaign which devolved upon Dorsey in 1880—Distributor of “Soap” •• and, assisted by 192 of bis clerks, has peen engaged in the «ork since be . fore the election in Maine. Although the pay of Dudley and his 192 elerks goes on all the same, the business of his department must lag, and pen* stun claimants must wait, and suffer may be, until the republican corruption fund has been exhausted.