Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Why Edmunds Is Too Busy to Electioneer. New York Times. [ARTICLE]

Why Edmunds Is Too Busy to Electioneer. New York Times.

Senator Edmunds his not been making speeches for Blaine, in Ohio or elsewhere. He is in Washington looking into the affairs of the Union Pacific railroad company, and striving to devise plans for legislation that will ccmpei that eompauy to fulfill its contracts with the government and pay a part of the Immense deb’ which it owes to the people. The act of 1878, framed by Senator Thurman and himself, wnich was so strenuosly opposed by Blaine, Stephen W. Dorsey, William Pitt|Keliogg, and others of their kind, must be supplemented by new legislation. And so it happens that, while Blaine the jobber and king of the lobby, is posing as the friend ot the people and defender of their rights, the honest Senator from Vermont, the people’s real friend, is ryihg to regain for them a part of <hnt which has been taken away by he influence and acts of Blaine and his fellow-jobbers in aud out of congress.