Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Page 7

A WORD TO VOTERS.

Three Powerful Documents Issued to Lovers of Honest Government Republican Corruption at the Polls as Evidenced by the Result in Ohio, The WBl of the People Trampled tfeider Foot by Desperate Men. Demeerate Urged to Force the Fightfatg with Vigor All Along the Line. TACTICS EXPOSED. An AdOrem by the National Democratic Committee. To the People of the United States: The result es the elections in the States of Ohio and Weat Virginia is before you. Ohio ohoee Republican electors in 1868,1872, 1876, and 1880. West Virginia chose Republican Presidential electors la 1868 and 1872, and Democratic electors in 1876 and 1880. Garfield obtained a plurality in Ohio in 1880 of 31,227 votes. The Republican candidate in the late election for Secretary of State was a gallant soldier and a reputable man. The vote of the Republican party in that election was broken down by the weight of Mr. Blaine, a factional seeker after the Presidenoy. The people then elected a Democratic majority of the Congressional delegation of the State. We may confiden ly expect a majority in Onio for Cleveland and HendncKs in November. West Virginia has by its splendid and decisive majority for a Democratic Governor at the October election already declared its purpose to give its electoral vote for our candidates in Nov mb r. The B aine managers employed extraordinary methods in both States. They expended not less than $580,0 0 in Ohio, and more than sloo,ooo in West Virginia in their political work. They did not use money only. They called from every State the officeholders beet fitted to do the woik at which they were put. They crowded these two States with such men. They employed on political jobs the mon engaged in the postal service of the United Stales. They left the veterans who had saved the life of the nation without the pay to which they were entitled, under the pretense of having an insufficient clerical force in the 1 ension Bureau, and then used the Commissioner of Pens.ons and a great number -of his clerks as parts of the political machinery in the late elections in Ohio and West Virginia. I has been openly < harg u, without demal, that the payment of the veterans by the Commissioner of Pensions has been delayed bv him for the purpose of coercing th. m to vote tor Blaine. These abu-es of politi. al power have been committed under the overlooking eye of Mr Blaine and with his lull san nion. They snow the manner in which, if he were elected, public offices would be subordinated to his personal service and the bounty of the country be made the means of advaneng his personal interests. They made the Marshals of the United States and their deputies, who ought to be guardians of the rights of every c.t.zen of the United States, a part of their mach ne force. They armed them, and incited them to violence and outrage. They expect to pay for the weapons »?d services of these men o tot the Treasury or ttie United States. They made Mr Blaii.e one of their county and wardworkers in Ohio and V* est V irginia, and he entered with zest upon the familiar dut es. Th.y devised with his knowledge methods of compelling workmen to vote as their employers dictated. They kept him in daaly association with the worst elements of their political organization. Thev made film tneir counselor in every disreputable plan which they dev.sed to promote his success. Ho could not have been a stranger to their purpose to make gains in Cincinnati at the late ejection by using armed Deputy Marshals and armed negroes to drive voters from the pol.s. '1 he m thods of the campaign in Ohio and West Virginia and the share of their candidate in those methods have added to the opprobrium already renting upon his name, an I have assured his defeat at the general elect on in November. Mr. Blaine has been a member of the House of Representatives, a Senator in Congress, and a Secretary of i-tate of the United States. He has been accused of corruptly using his influence as Speaker and as a member of the House of Representatives for his individual profit. His misconduct has been proved by his own letters. These have confronted him wherever he has gone. He attempts no explanation. The phrases #f these letters are so w.ell kn wn that they are by-words on the streets and jests upon the stage. A Speaker of the House of Representatives or a member of that House who would barter his influence tor money or property might avail himself of the larger opp rtunities which the office and powers of a President afford. These are not words dictated by party rancor. The sun up the judgment of that independent press which is and always will remain the bulwork, of good and constit tional government. They ex pres, the convictions of the leading Republican j urnals and the belief or those distinguished Republican sta esmen :nd citizens whose love of country has forced them to declare that the nomination of Mr. Blaine was one not fit to be made. There is teason for our confidenc- that we will ach’eve a victory in November. The army of officeholders engaged for a month past in the business of manipulating votes in Ohio and West Virginia must now disband. Each man of the number must go to h s own place. The Commissioner of Pensions and his bureau clerks can not be concentrate i for political uses in the November ole tions. W hen they are acting individually in their several States they will be unable to do mischief. The marshals of the United States. by reason of the powers which they exercise, may again do harm in November. They ought to unde stand that for what they h-ve done and lor what they mav do they will be hereafter hold to the strictest account by a justly indignant people. The hopes of reward an the pr m see of indemflitv which hav been hold o t to them will not a\ ail them in tne days which arc close at hand. The country is fully aroused. It is alarmed by the corrupt influences surrounding Mr. Plaine and will relect him as President. Mr. Bia n has grown rich The m n around trim have grown rich. Tne speculators whom he his aided by framlnr laws to suit them are rich. Tne corporations which be h»s helped have monopolized the public lands. 1 t trade is stagnant. The commerce of the country has decayed. Mills are stand.ng idle. Where wages have not been stopped, thev are reduced. Mechanics and labore s go about seeking employment in vain. Women and children are begiun ng to want bread, and yet the farmer can find no profitable market ior his grain. These circumstances afford conclusive proof that a few interests have been cared for by the Republican managers at the expense of the interests of the great body of thepeojle. lhe tre itirnin this, favored land of such extremes of wealth and poverty and the evil days which have overtaken all who engaged in labor are n t your fault. It fa ts been and is the fault of those selfish men who use the powers which you gave them f r their own advantage, leaving you to fare as be‘t you could, it is for you to det rmino wh ther these evils shall continue and increase, oroiminish a dend in general p osperity shared ii by all alike. Vou have a right to expect that your party leaders to whom you have given support and acc- rded honors in pas years wdl lay aside all differen es and estab ish a lasting claim upon your gratitude by making common cause in your supreme effort to obtai the blessings of a good government. Vou wll not be disappointed. Rem mber that victory in November over the unscrupulous men who are now endeavoring to seize the Presiden- y can only be assured by your oomi lete organization. When men are of one mind and want to impress their opinion upon the commun ty in which they live, they must stand together and work tog ther. The highest and best organization of which men are capable is th t in wh ch eve y man wants to do that part of the common work which he can do, and does it with all his might. Your organizations ought to be of such nature, and if th y are, Gov. Cleveland will bo elected in November by an unparallelsd maiority. W. H. Barnum, Chairman. A P. Gobman, Chairman Executive Committee. BIAND BY ioht GUNS. Address of the Ohio Democratic Committee. To the Honest and True Patriots of Ohio and of the U uited States: The result of the election in Ohio for State officers should arouse every citizen who loves his country to a realizing sense of the dangers which menace our free institutions. The men who stole the f residency io 1876 mean to repeat Ifceir methods even with more audacious desjier

ation ii 1884. To them nothing is sacred ; liberty is a farce, and the ballot-box a burlesque. Never since the e periment of free government was begun cn this continent has the wor.d witnessed such a degradation of the ri-ht of franchise, such desecration of citizens nip, and such desperate, corrupt, and polluted methods as were resorted to by rase ds who wer "not citizens of Ohio to ■ itefeat the honest will of the people at the ballet-box. A million dollars rais d by wealthy stock jobbers and “monopolists was sent into tne State. Witu it came the scum of the country, thieves, ex-dete tires, repeaters, and Government officials headed by W. W. Dudley, Chief of the Pension Bureau. Although thousands of. widows, otj hans, and maimed soldiers have been waiting patiently for y-ars for pensions promised them and due them from the Government, large num burs of employes and special agents from the Tension Office, beaded by their chief and non-resi-d nta of oho, spent .our weeks in the State under Government pav, engaged tn preparing for the frauds committed last Tuesday. In addition 2,t»uO men. many of them outlaws and desperate characters, and but few of them citizens of Dhto, were sworn in as Deputy United States Marshals in Cincinnati. Armed with weapons purchased by the corruption fund furnished by. Dudley and his gang, they surrounded the polls in that city, voted where they pleased, bulldozed, beat, and shed blood at plea ure, interfering with our citizens in the discharge of their most sacred duties. The enumeration of male inhabitants of Cincinnati in 1883 shows but 66,2 -8 males, of which number 1,683 were colored, and yet over 72,000 votes were polled at the election in that city. The enumeration taken in 1883 nclud d all persons over the age of 21 years, whether they were naturalized i itizens or not. Yet within a period of fifteen months from that date we fin 1 cast in that city 7 OiX)' more votes than there were citizens a year previous. At least 6,000 votes cast in Hamilton County were fraudulent Republican vot siast by United Stages Marshals and non-r&idents. Notwithstanding these shameful metnbds the Republicans have only succeeded in securing a plurality of about 10,060 for the head of their ticket on a total vote cast of nearly 800,oo0—a loss of -y.OJO in majority as compared with the vote for State officers when James A. Garfield was a candidate four years ago. On the day following the election t ie Republican Committee of Ohio, with a reckless dlsr gard for truth and imitating the example of their Illustrious chief, caused to be spread broadcast over the country a statement that they had carried Ohio by 33,000 majority. For political effect they were willing to exaggerate and lie. We feel it our duty to lay these facts before the people of the country. The result of the election in Ohio need not discourage Democrats here or elsewhere, but. considering the fearful odds against us, must and will give cause for encouragement to the people of Ohio to continue this fight. The battle has just begun. The men, the money, the methods which gave the Republicans ihelr unholy and discreditable but meager majority on Oct. 14 have disappeared. We mean to carry Ohio in November tor honest men and an honest administration of an honest government. It will take the same men, rlie same methods, and the same money to give James G. Blaine one-half t e majority in November that the Republican State ticket secured in October. Their entire gang must be brought back to maintain their iil-gotten victory. Ohio will give a Democratic majority in Npvember for Cleveland, Hendricks, and honest government. Let every Democrat in Ohio from this day forward again enter upon the fight and cease not his exert.ons till the polls close on the evening of the 4th of November.

G. H. BARGER, Chairman.

Henby Bohl, Secretary.

THE INDEPENDENTS.

Au Appeal to the Friends of Honest Government. The National Committee of Republicans and Independents, of which George William Curtis is chairman and Georne Walton Green is Secretary, issues an appeal to all friends of clean politics and honest government for their active and full support from now until election day. The address ays: “The response to our efforts has been beyond our hopes in Massachusetts, Connect.cut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvan a, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lowa, and Wisconsin. Vigorous organizations of Republicans co-operate with us directly or through their committees. We have distributed 1,00-i.ot;o ot our own documents, and we, desire to send out 1,000,000 before election day, everywhere that we can reach honest voters who will read the actual facts as to the candidates. Our ranks grow, and our work grows. New names reach us every day from almost every State. The campaign looks well. Hard work by earnest men will mike New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey sure. Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lowa, and Wisconsin are already doubtlul States. The result in Ohio and West Virginia confirms our belief that Gov. Cleveland will win. Every new charge against Mr. Blaine, wherever specific facts appeared, has been probed, and In almost every case found by the evidence, furnished in his own handwriting, to be true. Eve-y new accusation against Gov. Cleveland, wherever specific facts gave any clew, has been probed and found to be false. Our associates at Buffi-lo have investigate I each of the scandals concerning his later life there wbicn his opponents are now scattering in anonymous pamphlets throughout the land, and find them untrue hearsay gossip, credulously circulated by the few persons who have lent themselves to this work. The rumors and alleged evidence of scandals at Albany have caused us to make the most thorough and direct inquiry ther-, as the result of which we declare our full belief that his private as well as his public life in that city has lieen absolutely beyond reproach. We urge, therefore, that upright citizens of the strictest standard of private morals will Lil in their duty if they permit an early transgression frankly acknowledged and amply atoned for, about which has been woven the network of lies defiling the campaign, to prevent their using the vote they hold in trust for the whole people againt the man who represents persistent and defiant prostitution of public office for private gain. We appeal to every true Republican to stand by us in rebuking the false Republicanism of James G. Blaine. A vote that overwhelms him redeems the party and makes sure for all time that the conscience of the American people w-ill not have a man without conscience for the head of this nation."

THOUSANDS OF BOLTERS.

The Republican Revolt in the Empire State Assuming Surprising Dimensions. [New.York dispatch.] The Independent New York State Committee has just completed a thorough canvass of the State, in order to ascertain by actual figures the real strength of the Independent movement. The result surpasses the expectations of the most sanguine Cleveland men. Ihe numerical strength of the Republi an revolt in this State, oui side the cities ot New York aud Brooklyn, is shown to be 130,000. Col. Fellows has been in many of the larger towns in the State, nd has had sufficient experience as a cammdgner to give his views some weight. He thinks the Republicans seriously injured themselves by making claims about Ohio immediately after the election t icre which were not fulfilled when the returns began to come in. In every town in which he has made a speech he has found a spirit prevailing which has not been manifested in any Presidential year since 1850, with one exception—during the Tilden campaign. He finds that the Irish vote has lost but little of its loyaltv to the partv, and thinks that the claims made by the Butler men are rather amusing. Ho believes that Mr. Butler will be doing very well if he gets 15,0(0 votes in Brooklyn and New York, and is quite satisfied thas St. John will more than make good whatever inroads upon the Democratic vote may be made by the Massachusetts statesman. This, he submits, will make the disaffected Republican vote for Cleveland a clear gain, and will insure him a majority of 100,000 in the State.

He Flatly Lies.

At Detroit Mr. Blaine took occasion to deny in explicit and emphatic language that he ever belonged to the Know-Nothing party. CoL E. Z. C. Judson, better known as "Ned Buntline," and at o»e i ime the chief organizer of KnowNothing lodges in the United States, has answered an inquiry on this point as follows: “Your letter of inquiry received. In reply I brieiiy and positively say that I worked in the same native American ran. s with James G. Blaine In 1863, 4, an i 5, and he was a strong and useful advocate of its doctrines and got his first political advanoem- nt w. He that partv was in power. When tic now denies it, to g t the Irish Homan Cat .o.io vote, he does not merely equivocate, as he does on many of his financial points —he flatly lies!” The papers which tell us they are afraid that if Clevo and is elected he will be controlled by Vanderbilt are driven to a wonderfully weak extreme. Vanderbilt is putting in his best licks for Blaiue, and was not long ago one of the conspicuous visitors to and counselors of the Republican committee at its headquarters. The gentle men who pretend to fear that Cleveland would be co trolled by the railroad king are presumably trying to hide the damaging fact that the man whose sentiment takes the form of “the public be d d” is cheek by jowl with the gentleman whose sentiment is summed up in the words: “I can cast an anchor to the windward in your behalf if you desire it"

TAMMANY BEATS THEM ALL

Its Indorsement of Cleveland the Greatest Demonstration Ever Seen in New York. Honest Greyer Cleveland Heartily Indorsed by the Great Democratic Organization. ” [New York telegram.) John Kelly and Tamma-iy beat the record tonight. showing to New York ti e great st politiiaidisplay within the memory of the oldest sachem. For three weeks preparations had been rushed for the demonstration and the smooth working of the entire affair, 'io-night indicated the wonderful discipline and complete control of Tammany Hall over its twenty-four Assembly district or an zations. Mr. Kelly had promised to indorse Cleveland in a manner befitting the dignity of t e oldest political organization in existence, and that promise was fully redeemed. At early dusk the sky in the vicinity of the Tammany wigwam and Union Square became brilliant with pyrotechnic lights, until from the lower i art of the city it appeared as it the ghost of the Chicago fire had taken possession oi the central part of the city. Before 7 o'clock the streets and avenues immediately leading to Union Square became crowded with men, women, and children. Street cars, omnibuses, and other vehicles gave up the struggle, and Tammany, with its invited and uninvited guests, took possession, hive hundred metropolitan police were present to maintain order among fully 130, ooh people. The fireworkp display alone cost $9,800, and thirtytwo military bands and drum corps added their music and noise to the scene.

The vast wigwam on Fourteenth street was opened at 7 o’clock, and immediately became filled with members of Tammany, who yielded places to strangers whenever required. Senator Bayard, the chief speaker of the night, was escorted to the hall fiy William Butler Duncan, and met with a grand welcome. Mayor Franklin Edson and John Kelly, Lnked arm in arm, led the procession to the platform, and wbre greeted with thunders of applause. Then came Gen. Spinola. Judge Gorman, Joseph J. O'Donoghue, Dr. Shepherd, Henry Gunther, and fifty other sachems equrflly well known. Mayor Edson was wildly cheered as he advanced to the desk to open the meeting. It was the first time he had ever seen the inside of the hall, and he raid so amid great laughter. Senator Bayard was then introduced, and spoke at great length, followed by John Kelly. The mom nt, the g reat Tammany chief arose from his chair the audi noe rose and cheered for several minutes. Mr. Kelly spoke with great enthusiasm and randor, and pledged to Cleveland the united, unselfish, unwavering support oi Tammany. He said in closing: “It is the duty of every man belonging to the Tammany organization to vote for the man who has given us the good government which we now enjoy. Tammany Hali will stand by film, and we will leave no stone unturned to eleot him.” Senator Thurman and John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, al o delivered brief addresses. Mrs. Delia 1 arnell was the recipient of repeated cheers as she entered and left the hall.

Scattered about Irving place. Fourteenth street, and Union Square were seven grand stands at which the speakers were: Gov. Abbett, of New Jersey; J. V. L. Findlay, of Maryland; Col. E. T. Wood, Gen. Viele, George H. Forster, Maj. Haggerty, Congressman Belmont, the Hon. George L. Converse, 8. 8. Cox, John J. Adams, Coroner Levy, Henry Bischoff, Jr., W. Bourke Cochran, Senator Cullen, Jefferson M. Levy, Gen. Cochiaue, and Michael H. Sigerson. The torchlight procession was the greatest display of the kind ever seen la this city. There were ol.uoo regular members of Tammany in line, 20JJ00 wearing gay uniforms. Early In the evening Senator Thurman addressed a great m.etlng of Young Democrats in Brooklyn.

HARD TIMES.

One of the Causes That Produce Them. [Speech of Col. John R. Fellows at Cincinnati.) Oh. it is easy to scatter promises of protection from the rear platform of railroad trains. [Applause.] But it is a different thing to look into the laces of hungry men, anxious for those dearer to them t.ian their own lives, and tell them about the prosperous condlt on of the American laborer. Let Mr. Blume go into the Hocking Valley, if he does, and look into the faces ot the anxious men; look into the pale, p nched features of the women; look into the pleading eyes of little children who a few months or years ago had comfortable homes and employment. Let him now find them living in tents along the wayside, in tents that the benevoltnoe of your Democratic Governor in this btato has provided. [Great applause.] Let him see them turned out of their little cabins, under the shade of which for years they have prospered. Talk to those men about the blessings and beneficence that the Republican party has brought to them. Why is it? Hus there been a pestilence In the land? Has famine wasted our fields? Has war destroyed our population? Oh, no! For twenty years no hostile shot has been heard, and God's smile has rested like a perpetual benediction upon our fields. Our valleys are clothed in their sheaths of corn. Our mountains and hili sides are dripping with fatness. Six hundred million bushels of wheat this year—enough to give twelve bushels to every man, woman, child, and little infant in all this land—a full year’s supply for every soul within our borders. We have raised 1,800,000,'>00 bushels of corn this year in this country. We have raised a corresponding quantity of rye, and barley, and oats, and potatoes, and everything that cofitr butes to supply the daily necessities of man and beast. Out West, with ttie benefits of protection, our granaries are filled to bursting. Our storehouses are full to overflowing. Corn is being used for fuel, and wheat is being used for fertilizing, because it is the cheapest fuel and? fertilizer. You hear the cry of “Hard times!" "hard times!" going up throughout the land. You see ihe shadow of an impending evil brooding like a specter at 1 o.OJo firesides, with all this matchless wealth of production around ns. In the face of that a great caravan in palace cars is going through your State ov r the bodies of thousands of prostrate lajjprers, shouting for protection to American labor and American industries, and asking vou to continue them in power that they may perpetuate that policv. What is the cause of this woe? It can be told in a word. It is overtaxation.

WISCONSIN INDEPENDENTS.

They Issue a Stirring Appeal to the People. The Independent Executive Committee of Wisconsin has Issued an address which dwells in commending terms ui on Gov. Cleveland's career in public life; reviews Blaine's connection with the Hocking Valley coal fields, and his denials of the Mulligan letters: says that the enrollment ot voters in Wisconsin has exceeded “our most sanguine exj -eolations," and that the Independent vote will not fall short of 10,000, and is likely to reach 15,(Xhj. It savs, further, that in New York i-tate 130,000 Indej endent voters are enrolled, and that victory there is assured. It closes hus: Vicoryis ours: from it will follow an administration fraught with better and more farreaching consi-que c s than anv which has gone before. Free from partisan abuse or partv dictation, thoroughly searching into existing wrongs, and scrupulously w tchlul of new instrumentalities, official uprightness and tide ity will be reflected back through all the various branches of our political system and exten 1 to business and industrial relations. Peculations and speculations will give place to honest industry and useful methods in the accumulating of wealth.

Suggestive Questions for Workmen.

Has not the Republican party controlled the, national administration tor almost twenty-four years? Has It not enacted all the laws during that time? Has it not executed the laws by men of its choice? Has the party brought prosperity to you and your families? Are you working for good wages all the time? Are there no mills closed? Are wages not cut down? Do you find living < heap, rents low, provisions abundant and low priced, clothing and other supplies down to the cut in pay ? How many days have you been idle since last New Year’s? Can you tell when work will be abundant and wages good? Are business affa rs satisfactory to you? Did not tiie Republican party make business affairs what they are and as bad as they are? How much more are, your wages to-’day than they were pour years ago, wi en this same Republican party promised you more pav and more work if yon would support the ticket? Who has grown richer in the last four years of Republican p 1 cv? you or the men who were rich ihen and who-sect to allure you with the same sort of argnm nt now? Don’t you remember th it you were told that if you would vote tor Garfield you would have prosperity; for Han ock, adversity? What have you now?— Albany A t ons.

Republican Stealage.

By the official reports to Congress of the differ nt Secretaries of the Treasury and B< liclvors of the '1 reasnry from 1 Gi to 18X3, during the twenty-three yevrs of Republican administra-

tion of the Government the thefts of jrablfe money aggregated H 5,527.625,27, wttfle trom Washington's administration down to Buchanan's, both inclusive, a p nod o seventy-two years, taere was a loss of but $24 4H,82D.«2, ai> excess of $21.u65,7 , .»6.‘.>5 stolen in twen ■ y-three yea s of Repub! can admintatrat on o eg severi-ty-two years of p evious a ’mlni-tratu n«, covering every 1 reel tent fro u Waahingt u to Buchanan, both inclus.ve.— lndianapolis Sentinel.

RASCALLY BUSINESS.

The Lovely Medill and the Beautiful - flower— Their Dirty Work Exposed. [From the Chicago News.] The following appeared la the Chicago tribune of the 1s th ult as the true copy of a letter from Senator Edmunds to a Wisconsin official: “Burlington, Vt. Sept 18. "Dear Sib: I have yours of the 15th. I aa sure th 4 I never wioto or said that the gentleman you re er to‘acts as the att rney of Jaj Gould,' for lam not < onscious of havl g thought so. As I have pub idy stated, I expect to vets the Republican ticket. Yours truly, "Gbobge f. Edmunds.” The same letter has been re- rinted with ed torial comment -everal times since the .Mth. it was vouched for as genu.ne in the Tribune or last Friday. We are now assured by Senator Edmund* himself that the Tribun< made tne last publication with a full knowledge that the letter was * substantial forgery. A full week ago the Senn • tor mallad aoor ect copy of the letter, with a c py of the note to which it was an answer, U»' the editor of the Tribune, nd that authoritative denial was on Mr. MediU's table when h' published the fa’sehood. Here are the genuin letters, the portions suppressed to the Tribune being in italics:

[Copy.] State of Wisconsin. Bureau of Labor St-i td-tics, Madison, Sept. 1\ 1884. M u Dear Si/ Yon have always answered promptly and fulh all th , questions, when an opinion was wanted from one highly este -med thr.iugbont the n& tion. I have asked of you upon political or othrt subjects. Here is a paragraph that has I tees published and republished in every Bourboa organ in the West: “EDMUNDS ON BLAINE. "Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, in a letter 1880: Mt is my deliberate opinion that Mr. Bia nr acts as the attorney of Jay Gould. Whenevel Mr. Thurman and I have settled upon legislation to bring the Pacific Railroads to terms o' equity with the Government, up has jumper James G. Blaine, musket in hand, from behluc* the breastworks of Gould's lobby to tire in out backs." Is this a true extract from any letter of yours" If so, did Mr. Blaine, as such attorney, ever d< anything wrong or disreputable, or contrary tc public interests? When, and for what purpose, did Gould engage Blaine as bis attorney? What salary did he receive from Gould?' Has his term of service for Goul I tcrmin:-ted? If so, wm-n did it terminate? If Mr. J lain • was Gould’s attorney, when did he "fire into the backs" of yourself and Mr. Thurman—giving dates and subject matter under consideration when the firing was done? If Mr. Blaine was ever the attorney of Gould, is that sufficient reason why the Republican party should be defeated in the present contest.' Did Mr. Blaine, to your knowlege and belief, ever do anything that would render it advisable for old Republicans to turn back on their lives and their records and make Grover Cleveland, with all that implies. President of the United States? With the highest respect, I am truly your obedient servant, Frank A. Flower. Hon. George F. Edmunds. (Copy.] Burlington, VL bepc is, 1884.—Dear Sir [Private]: I have yours of the 15th. ds lam not in the. letter-urming business, I mark this,as 1 hare some similar one*, "urinate." I am sure that I never wrote or said that the gentleman you refer to "acts as the attorney of Jay Gould,” for lam not conscious of ever having thought so. 1 presume. it is true, altho’ 1 ran find no copy of the letter, that m 1880 I did write to some constituent adversely to the nomination of the gentleman named, and I believe it to be true that he was on the side oj the railroads in the struggle of 1878, and it is my belief that I said so. As I have publicly stated, I expect to vote the Rei üblican ticket. Yours, Geo. F. Edmunds. Frank A. Flower, Es i., Madison, Wi». Is not this a pretty piece of business? This rascal Flower takes a confidential letter, written in response to his urgent request, suppresser so macli of it as to utterly destroy its meaning, and gives it to the press. Th.) editor of the Tribune prin s the garbled letter; a correction is demanded by the author; the letter is reprinted in the garbled lorm and the correctios is suppressed.

No Protection for Labor.

“What do you think, Mr. Beecher, of Blaine’* protection speeches in Ohio, when the inlnrtf who were formerly employed in the Hocking valley mines are starving because labor is not protected?" “1 think that every laboring man in this country can not fail to see that labor has no protection. In big factories where goods are manufactured, and in the mining regions, they are importing clv ap labor from abroad. There Is no tariff to protect the workingman against the cheap labor wh ch boats down liis wages. Blaine and the e other men in Ohio are talking about protection, but they do not mean to protect labor. Hungarians, Bohemians, and in the past Chinese have I een imported to this < ountry by wealthy manufacturers and owners of mines. This has lately been done in the Hocking valley mines. When the market is glutted with goods and the manufacturers desire to retrench th y begin by reducing tin wages of the labo er. Kot only are there thousands of mon out of employment in the West, but we have the same reports from New England Protection, as expounded by Bepubliean orators, means protection only for the manufacturers.'*— lnterview with Henry Ward Beecher.

Campaign Notes.

The plumed knight’s whining appeal, “Please have pity upon a poor, brokendown old politician with six children and a score of relatives to support, and give liim the Presidency,” does not fall very pleasantly upon the ears of American voters. Protection? Yes. Protection against poverty; protection against hard times; protection against the cause which keeps 300,000 men out of work at the apprea h of winter, a hundred furnaces dark, a hundred mills idle, and a hundred mines closed; protection against shams; protection against rascals. Against all these evils, and the greatest of all, Blaineism, good Lord protect us! In 1878 Mr. Blaine, th< n a Senator from Maine, led Dorsey and Kellogg and such like scoundrels and corruptionists in a fight against the Thurman funding bill. In giatcful remembrance of that service, as well as in expectation of the pippins and th ese th it are to come, Jay Gould, the principal owner in the Union Pacific, is now backing Blaine with votes and with money. Gen. Grant was asked to serve as a Republican elector in place of Rev. Dr. Derrick, but he absolutely declined. He told the member of the committee who approached him on the subject that he was out of politics. A member of the State Committee said to-night: “Yes, we asked Gen. Grant to serve as an elector and he refused. He said that h e did not wish to come into public Ife again, especially this year."— New York telegram.

Could things bo worse under any change that might take place? Are not things! already so bad that any change would be an improvement? And does not lhe moderat’, frugal, and beneficent policy foreshadowed in the action of the piesent Democratic lower house of Congre s, in cutting doy* appropriations and attempting to reduce taxes, give assurance that the Democratic restoia'.ion would be the beginning of an era of honesty, order, piosperity?— St. Louis Republican. The Blaine organs accuse Gov. Cleveland of knuckling to the corporation- because he vetoed the five-cent fre bill. Hbw does it happen that Jay Gould and Cyrus W. Fie d, the largest owners in the elevated roads affected by the bill, mid all the gre it corporations, are in f ivor of Mr. B aine? Is it not because they know that Sir. Blaine is with them heart and soul, and for the reason that he has found it profitable to work for them? The great corporations favor Blaine, or even Ben Butler, to Cleveland.— Boston Herald (Ind.).

BEECHER’S WRATH.

It Is Thundered Forth from the Heights of Jsr ~~— Cleveland’s Election Advocated as a Rebuke to Slander and Dishonesty. The Plymouth Pastor Reads a Letter Which ills Wife Received from Cleveland. [Near York Special to Chicago Times.] The Independent Republicans of Brooklyn held a grand demonstration in the mammoth rink to-night, and it was packed to the utmost limits. It was not only in numbers that the audience was remarkable, bnt it comprised thousands or the Lest citizens of Brooklyn, among whom were many who are very rarely seen at political gatherings, and th'-tr presence was a proof et the thorough earnestness of the better class of Republicans in their opposition to Mr. Blaine. Stepping to the trout of the platform. Mr. Beecher was greeted with tremendous cheers. After quiet hud lieen restored, the ■peaker said; "I am in dead earnest, and that you shall find out before I finish. I Cheers. I There are two great dangers that betide our Government. One is from the corruption of wealth, and the other the corruption of too long held power. 1 Prolonged applause.) It is a c mmon proverb that an honest man will stand watching, and that a dishonest man needs it., [Laughter.) All the governments of Europe are suffering from the cankering influence of money. It la an age of money. To-day the making of money st nds above all things. Why wa< it that Ru-sia failed in the Crimean war? Because Russia was honeycombed with dishonesty through all its officials, and it broke down because it had not the means to go on. Why wan it that Austria made a hasty peace with Napoleon the Little? Because she found that her exchequer was empty. She was exhausted pecuniarily. And when Napoleon 111. went against Germany it was like a charge of cavalry against a stone wall, and France broke down because the vast sums of money supposed to have been expended for imph ments ot war had been squandered on her conrtiers and officers, and she was cheated of her glory by the corruption of her people. "Now, what a reformer Mr. Blaine would make in all these ma ters, wouldn't he? [Laughter.] He wouldn't allow Dudley to go out West to teach the people of Ohio how to vote, would he? He wouldn’t allow Congress to give lands to speculative railroads, would he? [Laughter.) He would not allow corporations to cheat the Government of its just dues, would he? [Laughter.] He would seize the great transcontinental railroad by the thn at and help Thurman—[applause]—and Edmunds—[applause] to strike it down. You know he would, oon’t Sou? If bribery is to be the order of politics, ’ excessive taxation is to he kept up. there cun bo no better selection for President than James G. Blaine. Ho advised repudiation in West Virginia and he a vised making the whisky tax Sermanent for educational purposes. Every step e has taken in finance l as b on followed by a roarof laugi ter over the whole con ini nt, and yet we are talklngof the stat- sinanshipof Mr. Blaine. For twelve yea s I have wato. ed him, anxious that be should be the right man that lie ts not. lApplause.l For more than ten years I have

been afraid or the man—a num that needed a Cong- < s.-ional committee to investigate whether he was lionert or not; a man rejected by two conventions because it was feared that stories men told about him would prevent Ms election, as they will now that the th .rd convention has nominated hm.“ [Applause.] Mr. Beecher gave many instances of the duplicity of Mr. B nine, and then turned his alien th n to Mr. Cleveland: “’The air is murky with stories of Mr. Cleveland's private life. Lies so cruel, so bus ,so atrocious have never before been set in motion, as the cocki trke's eggs, brooded and hatched by rash and credulous clergymen. '1 hey couldn’t go to Mr. Cleveland with honest inquiry, but opened Ihclr ears to the harlot and the drunkard—sensation]—and promulgated a letter io pots n the faith of holy men and innocent women. Do timid minlst rs ever refect that the guilt of the vice or crime m asuns the guilt of him who charges it falsely?” [Cheers ] Mr. Beecher then paused, and stepping to the desk read in trembling ton' s thus: “My honored and beloved wife, quite unknown to me, made clippings from ncwspiipcrs, all of which were in resjiect to the lite of Gov. Cleveland in Albany. She sent them (o him with a letter that will not be published, but which would be a gem in English literature if it were published. As quick as »ad could return. she received a letter irour Gov. Cleveland, which 1 have had between two and three weeks, and which he meant to be, and marked, private, hut such a oontplexion has this canviisi taken that I telegraphed him two nights ago to ask if I might tase my discretion w th regard to it. His reply was: ‘Certainly, If it is your judgment.’ Now I read Gov. Cleveland's letter: ”[P ivate.J “Executive Mansion, I "ALf ANY, Oct 7. f "My Dear Mbs. Beecher: Your letter, as you may well supj oee, affected me deeply. What shall I say to one who writes so like my mother? I say ‘so like my mother,’ bpt I do not alto- , gether mean that, tor she died in the belief that her von was true find noble, < s she knew he wav dutiful, iind kind. 1 sm shocked and dumfounded by the clipping from n newspaper ttiat you send me, because it purports to give what a man actually knows, and no a mere report, as th other four or i.ve lies do which 1 have road or licard about my life in Albany. I have never seen in Albany a woman whom I have had any reason to suspect w«a in any way i adj—l do Ji now not where tiny such in Albany. I have never been house in Albany except the Executive Mansion, the executive chamber, the Grange club-house—twice at reccitions given to me, and on, I thlnx, two other occasions--and the re idcnces of perhaps fifteen or twenty of the best citizens to dine, etc. Of course 1 have been to th . church. The, e never was a man. who has woi ked harder or more hours in a day. Almost all my time'hrs beem-pent ln the execu ive chamoer, and I hardly think there have been twenty nigh sin ttao year and nine months I have lived in ARi&tiy, unless > was out of town, that I have left my worK earlier than midnight to find my bed at the mansion, lam at a loss to know how It is that meh terrible, w okod and utterly baseless lies can be invented. The cont mptible creatures who co n and pass these tilings appiar to think that the attair which 1 have not denied makes, me defenseless against any and all slanderers. As to my outwar 1 life in Bmlalo, the manifestation of confidence and attachment will h was t -n----dered me there bv all the citl ens mu-t be proof that I have not lived a disgraceful life in that city, and as to my life in Albany, all statements that tend to show that it has been other than laborious and perfectly correct are utterly and in every shade untrue. Ido not wonder that your good husb nd is perplexed. I honestly think I deslie his gooti opinion more than any aid he is disposed to render me. Ido not w ant him to think any better of me than I iieserve. nor to be deceived. tan n< t 1 manage to see him and tell him «haM can not write? I shall be in New York Wednesday and Thursday mo ning, I suppose, of next week. Thursday afternoon and evening I shall spend in Brooklyn “Having written tds much, it occurs to mo that such a long letter to you is unnecessary and unexpected. It is the most I have ever wiitten.Qn the i-übjfict refi-ned to, and I bee yon to forgive me kind and touching letter has led me into any impropriety, very sincerelv, i, Gro>eu Cleveiand. "I have marked this letter ‘I rhete.’ Y’ou musr. n t infer that I at all doubted your proper use of It. <« A " G. C.” » Than Mr. Bdecher continued: "When m tfae gloomy night of my own sufferings of years gone by I founded every depth of sorrow, 1 towed if God would bring the day star of hope to me,' I would never suffer brother, friend, or neighbor to go untrlend 'd should a Hie serpent seek to crush him. '1 hat oath I’ll regard now, because 1 know the bitterness of venomous lies. I will stand against the Infamous 1 es tha seek to sting to death a man and magistrate worthy of better fare. If I refuse to e . jiose to sl.ame the swiirni of liars that nuxi.lc in the mud or sling arrows at Mr. Cleveland from ambush, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my momh, amta my right hand .orget its cunning. [Tremendous ch< ering J “This mi'ii (.rover C eveiand does not know what dishonesty is. Jim Blaine does, and he has prespere by means of capital derived fro.n it. Judge Davis says that he could not vot; for Grover Cleveland because he had personally snjierintende i the hanging oi a criminal. Dees be infetid us to infer that a man slio< id not be sup, orted who attends str ctly to his duMi s. in whatever capacity? As Mayor ot the city of Buffalo he did his duty. As a rebuke to the mana.' ers of the Republican party, he was < xalted io the lositionof Governor of the Htate. [Applause. Nor has there bee> any opportun ty to criticise hs action since his aws-si-n to the guberm toiial chair. In this position he has been as simile ns a child and as sincere is a saint XM h good common sense and uncommon honesty, th< m h a ze lone Democrat, he has shown that lie loved the State, and country more than party. [Applause.]

While Blaine was bearing votes from grog-shop to grog-shop in Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Micuigan, and New York, there Mt in Albany Grover C eveland attending to the duties of his office prefe ring to let the ccun ry employ its own judgment aa to whether he should be cailed up higher. He isn’t acoeptsb e to some Democrat. Why? He is too honest for them. (Applause.] A man of •terliag hon sty is Grover Cleveland. If the Government la te be freed from the dang rs of a itniplnr combination that will endanger its future, Cleveland is the man to do IL [Applause. J They say we don’t wish to leave our party. Would you vote for Two d were he the nominee of your party? The logic of this Is infamous. The man who practices such principles ought not to go home until he has bathed nd cleansed himself thoroughly. To elect Mr. Bum under all the chargee made against him. and under hia hl-torv we published to the world, is to My to every impure man: "No matter what your life, if you get the regn'ar nomimtlon we will put you into the Presidential oLair. ’ Will you teach your children tnat lying is n A a sin? The truth is the cohesive thins whuh holds s ciety together. It is the Lond wide i creates trust between man and man, and to pat Mr. Blaine into the Pre- identtal cha r is to tesoh young men that lying is a foible. Will not such men aa Bay. rd. Thurman. Carlisle, and Lamar do for Cleveland’s cabin-1? Do you prefer that it should be Blaine** cabinet, made up of such characters aa Dorsey, Elkins, Jones, and ths like? How would you lite it to see Jay Gould seated in the chair of the Treasury? If you vote for St. John you vote in the str. If yon vote for Butler yon vote for mnd. If you vote for Cleveland you vote for aa honest man." [Great appiau-e.J When Mr Beecher finished, a mighty cheer for the reform Governor arose from the multitude.

THEN AND NOW.

Republican Opinions of Blaine Before Rls Nomination. The following savage asMttlk upon Mr. Blaine is from the New York 7'rr une: “Row it is shown that Mr. Bialnn never deserved hia good reputation. He has taken bribes in another case; he was habitually lor sale. He has made a fortune by the prostitution of his conscience." Thia assault was not provoked hy the latest batch of Blaine-Fisher eorresi ondonoe. It was printed Sept 30, 1872, when i la ne was not a candidate for tl.a Presidency, and when, therefore, partisan hate oould not have iuspired the attack. Mr. James D. Warren, Chairman of the New Yoik Republican Committee, who haa been acting as general manager of the exhibitions given by the Bialne combination in its “triumphal" tour from New York to Buffalo, 1* editor of a Republican organ in the latkr city, known as the (Commercial Advertiser. In the issue of that paper of May la last, Mr. Warren expressed his honest opinion of Mr. Blaine. Hero it is: “During his brief career as Secretary of State the business men found out that Bialne Is precisely the kind of a man that they do not want to see at the head of the administriitien. He remained jnst long enough to show that if he bad the power he could and would make an infinite amount of trouble Years have iMtssed since he walked eut of that office, and from facts roveaUd it has been discovered that Blaine was the eVil genius ot the Gat field aiiminlstr tion. Ho would surely have brought it into nitl'cnlties and possibly into disgrace. Out ide e f a ring of pollth is ns who have lound in Maine a bold fa t onal leader, ready for a raid wh re ‘spo Is' were to bo found, there was no regret expressed, nor wns there any felt, when his name was stricken from the list of cabinet officers. 'J ho man was at that time tested and round wanting. We do not turn over the defiled pages tha record as a member of the n itlonnl legislature. The business men know how much ther- was in ills career then to mark him as a man impt laixe, dangerous, and unreliable. We are referring now to the opi ortunity he haxt to shew what al llity or integrity he had tor im; ortant i.osltlon iu Federal administrative iunctions, ana how far he camo from reaching th i mark which even those who had expected least of him thought ho might attain.” After a comparison between tha official careers of President Arthur and Mr. Blaine, to the great disadvantage of the latter, Mr. Warren proceeded to stigmatize Mr. 1 lame as “ambitious, intriguing, and envious," and as “* * plumed knight' who, however brilliant in any sense of the word he may be, lakes good care that no strong light shall be turned upon his public record.” Has Mr. Warren changed his opinion of Mr. Blaluo since May 14, 1884? If so, when, and upou what grounds? If noL why is he advocating the election ot such a corrupt and dangerous man to the Presidency?

“MY DEAB FISHEB.”

Boine of the Letteas Written to Fisher by Itlalno While on u Nick Bed. Warren Fisher has given to the public some more very interesting and imj>orta.nt letters from Blaine to him in 1876, wh<n the plumed knight was so foitunate y suns ruck* during the Congressional investigation into bis Little Rock deals. They are aAfo.lows; [Private.] Ausuma, Saturday evening, July 1, ’76.— My Dear Mu. Fisher: 1 write from my sick bed. I want verv much to see you. 1 am very f orry you did not come to Washington when I requested. Can't you come to Augusta by train Monday ? Express train leaves eastern station at» o'clock, reaching hero at ip. m. You can return same evening. Or if xou can’t come by !) o'clock train, there is a train that leaves at 12 or 12: 0 noon and gets here about 8 p. m. You can return same night Do comt quickly. Hay no.hing to any one. Bnt do come. Yours sincerely, Jambs G. Blaine. [Soo over.) Important to you as well at myself that you come, VERY. [On the other side of sheet ! Don’t let any other human being except your wife know y< n are coming down. But do not lad to come—whatever you do, do not talk You will reg ot it it you don't c< me. On ttie following day Blaine wrote again as follows: Sunday Evbmng, July 2,1878. Mv Dear Mr. Fisher: It you have not started when this reaches ym, I pray you leave for Aneusta at once. lam very sick, but I know what I am talking about, and it is largely for your sake that I desire to see you, and to see you at once. Don’t delay. It may be too late. Don t retuse a sick man. J. G. B. Yonscan go back on return train. One hour will do here. Como directly to my house. Don’t go to hotel.

The Greatest Danger.

The worst result of Mr. Blaine’s election to the Presidency would be the low standard of political and public morality which the popular verdict would seem to sanction. The country could get along four yearn with a President who has never, during a long career, evinced any sympathy with the movement to separate the public service from partisan polities.— Boston Advertiser.

Political Points.

The Republican party has been in power during all these years duriifg which wages have been reduced, the rich growing richer and the poor poorer. Mt Dear Fisher: You can do me a favor that I will never forget. Publish n* more of my letters. Burn them. My love to Mrs. Fisher. J. G. Blaine. The more Blaine’s record is examined, the blacker it appears. If he ever failed to embrace an opportunity for dishonest action in his po itical Mfe, it would be refreshing to know it. H. B. Claflin, the great New York drygoods merchant, says that for obvious reasons ha cannot vote for Blaine. He is a life-long Republican, and will probably vote for Cleveland, who ho believes will be elected. We are by no means pleased with the thought of having Mr. Blaine President of the United States. His methods, through one of the most prominent carees that any politician has had, do not bear scrutiny.— Unitarian Review. The magnetic mendicant, who is begging his way to the White House, says he never offered a: y money for the Mulligan letters, and there never was a time when ho would have paid a single penny for them. Why did he go down on his knees w th tears in his eyes to entreat for letter* that he cared so little about? Tens of thousands of Republicans will, through party 10. altv, vote for Blaine to preside over the business affairs of 55,000,0( 0 < f people who would not appoint him, or anv one s milarly conv.cted, to any responsible position in their emplov. These men prefer party to country. There is a world of warning in thia state of affair*.— Boston Globe.