Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Blaine England’s Choice, [ARTICLE]

Blaine England’s Choice,

William Henry Hurlburt, formerly editor of the New York World, but now a res. dent of London, England o.ioled Senator Joseph E. McDonald, of this State, on the 26th of Septema ber, as follows: London, Sept, 16.—J. E. McDonald, Indianapolis: It is not true that the leading British newspapers favor the election of Grover Cleveland and deprecate the election of Blaine. British commercial interests demand the eleuiiot. of Blaine, and practical Brkish exporters admit this to mo. Tue system of Federal taxation represe e l by Mr. Blaine has given England the warkets of the world. English men know that American exports ; Tj steadily declining, and that American manufacturers represent only 14 per cent, of these ex. orts. Englishmen know that American production bus outruu our capacity of home consumption Englishmen know that Democratic refoim extending t o free list o.'raw materials would so diminish tho cost olj American production as to drive English- goodsjout of foreign markets, increase the output of American factories enhance thv demand for intelligent American lu bor and raise the wagit of American wor<ingrnen. Democratic reform means death to Federal luxation un» der which Aiiierican exports have fallen off $83,000,000 in value since 1883 and $162,000 000 in value since Mr Blaine cam<* into powm with the late PresidentG utl id in 188). This Federal t. x itiou leedi the export trade of England. Wtiar wideawake English newspaper then can. advo cate she election of Mr. Cleveland? Englishmen know it is this Federal taxation which handicaps the w<l ,I‘uid intelligent labor of America as French protection now enables English labor to undersell France In the markets of French Africa Englishmen admit under reforme i Democrat ict i xation Am> ticai | abor miglit und ersell English produ -er« in England. We giow three- of the cotton of ttie world. Our cotton factories are the best appointed, our spin tiers the best paid and the best edu cated alive, Yet Englishmen taunt us with the assertion that our expor tn of cotton goods are annually diminishing even with an over supply at home and with millions of canto intis at our doors in the new worfd Are we, stern voters, murines that Mr, Blaine should ask them to believe that England longs to see Mr. Cleveland saw off that huge limb of Fe eral taxation on which England now lolls so comfortable? What can b ihe tn-e of making commercial treaties with Mexico or Spanish America or Asia while Mr. B 1 a i n e stands ready with his ederal taxation t close the Panama 3 tnul to manufacturers of America for the t eneflt of the exporter of England and Europe?

WILLIAM HENRY HURLBURT.

The Richmond s reech, alleged to have been delivered bv Isaac P- Gray, March 121 b, 1866, wa« wiitten out seven! days alter Mr. Gray spoke in Richmond, by a man named Woods. Those parts more enpecialiy offensive to Democrats were the coinage o‘, and inserted by woods who was a Julian Republican. Mr. Gray was the candidate of the const rvative or liberal wing of the Republi* cun party, und expected the support of many Denioei »t« who would gain a vot? at the nominating election by promising to support the nominee, the district belt go erniHlmingly Republican. The speecn aa pi epared by "oods was published in the Richmond papers and the Union City gie. the editor of the latter being a staunch Julian supporter. Ttu isc j was veiy close and the infamously garbled report bad the desired effect, injuring Mr- Grav where beougbt to have had «niy friends. The speech in Mr. Gray’s canvass for Governor has been widely circulated by the Republics'! state comm tt.ee, but a simple statem nt of facts strip* it of any possible barm. A vote aenir st Gray would be a vote tor Calkins, who to day Is declaring Democrats dishonest and too unworthy for tlie reins of the government to be entrusted into their hands. —

In 1877, Calkins, in Congress, earn estiy advocated inoreas'ng tie stand pig army from 20,000 to 50,000 men Rest ring to the railroad strikes then existing he said a trained and discip* i tied force unlike state militia would have no smypathy upon such occan It would be simply the strong hand of power. There is something hwi div cold blooded and repulsive In Calkins’ logic for the increase of the hi, Hiding nt my at that time. He want’d a soldiery who could kill without m rcy. A heartless ma cliitif. H<- idv cated n large stand |np army to suppress so called riot s llt in easy to see what Calkin would '! » an <rrency l.ke 'hat widen recently faced Gov. Hoadly of Ohio when instead of obeying the requests of the syndicate for troops,Governor ELnadly personally went among the s'riklug minersjeaslly securing peace Calkins would have rushed every militiaman in the state to the rescue Ilk® Co.. Foster did a year ago Some persons and even would be statesmen think because a man is . poor and bls hands hardened by toil [he is naturally £ ruffian to be dealt with only by brute fry ce. These evi ; dently are Calkins’ sentiments. He. I like his party, believes la a strong

centralized government. The time will come, if such as he are to continue enacting laws, when attending army like in European countri«s will regulate the affai . s of the common people and overawe objections from underpaid workingmen Calkins has extreme audacity to go about claiming this is acontestto free laborjand that he is the laborer’s friend. It is a c ntest’in which the aristocracy of the United States aided by the Re* pubii.au party is trying to enslavela bcr. Many workingmen are blindiy striving to help on their own subjuga tiun and ruin. Can workingmen afford to vote for such a candidate as Ca|kins?

We copy the fallowing from the Mo* non .Dispatch: Grand Republican rally atßenaseN ner on Monday Oct, 27th. instead of Saturday 0< t. 25th, as heretofore announced. Thau Its to Rensselaer tor giving awa io Monon on Saturday Oct. 25 li. We publish acommunlca tiou .0 Noble J. York iu regardjto the Rensselaer Bai y. Rensselaer, Ind.. Oct. 22. N. J. Yor't, Esq, Dear Noble.—We cordially invi e all good Republicuus of your place, to b« with js in ti grand Republican rally, nt R MondAy, Oct 27. Hon. Thos. H. Nel. on, of Terre Haute .•.ml Hon W. D. Owen will address the people. We propose having an old rousing rally, and we earnestly ask \our peesonal efforts at home in the meantime, and your -presence with us on that day. Kindly give ih your help, which is always well directed. . Frank W, Babcock, M. F Chilootu. William B. Austin. Oom. Letters of the above import weie t-ent out In all directions, The day came, but nary rally. The meeting was held in the Opera House, which was fairly lllltd by the audlenoe.

The Suratog i (N. Y.) Journal pub Itched the other day a communication purporting to come from Ballston Spa. which wu i signed with the names of ten citizens of that place, alleged to be Irish Democratic vot» es, it. f.-ivor nf Blaine. The oommuiiiva ion created considerable ex* clement in political circles, and the Democrats began an investigation immediately. This showed tl e whole matter to be a fraud and the signatu* res barefaced forgeries. Legal penalties wiil be rigorously enforced ugilnst the perpetrators of this late est trick in support of Blaine’s desperate chances. One of the alleged “Irishmen” is a full-blooded negro who never was as near the Emerald Isle as Sandy Hook.

Mr 1 Daniel Lemon, in canvassing Oakland Precinct on yesterday, met a centennarian Mr, William Horton, who on Tuesday next will go to the polls attended by five sons, woo with him will vote the Democratic ticket. Here is a man who lived when George Washington was President, who has for nearly a ceu’ury watched intelligently the operations of the National Government under twenty odd ad* ministrations, and who now casts his vote for Cleveland, Hendricks and reform. All honor to the patriotic centonna'lun 1 The Sentinel sends to Mr. HorUn « handsome Cleveland and Hendricks badge to tyear to the polls,—lndianapolis Sentinel*

As Mr. Blaine points with pride to the Morrill tariff of 1861 as the Republic n standard of protection, and then det ounces the Morrison tariff, V’at limits roducti .m to the standard of the Bepuolican Protection act of 1861, as hostile to protection, we submit that be should get beyond his dally eommoh platitudes ou the tariff and give at least one honest, in teliige..t presentation of the subject before the campaign closes.- Phila* delphia Times (Ind.) —— <♦ , Mr. McSweeney siys “that Irishmen in Ireland ate praying for the election of Cleveland.” Mr. McSweem y has just come from that country, and perhaps knows about the matter etter than the Republic van organs in this city. Johnston, Republican candidate for Congress in the Eighth District, in a joint debate Saturday nt Terre Haute with John E. Lamb, got mud and laid that “Calkins was a'd -d fool. ” So the re. idenee of Mr. Conkling, of UtHi, was Illuminau.d the night of th*> <!■ v dand a.. I IL j Ir.cks procesriuli —.l ’b "• a.