Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — He Flatly Lies. [ARTICLE]

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"