Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Campaign Notes. [ARTICLE]

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.).