Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — THEN AND NOW. [ARTICLE]

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?