Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — The New York Mugwumps. [ARTICLE]

The New York Mugwumps.

The Democratic papers in New York unite in the assurance that there is nothing surprising in the support by the “Mugwumps” of that State of the Republican nominees for State officers. Whalf is surprising is that such an assurance should be thought necessary. It has been the persistent claim of the “Mugwumps” that their support of Cleveland was not opposition to Republicanism but to Blaine. They have insisted steadfastly that they were as

good Republicans as ever in respect to any and all party issues. It was a moral certainty, therefore, that at the first opportunity they would resume their relations with the Republican party; and with a candidate to whom no Republican oan fairly take exception it would have been very surprising if they had not renewed their allegiance. If they were to do otherwise they would throw a doubt upon the honesty and good faith of the professions they made in cutting loose from Blaine.