Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — Awkward for Mr. Blaine. [ARTICLE]

Awkward for Mr. Blaine.

We do not believe Mr. Cleveland seeks a renomination. If it is “forced on him,” the position would not be in the least awkward either for Mr. Cleveland, nor for the Courier-Journal, although it might prove extremely awkward for Mr. Blaine.— Louisville Courier-Journal. The repnblicntiqn of th“ late Secretary Stanton’s opinions of himself as expressed in private letters to friends during the war is simply a Republican effort to get political discussion back twenty years. There is no need of discussing Stanton’s grave errois. General Sherman and General Grant have done that for all time; Grant going so far as to say in his Memoirs that Stanton was a cowaid, and that “if he had been at the front :he euemy would have been in no danger.” Mr. Stanton’s great executive ability, his reckless disregard of all obsta cles, iegal or otherwise, in carrying out his policy, undoubtedly had their value in tho conduct of a great war. But it did also serious harm. To say nothing of McClellan, both Sherman and Grant suffered severely ‘roin his trying to “ran tho whole thing,” As a Secretary he was in many respects the right man in the right place, but as a general commanding and an overbearing critic and destroyer of those who disagreed with him he cost the country and the Union cause a great deal more than it needed to pay. Grant’s testimony on this point is too ample to allow of controveisy.— Detroit Free Press,