Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — Voorhees on Blaine. [ARTICLE]

Voorhees on Blaine.

Passing to prognosticate on national affairs, the Senator said that, while he was a personal friend of Blaine, and while the members of his family mingled with the friends of Blaine and his family, he thought the Republican party could never nominate Blaine as a Presidential candidate again, especially when they considered his physical condition. As the Senator said: “One of my friends, a warm, personal friend, who has traveled with James G. Blaine recently and for several months, is confident that Blaine is a physical wreck.” As the Senator express d ’it, Mr. Blaine is a broken down man. In Senator Voorhees’ opinion, James G. Blaine had stood the strain and excitement of a Presidential ambition as long as he could be expected to, and his physical condition was entirely broken down. In the Senator’s opinion, so far as he knew, the opinion was sustained by the most prominent Republicans, it would be utterly suicidal to think of nominating James G. Blaine as the next Republican candidate, and he did not think he would get a first place on that problematical ticket. —Chicago Times interview.

Mr. Hewitt, the Democratic Mayor of New York, seems to be satisfying all classes in his adminstration of the affairs of the great metropolis. It has been the experience heretofore of New York mayoQ), lor the most part, to stir up an astonishing amount of antagonism in various quarters of the city. Mr. Hewitt has been exceptonaily fortunate. Harper’s Weekly, which usually looks at affairs from a Republican standpoint, although it supported Mr. Cleveland for the Presidency, says of the Mayor: “Probably nd citizen of New York, whether he voted for Mayor Hewitt or voted against him, now regrets his election. The Mayor has devoted himself to the duties of his office with an intelligence and energy which have produced the most excellent results. The Mayor is a Democrat, but he was elected by the votes of citizens of all partie®. His course is another illustration of the desirability of totally separating from politics public dut es which are in no sense political.” Although Mr. Hewitt undoubtedly received some Republican votes, yet it’must be remembered that he made the race as the regular Democratic nominee. The Republi ans also made, their nomination in the usual way and backed it up by an energetic campaign. Their candidate was Mr. Roosevelt, and he probably drew out the full party strength - as full, perhaps, as it ever expresses itself in other than presidential years.— lndianapolis Sentinel. Nothing does so much honor to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.