Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — The Kind of a Democrat Harvey Was. [ARTICLE]

The Kind of a Democrat Harvey Was.

The kind of a Democrat thief Harvey was is shown by the following extract from a Blaine and Logan speech which he prepared in 1884, and which has been found in his papers with his signature: I do not believe that the Democratic party—taking it rank and file—are safe to be trusted with the affairs pf the nation to-day, and so think the people. Why is it ? Because they have no confidence in its integrity. It is because it is rotten to the very center and core. In the language of George William Curtis, it is a party that “now attempts to sneak back to power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.” The Democratic party of to-day is a political tramp, crawling up to the back door of the Executive Mansion begging for food. The Democratic party is hungry and vei;y thirsty. It s all teeth and empty stomach. They tell us that the Republican party is corrupt; that office and power have made it so. They want office and power, and at the same time they tell us that it is power and office that have made us corrupt. If this is so, let us keep them pure, and keep them in the path of reform by keeping them in the minority.

The Plumed Knight is always in a bad row of stumps, and, viewing his career in that light, the Chicago Times remarks that “ a railroad investigation' can not go very far without d scovering the magnetic tracks of Jim Blaine, and sure enough the Pacific Railroad Commission finds him credited with $20,000 worth of bonds and 2,500 acres of real estate.” It was such things that drove the honest element of the Repub .can party to withhold their votes from Blaine in 1884. Mr. Blaine’s record has not improved in the least, and the same honest element of the Bepublican party that voted against Blaine, it is asserted, will vote against Sherman still more determinedly. Sentinel. .