Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 September 1884 — Page 2

g > e . 5 The Ligowier Banuer, . o § iesmbsniselo b e J. B, STOLL, Editor. S . THURSDAY, SEPT. 11,1884, _ I}3 :v ; , J g » N N, SRS i L AN \ g & N RS . NN XX> y ; \\:\\ A s : i ///, WSE sasll g 7 A D AR < \*';:_fi_’,‘;:_ ;v*.r'- e ¢ Democratic National Ticket: ! For President. GROVER CLEVELAND. i ; For Vice President, | THOMAS A, HENDRICKS. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. At Large—B., W, Hanna, W. D, H. Hunter, First District, - - Wm. F. Townsend. Second, - - - Henry S, Cauthorne. Thira,; ~= % . Aaron A, Cravens. Fourth, « ‘= & Frank E. Gavin, Fifth, - - = = Willis Heckam. Sixth, Wit - - N. R. Elliott, Seventh, - .« ‘- James A.New, Eighth, - - =« - James M. Seller, Ninth., - - - - Wm. R. Oglesby. Tenth, - - - - Fred Kopelke. Eleventh, - - -.. Wm. H. Harkens. Twelfth, = = & William H. Dills. I‘hirt}centh, - - - Mortimer Nye. ¥ DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET, _T¥or Goyernor, ; - ISAAC P. GRAY. Lieutenant Goyernor, MAHLON D. MANSON. : Secretary of State, . - WILLIAM R. MYERS. . )Auditqr of State, . 1 * . 'JAMES H. RICE. : For Attorney General. ! . FRANCIS T. HORD, . For. Treasurer of State. ’ JOHN J. COOPER,. i Superintendent of Public Instriction, ity JOHN W. HOLCOMBE. - Reporter of the Supreme Court. JOHN W. KERN. Judge of-Supreme Court, Fifth District, {J. AB, MITCHELL, DISTRICT TICKET, For Congress, ' . HON. ROBERT LOWRY. ‘ For Senator, . | ASHER 8. PARKER, : For Joint Representative, CaprT. WILLIAM M. BARNEY,

COUNTY TICKET,

For Representative, | ELI B. GERBER. . ‘ . . For Treasurer, CHARLES K. GREENE. For Recorder, ; CHARLES G, AICHELE. 1 For Sheriff, - o WALLACE W. NOE. I For Surveyor, gl . RUDOLPRH J. SE‘YMOUREE. i For Coroner : g | ROCCO GARREMONE. ! For Cominissioner —.Mid{lle District, { i JOHN H. ELY. B For Cmmissioner—Southern District, WILLIAM C, DAVIS. o

SINCE the fusion of tgq Democrats and Greenbackers in lowa the Des Moines = Register, the State organ of the republican party, has; become alarmed and is calling for “help.” It really looks queer to find the intensely loyal State of lowa ranked in the clags of “doubtful States.” i

JAMES G. BLAINE did not have the moral courage to vote either for or against the prohibitory amendment. He waited until near the closing of the polls before depositing a ballot, and then declined to vote on the amendment. Dodging an. important issue in this manner is by no means creditable’ to Mr. Blaine.

MR, BrowN, ef Ohio, entertained the opinion that the late Senator Morrill was a “pure and upright states‘man,” and so expressed himself in a letter asking him to participate in the Ohio canvass. In reply, Mrs. Morrill expressed to Brown the opinion that Mr, Blaine was a “wicked” man, Both opinions are doubtless correct. -

DeMOCRATS, be vigilant, active and constant. We haye the Repupllcans on the retreat, and 'tgy-hgrd pressing of them all along the line from New York to San Francisco we shall soon bave them on the run.. So far the canvass has moved grandly, every " passing day giving evidences that the cause of Cleveland and Hendricks is in the ascendant. Do not let the work - flag. :

BEFORE the late Secretary Folger is In his grave the Washington quidnuncs have given out that Postmaster General Gresham is to he made Judge Folger’s successor so that Frank Hatton, of lowa, may be made Postmaster General. Judge Gresham very emphatically denies the rumor, and every good citizen will rejoice thereat. With Hatton at the helm, the postoffice department would be converted into a mammoth corruption schome to aid the sinking -cause of Blaine and Togen. . o i

. JusT now the ?üblicanl party may well act upon the advice of the elder Mr. Weller to his son, as detailed in the Pickwick papers, when he said, “Samivel, beware of widows.” The Widow Duncan has fairly done up the gallant Major Ca'kins in her expogure of the Westville postoffice transaction, and now here comes the Widow Mor-

, rill, who .thrusts the charge in the { face’ of James G. Blaine that he is a “wicked” man. Thé worst of the matter for Mr, Blaine is to ba found in the fact that the Widow Morrill - pointedly proves what she says. Well may the Republicans “beware of widows.” : S

A LITTLE while age the fruly good Deacon Richard Smith, of Cineinnati, * proposed taking up a nickel contribution to fill up the. depleted exchequer of the republican State Central Committee of Ohio. The good Deacon wanted every republican “man, womsdn' and child” in the Buckeye State to put & nickel in the party purse. From results the “grand old party” in Ohio would seem to be very small and very

select. A contemporary says the collection has “stopped short, never to go’ again,” the total contribution amounting to molhu and ffty cents! It 1s also d that the sum 8o raised is amply sufficient to set up the beer for ‘the average “well-attended and very enthusiastic” Blaine and Logan mass / 1 m i f : |

Ik it wasn't for regular installments offlcampaign lies, the republican press would be hard up for - material to keep up the courage of their adherents.

It is generally conceded that during the past three weeks the cause of Cleveland has made tremendous progress. His popularity is steadily advancing.

GeN. Mito S. Hascart, of Goshen, 1s about to take the stump for Blaine and Logan in Ohio. It is hard to understand how the General can consistently support the tattooed statesman of Maine. : ;

“ar Indianapolis Times threatens to open a personal warfare on Gov. Hendricks. An attempt to blacken the private character of a pure and noble man like Mr. Hendricks is certain to prove abortive. W . i) t

Tar Blaine managers are raving mad because the Chairman of their National Committee, Mr. B.,g‘. Jones, refuses to tap his barrel to promote the cause of Blaine and Logan. They had counted on a clean $lOO,OOO. . e

< '(lve us a change.”* Open the books at Washington. - Hold the men who have plundered the Government to a rigid account and puhish them accordingly. This should be the motto of all who favor an honest administration.

Tuae men who gave honor and glory fo the republican party, prior to the time when it became a mere instrument for the aggrandizément of jobbers and speculators, are. in a great measure supporters of Cleveland ‘and Hendricks, =

“Gov. St. Jony says overtures have been made to him to withdraw. . These' come from Republicans,’of course. That party'is desperately frightened and is resorting to desperate expedients. But in spite of such expedients the party is doomed:! ; o e

For the next seven or eight weeks the campaign will be at fever heat. Both parties will make tremendous efforts to insure success. Careful observers feel confident, however, that the contest will end in the triumphant elec tion of Cleveland and Hendricks.

TrnouaH having things pretty much their own way so far as active cam. paigning is concerned, the republican managers in Maine failed to squeeze their majoricy up to 20,000. Somehow, Blaineism doesn’t “boom” to any considerable extent in New England.

~ Gov. Hexpricks said in his Connersville speech one day last week that heretofore he had several times been a candidate against his. will and wishes. This time, Mr. Hendricks remarked, he was a candidate in solid earnest and wanted the votes of all his friends, *‘You shall have them,” was the general response-

St. Jony, the Prohibition candidate for President, gives unmistakable indications of an, honest determation to fully expose the duplicity of the republican party on the liquor question. He pours hot shot into the camp of the Republicans, and causes the leaders of that party a great deal of uneasiness.

" It is high time that the Republicans were stirring up some fresh campaign scandal, for in no other way can they make a sensation. We observe by the Indianapolis Times that the next attack on private character isto be directed against Governor Hendricks. Their shafts have not hurt Cleveland, and we éuess Hendricks will survive. Shoot dwdy. e

Braixg is reported to be sick. It will be remembered that he -had a “bad spell,” upon the strength of which he suffered fefeat at the Cincinnati Convention in 1876. His present sickness, no doubt, results from a consciousness of the great defeat that ‘awaits him next November. .- Blaine 1s a close observer and sees his doom as - plainly; as if it was already written. ' "

TueE lowa Tribune, General James B. Weaver’s paper, rallies the Green‘backers of that State in fine style and calls on every man to do his duty, Bince fusion with the Democracy has been consummated. He very justly ‘and truly says that “six votes for But!'ler and seven for Cleveland is vastly } preferable to thirteen for Blaine.” "That is the right spirit, and by united, ‘hard work even lowa may be saved.

Onro gives the Blaine managers a good deal of uneasiness just now. It is very generally admitted that the present .outlook is decidedly against Blaine. The Democrats are thoroughly organized and doing splendid ‘work. Senator Payne has taken the stump for Cleveland, and ex-Senators, Thurman and Pendleton bave indicated their intention to follow suit.. Thoroughly united the Democratic chiefs of Ohio are capable of accomplishing grand results. i :

SINCE Belva A. Lockwood, the femele lawyer of Washington City, has been npominated for President by the female- suffragists, we suggest that an alliance be made between that party and the Republicans as a set-off against the democratié and greenback fusion in lowa, Michigan and elsewhere. The female suffragists have no candidate for Vice-President, and as Blaine’s case 18 daily getting more and more desperate, he might be withdrawn and Mrs. Lockwood Bubstituted. It would be a decided improvement: Besides, Lockwood and Logan alliterate rieely, and it might regalvanize gome enthusiasm, :

Tue magnetic canvass which we were informed Major Calkins was to make for Governor, has not yet been so brilliant as to manifest the attractive qualities incident to magnetism. Since his opening speech at Richmond, the gallant Major has been receiving less and lesg attention at each successive appointment. Higgpeeches have become decidedly a humdrum and commonplace It cannct be denied that the plain but severe statements of the Widow Duncan, in connection with her removalj‘ from the Wentville postoffice because she failed to pay her political assessment, have worked greatly to Major Calking’ disadvantage. Had the Widow Duncan published her letter in advance j of the republican state convention, it is plainly to be seen that Major Calkins wounld not have been nominated. To an unprejudiced mind the charges made are just as damaging now as they would bhaye been three months ago. The ‘Widow Duncan has effectually cooked LG e e e IR R R S R S L G s S e

A HOME THRUST. ’ One of the seyerest blows that has been struck at the failing cause of James G. Blaine has been wielded by the hand of the widow of the late Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Mr. Blaine’s own State, and formerly Secretary of the Treasury. The facts in the case have come to light through the columans of the New York Herald, a reporter for that' paper having inter viewed Mrs. Morrill :at her own home and been acéorded a statement of fac's by the lady in person.

It seems that some time ago the chairman of the Obio Republican State Central Committee, in dire ignorance of the fact that the late Senator and Secrctary Mcrrill had been for about a year and & balf in his grave, addressed a letter to'bim at his former residence, at A.qgusui, Mauaine, asking the deceased statesman to participate. in the canvass in the State of Ohio, at the same (ime givink the assurance that “the situation in Ohiois a critical one.” - Mrs. Morrill was naturally startled at the ignorance of the chairman of a State ¢ommittee in not knowing of the death of her distinguished husband, and at the same time she was disgusted to learn that his services were demanded in the interest of James G. Blaine, a man for whom he had entertained a profouud contempt in his lite--time, The lady answered the letter of Mr. Brown on the back of his original note ¢f invitation and returned it to Columbus. But she gave the representative of the Herald a substantial copy of her reply, as follows: S

To ——— Brown, Chairman, Columbus, O.

I ‘am surprised and shocked to receive ‘such a communication, I thought every citizen of this country knew my husband was at rest. lam in mourning for him; but as much as I mourn hig death, I thank my Father in heaven that He called him home before the party he loved so well, and did so much for, had so disgraced it self as to nominate 80 wicked a rhan for the highest office within the gift of the American people as I know James G. Blzine to be. 1f he were alive, he would not support Mr. Blaine, or any such man, even at the bidding of his party. . : ‘ CHARLOTTE MORRILL.

Chairman Brown was exceedingly careful not to make this letter public, and had not Mrs. Morrill given out intimation of the nature of the correspondence, the campaign might have passed without this interesting opisode having been made public. Honest Republicans, who.concur in the estimation that Senator Lot M. Morrill was an honest man and a faithful public servant, will hesitate to cast their ballots for 2 man who is denounced as “wicked” by the indignant widow from the very shadow of Mr. Blaine’s home. Of course Mrs. Morrill . expressed the opinion that her husband entertained 1n his life-time. In her conversation with the reporter of the Herald the lady said that Mr. Blaine had: admitted to her husband his -culpability in the matter of the Little Rock railroad bonds, and he importuned Mr. Morrill, with tears and entreaties, to save him. Is such a man fit to be made President of the United Statesf

* Ouiver P. MorTtox's success as a public man, resulttd in @ large measure from the care with which he'avoided mdling statements which would render him ridiculous. It would have been a decided benefit to his offspring if he could have imbued them witha becoming sense of his prudence in this regard. His son Oliver Throck Morten has made his debut in the political field this year, and has already made himself ridiculous by statingina speech at Terre Haute, that Governor Hendricks voted for the Dred Scott decision while a member of the U. S. Senate, and was a member of the Knights of the Golden Circle during the war. We had supposed that the Dred Scott decision was a legal decision promulgated by the supreme court of the United States until this young genius made his appearance in the . political arena and taught otherwise. Young Morton’s ridiculous error has made him the laughing stock of the whole state. He has been so roughly handled by the democratic press that the republican committee will be very careful about sending him out into the field again. His statement about the Knights of the Golden Circle is as false as Ris mistake was ridiculous. : ;

Tne grand barbecue to be given by the wide-awake democracy of Shelby county on 'the 25th inst. bids fair to be one of the grandest political demonstrations that has ever taken place in the State. Ample arrangements are being made to feed a hundred thousand people if necessary, Special trains at reduced rates will be run on all railroads passing through that part of the State, while the vast concourse of people will be addressed by some of the most distinguished speakers in the United States from half a dozen or more stands. It will be a glorious time, ahd will be looked back upon as one of the events of a life time by all who are .fortunate enough to be able to participate.

DemocraTs have every reason to be satisified with the progress of the Presidential campaign so far. The people are cool, and are making up their judgment concerning men and measures in a healthful and considerate manner, Under such circumstances, democratic prineiples universally triumph. The large democratic gains in Arkansas, increasing our majority several thousands on a full vote, and the losses which the Republicans have sufferred in Vermont clearly indicate a steady advance of the democratic column towards certain victory. Unless the majority forBlaine in his own state shall exceed twenty thousand votes, his defeat may be set down as an_event of certain accomplishment. ;

Tue terrible strikes now prevailing in Pennsylvania and Ohio, throughtout the mining districts, are but fore-run-ners of the evils that will afflict the laborers of the land in the event of the continuance of the republican party in power. Twenty-four years of success for the republican party has left our labor interests in a deplorable plight. There must be a change. Will workingmen vote so as to bring that change about? llf solet them not throw their votes away. Blaine or Cleveland must be chosen. There is no other posgibility. Choose between them,

Miss CrLeveLaxD, of Dakota, has ta,ken the stump for ,gleveland in this state. She spoke at Goshen last Thurs- .

; - THE RESULT IN MAINE. The home of James G. Blaine has spoken and the voice of her people, ‘while a republican victory, is a practical rebuke to the “fuvorite son” of the Pine Tree state and may be set down &3 indicating a defeal of Blaine and Logan at the November election. A contemporary, speaking of the probable result in Maine a few days ‘in advance of the eleclion, very truly isaid“‘the state‘has been over run with republican orators from- eévery section }of the union. North, south, cast and iw:_gt. have ‘furnished their supply of ‘orators from the ‘grand old party’ lvad‘ers to instruct the prople of Mzine how to vole. Added fo this there is a matter of state pride that wi'l inluce a g6od many of the personal fritnds of ‘ Mr. Blaine to.support such candidates as will add to the pruspects of his suc ceas 1n November. Money has been speut with a lavish band. It has ibaen stated that the national republi‘can committee hag expended a huaodved thousand dotiars in the state. So ‘ far ag money can be made a factor in elections it has been used in Maine by the republican party.” It may beadded to the furegoing that the democraiic party made no extraordinary exertions. They could not cariy the state and therefore confined their efforts to getiing out a full vote of the party,in which the result shows they have succeeded. .

‘The paper quoted from above gavea tabular statement of the republican mujority in Maine in every presidential -election from 1856 down to and ineluding 1880, which showed an average republican majority of 23,526 votes in the seven successive presidential elections. The conclusions reiched was stated as follows:

“Thare is, therefore, no reason why the republicans should not have a majority in Mains correspending with their success from 1856 up to 1872, or at least equal Lo their averags majority of 23,526 votesruuning over a period of 25 yezrs. Should the majority for Gov. Robie fall as low a 3 15,000 it may be set down to the weakness of the failing republican cause.” This publication was made a week preceding the election and has been verified as a careful statemont and conclusiya by the result. It will bs several days before the official figures can be given, but sufficient intelligence has been gleaned to show that Governor Robie has been elected by a majority 'of aboat 15,000 votes. Ia the face of the great republican enthusiasm znd lavish expenditure of money by the republicans, and the return of the old greenback leaders like Solon Chase, Congressman Murch and others to the republican column, the Democrats have mada & surprising canvass. Their large vote indicates the united sentiment of a party that will elect Cleyaland . and. Hendricks in Novem ber. e In 1876 the presidential vote inMaine between ‘the leading parties stood as follows: Hays and Wheeler .....0......686.300 Tilden and Hendricks.... .....59,917 Republican majority. ........16,383 In face of this majority in the state of Maine in 1876 the Democracy swept the field at' the presidential election, giving to Tilden and Hendricks more than a quarter of a milliqn of the popular majority. Now with an inereased vote in Maine, equal to about 28 per ceut. on the above figured, the majority in the state is no greater than it ‘ was eight years ago, and is probably considerably less. To have kept pace with the increase of votes the republican ‘majority ought now to bs about 21,000 to be equal to 16,000 at that time. A candid inspection of the result in Maine, making due allowance for State pride and the. fact that Mr. Blaine exerted all his great managing abilities in his own behalf, go that it might not be said that he had been rejected in his own home andin the ‘house of hig friends, it may be safely set down that the moral force of this election has been on the side of the ‘democratic party. The residue of the jcanvass will be as vigoronsly pressed, from this time ualtil Novembar, by the Democracy as marked the campaign _of 1876. The resalt wiil bea victory for- reform and good government. Cleveland and Hendricks will be the next President and Vice President of the United Stafes. s

COERCIVE TEMPERANCE.

Whatever may be the result of the politico-temperance movement which has placed the names of St. John and Daniel before the American people for the offices of President and Vice-Presi-dent in the present year, we cannot diwest ourselves of the feeling that it is the nucleus of a political organization that is destined to become a powerful factor in the politics of this country at a very early day. The men who give countenance and support to the movement belong to that class of people who have, in every age, been the instigators of civil revolutions which have disturbed the order of society either for good or ill without being personally benefited, by the success or'defeat of their -plans. Indeed we doubt whether the leaders in. the formation of the new prohibition party have any idea of receiving direct benefit from the agencies they have sct on foot for the purpose of advancing the work of temperance reform. Whether ultimately they shall meet with success or not those who now engage in the work will nearly all have passed from the stage of action before success, even under favorable auspices, can be assured. If the new party sho'd ultimately achieve success, others than its founders will be the beneficiaries ot its triumph. 1t has commonly been the fate of reform leaders in all the walks of life .to build in order that others might dwell in the abedes of their construction—to sow that others might reapthe harvest, ‘

But while cnnceding that the new political society is likely to prove a formidable competitor for popular favor with' the old established political organizations of this country, we cannot concede that it is likely to be successful in g 0 molding public sentiment as to be able to comtrol the legislation of the country and to shape che administration of public affairs, Even though it may, at some future some, gain a temporary ascendaney in many of the states, and in the federal government, we deem -that such temporary success will the more certainly mark the final defeat and decadence of the new party. We fully believe that the attempt torestrain the appetites of men against the evils of intoxication by means of the

enactments, forbidding the manufacture and sale of liguors, will wholly fail to remove those evils from society, and nothing will more certainly convince the reflecting mind of the futility of such a proposed reformation than to see the attempt made and to note its utter failure. A carful inquiry into the effects that have followed the success of prohibitory legislation in ‘those states and localities where it has ‘had practical application, has led tothe conclusion on our part that intoxication ‘has not been lessened, nor has the ex- ! periment resulted in the reclamation of ‘the class of persons who have unfortu‘nately become the victims of intemperance. Thirty years of prohibitory legislation in Maine has not resulted in winning a single drunkard from his cups. The most ardent admirer of restraing laws have not been at.le to point to one case where the fallen have been liftel up from the sleugh of degradation resulting from thil free use of the intoxicating bow}. This is a remarka—ble statement we admit, but is the living truth which cannot be successfully denied. What is true in thirty years of trial and effort in Maine-s also true in Kansas and lowa, where the experiment of prohibition has been of comparatively recent date, and also in those communities of other states where there has been local prohibition in pursuance of local option laws.

While the votaries of the prohibition dogma are mnot able to point to the fruits of their system, in defense of its maintenance, tha%f moral reformers who, have corfin®d their efforts, in behalf of fallen hunianity, to appeals to the reason, judgment'and consciences of men, can and do proudly point to an army of drunkards raised up to manhood and saved to society by means of inoral suasion. - Only a few years ago this state and other states were dotted all over with temperance associations under the direction of the red and blue ribbon orders, and the work of saving men from drunkenness was harmoniously and visibly progressing.. The common drunkard was being rescued from the saddest of all fates by this sturdy, practical and moral agency, and the men engaged in the sale of liguor itself, in many instances, watched the progress of the movement in the direction of true temperance with approval and interest. 'The writer can easily recall the names of many excellent men who were thus snatched from disgusting drunkenness who are now sober and upright citizens, controlling good influences in the circle of their acquaintance. Others there were who have passed to “that -undiscovered country:from ‘whose bourne no trayeler returns,” but they held fast to the faith of their redemption until the last. Statutory prohibition piled mountain* high would never have saved these men. The ribbon clubs did it. and they did their work well. ; : .

Just here we have to lament the zeal’ of persons who turned the red and blue ribbon work into schools for legal prohibition. Then the voluntary work of sincere reformers came to an end, and the assoeidtions that had' effected grand achievements fell into decay. The appeals to reason have been supplanted by appeals to the strong arm of the law, and theconsequence has been a serious retrogradation of the temperance work that loomed up so grandly all over the land froin five to seven years ago. Guided by that light of experience we are convinced that no good will ensuc to society by the formation of a prohibition party. As we have indicated we think it may grow to large proportions, and for a time it may in many places become the dominant political organization. But it will fail in the work of reforming men and repressing intemperance. Tlts achievements will lack the fruits of a reformation, and hence it.willdie. We cannot even venture a prediction as to the length of time that will be required for the new | party to run its race, but we feel confi- | dent that the sooner it becomes the dominant party, controlling affairs for a time just so much the speedier will come its final dissolution. An impracticable theory of reform can only perish when' brought into actual test. e __‘o A TOW, . OUR NEIGHBORS. Local politics are booming in Lagrange county. &

Tramps are doing a large amount of stealing in and about Elkhart. A little son of D. J. Hostettler, livizfg ‘pear Gushen, was badly injured last. Saturday by a kick from an unruly horse. - 1 : Safe blowers got in their work upon the saufe in the flouring mill of Scott & Son, at Warsaw, one evening last week, Their trouble wis not reward ed i _

The other night at Elkhart one of Barnum’s performers went into a drug store for a dose of Ruchelle salts. The clerk gave him by mistake tartar emetic. The prompt attendance of a phygician saved the fellow.

A large bank barn belonging to Mr. David Teeples, west, of Milford, burned up, with its conteuts, on Saturday night of last week. The fire originated from a spark from the engine which was running a thresher in the barn. Loss $2,000 with $l,OOO Insurance. The” wagon and carriage works belouging to Woodworth & Hutchius, at Middlebury, were burned last Wednesday evening. There were three buildings which the works occupied, each about 20%60 feet, two stories high, all frame, one rtecently completed. Ou the buildings and stock there i 8 an in surance of $4,700, while we uro told that the total loss will approximate $12,000. : _' '

A queer wager between two citizens of Warsaw was decided last Thursday. Clave Gilllam_ wagered $25 that he could drive his team of horses to Go shen and return in ashorter time than ‘James Douglas could make the same trip with a span ¢f mules. ‘The drive of 48 miles was made in 5 hours and 24 minutes by QGilliam, Douglas following with the mules teven minutes latep: S : L

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A SCATHING REVIEW.

Hon. Thaddeus C. Pound Declares Blaine’s Candidacy A Menace to Public Morals. !

His Speculating, Stock Jobbing and Gambling Method of Acquiri ing Wealth.

The Hon. Thaddeus C. Pound,of Chippewa Falls, Wis., in & recent letter to a personal friend, gives his reasons.for opposing Blaine and supporting ClevelJand. Mr. Pound has thousands of friends in Wisconsin, and his refusal to support Blaine will cost him many thousands of votes. He says:

After much earnest and solicitous deliberation, I deem it to be my duty, while abatinig natght of loyalty to the ‘republican party, but rather to. promote its true purpose and strengthen it for future good work, to supgort the dem‘ocratic nominee, Gov. Cleveland, for | gresident at the approaching elgctlon._ My judgment disagrees with, and my | conscience rebels against the action of the republican convention in the nomination of Mr. Blaine, and, without arrogating for myself wisdom superior to a majority of representative republicans, convened to voice the determination of my party, am compelled toobey my own best jud%mem: and sense of duty, in this single and extraordinary instance. Being a life-long republican and the recipient of so many distinguished honors, state and national, it is due my political associates, so often my cordial supporters, and myself that the reasons for departure from conventional co-operation be frankly stated. - No one will deny ‘that the essential ‘worth, if not the perpetuity of the republic, depends upon the maintenance of.political and personal integrity, as well as prudence and justice in its legislative, judicial, and administrative branches. Itis equally true that detection and correction of crookeduness and infidelity in the executive branch of our government are most difficult, while long uninterrupted control is certain to invite abusé of power and opportunity. The republican party has enjoyed nearly twenty-four years of continuous administrative authority, and, while its history is resplendent with glorious achievements and hallowe(fi)y memories of unrivaled statesmanship, - patriotism, and prowess, there has crept into its human machinery many grievous abusesand ailments, demanding correction and cure, which may or may not be accomplished b({ the party in which they are engendered. Happily, thes work of purification and reform has been progressing most satisfactorily within our party, under the present - chief magistrate; and with such eminent success as to command the unexampled approval of the press, the people, and our party, exl{)ressedv through state conventions, and by t%xe republican national convention in the extraordirary declaration that “We believe his eminent services are entitled to and will receive the hearty approvalof every citizen.” What, then, does the party owe the country and itself? Manifestly the continuance of the faithful servant. Common honesty and a decent recoglnition of fidelity and wisdom demand it. Little short of hypocrisy wouid deny it. But being denied, the alternate should be a man whose public life is a guaranty that the good work will go on. He should be the highest/and best type of political integrity, statesmanship, and republican grmcip’les. Mr. Blaineis not such aman, ut, in my opinion, embodies most in American politics that is menacing to publie morals and integrity in government. With a long public career, mainly distinguished for a sort of declamatory and pu%ilistic statecraft, he is not the inspiration of a single valuable policy, or the author of an important statute; but, on the contrary, has often suggested and supported unwise and bad, | and opposed fiood legislation. With a recor&) clouded by suspicion and accusation of jobbery and ecorruption undefended, he brings to us personal antagonisms which have torn and weakened our party in the past; invading the administration of the lamented Garfield with demands of personal vengeance sO. virulent as to inflame the spirit of assassination, and culminating in the defeat of Judge Folger, and consequent election of Grover Cleveland g}overnor of the Ilmpire state. Mr. Blaine’s friends justified their defection, which defeated a most excellent mun, by the plea of fraud in one proxy at the state convention. Such excusepales to whiteness when compared with the dishonorable methods employed to secure Mr. Blaine’s nomination. Ilere many delegates were treated as merchandise to be hartered forwine, money, or promise of position. The convention, instead of being a deliberative body, was converted into a howling pandemonium overflowed by the worst elements of Chicago, admitted without tickets. - But returning to the candidate. The acknowledged leader of his party at home (the Pine tree, prohibition state of Maine), he registers an ignominious defeat for his state, only four years ago, pending the presidential campaign, so disheartening to our party’s cause that only the timely and stalwart efforts of Graut and Conkling could have redeemed the field and secured Garfield’s election—a work soon rewarded by the lfval‘lann knight, when opportunity (l:)a.s sarfield’s adviser) was given him, dealing a cowardly blow from ambusf‘; #o his old antagonist, Roscoe Conkling. - Himself a speculator, enjoying a fortune too great to have been acquired by honest industry, legitimate business enterprise, or his country’s service at $5,00Q a year, he sympathizes with and profits by speculative, stock-jobbing, and %ambling methods of acquirin% wealth; methods which have wrough ruin, disgrace, and business disasters beyond computation; schooled youth and persunaded middle-age to avoid honest and useful industry; made suicide and insanity commonplace, unsettled values, placed the fruits of honest toil in the power of the Goulds and Armours to bear down or bull up the markets, s whim or interest may dictate; methods which recently gave us but an exaggerated illustration of their iniquitous consequences in the Grant & Ward $15,000,000 failure and robbery. Reference to Blaine’s congressional record relating to subsidies, class legislation, corporate exactions, ete., will readily satisfy the homest inquirer of ‘his uniforn supgort of monopolies and indifference to the common weal. Little wonder that he omits in his letter to refer to or explain the cause of the great disparity in the distribution of this marvelous increase of wealth accumulated during the period he chooses for comperison; that he fails to note the fact that one three-hundreth part of the $44.000,000,000is held by one man, while others rank little below; and his own galatial residence, commanding a rental of $ll,OOO a year, ,suggesmn% more than an average per capita of wealth. Little wonder that he is silent on the subject of interstate commesce, the regulation of which is demanded by all producers and legitimate traders. Great corporate interests command non-interference. | . : It was a lame defense of his devotion to im{)roved civil service to cite the fact that during a grolonged public service he only advised the removal of “four ,persons.” The expert observer will eonclude that the true betterment of the service demanded the removal of ten times four. He should have emghaqxsed _his gosition‘ by noting the delity with which a horde of relatives have been constantly fed at the public crib, notably the favorite “Brother Bob” drawmfi Ra.y _for another’s services. Nor will the citation of his pacific as'surances to Mexico quite cover up his South American policy and interference to protect thel Landrau guano scheme. “The death of his servant, Hurlbut, whom he feigned to rebuke, may serve to gartmlly.conceal the true inwardness of this affair, as did his garbled rendering of the Mulligan letters first mislead manfr charitable people - touching the Little Rock bond job. : - The disingenuousness of his letter of acceptance 1s further betrayed by its siigmfic_,ant silence touching the events of the past three years. Bringing down his historic fl%ures to the present would have revealed the fiction involved in his statements; would have shown a ‘marvelous ~sh,rinka&lg in nominal values; would have noted the downfall of busi~ ‘ness progperit{ and business mom% and would have pictured, as few ean do so graphically as he, the furnace fires agx SR A Ing still, wages reduced, beggary usurp,:ins’the*ghg?eflu or, bank arid busi‘wantonly defrauded, homes ‘&t, and “%& ess in public affairs, =~ i Blaing is objectionsble, furthor- | ‘lnore, lor the company he Keeps, “iorf @q‘:»fifl b 0 4 sionteal Lhoted| «’f){ iv%i & , tg—fz*r‘ :gr‘»—é‘fém;fi?‘?nwwfi%%rd*%‘ \'s;4 | L T e T R o

oune's BUPPOTTErs or qree'te% m. 18z, and accusers of Biaine in 1876 and 18 0, charging him with bribery and other penitentiary crimes. : : L ‘With no pronounced issués between the two great parties, we can safely af ford to yield temporary executive control at this time to an honest man, though‘he be a democrat. And if grave questions of public policy were at issue, they can not be determined by the executive. This is the prerogative of congress, the law-making branch; heretofore, for a time and now, under demoratic control. It is vastly more important to good government that the republican party be restored tosupremaecy in congress, than that the administration of law be intrusted to an unworthy partisan, surrounded 'bl}(' bad counsel. While Mr. Blaine is known to be unworthy, Gov. Cleveland has demonstrated his fitness and worthiness for the position by his fidelity ability and intégrity in the discharge of his executive duties as mayor of Buffalo and governor of the-great state of New York, and, in my opinion, a very large majority of ‘ivntelliient‘and unprejudiced voters believe he should be elected. If one-half of the republican voters who agree in this opinion have the courage of their conviction and vote conscientiously, he will be triumphantly elected. The scandals affecting the domestic lives of all candidates should be committed to the political ghouls and hyenas. - . While it is my fixed purpgse to supf)ort Cleveland and Hendricks, it is no ess my determination to support all fit and worthy nominees of the republican party for county, state and congressional gosnions. Regretting and deprecatin% he conditions, which compel what wil be denominated a bolt, I remain, very truly, | ¢ . THAD C. POUND.

‘Where Labor Is Under the Iron Heel.

It will surprise many people to know that in this year of plenty there are thousands of people in Pennsylvania and Ohio suffering from the necessarries of life.

- The dispatches making note of the' arrest of forty or fifty coal miners near California, Pa., state that when the men were being loaded in wagons to be conveyed to jail the wives of fifteen or twenty of them with babies in their arms begged the officers to take them to prison also, for they had nothing to eat.

It will surprise many other people to know that in this free country, w%en thousands of men quit work because wages have been reduced below the living point and their employers then import pauper labor, the old workingmen have no right to assemble and discuss their wrongsin publie. - The dispatches from the Pennsylvania and Ohio mining regions daily contain allus ons to the wholesale arrest of men whose only fault appears to be that they are 1]‘)oor and are seeking in the only v’ay known to them to better their concition. 2

It will surprise some other people to. know that many of these mining districts resemble military camps in whichimported laborers without families are marched around under warlike guards, while the displaced weorkingmen, with helpless women and children, gauntfaced and hollow—ered,‘ clinging .to them, stand by sullen {y Yet the dispatches from the varjous mining towns of Ohio daily con%ain some such sentences as this: “A military.guard knocked one- aged striker down and broke his right arm.”. ~

It will touch some hearts in this great West where the barns are bursting and the golden sheaves are piled high in every field to know that the free distribution of a cug of coffee and dry bread to a camp of four or five hund);{ad idle miners in Pool No. 4, Pennsylvania, called *out delirious expressions of joy from the half-famished men. .

“ A telegram from Pittsburg says that when this poor feast was in progréss one old man, bent almost double with age and toil, laid his miserable morsel on the ground while he sang with streaming eyes and trembling voice: “Hard Times Coming Again No More.” . These are protected industries. These men are the ones whom our politicians tell us they ennoble by!' tarifi legislation. =~ These hungry-stricken and pale-faced women and children begging for imprisonment if so be it bring bread are the familiesof the pro tected workingmen of whom we hear ‘BO much. These thousands of idle men standing around watching import ed laborers who work under the pro tection of f;lea,ming’ rifles are the working men whom the tariff is levied to enrich. These sleek employers who fill the place of strikers so’ easily with wholesale importations are the men who contribute to maintain campaign organs which {)reach lies and circulate falsehoods and which claim to be laboring only for the workingmen’s good. - Out here inthe West these thousands of Prosperous and comfortable farmers whom one sees on every hand are not protected. No one passes laws to: dignify and ennoble them. These carpenters and masons and railroad laborers are not protected, but the{y have enough to eat and to wear. Hunger want, and idleness come to none of these. They are in enjoyment of the comforts of life in spite of a “protection” which taxes them 40 per cent. on most of the things which they are compelled to buy. . ‘ A tariff reformer need not be afraid to invite a comparison between the Qrotectiomst East and the free trade Vest. The record is open.—Chicago Herald. :

Kuow-Nothingism Revived.

The Elmira, N. Y., Gazette publishes two columns and a half exposing the order of Plumed XKnights. It says that from careful investigation by its reporters it has been ascertained that the order is simply a revival of the old Know-Nothings. but that many even of the Plumed Knights themselves do not know this, as the body is composed of two degrees or circles, an inner and an outer circle. The outer cirele i 3 a mere dpoli‘;ical club, to which foreigners are admitted, and is kept up mainly as a blind to hide the real object of the order. The inner circle is conl‘ngosed entirely oi Americans who favor KnowNothingism, D : The cath administered o candidates of the outer circle merely pledges those who take it to vote and work for Blaine and Logan, The oath of initiation to the inner circle is materially different and is an abbreviated form of the ?ld Know-Nothing oath. It isas follows: (e i

“You, of your own free will and accord, in presence of these witnesses,do solemnly promise and swear that you will not make known to any person any of the si{;ns, mysteries, secrets or members of this order; that.you will sup}[))ort James Gy Blaine, of Maine, for resident of the United States, and John A. Logan, of Illinois, for Vice President of the United States, in the comingi contest and ‘election, and that you. will use every means to have them elected, no matter to whatend you mafi be compelled -to resort, that you wi use every endeavor toQ I)er[igtuate.the power of the grand old Republican party, and that you will not vote for any man or any office unless he be an American-born citizen in favor of American-born citizens ruling America. Do Ko.u $0 solemnly swear.” The publication created great excitement here. .

A Miscalculation.

“Don’t say any more about the Irish voting for Blaine,” said a stumper at Republican headquarters last night, “I was over in lowa the other day and happened to be in Oskaloosa when the Ancient Order of ‘Hibernians were holding a picnic. Asl was going to make a speech that night I thought I would ‘take a ‘straw’ and then tell the meeting of it., I drove out to the picnic grounds ‘with a Republican, and we went around among the hoys askinfi their ‘preferences. 1t topk us about a the afternoon, but I guess we got them 'all.. When we 5701; through we counted up and found 217 for Cleveland. What do Wn fellows think of that?” “Well, that was pretty heavy. How mafiy for Blaine?” : “Not a bloody one. Cuss these organs that get their own friends into scrapes of that kind. ‘One man wanted to murder me because I told.,fhim Blaine was the Irishman’s best friend. There’s boen a miscalculation somewhere, I'm ~afraid.—Chicago Herald. e ! : *Ch“o' Ko} Gmno, WIWIk., Ind-, has been appointed agent for that place for %m's ‘Modoc Stomach Bitters, the only reliable mmodé;tordyspepsia and kidney trouble in the L R BB eBN see T R R ~m3@mfl_§fi£&gg»fl&£#%J

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

—The Irish don’t seem tobe as strong for Blaine as they were a few. days ago, wKonsas Cily Slap, " 70l ~—The Republican campaigners should now em;fioy some one to whittle the back of Brother Blaine’s church' pew. —Allanta Constitution.” - - b

—At last accounts the Republicans of Ohio were still appealing for contributions of anything m(}lgotlable, from 2-cent stamps to *cer%ifie cheeks.—Chicago Herald. s G

—lt does not require a ireat deal of political sagacity to see that the RePt_lblican cam%al-gn in Michigan is up--lill work; with the road 'in a frightfully bad.condition.— Detroit Fiee Press. ‘ —New York Truth offers to H_rint‘ the names of all the. Blaine Irish democrats. Truth is a diminutive paper, but it could print these names and the names of the Butler votes, too,” without crowdingits columns. - - -

—D, T, Line%ar, a representative democrat of southern Illinois, states that fully 75 J)er cent. of the German citizens of Cairo are openly at work for Cleveland, while not five Trishmen have changed their political faiths . -

—Every Democrat since,re-l¥; ‘hopes that Mr. Blaine’s f‘ailin;lzq heaith ' will not necessitate his = withdrawal: from the ticket. llis withdrawal would. be a very discouragin% Democratig . loss. It is doubtless painful, but Mr. Blaine must stick. - e :

—The Democrats have the: Republigans on the defensive. One of the Mulli%an letters is worth more than a ton of personal scandal. - Let the reli%ious papers run the scandal business. The Demoeracy can do better by foreing the fightinf on the correspondence, to “My Dear Mr. Fisher.” iRt —The indications are that the West will not have a taste of that magnetic camgaigu which was so loudly promised when Mr. Blaine was nominated. As far as we have been able to discover, Mr. Blaine’s magnetism has been: hooped up in a barrel d@nd-rolled over into West Virginia for judicious distri‘bution among the -poor but honést. voters of that locality. - dagia —Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts.: in his new-born love for Blaine, goes to an unwarranted extreme in his glorification of him. He says “there is no’ man in public life’ whose. public and private character is more free from stain than Mr. Blaine.” - - What a terrible indictment of our public men. Possibly Mr. Dawes has not read the letters to “My Dear Fisher” from the pen of Mr. Blaine.—Chicago News. '

—The Republican party has %h()wn' that it can stand a great deal, but I don’t think that it could -stand four years of Blaine’s administration and remain alive at the end of it.. .Whly, six- months of Blaine under Garfield nearly dissolved the Republican organization, and nothing but the wisdom, gatience, and laziness of President Arhur could have brought it back' into the condition in: which we see it.— ‘Charles A. Dana in Interview. - .

—Mr. Edmunds made a campaign speech, the other day, lauding - thie party but sedulously avoiding mention of that party’s tattooed candidate. Mr. Edmunds could not have cons_ist‘ently' said anything favorable toa man of whom he once wrote: -“Whenever Thurman and I have lj()ined, hands against Jay Gould and feliows - of that sort, in the Senate, Blaine has invariably started up from Gould’s - breastrlrlorks. musket ‘in. hand, to: defend em.” : o Lo

—Blaine is a millionaire, Butler is a millionaire, and Cleveland is a man in: moderate circumstances. Mr. Cleveland has hadsopportunities to enrich himself in office, but he has attended to public business as though it were a_ solemn trust. Old-fashioned people,: .who believe in old-fashioned honesty, will vote for the man whese official record is unstained by jobbery or unfaithfulness—the man who vlsxgs never had in his poeket a dollar dishonestly “or shamefully earned.—N. Y. World. - —lt is said that Mr. Benjamin Franklin Janes, as chairman of the national republican committee, has proved a dismal failure. Instead of the big.con-. tribution expected of him, he has}gwen only a small sum, and has.completely fail)éd in the desirable talentof wringing money out of anybody else. Moreover, his general managem‘ent of the committee work has produced nothing ‘but confusion and disgust. - Mr. Jones will %robablfy be-deposed, in' favor of somebody of more. generosity and, capacity for polities, and permitted to resume the business of importing -cheap | contract labor.—Chicago limes. —Mr. Bi\ai ne’s rapid accumulation of wealth, while supposably. serving his country as a “brilliant statesman,” has | fre(iuently been attributed by his friends to lucky investments in Pennsylvania coal lands. - To learn just how far these investments have been instrumental in building up the plumed knight’s fortune, The Pittsinivg Post has been investigating his Pennsylvania coal property. It finds that these lands are- assessed at a valuation of $76,710, that they are comparatively unproductive, but as worked would givé him an income of s46oa year. s .—The predictions of the Blaine organs that General Butler’s vote will be obtained ‘at the expense of Governor Cleveland are not at all consistent with their repeated boasts that Blaine would receive a large Irish support. It is now evident that the anti-Cleveland Irish vote, whether large or 'small, will %0 to General Butler and mot to Mr. laine. The *Jingo "editors are, -of course, disposed to take all the. consolation possible out of the existing situ--tion, but it would perhaps be just as well for them to k_eef» within - at least® hailing distance of the actual facts.

—Some weeks ago Mr. :Sterne Chittenden, a rich ‘and well-known New York la.w?'er, published in the Evening Post, of that city, an open letter, offering to Cpa?' $lO,OOO into the treasur¥ of Yale College if Mr. William = Walter Phelps would give an-explanation of. Mr. « Blaine’s Little Rock Railroad transactions which the yvenerable Dr: Woolsey, of . Yale, would say was not discreditable to Mr. ]é}laine., ©AB Mr. Phelps is 2 most devoted alumnus of the college named, he ought to be glad of an o?portunity’to put so much money into her coffers; and as the Blaine. garty in Connecticut expect to- &ut Dr. Voolse%' at the head of their electoral ticket, there ought to'be no fear of the old gentleman’s beini prejudiced on: the wrong side. Why has Mr, - Phelps kept silent?—Syracuse Herald. - : —Judge Thoman, of the.civil-service commission, who has just returned to Washingten from Ohio, does not hesitate to express his candid opinion that the state will certainly ' go- demoeratic in October by a very considerable ma-. {)ority, and gfives as pis reasons for this elief that the loca questions which entered into the canvass of 1882 and 1883 are still unsettled, and may properly be considered -decidmg .factors in this campaign; further; that at least 20 Her cent. more German -republicans will vote the democratic ticket ' this year than last; that 90 per cent. of the’ prohibition vote will come from the re-. publican party, and he estiinates that. vote at from 16,000 to 20,000; that the Irsh disaffection is -exaggerated,: and will'not.amount to 10 per cent. of their: entire vote; that in the democratic column there 18 no break; the state ticket ‘ is gopular. and everybody is working with a will for vietory. -~ —lt is generallly conceded that Cleveland’s prospects look brighternow than - they did three weeks ago. ~ His letter has appeared, and in the main has given satisfaction. = It. certainly con--tained no damaginfi blunders, and ‘the opgosition has picked -at it in vain.. Ridicule is their only weapon, and that is not very effective in this case. The #scandal” has about run’its coutse, and 8o far as is known hasbut little weight. The Republicans have not as yet been able to gain any advantage with. the tariff question. Thegreat:lrish-Amer-~ ican meeting in N ewg%ork a féw days ago has had marked effect.” The disr‘msition of the Germans in:Ohio, the West, and Northwest is causmfi ‘uch alarm in Republican circles., Butler’s. candidacy, afiamsb Cleveland in' New York and Massachusetts, is:.a.glp.inst Blaine in the West. The personal liberty paragraph in Cleveland’s letter of a.cce%tanca slxengthens the favor. with which the Germans already regarded him. The Republicans are more troubled by lack of funds than usual. | Democratic prospects in Ohio are perhaps botter fian their oppoental; gad | B{’ o Democratic in October means Cleveland’s election. . =~ | ST R VAR ORI RS i - ee O O S

. Last Mon@ay was a day of railroad fatalities in All(aii county. Four inquests were held upon the bodies of men killed in as many different accie e

Attention Voters!

bk e \, 5"-\:~‘ } ) "’:.‘,"“'\ : T Al SO 1Y - LAY /) , ‘-'g":".':—./" Gy | U L WAI Py .' e \‘\ 5 Lot fi nY LT people of o LIGONIER ~and _\’{icivn:ify will be addressed ’l-)y: v't Tt “good speakers on : Saturday Evening, saturdayEvening, Sl SEPT, 26th, upon the political issues of the day, - See bills for full particulars.” - POLE RAISING : ' AT - SPRINGFIELD! e —ON— : ' Friday, September 12. Good Speakers and Music will e be Present. ' Democratic Speaking e e Wash'gton Center SATURDAY EVE., Sept. 13th, 1884. - Col. 1. B. McDonald, Of Colurabia City, will address the : » | _meeting.. ; i All are invited to be present. i ~ .T.J. WILSON. Chairman. e —————— Encouraging Reports From: East © and West. ¢ : The New York Herald has been making careful “inquiries of well-in-formed persons in several of the most important States, East and West, as to the facts of the canvass so far as developed; and the prespects in each of those States, and it confessés itself surprised as much as gratified by the replies it has ‘received. In Ohio. the democrats are fairly certain of success.They are saidto be thoroughly united and meeting with the most premising results everywhere, while the Republi- - cans are divided, and Mr: Blaine’s can-- - didacy is received with marked signs. of po}pular disfavor. Concerning Indi‘ana the Herald has the most positive: assurance that it will go for Cleveland: by at least 10,000., From Michigan con- . fident ref)ox_'ts are received that shat: State will be lost to the Blaine ticket.. Towa, according to the Herald’s advices,, is at least: an uncertain. State, with the | probability that it will east' its elector- ' al vote for Cleveland. In Wisconsin the opf)osit_ion to the Blaine ticket believe they will carry the State. From: all over New England the Herald’s re--ports show a state of politics very dangeroris to the Blaine men. Sanguine ut well-informed men in Massachusetts assert that with faithful, hard work that State can be carried for Cleveland, and they add that the effort will be made. New IHamphire Democrats claim that they can ‘carry that State unless they are swamped by the Portsmouth navryard.‘ Vermont will cast a very §eat y reduced Republican majority in November, though in the September election for Governor the- - candidate, who ]f a po?ularr man, is likely to poll the full vofe of his par_ts'. Connecticut is regarded as . a doubtful State, with the chances in fayor of the Democrats and a strong ° set of the tide toward them. The Her< ald - declares, of its own knowledge, that New York and New Jerseyare safe for Cleveland. The canvass in both States goes on energetically, and. the reports at headquarters leave so little doubt of a favorable result that. these two States need not, according to. the Herald, give uneasiness to Democrats elsewhere or distract their attention from their own canvass. Ay All in all, the Herald’s careful survey of the-field is ;as encouraging as the friends of Gro@er Cleveland could degire. « N otwithstandinf the bluster of - the Blaine organs, all the conditions are, at this time, eminently favorable to Cleveland; and if hiscanvass is con- | ducted with viger and determination,® | from now until eleection, there cdn be ‘ little doubt of success in November. . |

: Political Speculation. - According to a special despatch from Boston, a Massachuset{s Blaine Republican who has been in the habit of figuring - successfully on the result of Presidential elections on the basis of a ratio between candidates, by making a Eersonal canvass of a limited territory, as reluctantly come to the conclusion that Mr. Blaine will not have any votes to stpare. “Out of 683 votes canvassed he fouid 287 for Blaine, 286 for Cleveland, 109 for Butier and 1 for St. John. The most surprising and alarming discovery that he made was that out.of the 286 votes for Cleveland 114 of them were Republicans. He believes that Blaine will carry Massachusetts, but is 'not disposed to “speculate” on the maiorigy.- :He is convinced4hat the Independent vote will be muchilarger than 18 expected, his table showing that the ratio of Independents to Republicans will be about as 45 is to 100. ] This careful calculator believes that| New York will o for Cleveland, b,ut/ hopes after all that Blaine will get 201 votes ‘in the Electoral College, which Fwould be a majority of one. A - If this is the best a shrewd Blaine man can do at this stage of the canvas Democrats and Independents have reas son to feel quite comfortable, for this lis,a§mwing canvass, and the growth is all on the side of Mr. Cleveland. If :glég Massachuiaetts man will make an; er personal canvass & month from now hg Wlu find m%flflefi Demo mfia, ‘more Independents and fewer ‘Blaine Republicany. He will have toreadjust his E\mes ‘ % the ratios will 18 favor of Uloveland. An idea of that kind is taking very sirong hold, if we‘are:able to interpret ‘*“‘? entiment.. g l‘j? Wold:' = Toiiain o 0