Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — Reformer Cleveland. [ARTICLE]

Reformer Cleveland.

The Albany Evening Journal is dealing some trenchant blows at Cleveland from the standpoint of his pretended devotion to reform. In one of its recent chapters of State history it shows that he approved a bill which took >121,000 from the pockets of the taxpayers of the State to pay for rascally old claims which had been rejected both by Gov. Robinson (a Democrat: and by Gov. Cornell (a Republican) after full examination by both of them. The claims grew out of work performed by contract on the Elmira Reformatory in Wil. During its progress it was discovered that the work was done in the most extravagant manner. Accordingly an act providing for a change in the plans was passed. The contractors then put in a claim for >121.000, as the profits they would iuCve made had they been permitted to go on until the comSletion of the building. Two Governors, as we ave said, one Democratic and one Republican, refused to approve the claim, but Cleveland approved it without any delay. The affair is load to New York, but it shows the; humbug of Cleveland's pretenses of reform and how closely his sympathies are allied with rings and jobs. , Chicago Tribune: A prominent Michigan Republican ridicules the boasts of the fusionists that they can cany that State against Blaine. In 1880 Garfield secured 34,795 more votes than Hancock in. the State. This year the Republicans of Michigan are enthusiastic in support of Blaine, and they are united. This gentleman estimates that Blaine will poll 200,000 votes this year. The fusionists cannot poll more than 175,000. • .