Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — BLAINE AND VICTORY! [ARTICLE]

BLAINE AND VICTORY!

That Is the Cry of the Hon. John F. Pinerty, "Who Gomes Out Squarely for the Republican Ticket. The Hon; John F. Finerty, member of Congress from the Second District, has always been a Democrat, but was elected to Congress on an Independent ticket. He is again the candidate of thepeople of his district without regard to party lines; but because his sense of honor would not permit him to support Grover Cleveland for President; the Democratic machine lias determined to defeat him. In the last Issue of his paper, the Irish' Citizen, Mr. Finerty reviews the situation in his district and then declares his intention to support Blaine on the broad ground of American citizenship. He says: "Without surrendering a principle that he has ever held, without accepting any party collar, without abandoning the people—the indepeuden and honest people—who have trusted in and elected him, Mr. Finerty. on the broad ground of American , citizenship and American glory, hereby declares his preference for James G. Blaine as a Presidential candidate. He declares against Cleveland because lie has proved himself the enemy of the laborer and tne mechanic, the ally of monopolists, the self-constituted judge of the constitutionality of measures intended to benefit the people, the bare-faced dodger of the vital question of protection to American industries, aud the champion, accented and ratified, of a foreign interest on this continent. “Mr. Finerty will never be found voting for any dubious American who has the unqualified support of the Tunes, the Telegraph, the (standard, and the JY airs, ot' London, "He supports James G. Blaine because, in declaring openly for protection against Europe, and free commerce with our American neighbors on and below our Southern frontier, he advocates the true American policy, and the only one by which this country cannot only remain great, free, and prosperous, but a.so by which she can spread the influence she ought to posses. on the two cis-Atlantic continents, and maintain the letter of that Democraticdoctrine which says to Europe ’hands off,’ and of which Mr. Blaine, though a Republican, is the truest and most gifted living exponent. With him at ihe head ot the nation there would be no fear that the Panama canal shall ever degenerate into a European water-way. "Mr. F'inerty, fnrther, supports Mr. Blaine because of his vigorous foreign policy—a policy that the tragical end of President Garfield curbed beiore it had! attained to a more splendid development. Mr. Blaine believes in a navy capable of fighting, and in a system of national defense commensurate wiih the vastness and the diversified interests of the United States. “Mr. Finerty also supports Mr. Blaine because England abhors him, and because his election, although he is not a fire-brand or a promoter of unnecessary warfare, would bo a slap in her face. He hopes the time will never come when the American people will accept a candidate that their most bitier enemies and jealous commercial rivals desire. "Finally, Mr. F’inerty declares against Grover Cleveland because his noniihation by the Democratic National Convention was a direct insult, and so intended, to the backbone of the Democratic party nortli of the Ohio, and a challenge to the manhood and the political courage Of every American, of whatever race or previous condition, who earns his livelihood by honest labor.” —lnter Ocean.