Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — A BLAINE MAN. [ARTICLE]

A BLAINE MAN.

Why the President of a St. Lodis Bank Supports the Republican Ticket. Mr. S. H. Laflin, the well-known powder manufacturer and President of the St. Louis National Bank, has just returned from the East, where he paid some attention to political matters. He is a prominent Democrat, but In conversation with a Chicago Tribune correspondent at the Southern he said: “lam a Blaine man. All my family and most of my employes are for Cleveland, but I am a Blaine man through and through. I don’t oppose Cleveland because of that scandal—no, sir. No, there is nothing in the scandal that ought to lower Cleveland in anybody’s estimation, but . he is not a fit person for the Presidency. He has not got the brains. He wears a No. 19 collar and a No. 8 hat. and beyond that you cannot say anything for him. Blaine Is a man of nerve, a brainy man, a statesman, and he Bhall have my vote. Every man with whom I conversed while in the East favored the election of Blaine. These men were mostly manufacturers, and represented the great industries of the country. They said they would feel safer with‘Blaine at the helm.”— St. Lrntis special.