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

POLITICAL.

Mr. Conkling Talks on the Situation— He Will Probably Support " Butler. i f t ,r ■* Blaine in Boston, Hendricks at Peoria, Butler at Louisville, and Daniel I at the Hub. Conkllog Talks. ‘ [New York special]] • rrr Conklins tells all newspaper Reporters that he is out of public life and has no interest in politics, and has nothing to say. To his friends and acquaintances, however, he talks with thSTitmost freedom. To one of these he said yesterday that in Ms judgment both parties had nominated bad and unworthy men. He conld not consistently vote for either. He gave bis friend to understand that he would vote for Bntler if he voted at all. If he takes any part in politics he will use his influence In behalf of Bntler. He said that there would be more men in both of the great parties who would vote against their leaders than had ever been known in the history of onr ■ politics. He said that there was no of estimating the extent of the dissatisfaction in the ranks of the Republican and Democratic parties. He thought that this discontent with the party leaders was greater in this State than In any otbei in the Union. It was on this account that no sound prediction conld now be made as to the political oatcome In New York State. If this dissatisfaction should continue to grow Butler may receiverinore votes here than either Blaine or Cleveland. Mr. Conkling has no desire to return to pnbUc life at present. He says that it is a good time to be out of politics. Mr. Conkling thinks the general tendency ls in the direction of the breaking hp of the two leading party organizations. he has never given any of his old Republican associates the slightest ground for leading them to suppose that he wonld vote this year for the Republican candidate for President. The political situation shifts here from day to day. The politicians acknowledge that among workingmen the General will get a good vote. It is learned, too, that In Troy there was a formidable bolt against Cleveland as well as in Rochester. The temperance movement In Western New York bothers the Republicans very much. Altogether things are very much mixed In New York State. Blaine's Reception at Boston. [Boston dispatch.] A signal of fifty guns,- which drowned the music of a brass band playing “Hall to the Chier," announced the advent of James G. Blaine. He was met by a delegation of the Republican City Committee under charge of Francis Parkman, and conducted to the hoteL In the ladies’ parlor he was given an ovation by the leading Republicans of the city. Including Gov. Robinson. It was a noticeable fact that the assemblage in the reception room cheered Mr. Blaine more vociferously than did the 3,000 people outside. Immediately after the reception Mr. Blaine was conducted to the balcony of the hotel, where he was introduced by Mr. Parkman. Mr. Blaine said: “I thank yon, gentlemen, for this old-fashioned Boston welcome. Ido not come to yonr city as a stranger,aud I feel I am among old friends and true friends. I have known yonr city for thirty years. I have watched its progress with deep persdnal interest, and whenever it fell within my power I have In a humble way contributed thereto. Boston is to all New England a center of interest, as much in my State as in yours, and there ls no city within the limits of the Union where a popular greeting wonld be moregxateInl than it is to me this evening. Thanking you with ail my heart for the good-will ana good-cheer with which you have received me, I bid you good evenJng.” Mr. Blaine was then presented formally to all who wore in the rooms. Butler in ’New York. [LowvilTe (N. Y.) telegram.! Gen. Butler spoke on the grounds of the Lewis County fair to a great crowd. He was well received. In the course of his speech he said: “I want to lie just to ail parties. I have been in them all, know all their good and all their faults and failings. But I can say to yon in all sincerity that the mass of the people who compose all parties are honest lowers of their country, who would do it no wrong If they knew It, nor would they suffer any wrong to be done it. There are honest men In all parties, and as many In proportion to their numbers in one as in another, and if it ever appears there are more dishonest inen in one party than in another, it is because that party is in power under temptation, and to that party the rascail are attracted." [Laughter.] Gen. Bntler then talked of the Republican party and the Democratic party, and said: "The Republican party is the party of monopoly because monopoly has gone to them. But enough monopoly has stayed in the Democratic party to make it of no consequence which party wins, 'ihe people never win. If laboring men will vote together they can elect two Fresldenfi by by the number of their votes."

Hendricks at I’eoria. [Peoria (Ill.) Associated Press dispatch.] Fifteen thousand people greeted Gov. Hendricks and Mayor Harrison on the fair grounds. Each gentleman delivered an address confined to agriculture, horticulture, and mechanical pursuits. At the close of the speeches three cheers were given by the vast multitude for the distinguished speakers. In the evening Gov. Hendricks addressed one of the largest Democratic meetings ever held in Peoria There were 20,000 people in line and at the varions places of meeting. Gov. Hendricks spoke in the Wigwam; every possible space in the hall, which will hold 6,000 people, was crowded to its utmost capacity. He spoke for one hour in one-of the ablest efforts of his life. The dangerous accident on the train or his trip to Peoria, on which he came near losing his life, seemed to cause him to speak with energy and earnestness. Butler’s Campaign. [From the Chicago Herald.] John F. Henry, of New York. President of the National Anti-Monopoly organization, is at the Grand Pacific. He came direct from New York, and is en route to California on personal business, as he claims. In speaking of the Butler cauvass, he said; “We organized in 1882, and in 1888 we propose electing our Preside fit. Anti-Monopolists are in general poor men. They have not the means to pat into the campaign to run it as other parties run their organizations. Butler has the money to put into it, font he feels the uncertainty of election to be too great this year to do so. In New York City we willfoil a vote of 80,000, including King's County. In the State we will poll 100.000 Totes. We expect to cany Massachusetts. We will also elect the fusion ticket in Michigan. Bntler will be second in the race, if not first. We will not combine m Illinois.* Daniel in Boston. [Boston telegram.] The Prohibition party of Boston and vicinity held a rally in Tremont Temple to-night. The meeting was called to order by James R. Roberts, who said the report that President Seelyo declined the Prohibition nomination for Governor was not true. He has not declined, and was heartily in sympathy with the movement. Among the speakers was Mr. Daniel, the party nominee for Vice President. He asserted t.h there were more Prohibitionists among Democrats in the South than among Republicans in the North, and that prohibition had a really stronger bold In theSonthern States than in the Northern States. He believed no issue would exsert so strong an influence in uniting the two sections of the country as the temperance issue. Betting on the Result. [New York dispatch.] Bets on the result of the election, with the odds decidedly in favor of Cleveland, are now being freely made. Last Saturday night, Mr. William Wyae offered to bet Col. Charles & Spencer SSOO that Cleveland would carry New York Btate by 50,000 majority. The Colonel, who had just been making a stump speech in favor of Blaine, accepted the bet, and checks for the amount were filled ont and intrusted to Robert Taylor, of the firm of DeGraff * Taylor. Mr. Wyse bus made a similar bet with Mr. Parker, of the Oilsey House. John T. Lester, the Chicago grain-dealer, has telegraphed to a friend in this city to place SI,BOO even on Cleveland's " election.

The race question is tearing up Halifax, Nova Scotia. Because a little colored girl goes to school, the white girls refuse ta attend. It is estimated that there are now in Montana, including calves, upward of 1,000,000 cattle, besides hbrses and Sheep. A lad 13 years old has just arrived at New York from a trip across the continent, most of the way being traveled oa foot - 1 " 1 ■ I. I ' 4 , Four hundred John Smiths are employed by the Government -