Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — No Inquiry as to Cleveland’s Opinions. [ARTICLE]

No Inquiry as to Cleveland’s Opinions.

[From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.! There seems to be some confusion among .Democratic editors as the style in which Mr. Blaine's national attitude about a local issue is to be treated. There are two distinct and diverging lines of treatment noticeable. One is to insist that Mr. Blaine is a Prohibi ionist and must be treated accordingly. The other that he is not a Prohibitionist, and is therefore no better than the ungodly and subject to pnrsnit by the righteous. These things do not ee ?m to consist. In the meantime it may be noticed that Mr. Cleveland is so unimportant In the public estimation, that there is no inquiry as to his opinion upon any subject whatever —unless it may be as to several of the ten commandments. After Carl Schurz’s Democratic eiperience'in 1872 he was publicly repentant, and said in a speech; “Only once have I slept in a side-room of the Democratic party, and there I have heard enough not to vote a Democratic ticket again im my life. Yes, my hand shall wither before I do so again. ” It is not bo “withered” that it does not grasp his $l5O bonus with a good deal of strength, y