Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — Page 3

THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB.

Its Overwhelming Indorsement of the Republican Ticket * ’ Despite Opposition. Ringing Resolutions Adopted Setting Forth the Reasons for Such Action in Unmistakable Terms. I [New York special.] \ Disappointment, waited upon the opponents of the Republican national ticket who were hoping that at the regular meeting of the Union League Club this evening a formal approval of the nominations might be defeated. It wis intensified by the lact that not even was there developed the hostile wrangling that they longed for in case the complete .success of the opposition was not realized. Not only was the Republican ticket strongly approved, and by an overwhelming majority, but the large attendance, and the character of the men present, and the enthusiasm shown proved that the club was as heartily united in the support of the party as it has been in the past. The attempt to defeat ratification ot the ticket was confined to a technical objection, which was overruled by Wi liam M. Evarts, presiding officer, and the sentiment of the meeting was so strong that no appeal from the decision of the Chair was taken. The, meeting of the club had excited the utmost interest among the members because of the reported intention of some of them to stifle the voice of the organization, and the result was an attendance that had never been equaled at a previous meeting. At an early hour the arrivals were numerous, and by 8 o’clock the spacious room on tlmsecond floor of the building was filled with about 7fiu men, out of an enrolled membership of 1,200. No doubt was expressed by the older members that a full force or the opposi- _ tion was present, as it was known that diligent efforts had been made for some time to secure the attendance of every person who from any reason whatever objected to the Republican nominees. Amongithose who participated in the deliberations or the club were Mr. Evarts, John Jacob Astor, John S. Kennedy,- Justice Noah Davis, John A. Stewart, Jacob Wendell, Jackson S. Schultz, John M. Fiske, Charles L. Tiffany, Bfhyton Ives, Russell H. Hoadly, E. H. Ammidown, Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell, Charles S. Smith, James M. Varnum, ex-I’ostmaster General Thomas, L. James, Jesse Seligman, James H. Dunham, F. E. .Trowbridge, Augustus Kountz, H. O. Armour, Charles E. Gregory, George B.'TJutlef. Thomas C. Acton, Joseph W. Howe, D. O. Mills, Wm. D. Sloane, Henry C. Ward, J. Q. Riddle, Joseph Pool, Elihu Root, F. D. Lecomte, Walter Howe, Daniel F. Appleton, William H. Lee, Joseph E. Gay, Benjamin Brewster, Henry Sloane, David Milliken, Dr. Argyle Watson, I’eter C. Baker, George. Montague, G. G. DeWitt, Jr., Vincenzo Botta, Thomas Denny, Henry Clews, F. S. Bangs, S. V. R. Cruger, Samuel Shether, Wm. Dowd, George F. Baxter, Joel B. Ehrardt, J. Henry Harper, John P. O’Connor, Jr., A. P. Man, James D. Smith, F, A. Potts, E. H. Perkins, Jr., Sinclair Toucey, Thomas L. Watson, ex-Judge Charles A. Peabody, Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa, and many other prominent members. The chair was occupied by Mr. Evarts, who, in the absence of Le Grand B. Cannon, presented a report and resolutions approving the nominations of Blaine and Logan from the committee of thirty which was appointed April 10. The report was as follows: New York, Oct. y.—The committee appointed at the last meeting of the club, made upon the nomination of the President and organized under Col. Le Grand B. Cannon as Chairman, charged by the resolutions of this club with the duty of carrying out the purpose expressed by the club to exercise its influence to the end of maintaining the Republican party in power, have given their best attention to the espousal and maintenance of the principles and the political interests of the Republican party during the pending canvass, first while the, nomination of candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States was under deliberation, and since the nomination, in supporting the candidates of that party for their electlon by the suffrage of the whole people of the country. Whatever diversity may have obtained among the members of the committee, or in the body of the club itself, aS to preferences among the eminent candidates before the National Convention of the Republican party tor nominal, tion, this committee have felt that when the names of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan were announced by that convention to the Republican party anil to the people of the whole country, as the standard-bearers of the Republican party in the pending contest for the possession of the executive power of the United States for the constitutional term, the adhesion, the support, the zealous loyalty, the united labors of the Union League Club, were, and of right should be, at the service of the Republican party lor maintaining it in power and defeating the Democratic party in its efforts to regain it. Your committee hake pursued and are pursuing this, design, and have placed themselves in active "~asso6latT6n“ with tile “pptttteal organizations Tjfthe Republican party of the nation and of the State, to aid in tlie labors and burdens of the ■ party in its contests with the resolute and persistent enemy, the Democratic party, which this committee and the Union League Club conceives to be hostile to the prosperity, welfare, and security of the American people. We may be permitted to point out some of the great topics involved in the present campaign, and to be settled by the judgment of the people vs to their treatment of tin- executive power during the next four years. Prominent. in these topics is tlje question of skille t labor in every form of industrial employment and production by such distribution of foreign duties in importation as wilt maintain and confirm gt home the rates of. wages suitable to our American system of laboi; and—citizenship against the, ruinous competition of oppressed and degraded labor of foreign nations which desire the possession of our markets. Permanence in this American system is exbected to be assured by the success ot the Republican party at this election, whereby the question will be removed from politics, leaving only to Congress the details of a wise and proper application of the great principle which the will of the people shall have established. On the other hand, the success ot the Democratic party will plunge the country into a prolonged period of vicissitude and vacillation in the renewed agitation which, however interesting to politicians, is fatal to progressive and material prosperity, to the confidence of capital, and to the security of labor and its satisfactory wages. The restoration Of a fair enjoyment of foreign carryingtrade to our shipowners and merchants,, the development of ship-building itself, the just maintenance of naval and military defense—these are all public questions which divide the rival parties and distract and discourage the enterprise of our people. To the Republican party as the avowed champion of American industry and enterprise in every competition with foreign rivals, the country looks for the advancement and security of these interests: The system of our finance, the stability of our currency and its free banking establishment, the, —reduction -of the national debt-,-that t lie-great nation —ths first example in the history of the world—shall be wholly free from the vast burdenof debt imposed by the Civil war through the honest payment of every dollar—these interests are. in the judgment of' prudent and patriotic men, safe only jn their further conduct of the Republican party, the author and defender of these great measures. The immense progress in the improved establishment of the civil service—the growth exclusively of .he evidence and policy of sagacious leaders of the Republican party—the wide and firm hof.i upon the. popular mind which this measure lias gained under the persistent inculcation and illustration of the pregnant issues of this great reform, both in its aspects of public administration and polit.cal morality—the fate of this measure rests upon the continued control ot the Government by the Republican party. And, again, so long as the Democratic party, in its political organization and in its scheme and hope of gaining possession of the executive power of the nation, is made up by an electoral vote of 153 ot a consolidated South—nonpolitical on any issues of the present or the future, and unpermeated by tree-discussion and law-protected suffrage—aud a mere possible ebntifigent parcel of forty-eight electoral votes ou . of the great Northern, energetic, independent, law-abiding mass—dividing on all the issues of the present and of the future and upheld lu this freeddm by the law-protected suffrageno lover and loyal adherent of the Republican party, in its long career ot honor and of duty in the service of the country, can dream of seeing the transfer of political power from our party to the Democratic party as thus constituted. It must be by Democratic strength, not by Republican caprice or supineness, that these dangers are to be brought upon the country, if It is ever to feel this great disaster. Under these considerations your committee submit to the club for their adoption the following resolutions: Resolved, That in the opinion of the Union League Club of the city of New York, the maintenance oi the’ Republican party in the possession ot the executive power of this country tor the next four years is ot' vital importance t-b the well-being of the country, and its peace, honor, and prosperity. Resolved, That the Union League Clnb urge upon the committee and upon all its members a vig -ous and persistent support of the Republican anvass by every means and resource in their power from this day forward till the completion of the election, to ths end that the suffrafee of the country may plage the great offices' ot President and Vice President in the hafilaiof

the candidates of the Republican party, James G. Blaine of Maine and John A. Logan of Hllnois. Resolved, That thjfecommittee be continued with instruet’ohs to carry’ out to their l>est ability the purposes of the club in the foregoing resolutions. , * CHEERS FOR BLAINE AND LOGAN. . When Mr. Evarts read the report the enthusi- ‘ asm of the audience eould not be controlled. The mueh-talked-ot “battle” had been qnjetly •fought, anl won, and iLwas evident that, wit ft ’the parliamentary order settled, .(Mr. P, J. i Schultz hayistg objected to tlyeit adoption and Mr. Evarts decid ng against the point).there was no doubt as to the result by a vote Upon the report. During the readingjsvery mention of the name of Mr. Blaine and Geo. Logan provoked cheers and Applause; every commendation of their character or achievements excited the' greatest enthusiasm. Decorous old members ! got up on their chairs and waved their hats with delight. When the motion was put upon the adoption of the report and resolutions, a storm of “yeas" rose which thfew into the shade the “nays” that responded to the call for the negative. It was estimated that fully four-fifths of the members present voted yea, and even more liberal estimates were made by conservative members. The “nays” Included the Democratic members of the club, as well as the disaffected Republicans.

A LETTER FROM NASBY.

Giving His Reasons Why Blaine and Logan Should Not Be Elected. The Boston Traveller recently.sent out a circular letter-to a large number of eminent persons asking them this question: “Why is the election of Blaine and Logan most desirable for the country?” Among other great men addressed Was the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby, Kentucky apostle, of Bourbon Democracy. That eminent Democratic divine made the following response: Confederit X Roads ) (Wich is in the State uv Kentucky), >- Sent. 10, fBB4. 1 To the Editur uv the Boston Traveller: You ask me to give my rezons why Blane & Logan shood be electid. Perhaps yoo ain’t aware uv whom yoo make this rekest ' Perhaps yoor letter wuz addrest to me by mistake, err perhaps, yoo intend to be sarkastic. Es you reely’ addrest the letter to me, it is a holier mockery’. I see no rezons why Blaine and Logan shood be electid. Do you comprehend who I am, and wat I hev suffered fur Dimocrisy? Do yoo ask one for rezons for the elecshun uv lilane and Logan wich conimcnst his politikle career by’ votin for Jaxon, and who never differd with that grate man but wunst, and that wuz when lie put down Seceshn in South Karliny? Kin yoo ask fur rezons fur votin for Blane and Logan uv one wich cast his vote tor every’ Diniekratic President from Jaxon down, and many times three or four? . lam a Dimekrat. I votid for Bookannon, and when the Radikels percipitated a war by refoosin to give up Fort Sumter I emigratid from Noo Jersey to Kentucky that I mite not be forst to take up arms agin the Dimekratic States. I wuz, however, dratted into the Confedrit servis, fiom which I desertid, not becoz I hed any objeckshun to the coz, but from a constooshnel dislike of gunpowder and baynits. But in desertin the Confederacy I avoided the scylla uv the Confedrit servis only to bump lip agin the karybdis uv fedrei muskit carryin. I W’uz drafted into the fedral army, and only escaped shedding fratrisidle blood by desertin one night to Canady. Who kin descr be the agonies endoored by’ myself and five others on a tempi stuous nite on Lake Erie m a open boat! Whd shel describe the deep disgust that awaited me on the sakred sile of Canady when I wuz compelled to work fur a nigger there or starve. The fust ray of sunshine wich ever illumined my dreery path, wuz when Jonson split with the radikels and give me the postoffis at the Crossroads! That wuz a little heaven below. The salary wuzn’t much, but I managed to subsist by stoppin the letters containing remittances for lottery’ tikkets,.which I did on moral grounds, spending the contence thereof myself, ez a punishment to the senders. They laid the swindle to the lottery companies.—But my zeal for reform worked agin my own interests, tor after awhile the people stopt mailin ther money. But 1 hev alluz bin a marter to principle. Wat wuz Blane doin all this time? lie wuz the rite hand uv the tirent Linkin and wuz foremost among the persek.oters uv the South. Logan! My gorge rises when I think uv him! My regiment, the Loozeaner Pelikins, yvuz afore him wunst, and I never want to heer his name. Gittin away from him and his d doodid ffoljers kep me in a swamp four days and Hires, wich give me arpomatism, wich still inkapasitates me from labor, and the Fedrei Government wich thus rooined me. physikelly, refooses to give me a penshun to soothe my declining yeers, : 2 i Will Blane and Logan, es they are elected, put us Confedrit soljers on a level with the Fedrei survivors in the matter of penshuns? Deekin Pogram and Issaker Gavitt want to know es they will remoonerate’em for the niggers wich they’ freed, not only despoilin’ ’em uv their property buVSisjiefSin-Xfieir sons and dawters to the four qUartefs uv the “globe? - The “last ‘ time 1 “ wuz in Cincinnati with Deekin Pogram we met one uv the deekin’s ante-war sons by a likely mulatto woman.~Mira.ndyr and he refoesed to ’ lend the deekin Hie price uv a sustaner for him and me. And the time wuz when the deekin owned that nigger! Will Blanc and Logan pay’ the deekin the valoo thereof in shekels uv gold and shekels uv silver? Will Blane and Logan pay the deekin for the property confiscatid doorin’ the War by Fedrei sojers? Will his clame for mules and rales confiscatid by’ the Fedrels, wich wuz rejectid becoz it wuz proved upon him that while hc sbltl 1 the Fedrei sojers watermelons doorin’ tlicylay he bushwhacked ’em at nite —will that clanH be paid by Blane i nd Logan? No, down here we see no reason fur Plane and Logan. W’e shel vote fur Sheriff Cleveland or whoever the Democratic Nashnel Committee put on in his place. We have votid the-Dimocratic ticket till moss hez ..growd on our bax, and we shall continoo till the find. W r e can t change to Republikins. We can’t commence warin cleen siiir.s and puttin on stocking in the summer at our advanced age. The noo generashun now comin on may do it, but we can’t. We can’t quit noo whisky and dogleg terbacker, nor kin the good deekin commense learnin to reed at his advanced age. We shel not hev onlimitid nigger laber any nioje, but we hope with a Demekratic Administra.”hen to hev the niggers that are yvith us so completely der control that it yvill amount to about the same thing. The Dimoerisy—uv the Cross-roads may be countid on ez solid and stefifast. We see no rezons why’ Blane and Logan should be elected. Petroleum V. Nasby, (■•lluz the same.)

METHODIST MINISTERS.

What the New York Association Thinks of Voting for St. John. [New York TribuneJ The members of the Methodist Episcopal.. Ministers’ Association had an informal talk about candidates for President yesterday at their weekly meeting. Cleveland, it was found, had no friends. In the course of the conversation it was suggested that St. John ought to be supported as the candidate of the Prohibitionists. An animated discussion followed. The Rev. Merritt Hulberd. of the Washington Square Church, increased the interest in the subject by reading a paper entitled: "A Preacher in Search of a Party,” in which he argued that it was the duty of temj eranpe people to vote the Republican ticket and not for St. John. He charged that the Democratic party was the party "of th? brewery and distillery,” and that its ranks were recruited Irom the grog-shopstje'Tf now and a rain it subsidizes the third party”—the Prohibition—he continued, "it is that it may more effectually rivet the chains of the people by defeating the real friend of temperance"—the Republican party: Mr. Hulberd eulogized the • Republean party, in the course of his remarks comparing the organization to a noble ship, and saying: “She has counted 85-per cent, of the voters of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 91 30-100 per cent, of its ministry among her crew. She has put forward as a candidate for the suffrages a man who, under the hottest tire that has been turned upon any citizen of the republic, so byars himself- that, without an officeholder that he can manipulate, he is made by a majority of his party its standard bearer, and' the best men of the republic are following where his white plume leads.” -.Mr. Hulberd, in concluding, returned to the j question of voting for St. John. "The brewers," i he said, “have made their selection and are ; working with their might and main for the sue- I cess or one of these parties and spending some I of their money, .1 bel.eve, though 1 could not prove it, to keep St. Join in the Held to help defeat the other. Carl Schurz is rallying such of his com}>atriots as love the r beer to help defeat a mean, narrow, bigoted Prohibitionist, as he calls the standard-bearer of one of these parties. I have seen the use made of the pronounced prohibition proclivities or otie of the candidates, and even the ridicule cast upon his jiersonal ab- i stemiousness, 1 intend to watch th,e nominations for the Assembly in this S ate. l ean ot afford to vote for a man of straw for President, who, e en if successful, could not bring about prohi bitio» ~ . Me. Cleveland, it is said, keeps his collars in a cheese box.

A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.

The Republican Leader on the Great Issue of the Campaign. • — ; - Mr. Blaine's Speech at Massillon, Ohio. Men of Ohio: In a procession of out political ■ opponen.s at Youngstown recently there appeared a man and woman! in rags and anparept wretchedness bearing the inscription “This is _what protection has done tor us,2 [Derisive laughter.] This was imended t» typify and denounce the results of pr itection in Ohio. I want to present the other side of the picture. In Ohio to-day there are 21,000 manufacturing establishments. They cost $200,000.000, and they turn out annually a producl worth $350,000,000. Out of the results of that investment and that product I observe a great many’ people in Ohio who are not in rags and not in wretchedness. [Laughter and great cheering.] Thirty-five anil forty years ago the entire Western country was called upon an an agricultural community to oppose the protective tariff, because it unjustly favored manufacturer of the East. Since then the manufacturing industries of the country have traveled westward until Ohio has become one of the largest mamt'acturing States in the Union [cheers], and combining within herself a great agricultural interest and great manufacturing interest. She presents all the elements of comfort and material progress. Steadily as the agricultural Stales become follow. Indiana and flliS and Michigan are coming on rapidly after >. lowa. Kansas, and Minnesota will come g in due time, the result being that The protective policy now upheld by the Republican party operates so as to carry the manufacturer into every State, and ultimately into every county in the Union. It never was designed that one part of the country should be permanently agricultural and the other part manufacturing, butit was designed that agriculture and manufactures should go hand in hand [cheers], and wherever they go hand in hand you have thrift, progress, and happiness. [Renewed cheering.] If this industrial system which combines the highest elements of human prosperity by uniting the agricultural and the manufacturing interests is worth i reserving, you should not forget that our political opponents have never failed in the last fifty-one years—never since since 1833, when they had the power in Congress—either to repeal the protective tariff, if one existed, or to try to repeal it, or to prevent the enactment of such a tariff. In.other words, since - 1833 the Democratic party in “Congress has never sustained by its vote a protective tariff, not one. ( A voice—“ And it never We are met with the accusation that a protective tariff injureszthe commerce of-the country. That is more frequently made in the East trianin the West. The answer to it is, that since the protective tariff was enacted in 1861 the exports from the United States have been vastly greater in amount and value than all the exports from the first settlement, of an English colonist on this continent down to the inauguration of . i’resident Lincoln. IGreat cheering.] I think that is w’orth repeating. [Cries of “Yes! yes!”] If you take every export that was ever made from the territory which now constitutes the United States from the time of settlement at Jamestown and at Plymouth in 1607 and 1620 clear down to 1860. and then add them together, they fail by several thousand million dollars to be as great in amount as our exports from 1861 to this time. [Renewed cheering.] So that the asstrtion that the protective tariff hinders the development of the commerce of the country is not only disproved by the facts, but directly the contrary is true, for agriculture and manufactures and commerce go hand in hand, and were designed to go hand in hand. They are triple cords, which, bound together, make up the strength of nation prosperity. I assume, therefore, that the people of Ohio are interested in maintaining the protective tariff, and if you are it is in vonr po vver to do it. [Cries of “ We’ll do it; well do it,” and great cheering Ohio speaks her voice on Tuesday next. This district will have the opportunity to speak her voice a id say whether one of the most brilliant advocates of protection that ever served in Congress shall be returned [Cheers for McKinley], with the.oportunity.to vindicate by your votes the splendid experience Which Ohio has had in developing her agricultural and manufacturing interests together. It is for you, the men of Ohio, while the nation looks on, to record your opinion and yofir judgment. I thank you for your cordial reception and bid you good-by.

EDWARD EVERETT HALE.

He Is Opposed to Southern Rule, and, Therefore, Cannot Vote for Cleveland. [Boston special.] The Rev. Edward Everett Hale made his first speech in the present campaign at a RcpiiblTcan ratification meeting to-night in the Dudley Street Opera-House. His_ speech was largely devoted to an exposition of the importance of keeping the rule of the nation out of the hands of the South. In opening he said: "I am not going to make a speech about personal preferences. I like Jim Blaine. [Applause.] Ihonor and respect him. but it is not because I like him, because I honor him, or because I respect him—it is not because of that alone, nor because of that chiefiy, that I ask you, every man, to vote tor him when the 4th ot Aovemb'er comes, •but. because lie believes in a.Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. I don’t want you to vote the Democratic ticket. Now that word ‘ Democratic ’ is a shocking misnomer, for I, mj’self, am a democrat of the democrats; I believe in a Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. 1 believe ifi nothing less. It is because- I believe in that that I don't believe that I had better honor the Southern party, the party which has nominated Grover Cleveland, and which does not believe in a Government of the people, for the people, by the people. My first proposition is this: I will try to prove it from history, then I will go, on to what I think of the aspect of the present and of the future. This country from 1801 to 1860 was largely governed by the Southern party. They did not know how to govern the country then, and they don’t know how to govern it now. [Applause,] You constantly hear the statement made that the Democratic party always makes a blunder when it gets a chance. Why is this? Are not these men educated in the same schools? Don't they read the same books we do? May be yes, and may be no. But I will tell you the reason why in America, wliyin“a~fepublic“a party which is an oligarchical party, an aristocratic party, always goes wfong. This party, led by such trimmers as Mr. Cleveland, led by such bad men as Jefferson Davis, always was the party of the few who didn’t believe in the workingmen; they were the Southern party. It was their business not to beliete in the workingmen. They didn’t believeiinthe black man, they didn't believe in the poor white; they don’t believe in the biack man, they don t believe in the poor white. They believe a set of educated men—above the rest — should govern the country. The believed that once, and they believe it to-day. This is the reason why, if you. happen to belong to the governing cla s s of Mississippi, your vote is worth three times as much, anil more, than your vote ij, you happen to be a voter in Roxbury."

JUDGE TOURGEE.

Ho Comes Out Squarely for Blaine —His Reasons. In a lengthy letter to the New York Tribune, Judge Tourgee, who was vehemently opposed last spring to the nomination of Mr. Bldne, gives a cogent statement of his i easons for earnestly advocating Mr. Blaine’s election. He declares, first, that the Democratic party has demonstrated its unfitness, the Republican party its fitness to rule the country; second, that the party whose only possible chance for success is based on violence and fraud at Southern polls has no claim on a Northern man's vote; third, that a consideration of the personal character and qualifications of the candidates compels him to support Blaine: fourth, that the association of a silent spectator of the war for the Union with a zealous and active Copperhead makes it a patriotic duty to defeat them both, l.ast spring Judge Tourgee was disturbed by tire charges against Mr. Blaine, but a careful study of all the evidence, and especially the latest installment, has convinced him that those charges were false. In concluding his letter Judge Tourgee says: “I favor the election of Blaine and Logan, not for any party purpose or personal advantage, but because I deem it important that the spirit and punxjse which has hitherto animated the Republican party should continue in control of the nation, and especially because I should deem it a calamity well-nigh irremediable in its influence upon the public welfare and private ; morals should the Democratic partv, with its : controlling Intiuenc-s and chosen candidate, reI ceive the indorsement of public approval. The I same sense of duty which impelled me to opj pose the selection of Mr. Blaine as a candidate I of the Republican party, now that he is chosen i as the leader of that party and represents its I spirit and policy, comj>ela me to make choice ■ between him and his opponent—between that . party anrbth • Democracy -between a record of j patriotic-achievement and sullen obstruction—

I betweeft tie promise Of prosperity and the ! pres det of peril. As I decide for myself, so I I have not only the right but the duty to urge my feilow-citizfins to decide for themselves." ,;

THE CHARGES AGAINST BLAINE.

Prof. G. F. Wright, of Oberlin College, Declares They Are Xot Protend [Letter in Cleveland Leader.] Th > conclusions to which my investigations have led me are briefly these: The charges against Mr. Blaine are far from being proved.—Many at them -we—can clearly show to be erroneous, and the worst of them admit of an explanation, unless we go open the principle that with public men the worst possible construction should always be put upon their actions and words. But, in our opinion, the position of Mr. Blaine is such—he has been so long open to public critclsm, he is confided in so largely by the best of men of the Republican party, who have had ample opportunities to know Idm, among others by President Garfield —that his dubious actions are entitled to a generous construction. It is asserted, I know, that Edmunds distrusts Mr. Blaine, and that he “has repeatedly said in public that Blaine in the Sefiate was the tool bf Jay Gould.” But Mr. Edmunds has presided at a Blaine meeting since the nomination, and nowstates that he never said any such thing as that Blaine was the tool of Gould in the Senate, and that he qould not have said it, because he never thought it. 1 f there is one discouraging thing in the present political campaign, it is that the Democrats and the independent Republicans are both so ready to hold in abeyance their pu itical princi•pies, under the hopes of sailing into office on the strength of the personal prejudices they hope to rouse against Mr. Blaine by their own misreprentations. Misrepresentation is all the stock they have in trade. I have had this consideration forced upon me during the extensive trip made this summer through Missouri, Southern Illinois, Inriiafla, Kent tick}’. Ohiff, and Western Pennsylvania. In the guise of a geologist I have been permitted incidentally to ascertain the sentiment prevailing in the saloons and kindred places, where the rank and file of Democracy scend their leisure_bours. So far as I have read this public sentiment, the mam re® - sons urged-for the triumph of the Democratic rar: y are two: First, to get the__Repu bl leans out of office ; second, to rebuke the temp irance sentiment which so manifestly prevails among the Republicans. The opposition of the Democratic party to sumptuary laws tells the whole story. The Democratic party is opposed to all positive legislation infavor otemorality. They are opposed to .temperance laws and to Sunday legislation, and for this reason I cannot b< lieve that the Prohibitionists will tlioiightlessTy throw the power into their hands. And how the civil service reiofinefs should hope to promote their cause by inaugurating a party whose first move, logically and necessarily, will be to make a clean sweep of all the officers, from the clerk at Washington to the lighthouse keeper at Alaska, is more than I can comprehend-

THE SHOTGUN POLICY.

South Carolina. Colored Hen to Be Intimidated. [Washington special.] Advices from South Carolina indicate that the Bourbons, elated at their successes in overriding an absolute Republican majority of 30,000 in that State at large, are determined to go even further and rob the Republicans of th • Congressional Representative in the Seventh District, which has been conceded to the Republicans. Already Red Shirt clubs have been organized, and at each political meeting minute guns are fired, and every irieans likely to frighten the ignorant colored voters resorted to. The Bourbon orators appeal to their hearers to remember “the good old days of 1876,” and urge them to throw off the last vestige ot negro supremacy. The Seventh, generally called the “black district,” has a Republican majority of 20,000, and extends almost the entire length of the State. Lately’ the Democrats have not contested the district, buthave-allowed thedlepnblicans to elect their nominee without opposition. This year, however, a Democrat has been nominated, and a vigorous effort is to be made to count him in. It is the purpose of the Bourbons to defeat the re-election of Smalls, and no effort to secure this end will be left untried. Republican papers generally have had little to say in regard to the shotgun policy in the South this year, and the Northern reader is led to think that that policy is worn ou t arid will be entirely discarded. It is apparent, however, that in South Carolina “the chivalry” which shoots down colored voters in cold blood is not dead, and "the indications are that the shotgun will again prove a more potent weapon with the Bourbon thin the ballot in the hands of the negro. Colored men niay not be shot for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket, but a volley of musketry fired in the air around the quarters of the colored voters 6n th: night before election, together with the slight-of-hand changes in the location of the ballot-boxes, will undoubtedly secure the desired result in the Seventh District, and the ' colored vote of 50,0<i0 thereby "UeTivefcOine by a white Bourbon vote of 7,009.

BOURBON FALSEHOODS.

Specimens of the Shallow Campaign Am-: munition Being Used by the Democrats. [Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] Secretary McPherson is kept pretty busy in answering letters from Republicans in different parts of the country who de sire to be furnished with material to combat wild assertions made by Democratic speakers The Tennessee Democrats seem to be especially wrought up over the tremendous surplus in the Treasury, which they assert amounts to The facta are that the Ist of October the cash in the Treasury amounted to that sum; that $244,000,000 represents gold and silver deposited for which silver certificates have been issued, and which is required by law to remain in the Treasury for the redemption of such certificates; that $19,000,000 is held for the redemption of matured bonds and interest thereon which have been called and which may at any time be present 'd for payment; that $2,000,000 is held for the payment of interest on uncalled Ixmdu, which is due and unpaid; so the cash balance available is $144,000,000, from which sum expenditures under appropriations are to be paid and the reserve against the greenbacks maintained. In lowa the Democrats are-circulating a campaign document charging a discrepancy of $240,000,000 in Government accounts. This is an old lie revamped. It was fully exposed four years ago. When the matter was up in the for-ty-fourth Congress, first session, Secretary Bristow, in a communication to Congress, fully explained the whole matter. In that communica•tionhe said: ; .- — "In no instance has there been any erasure or alteration in the books or records of this department, and the changes made in the published reports have been only to express with greater accuracy the precise condition of the public accounts, as shown by such books and records.” As Mr. Bristow is now a supporter of Gov. Cleveland for the Presidency his authority ought to be good with the Democrats. In Illinois and elsewhere Democratic sneakers are declaring that the Republicans have'squandered over $560,000,000 on the navy since the war. The records of the department show that only $154,000,000 have been appropriated and expended on war vessels during that period. That amount includes all the expenditures for the Bureaus of Construction, Steam Engineering, Ordnance, and Yards and Docks. In both the latter are included as for war vessels several millions of dollars expended in experimental teds of ordnance and for the care and impiovements of navy-yards and docks and repair of buildings, etc. While the present navy is not what it should be, it is formidable as compared with the navy turned over by Buchanan’s administration at the outbreak of the rebellion. Democratic Rule. Republican Rule. Statement of the con-’ Statement of the condition of the United dition of the United States-Treasury for the States Treasury for the year ending July 1,1851: year ending July 1,188): Receiptss4l,476,299 49 Receiptsslo3,s2s,2so 28 Expenditures. 62,616,955 78 Expenditures 136.905,232 78 Cash in Treats- Cash in Ureas- . , ury 2,862,213 00 ury 243,289,520 00 Excess of ex- Excess of rependitures—.. 21,139.756 28 ceipts.. 216 620,017 50 (orso per cent.) (or 116 percent.) Amount alTURX THE RASCALS OUT ready paid toward extinguishing the Demo- - ■ >- i cratic war debt........ Kd,923,179 61 , KEEP THE R ASCALS OUT No party in any country ever existed which has stood so true to the interests of the laboring masses as has the Republican party from the first year of its existence to the present period. It made men and women of 4,000,000 laborers which Democrats claimed as only chattels. It has-pro-tected the weak and helpless by the strong arms of the law. It has given the nation the best currency the world ever used. It has opened up to the use of actual settlers’ millions of acres of the public domain., It has fostered manufactories and thus protected the laborer by insuring him good wages.— lnter Oeean.

THE VICTORY IN OHIO.

It Is Sufficiently Decisive to Place the Election of Blaine Beyond. Doubt / y 1 • y ■ A’ ~~ Press Comments on the Result—Democifatic Despondency—Will Cleveland Withdraw ’ “ Ohip sfittles it," cays the New York Tribrtne in its editorial comment on the recent election. “ The people ot (iffio have done well their part to shape the history of the next twenty years. Th : victory is largely due to the great popularity and splendid personal leadership of Mr. Blame and Gen. Louan. Mr. Blaine’s personal strength was not diminished but increased by the siandere with wiiich his foes have worn out public pat.ence and disgusted sensible men. Law has triumphed, and fraud wiU not prevail. Justice has triumphed, and the shotgun is not to rule. Protection to home industry has triumphed.” The St. Louis Glohe-Deoiocrat stiys: “After an unprecedented canvass which called out an immense vote and attracted p rhaps mdre attention than was ever; before given to a State election, the contest in Ohio has ended with a victory for the p<rty of progress and civilization which insures a final triumph at the Novemlter polls. A fair day enabled both P 'Tties to bring out their lull strength. The Democrats seemed to have polled a larger .vote than ever before, while the Republicans drew on their reserve, which has lain dormant for three years past. The exercise of all the powers known to the Democracy in the way of repeaters, chemical ballots, the Outright purchase of votes, and ail the devices ot fraud were unavailing, and Ohio stands side by side with Maine and Vermont in the Republican column.” The Chicago comments as follows: “It is a victory of gigantic proportions and of sweeping and resistless consequences. It m* ans the rescue of a State which was completely possessed by the Dfitnoerats, They carried it two years ago by over la.ooo majority, and one- fear ago by 12,5 jo majority. In the meantime-, the Democratic Legislature repealed the registraJjpnlAiy in order to picpare lor this year’s election. The large cities had all,passed into Democratic hands. The Democrats controlled the police, the Sherilis, the voting’ precincts, and the ballot-boxes, "An enormous corruption fund was poured into the State amounting to s£ot>,ooo in addition to the large local subscript’ons. Twelve thousand saloonkeepers were actively working for Democratic —su« cess, and the brewers —and liquor-dialers gave unsparingly of their wealth to the same cause. The Deihoc:ats had concentrated all ther strength And all their resources in Ohio, conscious that they had all the advantages on their ’ide. They staked their -existenceu; tnra single die, and they have lest." They are snowed under ami buried. "The Ofiio victory is sufficiently decisive to place the election of Blaine and Logan beyond any peradventure. Henceforward the Democrats will save their monev, and the doubtful States and doubtful voters will be doubtful no longer. There wiU be a rush »o get in out of the rain. “It will not do for the Democratic managers to say that ‘ they expected to lose Ohio.’ They expected no such thing. They fought tooth and nail to carry it, in the knowledge that it was inuispensable to the success of their national ticket. They might have carried it on the chief local issue which they forced into the canvass—the liquor question—-as they had done two years In succession, if the importance of the national struggle had not been superimposed. As it is, they have probably polled 20,0r0 more votes than they will be able to poll three weeks hence, for Blaine 1h that much stronger than his party in Ohio on State issues. It is doubtful whither Cleveland could have carried New York even if his party had carried Ohio at the State election; now it is certain that he cannot. The probability is that he will not carry a single Northern State, and he may now lose two or three Southern States, He is as much weaker than his party everywhere as, Biaine was stronger than his party in Ohio. He has been losing ground ever since he was nominated, and Ohio lias crowdedhim out of the race. “Again we say, it was a famous victory. Its importance cannot be exaggerated. It brings glad tidings to the whole country, for the brant of the battle has been borne, and from now on the anxious work of the campaign will be changed to easy confidence." The New York Sun, democratic, says: "Grover Cleveland is beaten.” Will Cleveland Withdraw ? , There in great despondency among the New Yotk Democ.ats over the, news from Ohio, says a New York special, and it shows plainly, in spite of deterni ned efforts to conceal it. The result in Ohio revives the stories of Cleveland’s intended withdrawal in case of disastrous defeat in Ohio, and there is scarcely a doubt but another and a determined effort will be made to induce him to decline and put forward? ne who could unite the Democracy and command support from tlie respectable element of the country. .... —— —

BLAINE’S NEIGHBORS. They Stand by Him Unanimously.

[Philadelphia special.] “The more you probe Mr. Blaine’s transactions in railway shares with his old neighbors and friends in Maine who had money to invest, the plainer it becomes that his motives and methods were unimpeachable.” So spoke C. M. Bailey, the well-known oil manufacturer of Winthrop, Me., President of the New York and Maine St< amship Company, at his branch office in this citv to-day. He was one of the first of Maine’s business men to come to the front in the defense of Mr. Blaine’s integrity. He was a purchaser of Little Rock bonds himself, and his testimony is valuable. Mr. James Pollock, the great carpet manufacturer, a memlrer of the Board of Education, was a delegate to the Republican Convention that nominated Blaine. “Not only are the carpet manufacturers solid for Blaine, as far as I have been able to ascertain,” said Mr. Pollock, “but there is a significant movement in Blaine's favor among the Irish factory operatives. Several of my hands are hearty Blaine men, and many intelligent Irishmen of hensington think him the ‘ hoy tor ould Ireland.’ Tire Irish Republican clubs are doing liist-rate campaign work.”

The Straight Quill.

[From the Washington (Iowa) Press.] The right, fit thing for Republican voters to do any year is to “vote her straight," provided fair, reputable, honest, competent men are on the ticket. But to vote her stra'ght from A to izzard this year is a paramount duty. —— ; . Strike straight from the shoulder. A straight, unssratched ticket is a plumper right lie ween the eyes. it makes a bull’s eye. Don't be wheedled and soft-soaped and honey-fugled, but ram down your kad of will and purpose with a straight, clean Republican ticket for a wad, take deliberate aim for a raking shot at every man on the opposition ticket ‘—fire!—tang! and down the game chickens will come. It should be the ambition of the Republican voters in this county to make the majority on our State, Congressional, judicial, and county tickets equal to that which will be given to Blaine and Logan. We can do it if we will; if we won’t, we shall be foolish and green. Sock the vote right home, clean along the line. Load her for bear. Aasby’s Advice to Democratic Orators. This advice, which Nasby gives in reply to an inquiring correspondent, will be found useful by Democratic orators: “Sfump-’spcaker, Smithville, Injeany—From wat I know uv the ken try you live in, I shood advocate tariff reform, with a decided lesnin to pe’teckshnn. I think yoo hev coal in yoor vicinity. and that yoor voters are largely interestid in manufaktrin. Es lam kerrect that is wat you want to do. Es, on tue other hand, I am not kerrect. and you are purely agricultrel, and yoor people are not p; rtiklerly intelligent, iasist that Dimocrisy means tariff reform with a decided leenin toward free trade. Yoo know wat yoor people want. Constroo the platform to. suit 'em. The platform was made to be constrood; omstrnktiil, in fact, so that Henry Watterson and Sam Randall can both stand on it."

Where Logan’s Crowds Come From.

I wonder if anybody forgets that Logan was the only volunteer soldier who ever commanded an army of three corps: that in Ids command were 50,'00 men from Ohi->, 10,000 from Indiana, 100.000 from Illinois. 13.pr0 fibm Michigan, 10,000 from Wisconsin, 5.0J0 from Minnesota, 10,000 from Missouri, and 5,0i0 from Kansas and Nebraska? These veterans form the hosts, and with their sons, now vet-ra, join to make the crowds that greet him everywhere, and are prond of the opportunity to place him in the position next highest in the gif t of the American people.— J'ehwuM, in the T'argn Argus. IN Northern New Jersey there are BJaine and Logan clubs, with large membership rolls, formed upon the basis of "No Republicans permitted to join. ” They take pride in claiming that every vote in their clubs is a Democratic vote for Blaine and Logan. r

THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

The Great Republican Leader’s Tour Through the State of MichiganMr Blaine Rides Twelve Honrs and Makes Twenty-seven Speeches. j- —. [Detroit special to Chicago Tribune.! Mr. Blaine started on his tour upon the Detroit. Lansing and Northern Railroad at 9:30 this morning. Crowds were at the depot to see him, but he quietly entered the car without maxing a speech. He expressed himself as greatly pleased so far with his reception in Michigan. In the party were Gen. Fremont, the two Michigan Senators, Palmer and Conger, Senator Hale, Mr. J. H. Manley, of Augusta, Me.; the Hon. R. G. Hott, Judge Isaac Marston. Chairman Vanzile. of the Republican State Committee, Collector J. H. Stone, Charles’ T. Gorham, ex-Asststant Secretary of the Interior, and several other prominent citizens of the State. A TIRESOME JOURNEY. [Grand Rapids special. J Any transports Mr. Blaine might have felt on the result of the Ohio election were probably moderated by his experience to-day. He was on the road to-day from 9 o’clock a. m. until «. o’clock this evening, riding 247 miles, and making twenty-seven speeches or into!mal talks. Mr. Blaine was up to such a late hour last night that he had a very poor night's rest; this was another reason for making the tong day arduous. He traveled to-day over the Detroit, Lansing, and Northern Road to Grand Rapids. He was accompanied by» very large delegation of Michigan's leading end most influential citizens. His special tra/tling companion was Gen. John C. Fremont. ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS. To-day inside of Mr. Blaine's car and at all the stations there was a steady stream of congratulations over the result in Ohio. The Michigan managers who were with Mr. Blaine assured him that now Ohio had declared herself Michigan would be good for even,a greater majority, and that they were now certain of electing a solid Republican delegation to Congress. The crowds along the line of the road showed such numbers and enthusiasm as to startle the Michigan managers. At Lansing there was a gathering of s.ocn peo- : pie at the station, Beyond Lansing the roe/1 runs through a very sparsely settled country, over great blue barrens, over which the forest fires have painted great black and desolate 'patches, but it was in these thinly settled sections of a once most active lumber region that the enthusiasm was the wildest. .There people had ridden in from thirty to forty miles for the mere pleasure of seeing Mr. Blaine. The latter part of the journey was after dark: every station reached after it was night was lighted by great burning bonfires. Mr. Blaine to-day made no set speech. He merely called the attention of his auditors to the fact that Ohio had pronounced upon the question of a protective tariff, and that it now was the turn of Michigan to speak in equally decided terms upon the subject. At Grand Rapids Mt, Blaine had a reception which was worthy of tfffs ambitions town. On the east side of the river Mr. Blaine left the train and. was escorted by the Republican clubs through the city to the Morton House, where he is to pass the night. Several thousand people were in the streets in the neighborhood of the hotel awaiting his arrival, and there were the usual demonstrations as he entered the hotel. -a—

THE OHIO GERMANS.

Why They Proved Loyal to the Republican Ticket. [Cincinnati special] While the position taken by the Germans in the Ohio election yesterday was in many respects phenomenal, it was not wholly unexpected, although the Republican gains were much greater than the most sanguine had dared hope for. Of the 50,0)0 German voters in the State Hamilton County contains nearly 20,000, 16.0C0 of whom) are in Cincinnati. It was here that the Democrats expected their great strength from the Germans, and the result of the efection shows how far off they were in their calculations. The German wards of this citv are the Third, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Twentyfirst, Twenty-third.Twenty-fourth.and Twentyfifth. Two years ago they gave Newman, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, a majority of 6,100. while the Republican ticket received but 2,919. The Republicans this time have harried these wards by about 3,000, making a change of 9,000. The most curious part of all is that Johnson, the Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, who, it was said, would be slaughtered by the Germans because of his adverse decisions on the Pond and _ Scott laws, ran slightly ahead of Robinson in the German wards. On the other hand, Robinson, who, it was expected, would be badly scratched by the Germans, only ran behind ma ticket in his county 200 or some such matter. The fact that Johnson ran ahiad of Robinson can only be accounted for on the ground that the Democrats were making trades for Newman. There are several reasons why the Germans came back to the Republicans, bringing many Democratic Germans with them. The main cause was evidently liecause they felt a greater security in a Reoubllcan national administration, and were far-seeing enough to understand that Republican victory in Ohio in October meant the success of the national Republican ticket in November. Then their desertion from the Republican ranks in 1882, and its continuation in 1883. was intended as a punishment for the passage ot sumptuary laws by a Republican Legislature. It is possible, too. that this same spirit of retaliation prompted them to rebuke the Democracy for unfulfilled promises in the matter of repealing the Scott law by a Democratic Legislature last winter, and the subsequent failure to have a Democratic Supreme Court decide it unconstitutional. The Democrats, having broken faith with the Germans, lost their confidence, and the idea prevailed that nothing could be expected from the Democratic party in the future, but that rather the Germans were simply being used as tools to defeat a party that had always protected their interests. As the Scott law became tested they began to see that it was sound In its operation and really not a measure that would work to their disadvantage. Gradually it began to dawn upon them that it was the law they wanted, and protected rather than distressed. This feeling has gained in the last year to such an extent that now it is fair to believe that not one German out of twenty thinks the law is unjust. Another factor that has had much to do with the matter is this: The Democrats have taken great pains to associate the entire German population with the subject of lager beer and saloons. It is a matter of 1 act that the percentage of saloonkeepers among the Germans is very small. There are not over 1.5C0 German saloonkeepers in Hamilton County, while the German population amounts to 80,000. The Germans resent this slander against their fair name, and object to being regarded as willing to abandon all State Issues to the exclusion ot the single question of the lager beer interest. They have shown by their votes that they are ot different mind, and have risen superior to the one issue with which the Democrats have chosen to connect them. All these points have had their bearing and the effect As apparent. The return of nearly the solid German vote’to the Republican party has a significance that cannot escape the most careless observer. It means a return of Reoublican strength in Ohio that will give the State to Blaine by a majority of 35.000 or 40,000. It means' the complete detachment of the last Democratic support and the loss of a State power to a party whose sway at best was only temporary. It has imparted a courage to Republicans throughout the United States, the good effects of which cannot be overestimated. It means that it has thrown new vigorlnto the Republican leaders and given an impetus to the working of Republican organizations from the National Committee down to the smallest county Blaine and Logan club. It means that the cry will be re-echoed across the continent, “The Germans are with us.” and that the country will be swept by a Republican majority unprecedented in the annals of American politics. The Germans of Ohio have redeemed themselves. Their action here in Hamilton County is but a counterpart of what it throughout the State. 2

The day before the election, says the Chicago Tribune, the Democratic papers rehearsed in chorus the praises of the faithful Germans who were to vote the Democratic ticket in Ohio. The day after the election they howled at them in chorus. The Chicago 'limes, the senior Democratic orgaa, in its flaming headlines say s: The "Treacherous Germans cause a landslide in Hamilton and Montgomery Counties.” We commend the epithet to Germans everywhere as a sample of the estimation in which they are held by the Democratic leaders. How do they like it? The epithet, let them remember, is applied to them by Carter Harrison's organ. The Deinocrats put >4 00,000 into Ohio. Have they anything left.