Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — BLAINE’S NEIGHBORS. They Stand by Him Unanimously. [ARTICLE]

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.”