Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

A poll of New York State by counties gives Butler a vote of 80,800. It is the same old Republican party that backed Lincoln, and Grunt, and Garfield that is backing Blaine. ■Henry Ward Beecher once wrote a letter “humbling him sslf as he would before his God” to atone for the wrongs he had done afe low-man. And Mr. Beecher is engaged to-day in another dirty business that may compel him to repeat the penance. —Philadelphia Press. Sixteen members of the Cleveland and Hendricks First Voters’ Club stated their intention to vote for Blaine and Logan. The organization will be known as the Independent Democratic Blaine and Logan First Voters’ Club as the result of this flop. —Port Wayne (Ind.) telegram. “The issues of this, campaign are moral,” declared the truly virtuous Independents some time since. This circumstance. however, has not prevented their indulgence in lying and forgery—two Democratic accomplishments in which they have attained great proficiency. Since the nomination of Grover Cleveland he has delivered himself of three great chunks of wisdom: "The office of President is essentially executive, ” was the first; “the soil remains in its place,” was the second: “the tariff questiop is‘irrelevant,” was the third. The Buffalo statesman has a great head. — New York Dial. Democratic free traders, furnished with the necessary money by British manufacturers, have imported Daniel McSweeney, a British subject, to try and stop the Irish revolt from the Democratic party. McSweeney has been a citizen of Ireland during seven years past, and is now a candidate for Parliament in that country. “Neither by experience, ability, nor characteris Grover Cleveland fitted for the Presidency of the nation, or entitled to the support of independent and conscientious voters.” Such is the concluding sentence of a scathing review of Grover Cleveland’s official acts made by a committee appointed by the Young Men's Republic in Club of New York. ' ■ ' We are confronted with the Democratic party, vety hungry, and, as you may well believe, very thirsty; a party without a single definite principle: a party without any distinct national policy which it dares to present to the country; a party which fell from power as a conspiracy against human rights, and now attempts to sneak back to •power as a conspiracy for plunder and spoils.— Geo. Curtis, Juneo, 1884. . Gen. Grant writes to a friend: “I am taking no part in the canvass, but it is not because of any change in sentiment. I have been a Republican ever since the war began, and shall continue so as long as the States in rebellion continue to cast a solid vote for the party that supported the rebellion, whether they have the numerical strength to do sb with a free ballot and a fair count or not. ” •-- - - . Sobrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.— Pachter. -