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

CAMPAIGN NOTES.

Lincoln, Grant, Garfield —each in his turn received all the abuse that cunning, malice and reckless lying could invent. The personal attack upon Blaine is the unconscious tribute which the Democracy pays to the soundness of his principles. With the election of Blaine and a Republican Congress, so that manufacturers will be secure against having to compete -with European pauper labor, added to good crops, we expect to see the business outlook brighter this winter or in the spring than it has been any ‘ time since President Garfield ivas shot. f' Carl Schurz refused to address a Democrapc meeting in Ohio until he was paid SI 50 in cash. He was offered a check, but declined it—therein showing the extent of his faith in Democracy he would’nt trust it even for a barrel of wind. The great statesman for revenue only doesn’t appear to be getting left this year. The fact that many manufacturers are waiting the result of tfie election before attempting to extend their business operations shows how much confidence the public have in the Democratic party. - Enterprises of various kinds necessarily depend upon the election of Blaine. No American ever stood closer to the people than James G. Blaine does to-day. No man ever so fully represented the principles, sentiments and forces which make up the vital energy of American civilization. The people believe in Blaine and he believes in them. According to an lowa newspaper a Wisconsin wool buyer is giving the best illustration of tthe way the campaign is regarded by practical men in that State. This man offers to make contracts for wool at thirty cents a pound if Blaine is elected, and twenty-five cents a pound if Cleveland is elected. The inference is so plain that any farmer can dra v it. The fact that the Rev. George H. Ball, of Buffalo, has just been re-elected for the fifteenth time as president oLthe Central Association of Open Communion Baptists, of New York, and that resolutions were adopted endorsing his course, will probably act upon the Democratic press like a red rag on an infuriated bull. Up at Albany the Democratic clerks in the state departments are being assessed 5 per cent nf their salaries for the benefits the Democratic campaign fund and the sacred cause of reform. The artistic celerity with which Daniel Manning’s committee pinches the pennies from helpless bookkeepers and copyists fills the soul of that civil service reformer, William Hadley Barnum, with envy of the greenest hue.