Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — PITH AND POINT OF POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

PITH AND POINT OF POLITICS.

Now tho Gnus Are Booming All Along tlio Line—Grape anil Canister. The coming contest will bo one for American wages and American homes. — Philadelphia Press. 0 When they ask you “Hoosiev”man? tell them he comes from Indiana and they call him —Philadelphia Press. Mr. Blaine will give his whole energies to tho campaign, and no one .will enter into it more earnestly.—Now York Mail and Express. The Canadians would like to see Mr. Cleveland ro-eloeted. They think lie makes a very good president—for them. •—Cleveland Leader. ; - Tho Democrats have nominated a froe trader and a pocket handkerchief, and we can beat that kind .of a presidential ticket. —Cleveland Leader. There seems to be no doubt that the St. Louis ticket "will get the electoral vote of the London press by an immense ma- * jority.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Tho “Thurman \vipcs”will bo needed to rub away the grease spot left of Grover Cleveland after tho returns hit him next Novcfiiber. —Cleveland Leader.

Now for a solid north against the solid sonth.! The linos are drawn, tho commanders are chosen, tho isstio is rnado up. Tho Republican army moves forward to tho music of tho Union.—Philadelphia Press. Allan G. Thurman recently said that all ho cared for was a seat in heaven. In. accepting the Democratic nomination for the vice presidency, ho throws liinjself open to the charge of color blindness.— Albany Journal. Tho organization of an Irish American Anti-Cleveland Protective league in Now York was a prompt response to tho St. Louis nominations and platform. There will bo a good many such responses as the campaign proceeds. —Boston Journal. President Cleveland is now "an incumbent whom a horde of officeholders, with a zeal born of benefits received and fostered by the Lope of favors yet to come, stand ready to aid with money and trained political service. ” Tho foregoing description of his position is taken from Ins letter ot acceptance four years ago.—Boston Journal.