Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 August 1884 — Page 4

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Yon will please announce that I am an Independent candidate for Representative of Brown and Monroe counties, subject to the will of the people. W.D.CLARK. In as much as the Republicans of Brown and Monroe counties have not seeniit to nominate . a candidate for JoiivRepresentative, I desire to announe my candidacy for that office, in the mums of your .paper. I believe in keeping alive the party traditions by placing a full ticket; in the field, and ask the v2es of all my friends. SAMUEL GORDON.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE. A full attendance of the members of this committee is desired at the meeting in the Grand Jury room on Saturday Aug. 2nd, 1884, at 1 o'clock p. to transact important business. Wm! P. Browkuto, Chairman. Jos. G. AIcPheetkrs Jr See' v.

Jeff Davis "hopes that Cleveland will be elected." Why? Every State that was in rebellion Trill vote for Cleveland. Why? m mi m Whex Buskirk ets to be Judge "John Barleycorn" won't have such a hard time. Aside from the rebel .States the Democratic candidate in 1880 revived eight electoral votes. Ths Democratic fire works last Saturday night consisted f a baloon, one roman-candle and Ab. Noblett.

Fob sobriety, temperance and religion the Telephone commends John W. Buskirk for Judge. m The efforts of the Democratic leaders to get the Republican temperance people to vote for a third party, has inglouriously failed. It

was a slick trick, but selling out the temperance people is another thing.

Ix the proper place of this issue of the Telephone Samuel Gordon announces his intention of becoming a candidate against W. W. Browning for Joint Representative. Mr. Gordon is a pioneer among us, having lived in Monroe county for 52 years and was one of the first to become a Republican. Some of the Democratic papers of the District are howling around, asying that Major Grubbs did not support Mr. Wallingford for Congress two years ago. Mr. Wallingford says he considered Major Grubbs one of his supporters and one of his best friends. This ought to silence them on that subject.

Suppose Major Grubbs had not supported Wallingford, did Alatson and his friend? "Hon. James H. Williard, of Bedford, and Hon. George W. Cooper, of Columbus, will speak at the Democratic Ratification Meeting, Saturday, July 26th, in the afternoon," Courier. Willarddid not nor even intended to come, and Cooper, though within three miles of Blooming ton, made it convenient to be "out of town." George has enough of Monroe county Democracy a few months ago, when a few of the leaders(?) deliberately stole two delegates from him. There is too much honor in George to set in the midst of such profidity and corruption.

Ik 1880 Gen. Wade Hampton said the "Democratic party is fighting for the principles of Lee and . Jackson." How about 1834?

The Editor of the Courier is just now busily engaged praying for the saivauon of John W. Buskirk, the temperance" candidate for Judge. Democratic ticket: National The libertine ticket. State The larceny ticket: Congressional The anti-workman's ticket. JudicialThe John Barleycorn ticket. Connty The "ring" ticket. The same day that St. Johns, the Prohibition candidate, declared against Blaine on account of his temperance record, Neld Dow, their candidate in 1880 . declared for Blaine because of his temperance record. So which way shaV we shoot? TuxCourier calls Grubbs a "dude." Yes, a dude! If a boy who works his way up through school and college, then goes out and spends four years as a soldier, enlisting as a private and returning as , a Major;

by hard and presistent work succeeds in working up a successful law practice, from which he supports his old mother and family in addition to building for himself a pleasant little home, is a "dude," then Major Grubbs is a simon pure one. The Telephone admires uch dudes, Mr. Courier. As effort is being made by our good brother Puett to absorb the Monroe county Democracy and get

their nomination for Treasurer, our good brother promising in return that the Green hackers will vote for a Democrat for Sheriff. The good brother may mean well, aud likely does, bat when He comes to voting the Greenbackers for MarionHinkle, whom the "ring" propose to nominate, he can't deliver the goods. None know this better . than the Democrats, and if they do take up Puett it will only be to trade him off.

The Democratic En quiver of Cincinnati, isn't much of a temperance paper, but it manages to get nearer the truth than some persons who make greater pretensions. In speaking of Maj. Calkins, it says: "One of the latest is that Major Calkins is a drunken loafer, whose special aversion is Methodists and the Methodist Church. The Major ought to be qualified to give an opinion on that subject. His father was a Methodist preacher, two of his brothers in-law are also clergymen in good standing in that church and the Major is a member of it If the liars keep on with the vigor they now exhibit, they will succeed in electing him by a handsome majority."

party sure, placing in power the very worst enemy of the cause in which they were so much interested. Two weeks ago last Saturday night the Republicans announced that they would hold a meeting at the court house under the auspices of the Blaine and Logan club. Nothing was thought further of this until more than a week later a few Democratic leaders conceived a plan, to on that night hold a "ratification" meeting, and so accordingly when Saturday night come they proceeded to gather a mob on the street and by yelling and loud talking endeavored to disorganize the Republican meeting that was being held in the court room, where Maj. Fergenson was speakiug. Maj. Fergerson's address throughout was full of argument and worthy a Republican occasion, and though the noise outside was at times disgraceful, he spoke remarkably well and commanded the closest attention from his audience. The proceedure on the behalf of these Democratic leaders gains them nothing, and only gives the Republicans fare warning of the desperate game that is to be played throughout the canvass. The fact that the Saturday night before, which would have been a proper time to ratify was unoccupied; that the Republican meeting had been announced two weeks before, and that they did not demand the Court house, is sufficient evidence that the "ratification was only to disturb the Republicans. The Republican leaders intend to fight the canvass fairly and squarely and such a proceedure as that of Saturday night is not going to add to the Democratic vote.

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The Irish brZwhose sympathy for tie laboring class has made it their organ,says of Cleveland: "It is because the aristocratic element in the Republican party believe they recognize in Grover Cleveland a man of their own way of thinking that they have banded together to force the Democratic party to take him as their standardbearer. Ought not this fact make every true American pause and consider whether it is not his bounded duty to do all that lies in his power to compass the defeat of Cleaveland?

As for the great army of wageworkers, they, certainly, ought not to hesitate as to how they should vote next November. The man the Independent Republicans have forced the Democratic party to place at the head of its ticket has in the past ranged himself on the side of monopoly as against labor. As President will he not be as subsesvient to the monopolists as he has been while Governor?" mm The "temperance" people of the State attempted to hold a convention at Indianapolis last week and

succeeded, for before they got

through two seperate organizations held meetings, one nominating a seperate ticket, while the larger and

much more practical contented

themselves with making arrange

ments to put forth extraordinary efforts to carry the legislature very

wise and in fact the only sensible

course to persue. When the tem

perance folks first gathered at Ind

ianapolis it soon became evident

that the element that favored a

third ticket were under advisement

of Democratic management, as Eb

Henderson, the chairman of the

Democratic Committee, and Sim

Coy the Chairman of the Indianapo

lis committee a brewer by the

way were very active in working up such a movement; so as stated

much the larger element held a seperate convention in opposition to a third ticket, in as much as such a movement would only draw votes from the Republican party and make the success of the Democratic

The revelations by the Cincinnati Enquirer a leading Democrat paper, of the moral character of Governor Grover Cleveland, of New York, and the letter of Rev. Geo. H. Ball, Pastor of the Hudson Street Baptist Church, of Buffalo, on the same subject, have created a very profound sensation. The hope is universally expressed that he Enquirer story may prove false and the Rev. Geo. H. Ball misinformed. If such things as are related through the sources named are true, the blush of shame sh ould mantle the cheek of every American Republicans and Democrat and if not true the lies should be stamped out and the liers exposed. That one

guilty of the crimes charged should

so long escape punishment and sven

dare to show his face am one men

seems almost incrediable, and that

the people of a great State like

New York should elect such a one Governor, and a great party, numbering millions of voters, should make him its standard-barer for the honorable position of President of

this great nation seems beyond possibility.

If one-tenth part of what is alledged be true an outraged public moral

sentiment would seem to be justi

fied in taking the law in their hands

and pushing all who were instru

mental in presenting to the world

such a character as a representative

American, worthy to fill the seat of

Washington and preside over a

nation celebrated everywhere for the

virtue and intelligence of its citi

zens, the purity and chastity of its

people, their abhorrence to the beas-

tial, brutish propensities of the sensualists and moral lepers who occa

sionally disgrace every community.

The murderer is properly condemned

by the law and his punishment is

death. The assassin of character and the man who will under any circumstances seduce from the path

of virtue the innocent and confiding, or to gratify his hellish desires make

even one woman to fall from her high estate, designed by the AlHrigbty, should be made an outcast

against whom every man's hand

should be raised, and his death

should be made more odious than

even that of the murderer. The

stories as to Cleaveland are not I: of

Republican origin but find their

source from representative Demo

crats. If true it but illustrates the

character of the would-be reformers

who are continually prating: "I

thank God I am not like other

men," "I am holier than thou,"

and should cause the immaculate

pursuits who are too holy to support

Blaine and Logan to hide their

heads and call upon hills to fall upon and cover them.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. From the Chicago Times: The last Presidential election has shown that there is an invincible reason why the Democratic party can never win a national victory. It is that the youth of this republic is not Democratic. The sons of Democratic fathers have grown up Republicans. So long as slavery and the war linger within the memory of Americans, the youth of the republic will continue to grow up Republicans: and slavery and the war will be remembered as long as the public school system exists. The public schools have slain the Democratic party witli the text-book.

It is vain for statesmen to declare that there was as many Democrats as Republicans in the Union Army. It is vain to affirm that the war for the preservation of the Union could not have been carried to a successful close without the assistance of the Democratic party. It is idle for philanthropy to suggest the attitude of that party to-ward the war in the beginning was a humane one; that it was inspired by the higher and better wish that the cause of the conflict should be peaceably removed, and the spilling of brothers1 blood avoided. The Democratic party has been ideally indentified with slavery and slave-holding The Republican party is indentified with emancipation and the war. Therefore the Democratic party can never win a National victory. Its old men are dying away. The boys who catch the ballots that fall from their stiffened hands are Republicans. This fact can not be denied. It will do no good to quarrel with it. All other causes which have operated to diminish the number of Democrats and increase the number of Republicans are insignificant besides this tremendious and invincible fact. The curse of slavery has poisened the blood and rotted the bone of the Democratic party. The malediction of the war has palsied its brain. The young wife who held the babe up to kiss the father as he hurried to the tap of his departing regiment has not sulked a Democrat. The weary foot of the gray grandmother who watched the children while the wife was busy has not rocked the cradle of Democrats. The chair that the soldier father never came back to fill has not been climed upon by Democrats. The old blue coat that his comrades carried back was cut up for little jackets, but not one enclosed the heart of a Democrat. The rattled musket that fell from him with his last shot became the thoughtless toy of his boys; but not a hand that played with it was a Democrat. The babe

he kissed crowed for his return, and

its unwitting and unanswered notes

were not from the throats of a Dem

ocrat. The tear-soiled camp letter which the mother read in the long

bitter evenings while the boys clus

tered at her knees, did not fall upon Democratic ears. The srirls sobs

blending with the brothers, did not

awaken Democratic sentiment, al

though perhaps the father had been

a Democrat all his life!

The children go to school. There

is not a Democrat on its benches. The first reader contains a portrait

of Abraham Lincoln that kind,

sturdy face never made a Democrat.

On its simple pages, in words of one or two sylabels, is told the story of

his birth and death, lhat story

never makes a Democrat. In the prank of the play-giound that name silences the frolicsome and makes the jolliest grave. That name never made a Democrat. In the picture that light up the geography are the firing on Fort Sumter and the death of Ells worth . Th ese pictures make no Democrats. The first page cf this histoiy contains a representation of the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. No boy gazes on that and ever avows himself a Democrat. In the higher grades the same subtle and unresisted influence is at work. The text-books contain extracts from patriots' speeches during the war; battles are briefly described; the narrative has no Democratic listeners. The strain of martial music runs through the readers, and that music makes no Democrat. Sketches of great generals are given; their deeds arouse the enthusiasm of the lads, but there is no Democrat among them. The horrors and the sufferings of the slaves are told; maddened blood that mounts the boys' cheeks is not Democratic blood. The curse of slavery has purchased the Democratic party and has hounded it; to its death. Therefore let it die; and no hp will be found to say a prayer over the grass of its grave. The last defeat need not be attributed to any other cause. Other causes were at work but they were only incidental. The tariff was one. Sectionalism was a second. "Let well enough alone" was a third. The failure in Indiana was a fourth v But all these together were trivial, and together could not have accomplished the result. The result was accomplished because the youth of the country is not Democratic. The ?arty is, therefore, without hope, 'he malediction of the war has palsied its brain. The curse of slavery has poisoned its blood and rotted its bones

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