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Froru Puck. W' e go forth not inerely to gain parlisan advantage, bul pledged to give those wlio trust us the utmost benefits of a puro and hone.ït administration of national affairs. - Gkovee Cleveland. Woe unto Ihem that cali evll good, and good evil !- Isajaii V , 20. Let every Republican in this hour think soberly of tho iasting degradation that will be inflieted on his party by tho eloction of James G. Biaine to the Presidenoy. Tho hand that casta a vote for that ninn oasts a vote against the honor of the Republican party. Yes, it is on that party tbat the disgraoo of suoh an olection" would fall the heaviest. Shameful as it would be for the wholo country, tho nation's fair f ame would not be irretrievably ruined; for there are plenty of sons who have risen up to fight the wrong, and to these men she may look for regeneration. But if B'.aine Í3 elected the Republican party will bo stained beyond all cleansÏDg. It will havo putits neck under the yokeof corruption; it will have made alüance with dishonesty. It will have sold all its birttiright of honor for lts fat offices and the profits of a venally lax administration of governruent. It will be no longer a poJitical party; it will be nomore than nnorganization for public plunder Vre do not believo that Republicans will consent to this degradation of the party that gave to tho country universal liberty and national unity. It is not at all necessary for the healthful existenpo of a political party that it should havo the control of the government, or even the balance of the powor in the affairs of the state. An honorable poverty no moro disgraces a party than it disgraces a raan. But it is of suprenie and vital importanco that, in or out of office, the party should preserve its integrity and purity. Without these it is lost; it will go under sooner or later, as allfalse and impure things go. Atthe ht ight of its power.its mandatos obeyed with blind enthusiasm by people who wül blind their reason and their conscienoe at its bidding, that party is doomed to death which ha3 sold iuelf co corruption; and the day of judgment may be put off'; but not püt aside. The question for Republieans is not: Shall we elect Blaine President of the United States? but: Shall we elect Blaino leader of tho Republican party? That is what consistent Republieans should ask theniselves. All know that Blaine is the worst man who ever went bafore the people as a candidato for Cuief Magistrate. All know the record of his indecent prostitution of the powers of office. AU have seen the brazen impudence with which he glories in what should niake him odions in tho eyes of all men. All have seen the hideous inf arny to which he has resorted in h3 attempt to crush the honest man whom honest men hope to make president next November. Shamelessly he has violaíed the sanctity of a man's private life; shamclos3ly he has perverted party press to tho lowost purposes of scandalmongering. Pitilessly he has dragged a woman's shame before the public. He ñas not nesitated to use weapons which would disgrace the foulest cause. He has uot hesitated to begin a warfare which has filled the public prints with columns of unparalled indecency, spread out beforo the eyes of our wives and our daughters. This is his work, and by his work shall all men know him. Is it notbetter- a thousand times better- that the Republican party should suffer defeat to all eternity than that the cause for which Lincoln died and the stainless Sumnerlived should be shamed by such a leader? Is it not better that the party should go to its death cleanhancled than ie should chauge principie, honor and high amoition for such a mad doctrine of political profligacy as this man and his follovvers preaoh and practice in their words and their acts? Let Republicana who wish that Republicanlsm should live hold their hands before they bririg upon themseives and their party the curse that will surely come upon all thoie who cali Evil Good and Good Evil. BUSINESS POLITICS. New York World Ia 1880 one of the most effective movements in favor of Garfield in this city was the cïemonstration of the business men of tbo metropolis, in which naany forreer Demócrata took part. This ynar the businessjraen of New York aro disposed to oppose the election of Blaine and to support Grover Cleveland. The Produce Exchange started with the formation of a Cleveland Campaign Club in which many Republicana are enrolled as menibers. Now the Stock Exchango follows, and its Cleveland Club embraces such prominent Republican narnes as D. T. Woiden, J. h. Do Motte, C. F. Woerishoffer, Earnest Groesbeck, T. Tileston, Herman Beekman, and a number of ohers. It is significant that this is the first time that a club has b"en organiaed on the Stock Exchange for any other thau a Republican presidential candidato, ow:ag to the great preponderence of Republicans on the board. It is also significant that the movement towards Cleveland is on the part of the legitimato business members of the Exchange while tho great fpeculative operators, like Jay Gould, Russell Sago, Huntinton, Field and the like, all aro ardent advocates of Blaino and fluctuations. (jleyeland's firmness. Alta California. A conscientious firmnos3 in the discharge of his dutics is ono of Governor Cloveland's conspic'.ous traits. He has no share in that weakuess which makes so mauy executive officers unable to resist the oajolery or iniportimitias of seekers af ter f a vors. A good example of this is seen in hig use of the pardoning power. Several hundred applicalions for pardons are annually made to the GoTernor of New York and preceding governors have complied, on the average of about one-third of their roquests; but during the term of Governor Cleveland, only a little moro than 16 per cent of the pardons asked have been grauted. There is a great deal in havin a president that knows how to say no, BOME OF BLAINE'S MISTAKES. Botton Pilot. Mr. Blaine made a mistake when he gave his sancüon to Knownothingism 30 years ago. He did not foresee then that the time would come when he would „te asking for irish-American votos to help olect hiin to the Presidency. He made a mistase when he dictated, or inspired. at any rato distributed. the Madigan circular, niño years ago, and forgot to cover his trauks. Ho forget that chíckens of that breed coree home to roost. He made a mistako eight years ago when ha read a garbled series of the Mulligan letters to the House of Representativas. He forgot that thero were others of those letters which he had not succeoded in obtaining from their custodian under falso pretensos. He made a greater mistako when be allowed his injudicious mouthpieces to attack the stainless charac'er óf James Mulligan and provoke that gentleman to publish the rst of those letters. He made a mistake when he attacked the state of Massachmetts in the senato of the United States, and rejoioed becauso the "old women" representing that commonwealth in the senate were unablo to reply to him. He mado a mistake whtn he turned a contemptuous ear to the appeals of American citizens, unjustly iniprisoned in British dungeons, for a fair trial and the protection to which their cHizcnship entitled thom. Ho made a mistake when he used the great influence of his position as Secretary of State to support a thousand million dollar swindle against the helpless government of Peru. Ha made a mistake when he instructed the Half-Breeds in New York to slaughter Secretary Folger at tho polls and aid in the election as governor ol tho man who is to-day his formidable competitor for the presideney. To come down to tho present year, ho mado a mistako when he inspired a cowardly attack of Governor Clevoland's private character vhich now, however. shamctully recoils on himself. He made a mistako when ho contemptuouf ly ignored a polite invitation from the Insh-National league to be rresent at the Boston oonvention, while pretending to poso as the great friend of Americans at homo andabroad. Some of these mistakes aro only the blunders of a shallow politicianj but most of them are mistakes which are otherwise known as crimes. Fj-om his own standpoint of moráis he has made no mistakes, because he has made money. Tf the acquisition of money were the test of worth, Mr. Blaine is more deserving of the admiration of his feliowcitizens than Governor Cleveland, who has remained poor throughout his public life. The people do not want to invest with the great power of the presidency a man who has proved himaelf a blunderer in eyory case whero he has not proved himself a knave. A greater mistake than aay made by Blaine would bo that made by the country should it choose such a man for its ruler. Happily there is no danger of such a misfortune. JAMES D. WARREN ON BLAINK. Albany Argus, 8ept. 25. "If Blaine manages by hook orcrook (he cannot get it any other way) to get tho Chicago nomination, his party wil) be put upon the dtjfensive with a candidato of whose record they are ashamed, whoso future makes the business men afraid of him, who would be conaistently opposed by every truly independent newspaper in tho country; and whose election, should that be brought about by somo mysterious agency, would be regarded as the triumph of demagogism. " Men and brethren, that was tho expression cf the Buffalo Commercial Adverliser of May 6, 1884. Tho paper is owned and edited by Mr James D. Warren, tho chairman of the Republican state committeo, The words were his then and the statements have beeome facts, as every human being perceives. Mr. Blaine is rushing through New York State, under the auspices of Mr. Warren who hag solemnly and sinoerely declared that his nomination would be the public and party calamity and scandal, which are describediu the words above printed. In a recent communication to the New York World, S. F. Cary writM früm Jaokson Court House, Obio : I havo just yisited somo of the oro banks iu this iron and coal producin section of Ohio. Republican orators told the toiling minere in 1876 that if tho Democracy got control of the government uuder the leadership of Tilden, the furnace fires would be extinguished, iron milis would be desorted, and ihe wood-choppers, coal and iron-diggers would be without emplovment or working at starving wages. "They would be reduced to the oondition of the pauper laborera in Europe; that if the Republican party was continued in power night would be turned into day by the f urn ace fires; that the workers would receive good wages and bo prosperous. A coniiding people believea these orators and voted the Republican ticket. How havo these promises been kept and the erpectations realinad? What are the f acts? Most oí tho furnaco fires are out and the tall chitnneys are the habitation of ow Is and bats. The enterprising operators are either bankrupt or in greatly reduced circumstances. The ore dïggers are either idie or working at starving wages. There are hundreds of families in Lawrence andJackson counties who must have c-ounty aid or starve. In Jackson county, rioh in mineral resources, in a population of less than 25,000, there are 690 paupers and fivo times that number who should aid to makethem ooniparatively comfortable. To-day, ia oompany with the Hon. Irvine Dungan, an ex-senator and prominent lawyer of Jackson county, I visited some of the ore baaks to learn for myself the condition and prospecte of the miners. In all my travels in Europe I have never seen such destitution and want. Tkere I found women and childreu barefooted, with piek and shovel, working laboriously at the ore banks. Tho avorage earniugs of the men and women do not exceed 25 cents per day and very many do not get 15 cents per day, and ihey aro paid in store goods at tho merchant's own priecs. Flour, bacon, and othor necessaries of life command irom them the highest priees. The operators are not to blame, for they are on tho trembling verge of bankruptcy. I asked some of these poor creatures why they did not go and find homes in the West. (Not one in a hundred of thom owned the shanty in which they stay). Tho reply was: "We cannot get away and can hardly stay whoro we are."" Somo of theso half fed and half-clothed miners are shouting ior Blaino and Logan and are afraid if tho Democratie party succeeds, the tariff which so protects "American labor" will be modiÖod. Many of them feel that they have been misled and deceived, and" say if this is protected they want no more of the same k-'nd. The same orators who made such promises and gave such glowing pictures of the benefics of protection eight years ago are now telling them that the present depressed contion of things must be attributed to tho fear that the Democrats may get uto power and modify the taritt'. yOu may expect large accesions to the Detuoeratic ranks in the minicg districts of Ohio. Thero would be a complete revolution but for the corruptjuse of money. li your readers could witness tho destitution and misary brought upon the country by the Vicious legislation of tho Republican party they would labor with increasod energy and zeal for the eloction ut Cleveland and Hendricks ana a Democratie Congress. In no other way will these robbed and onpressed toilers be delivered from their cruel bondage. WHAT AN ALBANIAN SAYS OF GOV. CLEVELAND. A gentleman who occupies a public positionin Albany, N. Y., wrote to a Detroit friend on tho 18th instant, as follows : Tho subject of politics being now the all-absorbing themo of converEation and discussion- not alono among the oithodox poliüoians, but among professional men and merchants- I concluded it would rot bo out of order to devote a little time to reviewing or refuting a few of the utterly false charges agamst our nomineo for President, (xO7. Cleveland. In coinmon with all good eitizeas I take a deep interest in the contest, and as the campaign is one of OFFICIAL INTEGKITY against of'ficial corkuption fliere is no doubt in my mind of the result being in favor of our great reform Governor. I have read iii Kepublican papers that there was going to be an unparalleled revolution among tho Irish Demócrata, in fact a regular stampede to the support of that notoriou3 Know-NotLing James ü. Blaine. It is difflcult (o understand how it is possible to find one Irish Democrat who will feel juslifled in voting for a man like Blaine, who nevcr in his life was known to lift a finger or utter a syllable in defeuse of their race or religión ; but on tho contrarv the recard proves he did incalculable ínjury to both. Blaine's iatolerant. tyrannical and proscriptiye ïtolicy toward all foreign-born citizens is more than fully estabiisbed by his record. The campaign as conducted so far on the Kepublican side is one of slandor, faïsehood and the most outrageous misrepresentation. To civert atlcution from tho rascalities cornmitted under Republican admini3trations during the past'twentyfour years, the most wicked and wnat very loolish charges are trumped upagainst the Governor. Tako, for instance, the Ireodom of Worship bill. He is charged with using his official influenoo to defeat its pasiago in tha legislatura. This is pure, unadulterated fictioii, whieh is conclusively proved by the author and introducer of the bill, Hon. Peter F. Murray, in a letter to the Hon. Daniel Bradley. of Brooklyn, N. Y. He says in the most emphatic manner that "the governor had nothing to do with it directly or indiroctly. It was the Blaine Republicaas, aided by their chief, Speaker Sheard, of the assemblv, who killed the bill." Another equally silly charge has beca assed around, viz: Thst the governor s anti-Irish and aníi-Catholic. J t is a relection on the inteliigonce of our Irish and Catholic people to suppose for a nioinent that tbey would believe any uch nonsense. The vcry best offices a the gift of the governor were given o Catholics. I will hero name a few of the positions: Superintendent and leputy superintendont of insurance departtnent, superintendent of public vorks, superintendent and deputy superintendent of public instruction, depïty superintendent of state museum rojairs, superintendent of the new capiol, nine canal superiatendents, nine ut of eveiy ten foremen on the new apilo]; also a host of clerks and orderÍ04, for whose appointment he is entitled to credit, aro all Catholics. This list oould be continued to much greater length, but enough has been itdicated to prove the falsily of the chargo of being anti-Catholic. Grover Cleveland defended the P'enians without recompense. He presided, whilo mayor of the city of Buffalo, at two Irish meetings, and recently sent a letter to tne convent ion of Irish Nationalists held at Boston regretting his bility to be present. Did Blaiue ever do anything of the kind? No, never! But he did let Irish-Americans like McSweeney pine away to rot or die ia a British prison without making an effoit to release them from uüjust imprisonment, in the faco of these stubborn facts is it no wonder that the dislinguishod niother of the great Trish agitator, Mrs. Parnell, should come out íd the most enjphatic terms and declare for our groat reform governor. Governor Cleveland has made ene of the best executives this state evor had, and suroly ono of tho most kiod-hearted acd humane. He Í3 perfectly free from prejudices and bigotry against auy raco or reiigiou. He meiits the undivided support of every truo Dernocrat and every luver of pure, honost governmi'ut Ho wil] bo elected. "AND THE FARMER I'AYS FOK ALL." Isearly every proteetod iaterest in tho United States is eoinblned to put up prices by "limiilng production." Some 2,700,000 cotton spindles havo been Btopped, ourtailing producUon to the amouat of 66,000 pieoes i day. Half the steel rail milis :u-e closed" to keep up prices for tho pool. The p;g iron producers are organizing for the"same purpoae. ïhe great lunibr riug proposos to restrict production 60 per cent., in order lo secure au advanco in prices of 25 per cent. The mine ownevá are forcing their idle operativos to seek refugo in tho poorhouse. in order that dividends may uot go lower. And now the oil combiiiatioris had plugged up ihe wells froni which gush forth the ireasures of theeartli, to the end that ight may be dearer. And as iho o!d songsays, "the farmer paya for all." The prico of his producís is diniinished sy the enforced economiesof idle workmen, and tho cost of whal he buys is enhnnced by tariil taxes and tho power o regulato prioos enjoyed by the proected monopolies. If the farmer undorakes to "limit the produetion" of wheat by leaving his acres falW. he 'ets_ no inoney, and surrenders tho 'oreign market to dangerous rivals. And tho tax-gathers, visiblo and invisible, alsvays tinds him out. Tbe farmer is "seoicg" agood ïuany thiriga not iadicated by Mr. Biaine ia his lettor. uon'ï dodge. The Republican speakers havo b6en compelled to take up some of the liviDg issues of the eloction. Senator Hoar and Mr. Rice tax their ingenuity to give an innocent con-truction to the Mulligan letters. Senator üawes says he has such a construction about him, but ho has not yet produced it. One of those speakers has met the question of tax reductiou so far as to say that he ij in favor of abolishing the tax on co- thua presenting to the manufacturera and dealers tho $26,000,000 nowcollected from this source, and perDeluating taxos to that amount uüon necessaries. But thero are thrse' important questions which Mr. Blaine himself dodged in his letter, and which tho speaKers and organs have thus f ar f ought shy of, that the people are much more intorested in than they a-e in po3t-convention eulogies upon a candidato whose nomination Massachusetts Republicana have steadily and with good roas jns resisted. These questions aro Mr. Blaine's carefully prepared, deliberately publisned and d isa vowed plan for distributïng tho surplus revenuo the states, his argument for an assumption of the Virginia debt by tho general government, and the continued coinage of tho demoralizinglight weight silyer dollars The people would not like to see the ürst two prcpositions embodied in a presidenta message. They do want to havo a vigorous recommendation in tavor of a temporary suspension of silvercoinage. What is the Kepublican position upon tbeso questions? Has no one the courage to spoak out? NOW FOK BLAINE AND BUTLER BLOWERS, ' From the New York World, Sept. 26. "If there are any euthusiastic Blaine men who entertain tho idea that the Pmmed Knight is going to be successful, says James Patterson of the northeast corner of Seventh avenue and 1 wenty-seventh street, "thoy can have an opportunity of endeavoríng to swell tht-ir bank account by anv of the following oflfers Í am preplred to make: One thousaud dollars against $700 that Cleveland carries the state of New lork. One thousand dollars even that Clevoland will havo 30,000 pluralitv. One thousand doilars against $1,700 that Cleveland carrios Ohio. One thousand dollars even that Clevelaud carries Indiana. One thousand dollars against $600 that Clevelaud carries New Jersev lVenty-five hundred even that Cleveland wiíl be eleeted. One thousand dollars even that Butler will not poll 12,000 voies iD the county of New York." BLAINE AND HIS REPÜBLICAN CKBED. Mr. Blaino's version of the Kepublican creed, as given at Rochester, made ït consist of four articlos: '-First, peace with the whole world; secoad, commercial extensión in every practicable direction ; third, oncouragement of every form nt American iudustry fourth protection to ercry citizen, naiivo or naturalized, at homs and abroad." jLUKiug mis tor a toxt the Louisville Oouner-Journal thus measures Rlaino by his creed : First, peaco with the whole world, and yet Jamos G. Blaine, when Secretary of State, while refusing to protect American citizens in E.igland, attompted, in the interests of a few speeulators and contractors, to bulldoze weak bouin American powers, and but for the death of Garfield would hare involved us in a cost'y and disgraceful war, not for the purnosb of upholdinff national dignity, buf, plainlv for tho purpose of plunder aod pillaje. Second, commercial extensión in every practicable direction, and vet the Kepubhean policv has been to restnet commerce. to build, as General Loo-au suggests, a wall aboui this country, and so f orce lis to live off of one another. It is the pernicious Republican policy oi restrictioa whicb, as far isour mamifactured artilles are concerned, has closed to us all competitivo markets, and which has put an embargo on all foreign commerce. It is this policy which today has brought commerce to a standstill and lüled evorv mind with apprehension for the future. Third, the oncouragement of every form of Amerioaa industry, and yet, under the Republican policy, all industry languishes, milla aro idle, minea arn. closed and the agricultural interests nro taxetl heavilv to support oLhers in idleuess. Whoat at flfty'and sixty and seventy-flve cents in many districts is the result of the policy of encoura o-ement pursued under the Repubhcans. Strikes and lock-outs and bread riots in manufacturing distnets aru evider.cas of the success of the Republican policy of encouragement. rourth, protection to every citizeu, native ur nalurab'zed, at home fvnd abroad, and yut when it was in the power of James G. Blaino to protect American citizens lying in British prisons, he could not see his way clear to do anything for theia. Actions are loudor than words in their appeals to the sympathies of men; have more mao'netism about them, are more cogent and convincing, and anyone may see how Blaine's actioni contradict" his utterances. His hope is to win by falsehood and decoit, by fraud anduoriury, by bribery and corruption, by hold'ing up to the people promises, which, in his official actions, he has ruthlessly trampled on. In American history wo'iiud no leader more faise to his ptomiscs, more giveu to deceit, more controlled in his actions by selösh motives and corrupt considerations. UOPES TO HOODWINK THE PUBLIC. Exfliange. There is but one way, consistent with Biaino's sanity, of explaining his treatment of tho marriage scandal, and that is by assuming that he hopes to divert atteution from the real islue involved in his c&ndidacy. Thero is no issua whalever, so far as tho public is eoncerned, respocting his marriage. The people do not care whether ho was marriod onco. twioe, at a dozen timos, or wliat form of ceremony, or want of mony, he ïndulgod in. They have no desire that his wifo and fanïil j sbould bo dragged into ïropleasant publicitv. What they do want is, that Blaiuo shall olear himse'f, if ho can, of the imputation cast upon his obaracter by Lis on lettei-d, and failing to do that wilhdraw his protentious to the presidentdal office. They want him to wipe out. if ho cat tho stains of tho Fisher episode and to coafess if ho cannot his utter unfitne-s for anyposition of trust or honor. ïhis is tho real issue for Blaino to meet, and whicb h9 has thus far wholly failed to meet. Is it bacauso he knows he eannot meel it that ho is making much of a wholly imaginary issue aña treating his innocent wife and children more eruelly than any of nis politice! opponents over dreamed ol treating thom? Does he think he caa thereby throw dust in tho public eye? It scarcely seems possiblo that the alleged "smart" man, the "majraetio" wonder of the nineteenth centurycan be silly enough to bolieve that the public wil] bo hoodwinked in aay snch fashion. Yet there is no other plausible pxplanation of tho unfeeling letter in wliich he exposed the wifo of his bosoni to coarso and cruel suspicion.