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mmr '• mh* f J. VM SLYKE, E«tsr nK ftiMtstwr. McHENBT, ILLINOIS. THE Njitiontl debt amounts to about $30 for each inhabitant of the United States. In Belgium the debt per capita is $64; in Italy, $70; in the Nether­ lands, $90; in France, more than $100; in Qreat Britain, $109, <and in Spain, $150. The anntial interest charged in "this country is but about 80 cents per head, while in England and France it is over $4 per head. Botox CHARE, of Maine, told me how bis steers got into politics, says the "New York Graphic gossiper. He said he had a pair which decreased in weight while they grew in statue and age. He nought to ascertain who got their food. He drove the animals to a Greenback meeting, to illustrate how the country increased in deb4 while it seemed to prosper, and Solon's steers becloud the -war cry of the Oreenbaokers. ; A XUMBER of English families have 3>egun the importation of Norwegian •girls for domestic service. Those who have acoepted places give mnch satis­ faction, They are spoken of as giant­ esses in size, the possessors of hands and feet modeled upon nature's broad­ est plan and showing great good nature. They can't speak a word of English, but seem willing to learn, and are won­ derfully patient on washing days with •children and pug dogs. AN animated controversy has been •carried on for some time in the columns of a London paper as to whether vul­ tures discover their prey by means of sight or smell. No two writers seem to be able to agree tipon the point. Many curious instances of the marvel­ ous power of the vulture for discover­ ing carrion are quoted. These birds have been known to travel twenty miles after the carcass of a dead cow buried under a heap of leaves, while af- ~ter the battle in an open desert/tins air is full of them. " THEBE is a tale about General Butler in New Orleans which has never been 'told in the North. He placarded the •city with bulletins, ordering thiB, that, and the other, and the people came to know that every order was certain to be enforced. A market gardener of the suburbs drove in one morning with his little son beside him on his wagon seat. He saw a placard on a fence. "Johnny, read that to me," the father said. " 'Buy Xeighton's shirts,' * the boy read. *'You bet I will, first store wo come to," «aid the father. "I don't want to have any trouble with the Yankees." THE Census Bureau has finished its -computation of the aggregate wealth of the United States at the date of the •census (1880), which fixes the figure at $43,642,000,000, the principal items be­ ing given as follows: Farm 110,197,000,000 Residence and business real estate 9,881,000,000 All real estate exempt from tax... 2,«no,ooo,ooo Railroads and equipments fl,53S,(>00,000 Telegraphs, shipping, and canal*.. 413,000,000 L've stock, farm tools and machin­ ery 3,056,000,000 Household turniture, clotbincr, painting?, books, jewelry, house­ hold supplies of food, fuel, etc.. 5,000,000,000 Mines, etc., with one-half the an­ nual prodn t, 781,000,000 "Three-fourths the annnil product of agricultu ral an t manufac­ tures and Imports of foreign goods 6,160,000,000 Spece,,,, 61-2,000,000 .143,642,000,000 A pRoinSfENT citizef of Ashburnham, Massachusetts, recently recorded a very •curious will in the presence of three witnesses, which was acknowledged be­ fore a justice of the peace and accom­ panied by the legal fees for its record­ ing. It says: "I, Charles Hastings, of Ashburnham, gentleman, in considera­ tion of the love and good-will of the .Xiord Jesus and 1 cent found on the pre­ mises (of His, the rightful owner of all lands, as recorded in the first book -of laws, the Bible, fiftieth Psalm of King David, ninth, eleventh, and -twelfth, and twenty-third and twenty- fourth verses, the receipt wheteof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, and convey unto the Lord Jesus, the supreme ruler of the universe, a -portion of the lata CoL Joseph Jewett's land," eta. _--.-- i AT A lecture in London the other day "there sat in the forefront of the audi­ ence an ancient dame, who plied an umbrella with vigor and pertinacity. It was in vain that "Hush!" was called, the umbrella still volleyed and thun­ dered. At last the lecture concluded to a perfect fusillade from the old lady. Toole, the comedian, in returning thanks, to the lecturer, expressed his admiration. "The lecture has been ^warmly received," he said, "especially "by one lady, whose name I do not know, but whose efforts I have witness­ ed with delight and whose acquaintance I should feel pride in making. In fact, if possible, I would like to come to terms with her for my next provincial tour. With such an ally sueotts would "be secure." AT Blizzard Boost, N. C., unphilan- thropic but enterprising men are min­ ing white rock called "deception." This is ground to powder and sent to New "York, where it is mixed with sugar or -flower. It is said that 20 per cent, of ""deception rock" can be thus mixed and the combination remain undetect­ ed. Terra alba was formerly used in •cheap candies, but the manufacturers of that class of goods now use this pow­ der, as it is cheaper and less dangeroos. Terra alba hardens in the stomach in a lump, just like plaster of paris, if eaten in large quantities, and causes spas MB or convulsions. Bat this new powder seems to go. through the sys­ tem generally, causing it is said, many cases of Bright's disease. The sweets made by this process might be appro­ priately called rock-candy; , • . § A LEGEND obtains near Marshall, Texas, that many years ago a party of Mexican land pirates who had camped upon the banks of a body of water now known as Hendricks Lake, were pursued and put to flight by Texans or some other forces. In their extremity, rather than to have the large amount of gold, silver, and precious jewels witli which all well regulated pirates are loaded, fall into the hands of the ene­ my they threw these treasures into the lake. The believers of this Captaiq Kid story in that locality have organ­ ized their force and propose to drain the lake in order to find the buried wealth. The lake is over a mile long, half as wide, and twelve feet deep, but several steam engine and pow£rfu| pumps have been engaged and the hunters are hopeful. A LADY visiting near Blois, in France, has just fallen a victim to her avarice and belief in supernatural agencies com­ bined. She possessed a considerable fortune, but wanted to increase hex riches, and for this purpose consulted a sorceress. The latter went to her residence, conferred with some invisi­ ble assistants, by whose advice the lady was told to place all her money in a certain drawer, not to open it for a given time, or the charm would be broken, and before retiring to rest to throw a marvelous white powder into the fire. If these conditions were car­ ried out, the fortune, She was told, would Da doubled. They were carried out, but the result was that while she abstained from opening the drawer the sorceress emptied it at leisure; and when she threw the white powder into the fire a terrible explosion ensued, she was very severely injured, and the house was set fire to. CHICAGO Current: It is a common thing to say, when a man fails in Wall street, that he has done no harm in the country, as it is merely a shifting of fortunes in the street. In the case of Henry "Villard, however, it has been a very sad thing for Portland, Oregon, that his colossal fortune was snddenlv dissipated into thin air. No less than $7,000,000 of stock of the Oregon Transcontinental were owned in Port­ land. This property was bought at 100 and is to-day quoted at 8. The great hotel has stopped at the first story, with ^200,000 spent on it. The two magnificent steamers are nothing but an expense. The costly docks are put to no present use. The Ingleside, in making these statements, closes with the declaration that the crops are abundant and that the farmers are in a first-class condition. Had not the "lit­ tle flurry" happened at the lower end of New York City, a far-off community, which deserved better fate than does Wall Street, would to-day have been at tho height of her fame and prosperity. Wall Street is truly the financial pulse of the nation. Should it not be a crime on the statute books greater than it is now to strike at the very heart of the country's welfaie? No officer of a great corporation, no person holding a fiduciary place of any kind, should be permitted by law to "speculate" or "deal," or gamble--"gamble" is the true word; there is no.false meaning at­ tached to its use. The safety of the ship is in the hands of the engineer. A certificate of charaoter and ability is properly demanded of him, for his mistakes are crimes, the lea&t results of which are the calamities which fall upon his own head. A Dentist Takes a Mean Advantage. A practical joker of the sly order is Dr. Henderson, a Brooklyn dentist. The Doctor does not look iike a pious divine, and his mode of conducting him­ self, coupled with a sanctimonious tim­ bre of voice, completes the deception. It is said of the Doctor that during one of his exciting political campaigns he was hit in the eye by a prize-fighter. He was, of course, too much of a gen­ tleman to engage in a. scrimmage when he knew the odds were against him; so he quiety bided his time. Some months later the prize-fighter had a bad tooth and dropped into the Doctor's office to have it pulled. The latter instantly recognized his assailant, but did not be­ tray his emotions. By dint of elo­ quent persuasion he induced the prize fighter to take laughing-gas, and whe the ruffian had become unconscious ttfe Doctor's old-time fire returned. Hur­ rying over to his old friend, Prof. Wil­ liam Clark, he borrowed a pair of box­ ing gleves and then returning to the office M*ent to work at the prize-fighter. When the latter awoke he had two handsome black eyes, and his nose was bleeding with delightful freedom. "What is it?" asked the prize-fighter, when he opened his eyes. "Keep perfectly quiet," urged the Doctor, concealing his boxing gloves, under the chair, "you've fractured your jugular." Then he put a cork in his patient's mouth, extracted the tooth and charged him $2 for the job, advised him to go home and go to bed at once. The Doctor is always doing very fun­ ny things, but whenever he sees that prize-fighter he has to sit down for about an hour in some cool place and chuckle.--New York Journal. "Working the Press." "What sort of a season did yon have ?" asked the old Oyster of the little Strawberrv. "Pretty fair, I thank you, sir," polite­ ly replied the Strawberry. "Did you get any press notices?" "O yes, sir; any number of them." "Not as many as Ice Cream, though. That fellow hogs the whole presa Why, he is so disgusting people with his puffs that I don't suppose I'll be able to get a single line in for my Sun­ day-school-festival stews next season without paying for it," growled the old Ovster. "Yes, sir; I perfectly agree with you," responded the little Strawberry. "The way some of them work the press is simply disgusting. There is the little Green Apple " "Oh, don't mention him!" cried the old Oyster. "He's too low. I never saw a notice of him in a better role than a small boy's stomach!"--Phila­ delphia Chronicle- Telegraph. HE that gives good advice, builds with ofie hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds witti both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.--Bacon. THE MULLKUMI LETTERS. Mr. Blaine Wishes Every Re­ publican Paper to Publish ? Them In FulL The "Explosion" a Fizzle of Worst Kind. Sorting Only ̂the Democrat*. " the Blaine's Innoc îoe of All Wrong-Doing Frilly Established by the Gar- nspondenoe. M*. BLAJDTK. Ho Hope* Every Republican Pspw 1B OM Country Will Publish the Letters. An Augusts (Me.) correspondent of the Chica­ go Tribune telegraphs that journal as follows: "The publication in the Beston newspapers, with sensational headlines, of the so-called ad­ ditional Mulligan letters has caused some com­ ment here. It is well known that the letters have been hawked about for some time with a view of trotting Mr. Hlaine's friends to stop their publication, but tliey have refused to take any notice of these offers, and are congratulating themselves now that the l>emocra: s have pub­ lished the letters. Kverybody here agrees that the letters are tlie best kind of tribute to Mr. Blaine's honesty and fidelity to his friends. His distress because he was unable to raise $25,000 to pay a loan he had secured for the rail­ road company, proves conclusively the false­ hood about his being a millionaire, while his strenuous efforts to keep the railroad company out of financial difficulty is regarded as proof that he was right ii saying that he wOuld be no deadhead In the enterprise. The publication of the letters ia not a surprise here, as it was known that the Democrats were trying to get up something to break the force of the splendid victory wou l»y Mr. Blaine in his own State. "Mr. Blaine, accompanied by his wife, ar­ rived from Bar Harbor this afternoon. In an­ swer to the reporter who called at his residence to ascertain if he wished to say anything in re­ gard to the letters, Mr. Blaine replied that his only desire was that every voter in the United States might read the letters for himself and not form his judgment from editorial misrepre­ sentation in partisan journals. There was not a word in the letters, Mr. Blaine added, which Was not entirely consistent with the most scrupulous integrity and honor. He hoped every Republican paper in the United States would publish the letters in full." A REVIEW or THK LETTERS. The Correspondence Demonstrates niaine*a Innocence of Any Wrong-Doing. The New York Tribune, commenting on the new batch of Mulligan letters, says: " Malice has overreached itself at last. The new letters published for the purpose of injur­ ing Mr. Blaine go far to vindicate him. When Mulligan and Fislier ransacked their corre­ spondence eight years ago for material to black­ en Mr. Blaine's reputation, their cold and de­ liberate malice rejected the letters now pub­ lished. If there were then in their hands any which could ljave done him harm, we may be sure those would have been produced. But the letters now printed, though they contain no new charge, nor a scrap of evidence that tends to sustain any old charge, do contain much that is of the greatest value to Mr. Blaine. For that reason his accusers when cool were shrewd enough to suppress them. But now they see public opinion moving lorward with resistless sweep toward Mr. Blaine's election; they are maddened and desperate, they hunt their pigeon-holes ag:iin for the dregs of ancient scandal, and in their lury they brand them­ selves wit i falsehood, and for the first time disclose the true character of the transactions between Mr. Blaine and Mr. Fisher. "The new publication embraces that very let­ ter of Oct. '24, 1871, which 31r. Blaine has for eight years been accused of suppressing. As the Sun showed with great clearness, the ofi- reiterated charge was reduced at last to tills one letter which was named in Mulligan's memoran­ dum, but which Mr. Blaine declared was not in the package received and publicly read by him. Continually the Times, the J'ost, and other papers have repeated that Mr. Blaine lied and had deliberately suppressed this letter. Yet now the blundering rage of his battled accusers products it from their own stock and makes one thing clear. For eight years Mulligan lias seen Mr. Blaine falsely accused of suppressing this letter and has known all the time that the charge was false, because he held in his posses­ sion the uroof. Yet he has kept back that proof and silently allowed the lie to go on doi ng its dishonest work, and thus has made that lie his own to blacken the character of Mr. Blaine. In the lisht of this fact who should now be be­ lieved, Mr. Blaine, who told the truth, or his accusers, self-convicted ot falsehood V And why was this letter then suppressed? Because, as it now proves. Fisher and Caldwell had failed to make good the pledges upon which Mr. Blaine had borrowed $A>,OUO for their benefit. "The great fact which the new letters estab­ lish is that Mr. Blaine was the victim ot Warren Fisher, deceived by him from the start, induced to involve himself and his friends in an under­ taking. in which they all suffered, crippled by the refusal of Fisher to keep his w ord, persuaded when disaster came to borrow money for the enterprise upon his personal credit, and finally left in the lurch by his professed friend, who reasoned that Mr. Blaine, being a public man, could never afford to demand what was justly due him, for fear of scandal. The letters of June, 18«1D, previously published, prove that Fisher then made a proposition to Sir. Blaine which he hesitated to accept, uncertain whether it might involve larger resources than he could command. The new letters of Oct. 4 and 5 show what has been evident all along, that he had closed the arrangement with Fisher to take from him certain bonds in order to laise money for the enterprise, and that he did not prove a 'deadhead.' but performed his part to the letter. He not only took bonds and placed them to lift the enterprise over obstacles, but had disposed of fl'J"-,0(Hi before the letter was written making mention of his ruling in Congress. Thus he has been infamously slandered all this time by the charge that he referred to his ruling in order to get into the concert. He was In it already, as the new letters prove, and bad placed all the bonds he was expected to place. But these new letters also prove that privacy about that negotiation was urged, not by him, but by Fisher, who was at that time negotiating with Caldwell. It may be in­ ferred that Fisher did not then want Caldwell to know that the enterprise had been in such straits. He it was who wrote about 'the im­ portance of keeping all quiet,' and to him Mr. Blaine wrote,'No one will ever know from me that 1 have disposed of a single dollar in Maine, so there need be no embarrassment in talking with Mr. Caldwell.' There was not a thing in the transaction of which Mr. Blaine had reason to be ashamed. He had taken at his own risk a block ot securities, and by his personal credit and reputation with lriends had placed them, receiving, as both Fisher and Mulligan admit­ ted. the average rate of percentage that others received. Thus, May 31, lH7t>, Warren Fisher, Jr., testified (Misc. doc. 176, pages 88 and 89): "Question--Was any other bonus besides Stock ever given in the purchase ot these bonds? Answer--No, sfr. "Q.--Were not land-giant bonds sometimes iriven? A.--O, yes; if I sold $lO,(»uu of these first- mortgage bonds i would also give as a bonus of land-grant bonds, $10,000 common stock, and $10,000 of the preferred stock. ~Q.-- So that in a sale of fin.OiK) of these bonds there was really a transfer of $10,000 mortgage bonds, $10,000 land-grant bonds, fio.ooo pre­ ferred stock, and $lo,(nxi common stock? A.-- Yes. "Q.-- Making a transfer of 140,030 instead of $10,000? A.--Ye*, sir. "May 31,1870, James Mulligan testified. (Mis­ cellaneous document 17f>, page 94.) "(Question--Do you know of any other sale (than the one to Mr. Blaine) of the bends of that comj any? Answer--Yes. "Question--Were the other sales made on the same terms as this sale? Answer--No, sir. Quite different. Question--Was the percentage which was realized by Mr. Fisher on those other sales dif­ ferent from th-u realized on this sale? Answer --It avei aged about the same. "Afterward what? A long gap in the cor­ respondence. Kven now it is evident. Fisher and Mulligan still hold other letters which they dare not publish, but deliberately suppress, be­ cause at this and other points in the history the who!* truth would vindicate Mr. Blaine com­ pletely. But in December, 1870. it appears that Mr. Blaine was trying to borrow money for Fisher and Caldwell to help them throueh, and at the same time appealing in vain for the bonds promised by Fisher to him and by him to his friends who had purchased. As he states, Dec. 29, Mr. Blaine did borrow on his individual promises, but in the letter ot Jan. 'Jfi he had to beg in vain for ' good notes for the $2r>,0(>o,' and for 'the $82,000 bonis which were made by yourself and Mr. Caldwell the exi ress basis of the $-25,000 loan.' Thus entrapped by a de­ liberate breach of faith, he savs: ' Its personal hardships tome are bitter and burning, and hu­ miliating in the last degree.' Yet Fisher and Caldwell left him to bear the loss. A notetclldue Marchl,andhe was compelled to meet it. Another came in April, and he wrote: 'It Is no more my debt than the debt of President Grant or Queen Victoria, and I cannot believe that you and Mr. Fisher, both or either. Intend to leave this burden upon me. If you do it will crush me." Caldwell, April 25, acknowledged the just­ ice of the claim and appealed to Mr. Usher, be­ ing unable to a-1 himself. Nevertheless, Mr. Blaine was obliged to write June 14 about the $25 ,000 'which I borrowed here on my own faith and credit on t: e distinct understanding with you (Fislien that it was to be repaid,' and urges some transfer of secu.ities. Fisher still refuses, and. Nov. s, Mr. Blaine is still praying for an honest fulfillment of the contract. 'How can I do this with parties who have i>aid their money earnestly demanding the consideration prom­ ised by ine, but which I am not able to give be­ cause 'I do not receive the bonds to which I am entitled by contract? It is not a (juestion of money-making with me. It is simply a ques­ tion of saving my word with others," Is not this tlie language of a thoroughly honest and upright innn? Is it not clear throughout that Mr. Blain» ~as conscious ot no wrong, bnt suf­ fering keenly from injustice? Yet, after all this, when a settlement was made and it was mm by Warren llsbe*. '*• h« teattaony.tbttUMtstfanafe u be given up. It was this same Warren Fisher who broke Ms agreement and kept letters or allowed Mulligan to keep then ror the par- poosot defaming Mr. Biama /ndnow. in oat* flea ameer, he prints enough of them to show what sort of a man he is. By tls own betrayal of faith the letters now oome to light which show how he tbok all the money he could from Mr. Blaine and his friends, broke his own word, and trusted for immunity to a pub* lie man's dread of scandalous misrepresenta­ tion. To such a man Mr. Blaine appealed in vain for the truth. His letter of April 16th is an honest man's urgent plea for simple justice. Hie letter is strictly true," he writes, and every man knows that he would never have penned these words with such & request if bin con* science had told him that the statement he wished Fisher to make wis false. The testi­ mony of Fisher and Mulliwan already quoted proves that in the vital point Mr. Blaine stated the truth. He bought bonds 011 the same terns onered to others, and by doing so involved him­ self in heavy loss while making good the losses of friends. On that very statement which Mr. Blaine asked Fisher to sign, in the belief that a roan he had helped at such cost to himself would not refuse an act of sample justice, friends may well rest. Not one of his letters, not one of the letters to him, be it observed, contains any hint or trace of abuse of his posi­ tion as Speaker or as member ot Congress. Neither Mulligan nor Fisher ever charged with auy dishonest or improj>er act. In all the transactions he was an honorable gentleman, and he was in the hands of sharpers. "What has the public to do with the business relations of Mr. Maine and Mr. Fisher? Noth­ ing, since they do not concern his official con­ duct in any particular, nor his personal integ- Jjfy- The public lias judged them rightly, kight years ago the worst that could be said about these transactions was said, and the peo­ ple, hearing both sides, sustained Mr. Blaine as they do now. From that day to this public con­ fidence in him has been growing stronger, pub­ lic regard for him greater, and the latest efforts of his defamers only serve to bring upon them­ selves the infamy they deserve." BLAINE AND VICTORY! That Is the Ory of the Hon. John F, Finerty, Who Oomes Out Squarely for1 the Bepublio&n Ticket The Hon. John F. Finerty, member of Con- mess from the Second District, has always been a Democrat, but was elected to Congress on an Independent ticket. He is again the candidate of the people of his district without regard to party lines; but because his sense of honor would not permit him to support Grover Cleve­ land for President; the Democratic machine has determined to defeat him. In the last issue of his paper, the trig'< Citizen, Mr. Finerty re­ views the situation in his district and then de­ clares his intention to support Blaine on the broad ground of American citizenship. He says: "Without surrendering a principle that he has ever held, without accepting anv party collar, without abandoning the people--the independ­ ent. and honest people--who have trusted in and elected him, Mr. Finertv, on the broad ground of American citizenship and American glory, hereby declares his preference for James G. Blaine as a Presidential candidate. .He declares against Cleveland lie- cause he has proved himself the enemy of the laborer and the mechanic, the ally of monopo­ lists, the self-constituted judge ot the constitu­ tionality of measures intended to benefit the people, the bare-faced dodger of the vital ques­ tion of protection to American industries, and the champion, accented ana ratified, of a foreign interest on this continent. "Mr. Finerty will never be found voting for any dubious American who has the unqualified support of the Tixie.v, the Telegraph, the Shi in/a r</, and the Aeirs, of London, "He supports James G. Blaine because, in de­ claring oi>enly for protection against Europe, and free commerce with our American neighbors on and below our Southern frontier, he advo­ cates the true American policy, and the only one by which this country cannot only remain great, free, and prosperous, but also by which she can spread the influence she oui:ht to I>OB- sess on the two cis-Atlautic continents, and maintain the letter of that Democratic Monroe doctrine which says to Kurope 'hands off,' and of which Mr. Blaine, though a Kcpublican, is the truest and most gifted living exponent. With him at the head ot the nation there would be no fear that the Panama canal shall ever de­ generate into a European water-way. "Mr. Finerty, further, supports Mr. Blaine because of his vigorous foreign policy--a policy that tho tragical end of President Garfield curbed bet ore it had attained to a more splendid development. Mr. Blaine believes in a navy capable of fighting, and in a system of national defense commensurate with the vastness and the diversified interests of the I'nlted States. "Mr. Finerty also supports Mr. Blaine because England abhors him, and bccause his election, although he is not a fire-brand or a promoter of unnecessary warfare, would be a slap in her face. He hopes the time w ilP never eotue when the American iteople will accept a candidate that their most hi tier enemies and jealous com­ mercial rivals desire. "Finally, Mr. Finerty declares against Grover Cleveland tiecause his nomination bv the Demo­ cratic National Convent-ion was a direct inBult, and so intended, to the backbbne of the Demo­ cratic party north of the Ohio, and a challenge to the manhood and the political courage of every American, of whatever race or previous condition, who earns his livelihood by honest labor."--Inter Ocean. EMORY A, STORES. He Delivers an Eloquent and Characteristic Speech in Tremont Temple, Boston ,' He Pays His Respects to Curtis, Sohurz, and Other Apostles of "Purgatorial Politics" The Independents Falsely So(CaHed-- Hot Shot for Bourbons--The People's Choice. An Etoqnent Review of the Tiro Pita* Parties--No Fear for the Besolt. THE HORSE-CAB HEN. Tllrir Reply to Gov. Cleveland's Veto of the Twelve-Hour Hill. As is well known. Gov. Cleveland vetoed a Mil cutting down tho day's work of horse-car drivers and conductors to twelve hours. For doing this the drivers and conductors, as might be ex]«ected, hold the vetoer in grateful and af­ fectionate remembrance, and. as they believe most devoutly that what is sauce for the goose should also be sauce for the gander, they pro­ pose to do a little vetoing themselves this fall. The Car Drivers and Conductors' Association has a membership of about 7,00.> in the United States, of whom at least 4,000 are in New York City alone. Last Saturday evening the drivers and conductors oi New York City met at their headquarters, No. T0I Third avenue. New York City, and. after a full discussion, unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolutions: To the Car Drivers and Conductors and ex-Car Dilvers and Conductors of the State of New York, City of New York, and the United States: ~- WHEREA6, During the session of the Legis- tur.r of the State < f New York, held in Albany during the winter of JHHI, an act to regulate the hours of labor of conductors and drivers of cars drawn by horses in cities was presented, and passed both houses by a large vote; and WHEKKAS, Gov. Cleveland refused to sign said bill upon the following grounds and in th" words us written by him and filed with sa d bill: "I fail to sec any good purpose to be gained by this bill. It is distinctly and palpably class legislation In that it only apnlies to con­ ductors and drivers on horse railroads. It does not prohibit the making of a contract for any number of hours' work, I think, and if it does it is an interference with the employer's as well as the employe's rights. If the car drivers and conductors wcrk fewer hours they must receive less pay, and this bill does not permit that. 1 cannot think the bill is in the Interest of the workingmen;" and WHEIIEAS, GOV. Cleveland, In refusing to sign said bill, overlooked the fact, that the car driv­ ers /md conductors are compelled to work more hours than any other class of men in the vari­ ous trades throughout the States, deprived of eating at home or even seeing their wives and children, either by niirht or (lav, l»eing deprived cf social interi ourse in every respect, subject to disease and sickness by exposure to the win­ ter's cold ami summer's torrid beat, and un­ mindful that, had the bill become a law, they mi ht have been less subject to a life of slavery, misery and toil; and WHEREAS. By his action in refusing to sign said bill, he has shown himself not in sympathy with the drivers and conductors throughout this State, but, as in many other instances, as in­ dicated by h's vetoes, is in direct antagonism to the welfare and benefit of the working classes, and a thorough advocate and upholder of great corporations, lieso h e/I, That we denounce and condemn Gov. Cleveland's action regarding the car- drivers and conductors' bill; that he has shown himself totally unfit to act as the Chief Executive of the iireat Empire State, both as to mental capacity and his regard for the right* of themasses; ami we cordially invite all men of onr calling, irrespective of politics, to aid us by their work and ballots in securing the election of James G. B'aine for Pre-ident and John A. Loiran for Vice President of tlie United States. Jiexolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to the press, that our brothers on the rail throughout the land may know of our action and act in conjunction with us. MAGNUS SHAKEN, President. Patrick O'Gradv, William H. Smith, Edward C. Kimball, Vice Presidents. Thomas H. Lincoln, Charles W. Serrington, John Adams, Secretaries. Charles M. Chapman, Treasurer. MR. ALEXANDEK MITCHELL, the Mil­ waukee railroad king, who is now in New- York, ridicules the claims of the Democrats of Wisconsin that they can carry that State for Cleveland. Mr. Mitchell says there has been some defection from the Bepnblican ranks among the German-Americans of tho State, but this is compensated by defections from the ranks of the Democracy. Ex- Congressman William Pitt Lynde, also of Milwaukee, says that Blaine is the strongest man the Republicans could have nominat- j ed. He is particularly strong among the | yonng men. I Ex- SECRETARY HAMILTON FISH, who I was reported by Ihe Democratic organs to j have declared in favor of Cleveland, is out I in a card announcing that he shall vote for Elaine. Mr. Fish criticised Mr. Blaine's I foreign policy as being too aggressive, but, I notwithstanding, he cannot bring himself to support a mediocrist like Cleveland. He | will A ote the Republican ticket. • "aggi* gf with a elSup- I pooe that tb« fatrfaKI* Dmracrat--and there are - headaefce. baa mads np Ms mtnd as to what the *«•, swut'd, and --„ concern mean* on the subject ot the tariff, and , taking pomrtot oorctttoM he atarta out full of the idea that he is a friend i md.wqrhy,. "By tt« llvta* J* a# all Aiul'a • • • tt. mm* fen uimlr ta iimmIt cm vm* mi mm Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: At this hour of the night it would be presumptuous in me to undertake anything like a full or elaborate discussion, either of the principles involved in the pending Presidential campaign or of the can­ didates themselves. It seems to me, since I read the papers this morainv, that the necessity for very much discussion has passed, and that po­ litical oratory has resolved itself, after all, pretty mnch into a hallelujah of gre it delight on the one side and a wail of lamentation on the other [laughter], with an occasional bleak and dismal whistle coming from the brush and from obscure places in the scenery, intended, no doubt, to keep up the courage of the whistler. [Laughter, i 1 am not unmindful whom I am addressing. 1 know 1 un in Boston, in the State of Massachu­ setts, in the New England States. I am a resi­ dent of the State of Illinois; 1 am a citizen of the United States. [Applause.] I am with vou a Joint proprietor of Bunker Hill [applause], made so by the fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional amendments and have a common interest in Paul Revere and in that remarkable cargo of tea. the unshipping ot which led tosuchBplendid results agood many years ago. I am from what in New W>rk has been characterised as the "rowdy West," and what, by one at least Of New Eng­ land's famous clergymen, has been denominated as the "riff-raff West." [Laughter.] May I say to you, because I know it will be something, that this characterisation has not greatly dis­ turbed us in the West, nor has it made us angrv; and yet Senator Hawley will tell you we do not lack spirit on a proper occasion. ILanehter ] We have an abundance of it. Don't tritie with it. [Laughter.] Our State was the onlv State in the Union, Mr. Chairman, that filled its quota without a draft [applause], and we sent over about eighteen thousand troops besides to Mis­ souri, a strong Democratic State, as you may re­ member, which will cast its electoral vote for Cleveland. I am not an Independent in politics. [Laugh­ ter.] I recognize no purgatorial politics, no halting, half-way station between heaven and hell. [Laughter.] To me it is the heaven of good republic .n government, or it is the hell of that diabolical, old, infernal Demoraatic party --[laughter]--that has never, in all its long, con­ sistent, bad, and criminal career, done a right thing except at the wrong time. [Laughter.] 1 wish to sav of this Democratic party nothing unkind or ungenerous, and of the Independents it is my purpose to speak in terms of the ut­ most tenderness. -[Laughter.] "Why should we mourn departed friends?" When I read the announcement a few weeks ago, Mr. Chairman, that they had gone, 1 ac­ cepted it with a great deal of solid comfort and Christian resignation--[laughter!--but when I read along a little further, to the statement that; their absence was to be temporary merely, and tint they intended some day to return, I con­ fess--who should not confess?--that my mind was filled with the direst apprehension. Our party has made some mistakes. It you will per­ mit me to suggest--it has been growing a little too rapidly at. the top [Laughter.] I am pre­ pared to exchange political a'sthetics for tho horny-handed and the hard-fisted. [Ap­ plause.) 1 see Mr. Curtis and Mr. Sehurz going for the fourth or fifth time. [Laughter ] My feelings have been lacerated, and my heart has been wrung many times at their de­ parture. They have played already too many- farewell engagements. [Laughter.] I see com­ ing to us in countless thousands the old- fashioned Democrats from whose eyes the scales have tallen, liberated and freed; and as I set! the a'sthetics going and the patriotic, hard­ working citizens coming, 1 rorognize the first rule of private hospitality. I "welcome the coming and speed the departing guests." [Loud laughter, applause, and cheers, and a voice, " Give it to them."] We have heard in the West something about the "better element" of the party. [Laughter.] In our xdain way, because we have been building up States and cities and empires, and have not had time to bolt, we have thought that the better element of the party was the biggest element, and that the wisdom of thlB great party of ours was in the majority. Now, don't you think so? [Voices, " Yes, sir."J Every time. I dislike this appropriation of the phrase " The thoughtful and th> conscientious citizens," by a tew gentlemen who do not act with the majority of the thoughtful and con­ scientious citizens. [Applause.] I am in favor of the scholar in politics; but, nevertheless, I do believe with Kdmund Burke that it was the great good fortune of the British people that they were never ruled over a few months at a time by their philosophers and their wise meu. My fellow citizens, the great reforms in tlits world, those reforms from which civil liberty and individual liberty have derived any benefit, have not come from the clouds down, but from the ground np. [Applause.] 1 believe in the spinal column of this country. I read the an­ nouncement, for in the West we do take the .11- lantic Mimthly, and have gospel privileges [laughter], I read that these gentlemen are ex­ ceedingly solicitous as to what they call the purity of the young men. May I be permitted to suggest that the farmers of Illinois and of the great West--those strong, splendid, broad- browed, great, big-hearted men, those men who buried the doctrine of flat money under a ma­ jority of 40,00(1--think they are quite capable themselves of taking care of the morals of their sons. I Laughter] And, most of all, they do not propose to turn the custody of these morals over to an assorted lot of gentlemen, half of whom deny the existence of a God, and the oth­ er half ot whom believe that mankind, them­ selves included, were developed from an ape. [Laughter.] Now, then, what does it mean to be independ­ ent in politics? If the word has a particle of signitieance it is a refusal to acknowledge alle­ giance to either of the great political parlies of the country. These gentlemen are simply inde­ pendent ot the Kepublican party, to which they formerly belonged--spasmodically and occa­ sionally belonged. Tney have attached them­ selves to the Democratic party. And they are not independent of that wheu they acknowledge allegiance to it. HOW ABSURD IT IS. If a refusal to vote the Republican ticket and indorse Kepublican doctrines and to support Republican candidates is an evidence of inde­ pendence, then the Democrat is a good deal more independent than the Independent, be­ cause he has that way as independent been in­ dependent a good while longer. [Laughter.] Will some astute logician tell me the dinerence be­ tween a genuine real old-iashioned and one of the original Democrats, this campaign, and the new article, the Independent? [Laughter. J They supi>ort the same man and for the same reasons. The old Democrat and his allv will support Grover Cleveland because of his high moral char­ acter. [Loud laughter and applause.] Mr. Chair­ man, I cannot understand why that should pro­ duce such a demonstration. [Laughter.! They support him, both of them, because he vetoed the 5-cent fare bill, because he vetoftl the bill short­ ening the hours of labor for the street-car con­ ductors and drivers, and because he vetoed the mechanics' lien law in the State of New York. The Democrat and the Independent both support Mr. Cleveland for these reasons, among others, and for the same reasons precisely they both op­ pose Mr. Blaine. Mr. Sehurz and Mr. Curtis both wl'hhold their support from Mr. Blaine for the same reason Hubert O. Thompson and Mr. Sheriff Davidson withhold theirs, exactly. They use the same methods, work through the same chan­ nels, and seek to accomplish the same end in exactly the same way. Both mourn when they ore defeated, would rejoice if they could suc­ ceed, will be buried in the same common coftin daughter, applause, and cheers], and when,after November, their bleached and whitened skele­ tons lie on the beach and shore ot i>olitical de­ feat and disappointment, you can not tell tlie skeleton of an Independent from that of a Dem­ ocrat. I Laughter.] This is a very remarkable party of ours, the Republican party. It never had, in all its long and splendid and lustrous career, a leader who could take it one single inch m the direction it didn't want to go. [Applause.] Our leaders have sometimes left us, and in a wholesale way. So much the worse for the leaders, so much the better for the party. [Applause.] In 1872 Gov­ ernors and ex-Governors. Senators and ex-Sen­ ators. Judges and ex-Judges, Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, crowds of them, left us because the part* as they said, was corrupt, and how splendidly the old ship did riirht herself up after they not off. [Applause and laughter. I How magnificently she made for the harbor of a splendid success: and how desolate, discom­ fited, and water-logged have been the leaders who jumped overboard ever since. [Laughter. I j There is another remarkable feature about our party which distinguishes it from the Democratic party. To write a platform for the Democratic party reuuires the very highest degree of rhetorical and literary ability. [Laughter.! I think I nossess some ability of that kind myself, yet I would not try it under any circumst-inoes [Laughter.] There is not a Kepublican in all the fifty-five millions of people on this continent, who has got the faith in him, who cannot write a Republican plat­ form that is not a good Kepublican doctrine everywhere. [Applause.] There is the same di(lerence between the Democratic platform and the Republican platform that there was be­ tween onr present national currency and the old stump-tail currency before tlie wan Our plat­ form is current everywhere. Did you ever think what would happen to a Democratic or­ ator if he had put his platform in his pocket at | night and got on the train, and really lauded in j the d rcction he didn't suppose he had irone? j Suppose that he started from Chicago and was j comit g to Boston, but by some curious freak he | lar-oed at Atlanta or Savannah, and, thinking he i was in Bo ti n at the time, began clamor for 1 a free ballot and a fair count! [Laughter and i applause.] Yon see it is a question of climate; the plattorm of aU God's creation and free trade. He is go tag wrath, as he thinks, and the Penn-ylvunia Railroad lands him in Lancaster, Pa., and, as a Democratic orator, he begins to talk in favor of free trade and 10 give that construction to the platform. What kind of a funeral awaits that man? [Loud laughter and applause.] Our opponents object to our talking about our record. They decline to talk about theirs, and I don't blame them. [Laughter.] In the few words 1 sli&il have occasion to utter about the Democratic party, remember that I draw a broad line of distinction between the party and the members of the party, the same that I would draw between a corporation and a stock­ holder, for instance. I know stockholders of the Standard Oil l ompany, excellent, splendid, and worthy gentlemen, but the company [pausing solennly, laughter.] I know Democrats who are a great deal better than their party; I never knew any one worse. [Laugh t- r.j This party to which the so-called and self-elected and self- appointed "thoughtful and conscientious citi­ zen" had attached himself! [Laughter.] This party that has shown how potent the "silent vote is in Maine | loud laughter, apnlause, and cheers] and in Vermont. 1 have said they object to anv discussion of their record, and they insist upon it that when any of us begin to talk about it we are discuss­ ing old affairs. Now, it is no objection, gentle­ men, to an issue that it is old, if it is not settled. [Laughter.] The preachers for a great many hundred years have been denouncing sin. That is a very old issue, one of the first I know of; and I suppose they will keep at it till sin quits. It is about as hard for a political organization to un­ load its character as it is for a man. Political parties come to the people of this country and ask for confidence and trust, and the people of this country, pretty intelligent and observing, look not so much at the vehemence and vigor of the promise as the probabilities that the prom­ ise shall be kept; and those probabilities they determine by the history of the individual or the party who makes it. Now, is not that the best kind of sense? If a party promises to vin­ dicate the public credit, that party always hav­ ing orders to destroy it, will yon take the prom­ ise? [Voices: "No, na"J Of course you will, not. If it pretends and promises to take care of our financial interests, while its history has been a steady line of effort to destroy them, will you accent the promise? I take it not. These are fair, square questions which every voter and every citizen must ask for himself and upon which he must act. Now, gentlemen, what is the record of the old Democratic party? If this hall were all filled with Democrats, if every man here was a Demo­ crat. solid in the faith and firm in the belief, I could clear the hall in three minutes by reading them their own platform of 1868 or 1872. [Laugh­ ter.] They have never made a promise in which the interests of this country have been involved that they have kept. There is no great measure of public policy which has contributed to the growth and the prosperity of the nation that that party has originated or favored. In all its long career for the last thirty years there is no measure of that character which that party has not diabolically and demagogically and unanimously opposed. Is there any one in this large and splendid audience, in this old, splendid city of Boston, made memorable by tlie present, and sanctified in the hearts of ail our people by the tender and sacred recollec­ tions of the revolution--is there a single one of you, glorying in the greatness of our country, ol its past, its present, antl in the sublime hope and promise of its future--is there a single one of you that can point me to one single thing within the last quarter of a century that this Demo­ cratic party has ever done or attempted to do, from which you as citizens draw any pride, or from the doing of which the country would have drawn any honor? Can you point ine to one single great event in our history which makes up our patrimony and our heritage as a people that, that party lias not infernally opposed? [Laughter and applause.] Now that is a dread­ ful question, it is a solemn inquiry, and the dreadtul tact ot the matter is, that there ia not one single instance, not one. Now, fellow-citizens, the Republicin party, whose advocate in a very small way I am to­ night, lias never made a great promise that it has not religiously performed. (Applause.I Its promiso of to-day is the statute of to-morrow, and its platform of to-day ripens into the fun­ damental law of to-morrow. [Applause.] It has crowded Into its brief career of twenty-five years counted by achievements, a thousand years, and the greatest history that lias ever been recorded. It made ou^ Territories all free. It elected Lincoln. By one supreme effort it lifted 4,000,000 of human beings from the night and shame and barbarism of African cliattelage into the clear and bracing atmos­ phere ot American citizenship. [Applause,] It paid a great debt. It lifted up to the hlghe&t pinnacle the national credit and the public good name, and it has placed this great coun­ try in the midst of a prosperity marvelous and unexampled in the history of the world. I Ap­ plause.] Gentlemen, I can never tire of speak­ ing of its glories. No one ever speaks of or recounts the adventures of the Democratic party, if I may make one honorable exception. Thinking that they needed recruits in the State ct Maine, Gov. Hoadlv, of Ohio, visited there and made several speeches --a notable one at Biddeford. He was at one time a Repub­ lican, and, feeling the need ot a record, lie furnished one to his Democratic lriends in the State of Maine. I propose, for your informa­ tion, to read it to you, for it is not long. It is something new, fresh, has nothing of the mildew ot age about it, and quite in the nature of a discovery. [Laughter.] Gov. Hoadly, ad­ dressing a Democratic audience in Biddeford, spoke to them in the words and figures follow­ ing: The Democratic party under [pausing] who do you suppose. Senator? Jefferson [loud laughterj added the Gulf States to the Union. [Applause.] The Democrats of Biddeford never had heard of that before, evidently. I Laughter.! The Democratic party under [pausingI James K. Polk sent the American fiag to the Pacific ! loud applause 1 and gave us land enough tor t wenty States. [Applause.] That is all. (Loud la igliter and cheers.) The trouble with that record is. it begins too early and quits too quick. [Laughter.] IT STOPS JUST 8HOBT of the time when the thing begins to be inter­ esting. It reminds me of the old news lrom the Potomac: "Important if true." [Laughter.J The Governor goes on, however, to say that at one time he was an Abolitionist. There is no­ body here who will mention what I am going to say outside, but did yon ever see one of these washed-out Republicans who had faded into the Democratic party, sort of melted in, so to speak, that ever bragged about. I>eing a Demo­ crat? [Laughter. 1 1 never did. He was always proclaiming the fact that at one time he was something better. He used to be a Republican [laughterl; like the decayed gentility you see in old States, that has seen better days, a little raveled out at the edges and run down at the heel, but there are here and there marks which show that originally the goods were valuable. [Laughter.] He was an Abolitionist, he says, when Logan was voting the Democratic ticket. Now there is a place where the Independents and their allies--the Democratic party--are entirely agreed. It Is astonishing Mr. Chairman, how shocked these Independents arc that Logan once voted the Democratic ticket. Hendricks voted the Demo­ cratic ticket once--before the war, since the war, and now. Is it, after all, really the ques­ tion when a man began to be an apostle half as much as it is how long he held out? [Apnlause.] Who began first, Judas or Sanl ot Tarsus? Judas, I think; and think of Judas running around in that Democratic region ot his [laughter], jingling those thirty pieces of silver that he had got from the Democratic committee in,his hands as the price of joining the party of purity and reform, and claiming that he, al­ though not one now, was a Christian long before the scales fell from the eyes of the magnificent old Saul of Tarsus. I Laughter.] John A. Logan did vote the Democratic ticket; but the first shot which exploded on the walls of Sumter drove from liim every spark of Democratic faith, and in the flame and thunder of battle he made himself the peerless soldier of the war for the Union. [Great applause. I Take from the history of this country lor the last twe ity-five years the solid achievement and you make a charm; take fropi it the achievements of his de­ tractors, and there is not an abrasion on the surface. [Applause.] Gentlemen, the hour is so late [Cries of "Go on!"J Oh,lam willing to go on. [Applause.] The life of a man is limited to about seventy years, and you cannot expect me to spend all of it In going into detail as to the crimes and follies of the Democratic party. [Laughter.] I was reading a Chicago paper yes­ terday and I observed in it that a missionary had been sent from Boston to Chi­ cago to organize the Independent movement. It It one of these spontaneous, effervescent, out­ pouring, go-as-yon-please, free-for-all-ages af­ fairs that NEED A GOOD DEAL OF N'UBSING. [Loud laughter.] There was a grand rally of the Independent party in Chicago; the whole five were prenent. [Laughter.] Some of them with Mr. Gladstone's last speeches, others with the I'aII Mall (razelte, others with essays from the Cobden Club, others carrying their canes in the middle. I Roars of laughter.) All bearing the marks of a disinterested and three-storied and mansard-roof patriotism. fLoud laughter.] Now, this missionary stated to them that Massa­ chusetts was going to give Cleveland a rousing majority. He was an Independent a "thought­ ful and conscientious" voter. Of course the statement was not false, but was it not an ex­ treme economy in the employment of truth? [Laughter.] • The Republic n patty has made of jarring States a nation, and it has made that nation free --free in every sense and in its largest sense, and on this continent what an edifice has U reared, the dome as broad and vast as the arch­ ing skies above us, from whose walls we have removed thedecavingtimbersof humanchattel- hcod and replaced than with the ever asting granite of universal freedom. From those w.ilis we have eff ced the old, toul inscription of the bad old time*. its infernal doctrine, no longer ila- nts .ts shame free" to think, to speak, co vote as lw . and far the incarnation of thai might#! _ the election and shall vote toe Plalwi Mut •*' (Great applause.] , | - EX-SENATOR GRADY. lib jUMnas leftn the ;0»a*dl--Wky He ClereUnd. TawMfl§r [New York telegram.] * Ex-Senator Grady, rising to pi of rut us Inst the passage of the resolution and the adoptfcw of the address, made a long speech. HcfeVffeWad the whole political career of Cleveland, and quoted freely from the columns of the Timet and the Ifrraht in the past in support of tte position he (Gradyi had now taken. In tlM course ot his speech Giady said: Neither in the nomination of the ticket nor til the methods by which it was brought about la there the slightest claim noon the great body of Democratic voters for its support. TlW. great majority of the delegates to tho conven­ tion who named Cleveland as their first represented Republican constituencies. Tte number of delegates who openly and earnestly opposed his nomination were r corded, In ajrit* ot ail their protests, as favorable to his candi­ dacy. Every influence that oould be employed or engineered by the monopolists wltoJtavn secured control of the party management inie exerted to make him the candidate, and, as yon well know, the delegates who left their homes loud in their professions of hostility to his can* didacy AS inviting certain defeat to the party gave evidence soon after their arrival at Chicago of a change of heart, which only the most sim­ ple and charitable have ascribed to pure and worthy motives. The expressed design of men who urged his nomination was to ~"w,<?iirfrfr disgruntled Republicans, not to please Demo­ crats. Preserving to myself the snpieme rlgftfc of a citizen exercising an act of torn* eignty, I decline to prostitute my preroga­ tive to the purposes of party managers. Suf­ frage lia* been bestowed on me bvthe institn- ' tions of my country that it may be exercised tor the country's welfare. To the prosperity and benefit of this land I dedicate it, ana I can not reconcile without desecration any disposition it that would result In the support ot the po­ litical nondescript, clothed in the outward garb of a Democrat, ignorant of the cardinal princi­ ples of the political fslth which he assumes to profess, and accepting from Democrats their votes that he may delight Republicans and In-* dependents by the manner in which he will ex­ ercise the powers conferred npon him by a bo- trayed and deluded party. But my vote will not be lost to the Democracy. It will be cast for the candidate whpse followers will be num­ bered by hundreds of thousands, whose motives can not be impugned, for their action can not be inspired by selfish hopes of reward. It w&l . be registered for the principles whioh the Dem- oeratic party professed when it held popular confidence, and for abandoning wheh it lost popular support. It will lie given for the candi­ date who has no hope of election and no desire for sordid benefits, for political preferment, took who braves tatigue, abuse, and pecuniary loas that true Democrats may find his candidacy • channel through which they may express their sentiments. 1 turn my back on the Democratic party; captured and betrayed by Know-nothing dema»r ' " gogues hungry for places and spoils, to join tho *- pure Democracy which struggles for principles' which the party organization has abandoned. I denounce the candidate whose only merit ia • his obscurity that I may follow a statesman whose life has made glorious the history of Id* country. I decline to bow down before a graven image l>ecause I prefer to follow the teachings » of the ajKistle of the true political faith. Pre­ ferring shining ability to dull mediocrity, a traa. reformer to a sham reformer, a statesman to a hangman, an illustrious citizen to a political adventurer, I decline to support Grover Cleve­ land for the Presidency, and here and now, ia the i resence of a leader whom I have always regarded as my political sponsor, in the midst of brethren and comrades with whom I have shared many hard-fought battles in the politi­ cal field, and before the eyes of all tfce country, to whom I have this night laid bare my motive* and purposes, I declare myself in favor of Ben­ jamin F. Butler, soldier, jurist, statesman, and patriot, and I appeal to time for my vin<Mo«t!ai£ < ̂ '. • ;slli / f i A BLAINE MAN. Why the President of a St. ioals Supports the Republican Ticket. Mr. S. H. Laflin, the well-known powder man­ ufacturer and President of the St. Loul- National Bank, has just returned from the East, where he paid some attention to political matters. Ha is a prominent Democrat, hat In conversation with a Chicago Tribune correspondent at tlM Southern he said: "lama Blaine man. All my family and most of my employes are for Cleve­ land, but I am a Blaine man through and through. 1 don't oppose Cleveland because of that scandal--no, t-ir. No, there is nothing In the scandal that ought to lower Cleveland in anybody's estimation, but he is nor a fit person for the Presidency. He has not got the braina. He wears a No. 19 collar and a No. 8 hat. and beyond that you cannot say anything for him. Blaine is a man of nerve, a brainy man, a states­ man, and he shall have my vote. Every man with whom I conversed while in the East fa­ vored the election of Blaine. These men were mostly manufacturers, and represented great industries of the country. They said thejr would feel safer with Blaine at the helm."-- Ji. JLvuia special. *! '4 :/.5 , rkk * r More Opposing Tiews. [From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.] The first Republican National Convention evv' held (in lH.Mii adopted a platform in which op^i curred the following: ' That as onr Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national terri­ tory, ordained that no person should be de­ prived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, it becomes cur duty to maintain t-nis provision ot the Consti ution against all at­ tempts to violate it. for purposes of establishing slavery in any Territory of the United States. * * * It is both the right and the duty of Con-- gress to prohibit in the Ten itories those twat relics of barbarism--polygamy and slavery. In the national convention i>latform adopted by the Democracy in 1H56 are found these reso- - lotions relating to slavery, which were al$ft adopted by the Democratic National Conven­ tion of I860: liesolvetl. That all efforts of the Abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps with relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous conse­ quences. - AVFTO/Rerf. That the Democratic party will ra»' sist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or oiH of it, the agitation of the slavery question, un­ der whatever shape or color the attempt may bo mado. Bnt slavery is a dead issue, says the Demo* - cratic objector to these quotations from h|n party record. True enough. Yet the old atti­ tude ot the national Democracy toward slavery is exactly repi oduced in its admitted attituite toward polygamy to-day. , , „ IvM , v **'#• i .. • i .. J Where the "Stalwarts" Art. If any one supposes tlinfc & stAlw^rt Repu1blfeSknr is going to take counsel of his grudges and re­ venges when a national election is at stake, bo will find out his error in November. Above all personal or selfish ebje.-ts the true stalwart, puts the welfare of his country; and he believes that the Republican party is better qualified to govern the country than the Dem cratic party, and that James G. Maine, in every nttribUtS that marks the statesman, the u; right man and the gentleman, rises as far above Grover Cleve­ land as the eaule soars above the bird of tho - dunghill.--Kingston Freeman. GREAT calculations were based npon tb4-'*•' announcement of Thad C. Ponnd's somer­ sault. It is said the gentleman himself prophesied a political cyclone would sweep over Wisconsin, and is disgusted that tho mill streams did not rim dry and business generally suspend. He sees now what ft small dot he makes in a world of busy^ thinking men. A little New York gamin was persuaded to oome into school and A good lady was teaching him the pausa*" in bis reading. "That, my little boy, is an interrogation mark, and that is a conk- ma, and this is » period." "A whatf* broke in the boy. "I'll be'eher a dollar, ma'am, that's a fly-speck." Thad evidently had an idea th it he would write a period after the Republican party, but people MNI.» alreadv bfginuing to bet it was only i fly-speck."--Chicago Inter Ocean. THE Republican State Central CcmmittQS of New York has notified th > National Re­ publican Committee that it wiii be able to wt along without any outside financial aid. Ihe State Committee can laisealt the funds needed for tlie successful prosecution of the canvass. Owing to the attitude of tho Irish-Americans, the committee is conli- dent that the Einpiie State will give a good i he Dred-Sc trdc'cisTonT with j round majority for the Tepub ican na­ tional ticket. The only Iiisit-Anieiicaas in our eyes. The story of the estap.ng slave no longer is recorded on its banners; the crack of the old whip has died away; the bav of the pur­ suing bloodhound is a bad recollection of a bad East; the imploring cry of the pursued slave is eajrd no more. But reddened as i- a placet shone upon it, glistens thero a r public beneath whose flag every human being is free, free to think, free to speak, and free to vote as he pleases. The old blustering s; irit of our insti- who will vote for Cleveland in New York , belor g to the office-holding antl bntumor element .. I PAT CAHIUI. n weal hy Imhmus of Itoy*1 i ette Cont.ty, lUit.ois, wit ts to be-tn farm <4 j forty acres against $"2'0 thit James C*. , I B *ine will be the n it l es <leut of tho tutions before the war that e ev»ted U8«U on u Vnited States. Here is S chance «W miles of boxes and bales, and chalked its do lar \ . and cent all over God> ten comnuiad* | Hwnson 8 fnenaft jvfwss* »