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HIM \ . SAW** ^cpmt| flaindealer I. VAN SLYKE, Etiter Md PaWfrher. MoHENRY, I I ILLINOIS GINEBAL BUTLER opened • speech Borne years ago bj saying "I fear no one and lore few." This is certainly true of his feeling for newspapers. He "went to Newfoundland two or three summers ago. A captain in the queen's nary told him there was not a newspa­ per in the province. Ben clasped his hands, seemed to close his eyes, and exclaimed devoutly: "Now,Lord, let thy servant depart in peace. THB munificence of Han-Qua, the great Chinese millionaire, draws atten­ tion to tfoe fact that in China nearly all the bankers are also pawn-brokers. Goods are pledged at from a quarter to half their market value, and at the end of three years become the property of the banker. Legal interest in the Flower Kingdom is 20 per cent, or as much thereunder as the lender will ac­ cept Banker's interest runs as high as 35 per cent per annum. THE Duke of Wellington's resources, in case of the abolition of the House of Lords, which is under discussion again, are exceptional. He uasd to say: "If they, abolish the House of Lords I shall go over to Belgium. I'm Prince of Waterloo o-ver there. When the great powers swallow up Belgium I can still live in Spain, where I am Duke of Cin- dad Rodrigo. And if Spain collapses I shall retire to Portugal, where I shall end my days as Marquis of Torres Tedras and Count of Vimiero." LIEUTENANT SC-AWATKA and his com­ panions of the Franklin search party of 1879 have taken the present oppor­ tunity to reiterate their opinion that Arctic expeditions should be manned by a minimum of white men--that only the leaders should be Europeans, and that the hardest work should be dele­ gated to the Eskimo and their dogs, who are better fitted for it than the soldiers and sailors to whose lot it gen­ erally falls. The Lientenant's own ex­ perience certainly goes far to SOnfirm his judgment in this matter. Foil twenty years a quaint character named Ogilvie Stannard had lived on a small island in Pelham Bay, Westches­ ter county, New York without anything happening to him. While drunk, last week, Staunard fell through the ties of a railroad bridge, but caught on a pike and was saved. An hour later he was rescued while asleep on the track be­ fore an approaching train. In the afternoon he fell from his boat into the bay, but was caught by the bridge-ten­ der again. As they were approaching the shore, however, he fell out and was drowned. J. A. CHAPEAU, Cannadian Secretary of State, couldn't De elected to any of­ fice in California. He has just return­ ed from a trip to inquire into the Chi­ nese question in British Columbia, and expressed himself favorably toward the heathen. He states that Chinese labor has developed the industries of the country; that they are intelligent, hard-working people, and that the sto­ ries of their immorality, as far as he could find out, were greatly exagge­ rated. Residents of the American por­ tion of the Pacific coast who want the Chinese barred out of British territory in order to protect their own from in­ vasion will feel inclined to shoot that Chapeau. WHEN Mme. Carlotta was descend­ ing in her balloon from an ascent made at Saratoga, New York, the other day, three country boys stood gaping with wonder at the spectacle, and as the air­ ship approached them Carlotta called to the lads to seize and hold the bal­ loon the mome it it touched the ground. Two of "the lads obeyed her request, when a sudden squall drove the balloon bounding over the ground and fences for almost a mile. At times the balloon was fifty feet from the ground, yet the terrified lads clung tenaciously to the edge of the basket. They were hurried along at railroad speed, until the balloon struck a tree and was torn from top to bottom. UNDETERRED by the ill-success and loss of life of former Polar expeditions, a Russian enterprise to reach the pole is shortly to be tested. It is to be un­ dertaken by several officers of the Rus­ sian navy, who expect to start with sledges and dours from the New Liberi- an Islands. These are nine hundred nautical miles from the North Pole. Provision will be made for employing boats to carry the party from Island to Island in the Polar seas. Geographers insist that Arctic exploration has more than paid expenses. It has enabled us to improve our maps. The blank spaces of sixty years ago are now filled with.large Islands, archipelagoes, and vast seas. New whaling and sealing grounds have been found, and a com­ mercial mineral of great value, cryolite, is now ex ported in large quantities from Ivigtut to Europe. Then the discover­ ies have helped to fix the position of the magnetic pole, and to perfect the art of living in high latitudes. So the work of exploration will go on; its very dangers stimulating the adventur­ ous spirit of those that would wrest the secret of the pole. Iris a curious circumstance that all the candidates for President and Vice- President commenced their career as schoolmasters. The two leading can­ didates, Messrs. Blaine and Cleveland, once taught in blind asylums. The late President Garfield, in early life, had also been a school teacher. It must not be inferred from this, however, that pedagogues are in higher regard than in the early history of the Republic. Had Hessrs. Blaine, Cleveland, St John, Logan, or Hendricks remained school^ masters or professors, they would nev­ er have been heard of in connection with the highest offices in the gift of the American people. Our Presidents and candidates for the Presidency have so far been rigidly confined to the law­ yer caste, with an occasional exception in favor of a soldier. By some kind of unwritten law, business men, physi­ cians, college presidents, however dis­ tinguished, are excluded from the list of candidates for the Presidency, nor are naval officers regarded as available for those honors. True, Mr. Blaine is not a lawyer. After being a school­ master, he became an editor, and has made his mark as a politician. If chosen, he will be the first President that was not a soldier or a lawyer. THE eastern coast of the United States, from \ irginia to Maine, was re­ cently disturbed hy an earthquake. It created no little alarm, but did no dam­ age. Science so far is at fault in deal­ ing with earthquakes. It does not know to what they are attributable. They are mcst frequent in tropical countries near volcanio regions. Earth­ quakes have been called "suppressed volcanoes." If not but to electricity, as is suspected by some scientists, they are often accompanied by electrical and magnetic phenomena. One theory is that they are due to disturbances in the liquid molten matter that is sup­ posed to underlie the crust of the earth. Another and very plausible explanation is, that they are occasioned by the earth's parting with its internal heat. As cooling bodies contract, it would follow that a portion of the crust of the earth would be upheaved,and this would account for the mountains and other irregularities on the surft&e of the globe. It may be that the recent earth­ quake on the east coast of the United States was really an upheaval of the Alleghanies, and it may also be that in time, that is in hundreds of thousands of years, the Alleghanies may reach the altitude of the Rocky Mountains or the Andes. But, of course, this is all con­ jecture. MR. COPE WHITEHOUSE, who seems tq?b$ treated as a crank by the Science Association m meeting at Philadelphia, got the stage of the academy as the scientists were leaving the hall, and proceeded to give an illustrated lect­ ure on "The Libyan Deserts." Some of the audence remained and others out of curiosity turned back to hear him. Mr. Whitehouse enunciated some singular scientific theories, based upon the most careful researches. One of these was that the Pyramids had been built practically downward,not upward. He took Herodotus and other ancient writers for his authorities, and on the strength of personal examination,whioh he had made, expressed the opinion that the chambers, at the base of the Pyramids, had been used for temples and were constructed beneath the cem ter of big hills, and that the apex of these hills had been cut off, and through the holes thus made the big boulders of rocks had been dropped one upon another until they had risen to a new apex. The hills, he said, were then smoothed off and the sides of the Pyra­ mids molded, leaving them as they are seen to-day. The theory presented by Mr. Whitehouse is not novel. It has been advanced before. Whatever its merits, says the New York Tribune-- and if the judgment-of the standing committee be taken as final, it has none --it is the subject of much comment to-day, that the committee should have shown such animosity in the matter. There are probably many more dan­ gerous "cranks" in the ranks of the as­ sociation than Mr. Whitehouse. There are matny scientists whose opinion is entitled to weight who think that Mr. Whitehouse's services in other branches of science have been eminent. He is, for instance, recognized as an authority on the Lybia deserts. But his notions regarding the Pyramids are generally ridiculed and little attention paid to them." What Is Wanted. In the olden times, there would real­ ly have been more excuse for living without a home than at present, for the lie was so much simpler, the spiritual needs were much narrower, that one . really required little else in a home than good eating and sleeping. "And what else (lo you, want?" inquires some plethoric papa, whose stomach is al­ ways the least satisfied part of his be­ ing, or some fashionable mamma, whose breakfast caps and soriecs are so ab­ sorbing that she has no time for butch- • rs and bakers, and children's story books. What else does one want? In the first place, a quiet corner far away from gossip and prying eyes, where one's own indivi uality can grow and devel­ op without fear of hostile criticism, and where one can sometimes enjoy a quiet moment, untroubled with one's children or one's friends. And in the second place, a spot where the children of the household can keep their little hearts young and not grow too soon in the wisdom of the .world. Most Americans do not have homes they merely have places to stay, where the father reads his paper, the mother plvs the sewing machine, and the chil­ dren make molasses candy or have an­ nual birthday parties. But the idea of a heart center, where love is cherished, thoughts are fostered and morals ex­ panded, is apparently unheard of in their philosophy. Materfamilias goes to church on Sunday without any idea that she is leaving the holiest temple behind her, of which she is high priest­ ess, and if you should dissect her brain you would find that in the corner de- vo ed to "necessities," the strata of clothes, cooks, sewing girls and roast turkey, fill up all but the smallest crev­ ice conscientiously set aside for relig­ ious belief and church membership.-- Mary H Ford, in Kansas City Jour­ nal. She Whistled Him Off. A policeman who was patroling Montcalm street heard a whistle blown for all it was worth, and ran a block and a half, to find a woman with her head out of a chamber window. "Who blew that whistle?" "I did." W "Do you want me?" "No, sir. My gal and her beaux are spoonin' around on the side stoop, and I blew the whistle to let him know that it was time to skip or look out for olubs."--Detroit Free Frew. BLAINE'S AMERICAN POLICY. 4'There Will Be, I Trust ii God, an A Strong Exposition of Mr. Blaine's Position--A Broad, Able and ' ' Patriotic ttnents of North and South America are con­ cerned. Had Secretary Blaine, instead of asking a modification of the treaty, at once declared it a nullity, he would have followed a precedent in the treaty history of England In connection Bast India possess! :t to Gibraltar, lier 'w ith her defenses of her 1 sions. ANOTHER DEMOCRAT BOLTS. TuescTay, the 16th nit., there was a Repub­ lican rally at Buffalo, when the hall was packed to hear the orator of the evening, the Hon. James O. Putnam, who delivered a most elo­ quent address. Mr. Putnam was the American Consul at Havre for many years, and was ap~ Sointed Minister to Belgium by President Oar-eld. No abler presentation of Mr. Blaine's views of the necessity of an American foreign policy has been given during the campaign than the following passages from Mr. Putnam's ad­ dress: MB. BLAINE S FOREIGN POLICY. Mr. Blaine's course as Secretary of State, par­ ticularly in connection with the Spanish- American republics, has been more than sharply criticised. The Democratic party has sought to give the impression that in power he is dangerous--a sort of diplomatic dynamite, reckless and destructive. This has had a loud echo from the other side. England with almost unit voice pronounces him dangerous, a disciple of the "Jingo" school, and calls upon her fnends in this country to aid in his defeat. Yes, Ens- land that has subjugated a quarter of the adobe, thai is scarcely ever without a war to maintain her military conquests, that holds Gibraltar from Spain to guard her highway to India, that secured control of the Sues Canal for the same purpose, that is ever scheming for commercial ascendency in the republics of South and Cen­ tral America, whose naval stations and military poets in every quarter of the globe prepare her for every exiKency of naval war, is horror- struck that % statesman is in nomination for the 1-residency wfco, with a type of courage and patriotism which England honored in her Canning and Paltnerston. presumed to insist upon an American policy that should secure us friendly commercial relations with our sister republics, and enforcing the Monroe doctrine against European aggression. Perhaps the Americaa people will share her alarm and that of her allies here, and will repudiate a policy to secure us our natural commercial advantages and maintain the republican institutions of North arid Central America against the wiles of European ambition. 1 remejnber New York Sve the country in its crisis noura Premier of r.dred courage to Mr. Blaine's. SECRETARY SEWARD was saved from the Presidency to render services in the State Department hardly less important than the military service in the held. History, when she makes up her final record of the war of the rebellion, while placing Lincoln anions the God-created rulers born for the crises of na­ tions, will rank Secretary Seward with the few great diplomatists whose wisdom and hope and courage and national feeling were sis powerful for defense against foreign foes as fleets and armies. Gov. Seward when Secretary of State was no favorite of England or France, but by his Amer­ ican diplomacy he sent the French troops out of Mexico, and drove Maximilian from the mushroom throne built on Austrian intrigue and Frenoh bayonets. SECRETARY WEBSTER. Massachusetts once gave the country a Pre­ mier of kindred American assertion, whose name stands, and will forever stand, representative of all that is commanding in intellect and patriotic in action. Mr. Webster knew how to assert the dignity of his country. He so asserted it in his controversy with Austria at the time of the Hungarian revolution that the Austrian Minis­ ter--Chevalier Hulseinan--took his leave, Kos­ suth said here in Buffalo, "without so much as a wish for his good journey from anybody." No words of Secretary Blaine approached in sharp- Bess of national assertion the words of Mr. Webster when, in his correspondence with the Austrian Minister, he declared Austria to be "but a patch on the earth's surface" compared with the territorial vastness of the United States, and that had Austria put in foree its menace against tue agent of the United States it would be met by the utmost power, military and naval, of the republic. The samo Whig statesman, in 1823, in his mas­ terly speech on the Greek revolution and the policy of the allied Powers to crush out the ris­ ing of the oppressed peoples, said--and his words should be written on the door-posts of our Stale Department in letters so luminous that they can be read from London, from Paris, from Berlin, and St Petersburg--'"There will be, I trust in God, an AMERICAN policy." It was a kindred American assertion by Secre­ tary Seward that forced England to abandon forever her claim of right of search of American vessels. It was a kindred American assertion of on American policy by Mr. Blaine when in Con­ gress that forced the British Government to abandon the claim of British citizenship over a naturalized citizen of the United States, and so placed the aegis of the republic over every naturalized citizen from whatsoever land. Such was the idea of the old Whig, and such is the Idea of the Republican party of the American, policy. If Mr. Blaine was earnest In trying to sccure an honorable peace between Chili and Peru and to save Peru from that cruel spoliation which finally overtook her. and which has no parallel In modern civilized warfare, it was on the side of humanity; and may the day never dawn when the Government of the United States shall look with indifference upon the misfortunes of any republic in Europe or America. I do not believe the country will consent to ask leave of England or any other European Power to main­ tain American interests, and its own honor, on this continent. The North and South American States are yet in their infancy; they have natural affiliations, and have interests which should unity their spirit and action in matters purely Western. And I would ask what power if not the United States should take the lead in establishing that esprit de corps among the Western republics? She has priority in age, the priority in all the elements of national strength, and its highest lessons of imernational Justice this age has learned from her. While the great states of Europe rush into war for revenue, or commercial aggrandize­ ment, the United States has invoked the meth­ ods of arbitration, and I will say, for it is just, that this experiment of peaceful settlements of International disputes was inaugurated during the rule of the Republican partv. The Alabama controversy conducted by Secretary Fish, and the later fishery controversy conducted by Secretary Evarts, both of which had generated bad blood enough to breed a half-dozen wars, were brought by Republican diplomacy to peaceful issues. CONGRESS OF WESTERN REPUBUCS. It was the desire of Mr. Blaine to establish an esprit de corps among the American states that should lead to a settlement of all international disputes that might arise by friendly arbitra­ tion, and so avoid the horrors of war, that in­ spired his proposition for a congress of Central and South American republics. I know hiB propos'tion met with scotl and sneer in England and at home, but 1 ask you, if, in view of the belligerent relations then existing between two of the Western republics and of the angry boundary controversies between other of the Gulf states, a proposition to the republics of North and South America that might lead to peaceful adjustments of international contro­ versies was a fair subject of scoff and de­ rision? Shall Europe enjoy a monopoly of congresses? Her states have been repeatedly so in session during our century, from congresses which in 1815 and 1821 issued their decrees, and sent their armies against the liberties of states, and in the interest of absolutism, to the sittings of yester­ day over the remains of Egypt, the helpless football of Kuropean diplomacy. Yes. gentle­ men, we will stand by Mr. Blaine's emphatic Americanism. While France is waging wars in China and Africa to advance her commercial power, and England is ever waging war in some quarter of the globe to advance her commercial interest, the United States will seek, at least so long as the responsibility of its action devolves upon the Republican party, to establish the as­ cendency of American interests on the American continent. But if we have grown degenerate and are pre­ pared to surrender our American trust, the Re­ publican is not the party to administer the Gov­ ernment in its day of humiliation, and Mr. Blaine is not the man to place our moral or our political sovereignty at the feet of any foreign power. THE CLAYTON - BULWER TREATY. Permit me to refer to one other act of Mr. Blaine as Secretary of State, which has much disturbed English sensibility, and which theop- position at home has made another subject of criticism. I refer to his celebrated dispatch rel- a ive to the modification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Tliit treaty was made in 1850 with Great Britain, Boon after our acquisitiod from Mexico, and before the development of our vast commer­ cial interests on the Pacific coast. In referring to the proposed interoceanic canal through Nicaragua, that treaty agreed * "That neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself ;.ny exclusive con­ trol on said ship canal, and that neither will erect or maintain any fortifications command­ ing the same or in the vicinity thereof." And it was further agreed: "To extend their protec­ tion by treaty stipulaiions to any other practi­ cable communications, whether by canal or rail­ way. across the Isthmus which we now propose ' to be established by way of Tehuantepec or ' Panama." In the event of a war with Great Britain, as It now stands, our Pacific coast would be at the mercy of a British fleet through such a canal. Mr. Blaine proposed a modification of that treaty that should make it equitable in view of our present vast interests on the Pacific coast. "The treaty," he said, "binds the United States not to use its military force in any pre­ cautionary measure, while it leaves the naval power of Great Britain perfectly free and un­ rest ained --ready at any moment of netd to _ seize both ends of the canal, and render its j military occupation on land a matter entirely j within the discretion of her Majesty's Govern­ ment. I "The Clayton-Bulwar treaty commands this < Government not to use a single regiment of troops to protect its interests in connection with the interoceanic canal, but to surrender the transit to the guardianship and control of the British navy." dispatch was a vindication of the Monroe doctrine which for sixty years has been the comer-stone of our policy as far as the con- J The Island of Malta la, nc strongest fortress upon the route to India. In 1803 she entered into a solemn treaty with Frauce to surrender the island and remove her troops. She refued to abide by it and renewed the war with France, assigning changed circum­ stances after she had made her treaty at, her justification. I do not criticise England's action -self-preservation is the first law. I have dwelt upon Mr. Blaine's oarccr n-s Sec­ retary of State, not only because it has pro­ voked the most intense hostility to him in England, and most disparaging criticisms at home to awaken alarm, but because nothing in his whole career so commands my admiration as his watchfulness over American interests while in that office, and Ids courage in maintain­ ing them. Canning, in 182G, then Premier of Great Britain, referring to the sympathy he had ex­ tended to the new republics in South America, and to his diplomatic defeat of the Holy Al­ liance that would crush them, said, with just pride, "I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old." Mr. Blaine, with equal justice, can say, "I gave the moral support of my Government to maintain the integrity, to harmonize the in­ terests, and to unify the political spirit of the Western republics." In closing this branch of the discussion, let me give you a great au­ thority. You, doubtless, saw the published "Inter­ view" with President Anderson, of Rochester University, in which he corrected the impres­ sion that he Intended to vote for Gov. Cleve­ land, and states that he favored Mr. Blaine's foreign policy. In a private letter to myself, he ^ have no fear of Mr. Blaine's alleged 1 jiiigo- i«m. He may have made Bome trifling mistakes in his dispatches on foreign affairs, bnt he is too broad, able, and patriotic a man to foment war with a for, ! gu nation," AN OLD-LINE"DEMOCRAT. The Secretary of the American Agricult­ ural Association Can't Stand Grovwr Cleveland. [New York Sun.] We print a significant letter from Mr. Joseph H. Reall, the founder and Secretary of tne American Agricultural Association, and editor of the widely circulated Agricultural Jlerieir. Mr. Reall is a Democrat. Before the Chicago convention he favored the nomination of Mr. Randall. He cannot support Cleveland. Hun­ dreds of thousands of Democratic farmers iu all parts of the Union are, like Mr. Reall, against Cleveland and for the People's candidate, Ben­ jamin F. Butler. The letter is as follows. „ "GLEN RIDGE, N. J., Sept. 28. The Hon. ^Mlliam A. Fowler, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the People's Party. "DEAR SIR: Will you please enroll my name as a member of the People's partv? I will do all I can to promote its principles and elect its candidate, because 1 believe their success will be for the best interests of the country. I may mention that I have always been an earnest Democrat, but, with so many others, I am tired of voting for nothing. Tne' organiza­ tion has come to represent only folly and de­ feat. For a good many years the rank and file were satisfied to be beaten, because they felt they had principles to support, but now we have neither candidates nor issues worthy of sup­ port. The last opportunity for success has been frittered away, and victory can never come to the present organization. The People's party represents true Democracy. Its candidate is a practical and capable exponent. of the principles on which Democracy is based. Not only so, but he represents the ideas of more citizens of the United States than any other public man. All unbiased minds see that both the Demo­ cratic and Republican leaders are trying to hoodwink voters into supporting their candi­ dates by alleging mud at each other instead of advocating ideas. They either do not know the material wants of the country, or dare not advo­ cate them, excepting in the case of the Repub­ licans, who do give some attention to the tariff qnestion. But the public will not bo thus hum­ bugged. Intelligence has Increased and spread since the Democratic managers got bold of the organ­ ization, now a score of years ago, and it does its own thinking at present. There are live issues to be considered, wrongs to be corrected, and progress made. Whether or- not Gen. Butler is elected, and he can yet be, he has founded what will prove to be t he greatest political party this country has ever had. and the most useful. No power can prevent its grand and immedi­ ate success. Witnin a year It will number with­ in its ranks every member of the present Demo­ cratic party who loves his country and knows its needs, and a large percentage of Republi­ cans. I have observed carefully the tendency of the people since the Chicago conventions, and I nave seen the current increase day by day as it- flowed toward the organization you so well manage. Please accept my congratulations on the great work you have been enabled to ac­ complish already. Your progress has been mar­ velous, and you arc well equipped for grand results. May God speed you and all who labor with you in the noble cause. You will not want for men or means. Hosts of my fellow Democrats xtfcnd ready to aid in every way. I am, dear sir, most truly yours, Jos. H. REALL. Col. John Haneoek of Osh- kosh, Wis., Out for - •> ;* ' Blaine. J|llwanke*Senti*i3 A TABIFF FOR FROTECTIOIf. BRITISH GOLD. English Manufacturers Anxious for Demo­ cratic Success. [New York telegram.] The publication to-day of the rumor that John Bigelow had gone to England to secure funds for Cleveland and Hendricks and free trade caused a great deal of talk. Chairman Smith, of the Democratic State Committee, said tnat Mr. Bigelow had gone to England on account of his health and that of his daughter, and for no other reason; that he had known all along that Mr. Biuelow was going to Europe, and that no one in his right mind would bel.eve that En­ glish manufacturers would have any interest in American politics. At the Republican headquarters the Hon. J B. Dolliver, the Iowa orator, said: "There is not the slightest doubt that Briti.-h gold is to be used iu this canvass. Large sums of corruption money have found tnei way- to this country to lie used where money would do the most good. The Cobden Club is working here. In our part of the country we have been flooded with tracts and pamphlets for ten years. As I remember them they are, "i'he New Protection Cry;' 'Free Trade and English Commerce;' 'The Vj^estern Farmer of America;' 'Reciprocity,' and so on. These tracts or screeds, or whatever you may call them, are scattered broadcast through the length and breadth of Iowa, Ohio. Illinois, and Wisconsin. They are sent in the farmers' mail; they are distributed m the crowded cit es and at public meetings. The sophistry and specious arguments brought to bear UJKHI the questions of protection, tree trade, reciprocity, and the like are laughable and betray the usual English, ignorance of the intelligence and education of the average American. Yes, sir; money is used here by Englishmen lor English ends. The Democratic party is the tool of these Cob­ den Club members and their sympathizers. No man who has lived in Iowa can deny that En­ glish influences are constantly at work for mold­ ing popular opinion in favor of free, trade." James S. Weeks, of Pennsylvania, said: "Do English manufacturers spend money in and for the Democratic party because of its friendliness to free trade? Yes, sir. I have heard of Mr. Bige- low's mission. I don't doubt it is for some such purpose as drumming up funds, although, oi course, 1 can t say." Ex-Congressman Murch, who represented the Fifth Congressional District of Maine for two terms, being elected on a Greenback-Labor ticket, is now supporting Mr. Blaine, lie said: "Certainly I know tuat English influence is brought to b^ar on our elections. I have heard something about Bigelow *s misfion, but know liotning definite. All through Maine the Cobden Club's influence is felt. The pamphlets find their way into every farm-house. There can be no disputing the fact that Democracy, free trade, and British interests are bound up together. The money and influence of English manufac­ turers play a much greater part in American pol­ itics than most persons would believe." Democratic Lies Nailed. Mr. Blaine has written the following letter to the Hon. Wm. McKinley, of Ohio: The Hon. William McKinley, M.cC., Canton, Ohio: MY DEAR SIB : I have your favor, stating cer­ tain charges against me which you wish to l>e able tc contradict authoritatively. I answer yon promptly and decisively. 1. It is utterly untrue that I ever advocated a residence of twenty-one years as a requirement for natural­ ization in this country. I alwa s opposed the party that suggested it. 1 think the only change in the naturalization laws for which I ever voted ' in Congress was to admit those foreigners who had honorably served in the Union drmy to cit­ izenship without the delay required of others. 2. I never voted to impose a tax of $10 per an­ num on miners. By the internal-revenue laws framed to raise money for the expanses of the war proprietors of mines were taxed $1" uer annum, just as lawyers, physicians, builders, and other callings were, but the individual j miner, the man who actually worked the mine, was not in the least attest-d by the tax. I voted : for the tax on the proprietors of mines, as I did | for every other tax needed for the support of , the Union armies. The tax was repealed fifteen i years ago. 3. 1 do not own, and never did own, an ac e of coal land, or any other kind of land, in the Hocking valley or in any other part of Ohio. My letter to the Hon. Hezekiah Bundy, in July last, on this same subject was accuratelv I true. Very truly yours, JAMES G. BIAINE. | in this morning's Sentinel will be found an article by Col. John Hancock on the Monroe doctrin». Col. Hancock is an old and well- known resident of the State, and, np to the present y. ar, lias been a steadfast Democrat, lie enlisted early in the War of the Rebellion, going out as First Lieutenant in the becond Wisconsin Infantry, his company having Col. Gabe Bouck as Its Captain. Subsequently he J®"*8 Promoted to the Majority of the Four- teentb Iniantry, and became its Colonel. A law­ yer by profession, he returned to the practice of law in Oshkosh when he left the army, and was for some years Police Justice of that city. Col. Hancock savs that he has been a life-long Democrat, and has been waiting for his party to accept the issues of the war. Instead of doing this, he finds it drifting rapidly back into the support of those State-rights opinions which were employed as a justificati n by the South- era States tor the Kebel ion. In view of its at- titude upon this question, and its truckling to foreign interests and capital, he considers it the duty of every good citizen to give a warm sup- port to Mr. Blame. Col. Hancock's example and influence will encourage many of his old Demo­ cratic associates to adopt the same course. The article is as follows: James Monroe in his first message laid down the doctrine that thereafter no foreign Dower should be allowed to obtain a foothold on this continent; which is familiarly known as the "Monroe doctrine." The Democratic party failed to enforce the doctrine in the settlement of the Oregon boundary question. British gold and influence, aided by Southern votes, secured all the great Northwest territory lvimr west of the Rocky Mountains to which the Government of i.reat Britain had no shadow of title, it being neutral ground. Again was the doctrine aban­ doned by the Democratic party in the ratifica­ tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which treaty was entered into by Great Britain and the Unit­ ed States on a settlement of the Central Ameri­ can question; in that treaty it was stipulated that neither Great Britain nor the United States should ever occupy, colonize, or exercise do­ minion over any portion of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America. Senator Douglas opposed the ratifica­ tion of the treaty as an abandonment of the "Monroe doctrine" and subjecting the United States Government to British dictation. The British Minister then at Washington remon- stated with Douglas; claimed it was reciprocal, as it pledged both nations alike that they should never occupy or hold dominion over Central America. Douglas said, "It would be fair if they would add one word to the treatv, so that neither Great Britain nor the United States should ever occupy or hold dominion over Cen­ tral America or Asia." "But," said the British Minister, "you have no interest in Asia." "No," answered Douglas, "and you have none in Cen­ tral America." The treaty was ratified by a vote of 11 to 42. The Southern Senators were nearly unanimous in its support. As amiears from a statement in a late number of the London Times, the South American re­ publics are indebted to Great Britain from £5 to £'i(i per capita, Venezuela being the lowest; that republic borders on the Republic of Colom­ bia through which a canal is now being con­ structed by British capital, backed by the Gov­ ernment of Great Britain. The keen foresight of Mr. Blaine, while Secretary of State, at once detected the great difficulties this Government would labor under in allowin t the construction of that c tnal by lorelgn power, gave the British Government notice of the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and also gave notice to Lord Granville that if the canal was constructed it would be deemed a part of the coast line of the United States. The only reason given by Great Britain for the seizure and occupation of Egypt was to protect British bondholders. With the present heavy indebtedness of the South American republics to Great Britain, and the obtaining of a foothold in the Republic of Co­ lombia by the construction of the canal across the isthmus, how long will it be before those weak South American republics will fall into the capacious maw of Great Britain and each in turn become another Egypt? The avidity with which the foreign powers take advantage of a protest to undermine this Western republic may be witnessed in the at­ tempt duri g the war of the rebellion of France, while au empire under the Third Napoleon, to establish an empire in Mexico »nd placc Maxi­ milian on the throne, taking advantage of the then crippled condition of the United States. William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, gave France notice that this Government did not look with favor upon the establishments of an empire in Mexico bv a for­ eign power; the project failed by the defeat of the frog-eaters by the Mexicans, and Maximil­ ian, instead of securing a throne, lost his head. The prompt and energetic policy of Mr. Blaine should be a keynote In this campaign. He gave Great Britain notice, in plain, unvar­ nished United States language, what the policy of this Government would he; it has the Jack- sonian ring about it, and Great Britain clearly under tands it. Is it not, indeed, high time that this Government asserted its manhood and independence from foreign influence, and ceased acting the lickspittle to European monarchs? The South has always truckled to British in­ fluence; the votes of the United States Senate upon the boundary question and the ratifica­ tion of the treaty show that; and at this time the South looks with favor on the canal project as governed by Great Britain, and upon En­ gland obtaining a foothold in Central America, whereby that Government will be put in a posi­ tion to render more practical assistance in the next struggle for a Southern Confederacy; and Great Britain further well understands tliat under a Democratic administration no protest will ever be made against the canal scheme and the occupation and control of the same by the British Government. Washington, in his "Farewell Address," said: "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free reoplo ought to be con­ stantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of r epubllcan government." JOHN HANCOCK. MFC. BLAINE'S CAREER. Where Is 1'liere a Symptom of IISm IMalioncsty as a Pnb> UcMnn? SENATOR GBADY, of New York, a Demo- j crat, declares that the law firm of which j Cleveland ts a member was richer by $250,- 000 immediately after Cleveland vetoed the | five-cent cent fare bill. That veto saved the elevated railway monopoly $1,000,000 a year. GBOVEB CLEVELAND was nominated to please the Republicans, and we imagine j that the Republicans are pretty well pleased. --New York Sun. 1 [Speech of Hon. R. II. Harrison, of Connecticut] The attack upon Mr. Blaine has made an im­ pression among some Republicans, but the re­ cent vindication which has come from Maine has also made an impr- ssjon upon many ot our Democratic friends. There are others of our friends in this city who, although tliey believe not as we do, are worthy of our respect. 1 ad­ mit with them that no corrupt man ought to be elected President of the United States. 1 admit with them that the right to bolt is also theirs. The gentlemen to whom I refer are not the originators of the assault upon Mr. Blaiiie. I shall allude to enemies of Mr. Blaine, but I shall not class these gentlemen among them. I do not flatter myself that anything 1 shall say at this late day will make any great difference with them, and yet there may be among the-e gen­ tlemen of well poised and well-balanced opin­ ions some who may be led to reconsider their determination. » What has been charged against Mr. Blaine? He has been charged with being a corrupt man. Chief among his Hccusersisa man of remark­ able power, Carl Schurz. Mr. Schurz is vastly more effective than those surrounding him. What he has not said against Mr. Blaine cannot be said. Now, what kind of a man is Schurz? He is apt to believe one thing to-day and an­ other thing to-morrow. He was once a Repub­ lican and defended that great soldier. Gen. Grant. Then he deserted to the enemy, to re­ turn again. He has now joined the Democratic party tor the second time. And the tongue which defamed one of the greatest soldiers of the age is now defaming one of the great st statesmen of his time, James G. Blaine. But Mr. Schurz will come round all right, and will again ask tor admission to the Republican party. With regard to a certain ruling of Mr. Blaine, Mr. Schurz claims that it was a prosti­ tution of official power for the purpose of making money. Now. let rs give Mr. Blaine that decent measure of justice which is due to every man when h;s reputation is at stake. Mr. Biaine was offered an interest in a certain rail­ road, a legitimate transaction. Mr. Sohurz re­ fers to Mr. Blaine's letter, in which the writer stated that he should not be a deadhead in the enterprise. What right had Mr. Schurz to charge evil motives to Mr. Blaine? What right has any one to say that when .Tames G. Blaine says that he sees various channels in which he can be useful to the concern, he proposed to use his official patronage to further the enterprise? Mr. Blaiue also exerted himself to raise funds for the railroad company. In this there was not an exercise of official power. He never at­ tempted to use official power in behalf of that enterprise. There was no intimation that Mr. Blaine at­ tempted any assistance to the bill. What right has anvoue to sav that because Mr. Bla'ue made a righteous decision at one time he under­ took to do a righteous thing f' r an unrighteous purpose? No man of ca' dor can accept the in­ terpretation that Mr. Schurz puts upon it. Well, there were a great many Mulli an letters. How many of you have read those letters to see if Mr. Blaine sought to use his influence for an im­ proper purpose? I have read them aga n and again, and I stand here and assert that in all those letters there is not any offer made by Mr. Blaine to misuse his official power for any pur­ pose. There is not in those letters any sugges­ tion of using his ofti ial power for any purpose at all, good, bad or indifferent. I have thus far taken a defensive attitude concerning Mr. Blaine. I now propose to take the ouensive. I now propose to advance to the very center ot the citadel < f Mr. Schurz. I pro­ pose to bring to your attention a s t of facts which are absolutely impossible to contra iict. If I can break down Mr. Schurz's center, we need not be troubled about th-> wings. In tnis line of attack I will not ask any testimony from Mr. Blaine or any friend of Mr. Blaine. 1 pro­ pose to call upon the responsible authors of this accusation--chief among them Carl t-chu- z. Mr. Blaine was in Congress eighteen years, for six years as Speaker. There were during that period pending before Congress corrupt measures of one kind or anothei. Duiiag those eighteen years there was not an hour when Mr. Blaine, had he been inclined to do wronr, would not have been temp ed to do wrong. What was his record during those eighteen years? Mr. Schurs has examined that record. Everything that could be hunted up against Mr. Blaine baa been ferreted out. During ail those eighteen years of Mr. Blaine's service In Congress he gave probably hundreds of votes. Neither Carl Sjhurz nor anyone else has ever dared to charge that Mr. Blaine ever once voted for a bad meas­ ure, or against a "good one. Mr. Schurz, in your great Brooklyn speech, why did yon suppress this great fact' During those eighteen years Mr, Halne made a good many speeches. No one has dared charge that, all those vears, he made a speech in favor of a bad measure, or against a good one. W hy di I Mr. Schurz sup- j press this fao.t? Mr. R'aine was a great pari is- j mentarian. Carl Schurz has not ci arged that j Jam s G. Blaine ever made use of his parlia­ mentary skill to help a bad measure, or hurt a I good one. Mr. Biaine was Speaker of the j House for six years. Neither Cajl Schurz : nor any other enemy of Mr. Blaine has ever j charged that Mr. Blaine ever made a bad rul ng. i They tacitly admit his rulings were pure and right. I say that, as strong as every one of these fact* is when we are considering the pub­ lic life of Mr. Blaine, their strenth as a whole is increased by combination, and the result is ir­ resistible. The result is that the record of James G. Blaine is absolutely without spot, stain, blemish, or shadow. I sav, and I ask any candid man if it is not true, that I have met Mr. Schurz's line of argument at the front, and the accusation is broken down. The smoke and the vile mist with which they have sur­ rounded the true Blaine disappears. And Mr. Blaine comes out in the light of the noonday sun, confronting his enemies with this brilliant record in his hands. And yet, as spotless as has been Mr. Bla'ne's record, how awful has been the attack upon him I He is caricatured and lampooned week after week by that Harper's Weekly which caricatured Abraham Lincoln as a drunkard. Even the reputations of his wife and children have been attacked. All other reforms should wait until there has been a reform iu our sys­ tem of American politics. Unless the American people shall vind catemen of honor thus shame­ fully attacked, every man in public life will flee from positions of trust as from the Destileaoe which walketh at noonday. DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOODS. A Campaign of Lies and Forgeries. fFrom the Chicago Tribune.] The Presidential camprign of 1884, so far as the Democratic side is concerned, will be dis­ tinguished in the future as the campaign of lies and forgeries. Never in the history of party contests in this country has a candidate been assailed with so many deliberate foig ries, so many false accusations, so many baseless cal­ umnies and slanders as Mr. Blaine. From the time he was nominated to the present not a week has passed, and scarcely a day, but Demo­ cratic and mugwump malignity has shown itself in the invention of infamous falsehoods and still more infamous forgeries. The tem­ porary success of the unblushing Morey letter of iKso has apparently in .need the Democratic leaders to adopt forgery as their principal weap­ on of attack. The campaign commenccd with the charge that Mr. Blaine was a Roman Catholic, and this shown to be false they shifted to the other tack, and clamored that he was a ICnow-Noth- ing. '1 hen they charged that he was a drunk­ ard, and this shown to be false they rang the changes on his being a Prohibitionist. Next he was accused of being hostile to the Geftnans, and this being shown to be false they denounced him as hostile to the Irish. After all these ac­ cusations had been proven false, they attacked his private character and insulted his wife and children. This lie was short-lived, however, for he stamped it into the ground instantly and silenced the dastards with a libel-suit. Then the whole pack, hound, mongrel, and cur, pur­ sued him with charges that he h d us d his of­ ficial position tor private gain. Every one of these lies having been nailed to the center, they resorted to forgery and introduced the Motey tactics into the campaign. The mugwumps started the ball by attribut­ ing to Senator Edmunds the statement that Mr. Blaine acts as the attorney tor Jay Gould. Senator Edmunds silenced this forgery with the following card: BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 18. DEAB SIB: I have yours of the lnth. I am sure that I never wrote or said that the gentleman you refer to "acts as the attorney of Jay Gould," for I am not conscious of having thought so. As I have publicly stated, I expect to vote the Republican ticket. Yours truly, GEORUE F. EDMUNDS. The next forgery that was started was a pur­ ported interview with ex-Gov. Carney, of Kan­ sas, published in a lying little sheet ot this city, in whioh Gov. Carney was credited with saying that Mr. Bhtine was a swindler. This forgery was promptly squelched by the lollowing card : LEAVENWORTH, Kan.^Jept. AS, 1881. To the Kansas City Times: I noticed in your issue of the 24th inst. you published a purported interview with me in re­ gard to the Hon. James G. Blaine, which you credited to the Chicago . I now write to say that there is no truth in the story as pub­ lished; no such interview ever occurred with me. I never had any conversation with any parties connected with the Chicago to my knowl­ edge--never said anything cont -ined in said ar­ ticle. The whole story does in iu-nice to me, and is a fraud upon the public. Will you, then, be just enough to give this denial as liberal a cir­ culation as you did the untruthful story, and oblige yours respectfully, THOMAS CARNEY. Forgery No. » first, saw the light in crossing Henry Ward Beecher^i sacred threshold, and was to the effect that Mr. Blaine, while Sp raker of the House, had offeied to apiKiint committees to suit James F. Joy, the prominent railroad man of Michigan, it'he'Joy) would tukj Little Rock bonds o(T his hands. Mr. Joy promptly knocked the life out of tue Beecher canard with the following denial: LONDON, Sept. 30. R. A. Alger, Detroit, Mich.: Blaine never made me any offer to appoint a committee to suit iu any manner or form, or for any consideration of any kind whatever. J. F. Joy. Forgery No. 4 was the publication of a pre­ tended dispatch by Neal Dow to one Wesley, of Portland, Me., in which the former is represent­ ed as saying 10 Wesley in his fe'egiam: "Mr. Blaiue gave us valuable assistance n the Maine election, and he assured me he refrained from voting at the reqdj^t ot prominent Ohio Repub­ licans on account of the bigoted Germans." Promptly comes the exposure of this forgery in the following dispatch to the Philadelphia J'ress: "To the Editor of the Press: . "SIR--I had the same telegram from Colum­ bus, Ohio. The letter is a forgery and a base fraud. NEAX, DOW. "Portland, Me., Sept. 30." The la^st lie set on its travels is a statement that Mr. Blaine was a stockholder and an or­ ganizer of the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company, which has had u good deal of trouble this summer with the striking miners. This lie is exploded by the following: COM MBUK, O., Oct 1. S. E. Bliss, No. 89 Lake street: You can say that Mr. Blaine has not now and never did have one dollar invested directly or indirectly in the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company.. \V ALTER CRAFTS. Vice President. There is no limit to the area of these lies and forgeries. Another favorite form of forgery is to attribute sentiments to Republican newspa­ pers and publish alleged extracts from them which have never appeared. An instance of this is the cicculation in New York of a senseless and brutal attack upon the Irish, alleged to have been taken from the Chicago Tribune, which we have already exposed as an infamous forgery and silly Democratic lie. Thus one be and for­ gery follow another. No sooner is one knocked ou the head than another is set afloat. The ; vour part in tiie solution of the industrial and Democratic managers must take the American ' '• - - -- people for gulls and fools, and fancy they can trade upon their ignorance. They will find their mistake in November. THE INDEPENDENTS FLAYED. Gov. Robinson Shows (IP Their Inconsist­ ent Attitude, rSpeech at the Boston Norfolk Club.l It is every man's right to think as he will, and it is his right to vote as he will, but it is his duty, moreover, to vote as his jud.inent dictates; and, if he does that, whether with one or with 1,IM)0, or with 1,000.000 others, he is as independ­ ent as the man who votes alone in the opposite way. [Laughter and applause.) An Independ­ ent, so called, is not alone entitled to that name because he is nn eccentric ty. [Renewed laughter.] There may be ldO inde endent men in thought and action who never advertise from their front doors that they belong to that set. The Democrats by thousands are going to be just as indtpendt nt as th se others when they vote for James G. Bl. ine. Walking on the street the other day I saw the stars and stri es flying in the breeze, and saw the words "Inde­ pendent and Republican Headquarters ' at one end of the flag, and below "Cleveland and Hendricks." For a moment I stood dazed, and asked myself the question, What did it n.ean-- "did independent apply to Cleveland?" He says he is a Democrat of Democrats. Did Inde­ pendent apply to Hendricks? [laughter.] No one, gentlemen, but George William Cnrtis, eight years ago, could answer this. !Loud laughter and applause.J Does Republican be­ long to Mr. Hen jricks? How did they come to put "Independent" and "Republican" w ith Hend­ ricks? There never was in the I'nited States such a contradiction as is put on the two ends of that flag. [Gr at applause ] Independent and Republican proposing to sui port Mr. Hend­ ricks! Why, there is not any m u who casts a vote for Cleveland but also votes for Hendiieks. He was against everything tint was for the good of the country--lor separation, for slavery, and against the reconstruction of the Union. He was an enemy to eveiything that Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson gave th> mselves for. and he is supported by Independents and Re­ publicans in Massachusetts. [Laughter.] He knew whom Massachusetts supported when he was not onlv thwarting Gov. Morton in the time of the war, but trying to | revent the success of Gov. John A. Andrew. [Cheers.] Is it not t me for some one t > speak about Andrew, and say there ought to be no Independent and Repub­ lican support of Hendricks? GROVER CLEVELAND entreated his friends at Columbus to ignore "irrelevant issues." These are a few "irrelevant issues": 1. The tariff. 2. Civil-service reform. 3. Cleveland's monopoly reoooft* 4. Polygamy. 5. Maria Hal pin. 6. Oscar Folsom Cleveland. Remarks of Hon. Jamts G. Biaift* at Bellaire, (Kite. The qnestion ot a tariff for protection H pri­ marily of interest to the laboring man. The original material that enters into any fahrte constitutes a very small element in the cost el! that fabric. If you take a steamship that costs $500,000 whn she is launched, the material fo her costs $3,000, the labor $193,0-10. IT yon take a ton of pig Iron that sella in your market to­ day for $2u the material that toes Into it does not cost originally over f> cents; t 9.10 is labor. 1 ment on these facta, which might be varied in­ definitely, for illustration in many departments; to show that if a tariff for protection la primarily or especially of Interest to any one. it is to the laboring man (cries of "You're right"), and if the laboring man will not protect himself wi h his vote, how can he ask others to do it. [Cries of "That's • so," and cheers. 1 The effect of a tariff for protection is not a question of speculation. It is a qnes­ tion of fact, a question on which you can appeal to figures. You are citizens of the State of Ohio. You have a new city which has grown up here within the last fifteen yean. Ton are one oi the evidences of the great growth of the State. Ohio is the third State in the Union in population and in wealth, and I have had oc­ casion to say at other meetings to-day what I now say to you and what I beg to impress upon your minds I want you to take two epochs in the history of Ohio. Take first the year i860. Your State was then about sixty years old. It was seventy-three years then from the time Ohio was organized ; s a part of the Northwest Territory. In those seventy-three years of Terri­ torial and State existence the citizens of Ohio have accumulated wealth to the amount ot $1,- 100,000,000. The I'nited States c nsus of 1880 shows that the total wealth of Ohio was then a little over eleven hundred millions, a very large sum of money. In lwu the industrial and finan­ cial policy of the I nited states was changed by Khe incoming of the Republican partv, and in Txmsequence of that change a protective tariff was enacted, which has been ever since lu force. In lfW>, twenty years after the cen us of which I have just spoken, another census was taken, and it was found that in those • wenty yeaisthe aggregate wealth of the State of Ohio had increas­ ed from ti.Hx'.ev ',' 0 > to $3t »o ,0"0,'0o. You added to your wealth in those twenty yean double as much as had been created in the sev­ enty-three preceding. You had added upon an average of $100,0(>0,000 per year to the permanent capitalized wealth of your State [anplauseh and that was done largely by virtue of and In pursuance of the effect of the protective tariff upon the labor and the industries of your State. [Renewed applause.] Do you want that to con­ tinue.' [( lies of "Yes. yes."] Do you want to have any experiments tried upon it? ["No, no."] Do you want Congress to be convulsed with the question so as to unsettle values and check en­ terprise and frighten capital, and generally, to produce a condition of uncertainty throughout all the financial and business interests of the United States? ["No, no, no."J Why? Look at what has been the effect simply of the Morrison tariff bill. They did not get it through the House of Representatives even, bnt they kept the country in turmoil and agitation, and thus effected injuries to the interests of every labor­ ing man and every capitalist in the United States. ["That's true! That s true!"] Do you want to organize, not merely a change in the tariff, for that might be done, but do you want to organize a perpetual Congressional agitation of that question? i"Nd!" "No!"] it you do not, the matter is in your own hands. [Great cheer­ ing.} Ohio has the power to command that it shall not be. You have the power to join in that command, and the opportunity will lie given you on the 14th day of Oct. through yonr indi­ vidual ballots. [Prolonged cheering.] Mr. Blaine'a Speech at Grafton, W. Va. As your distinguished Chairman has Intimat­ ed, I am not a stranger to your State. I have known it personally for more than forty years, and 1 have known this s xtion of it well. I was born ou the banks ot yonder river, a few miles below the point where it enters Pennsylvania, and you do not need to be told by me that there was always unity of teebng among the inhab­ itants of the Monongahela Valley. But I do not see before me the \\ est \ irginia which I knew in my boyhood. The West Virg nia of forty years ago was comparatively a wilderness; the' West Virginia of to-dav is a prosperous indus­ trial center in the United States. West Virginia, as an independent commonwealth, began her existence during the civil war, and at that day the most liberal estimate of total property, ac­ cording to the United States census, did not exceed $100,000,000. in 1870 the census gave you an aggregate ot and in 18S0 it showed that you poss ssed capitalized wealth to the amount of I5i5o,oeo,ooo. From the close of the war to the year l«80 West, Virginia had, therefore, gained in wealth the enor­ mous sum oi $'iM),noo,ooo. Yon have fared pretty well, therefore, under Republican ad­ ministration. Probably some political oppo­ nent does me the honor to listen to me, and 1 would ask him, as a candid man, what agency was it that nerved the arm of inuustry to smite the mountains and create this wealth in Virginia? it was the pro­ tective tariff and financial system that gave vou good money. Before the war you never had circulating in your m .dst a l ank bill that would pass current 5(KI miles from HI me; yon do hot to-day have a single piece of paper money cir­ culating in West Virginia that is not good all around the globe; not a t ill that will not pass as certainly in the money markets of Europe as in New York or Baltimore, so that the man who works for a day's wages knows, when Saturday night comes, that he is to be paid in good money. Under the protective tariff your coal industries and your iron industries and the wealth of your forests have been brought out, and it is for you, voters of West Virginia, to say whether you want this to continue or whether you want to try free trade. I make bold to say, with all respect, that there is not a Democratic statesman on the stump in W e t Virginia conspicuous enough to be known to the nation (I speak only of those I know) who advocates a protective tariff; not one. I go lurther. I do not know a Demo­ cratic statesman who will not acknowledge that a taritf for protection is constitutional, and, therefore, as nonest men, they are bound to approve it. The Morrison taritf bill would have struck at the interests of West Virginia in many vital respects, and It is an amazing fact that Representatives in Congress from West Virginia voted for that bill. '1 here is a good old adage which I beg to recall to your minds, that God helps those who help themselves, and If West Virginia is not willing to sustain a pro­ tective taritf by her vote and her influence she must not eNpect it to i>e sustained for her by others. If she wants the benefit of a protective taritf she must give to a protective tariff the benefit of her support. I inn glad that lam addressing a Southern people, a community that were slave-holders, a c mmunity made np of those who were masters and tlio e who were slaves. But I am addressing a slave Stat« no ion. er. 1 am appealing to the new South, and I am appealing to West Virginia not- to vote upon atiaditionor a prejudice, not to keep her eyes to the rear, but to look to the front and to the future. And if 1 could lie he rd I would make the same appeal to other Southern Stat »s-- to old Virginia, to North Carolina, to Georgia, to Alabati.a, to Tennessee, and to Louisiana. They are all interested in a protective taritf, and the question is, which do they prefer, to gratify a prejudice or to promote general prosperity? West Virginia can lead the way. She cau break this seemingly impregnable barrier ot the solid South. Solid onaphat? So id on a prejudice; solid on a trad it (In; solid upon doctrines that separate the ditlerent portions of the Union. Wfereas 1 invite you to join in a union not merely in form, but a union in fact, and take idustrial and financial problems of the time. If West Vir­ ginia takes that course on Oct. 14 she will do much to settle the controversies that now agi­ tate us. The repeal of the pro ective tariff, ac­ cording to the terms of the Morrison bill, would cost West Virginia a vast sum of mouey. Be­ tween 1*70 and bS-^o you gained iu this State $1(10.ooo.eon; be ween ls»o and 1890 you will gain much more with a tariff lor protection; but I ask any business man if lie believes you can do it with free trade. Here I clo e my words of counsel, leaving the action to you. I leave you. not as a community influenced bv sectional feeling, but as a community broadly nat onaL I leave you as a State all.ed on the one side to Pennsylvania, and on the other to Ohio, as much as you are to Virginia and Kentucky. 1 leave you as a State that stands in 'he van of the new South, inviting the who e South to jo'n in a grea national movement which shall in fact and in feeling, as well as in form, make us a people with one Union, one Constitution, and one destiny. How He Voted. We give below a few specimens of the way Mr. Hendricks voted while he was a member of OoB- gres-i and Seuator: He voted to give away nearly one hundred milliou acres of the public lands. He voted in favor of requiring a property qualification for voters. He voted iu favor of the repeal ot the Missouri compromise. He voted against the internal revenue bill in­ tended to raise the money necessary to prose cute the war. He voted against the tariff bill, which had the same object. He voted aga-nst the draft law, necessary to pro nre troops for the held. He voUd against the repeal of the fugitive slare law. He voted against emancipation. He voted against giv.ng colored troops the same pay as white. He voted against allowing the colored people to ride iu the street ears. Ho v ted against paying mechanics full wafte for eight hoars' labor.--iHUUmapotis ft me*. The Irish Asserting Their Independence [Hon. John F. Finertv. in Chicago TribunsJ J don't know any obligation that mv rac? is under to any party In the- country, that it shoolt slir nk from declaring its t ret teaoe for the Presidential candidate it deems most worthy- The Democratic narty, rep re ented by the ma­ chine tyrants, cannot give u • its habit of datia- II g human property. It has successfully bull­ dozed one class of voters in the Booth.but it (Ml not play the same brutal game with anothei class at the North. The irlsh-Americaa #lswsnt can not b* intimidated by tool abusa. It is called upon to resent the msult offered it • the nomination ot Mr. Cleveland,and it J~ yet, when fully aroused as it is to-day, an msuit to go unavetige 1. !.aet year _ Cleveland's man, Maynard. thtt naafW in New York. This year it wlll_ chaptl master even worse tiuta u uiu itb li w 1 - /J "»rj •iV| - sa V,if| ' * > ( iSslS • :W:M ip- J "fi 4 1 ' ' , •*, «' c, ,