BLAME REPUDIATED
By
the Leading Republican
of Wisconsin.
x-Conffressntan Pound's Reasons
- Why u Ilepuhliran Cannot Sun
port the Jlulligan States
man Cleveland Hearti
ly Endorsed,
(JfilwaukM Special to tht Xew Tort Tirrui)
A letter from ex-Congressman Pound,
of Chippewa Falls, in -which the writer
says he will oppose Mr. Blaine and sup
port Governor Cleveland for the presi
dency, was made public here to-day.
Mr. Pound is perhaps the most distin
guished Republican in "Wisconsin, and
his opposition to Mr. Blaine will cause a
profound sensation throughout the
Northwest. He has for years been an
unwavering leader in the Republican
party, always supporting the entire ticket,
and has been very prominent in its coun
cils for twenty years; Ho was a leading
member of the State legislature in 1864
1866. 1867 and 1869. He was elected
lieutenant-governor in 1869, and was in
1876 elected to Congress from the Eighth
district, then embracing more than hal
the area of Wisconsin. He served three
terms in Congress, taking a prominent
part. He was chairman of the commit
tee on public lands in the Forty-seventh
Congress. At the end of his third term
he voluntarily retired from public life ' j
devote himself to private enterprise. His
repudiation of Mr. Blaine proceeds from
no personal grievance or disappointment,
but from a firm conviction that the Re
publican nominee is not the man for the
place. Mr. Pound has thousands of
friends in Wisconsin. He was a close
friend of Garfield, and was strongly urged
for a cabinet position. Following is Mr.
Pound's letter:
Gen. E. D. Bryant, 2Ivlhon: .
My Dear Sir : Your favor of the 23d
inst., asking an expression of my views of
the political situation is received. So
many friends of varied political bias have
addressed me in person and by letter
touching my attitude on the presidential
question that I am constrained to make a
pretty full response to your kind inquiry,
with permission to publish the same if
you deem it wise to do so.
After much earnest and solicitous de
liberation I deem it my duty, while
abating naught of loyalty to the Repub
lican party, but rather to 'promote its
true purpose and strengthen it for future
good work, to support the Democratic
nominee, Governor Cleveland, for Presi
dent at the approaching election. My
judgment disagrees with, and my con
science rebels against, the action of the
Republican convention in the nomination
of Mr. Blaine, and without arrogating for
myself wisdom superior to a majority of
representative Republicans convened to
voice the determination of my party, I
am compelled to obey my own best judg
ment and sense of duty in this single and
extraordinary instance. Being a life-long
Republican and the recipient of many
distinguished honors, State and national,
it is due my political associates, so often
my cordial supporters, and myself that
the reasons for departure from conven
tional co-operation be frankly stated.
No one will deny that the essential
worth, if not the perpetuity of the re
public, depends upon the maintenance
of political and personal integrity
as well as prudence and justice in its
legislative, judicial and administrative
branches. It is true that detection and
correction of crookedness and infidelity in
the executive branch of our government
are most difficult, while long uninter
rupted control is certain to invite abuse
of power and opportunity. The Repub
lican party has enjoyed nearly twenty
four years of- continuous administrative
authority, and while its history is re
splendent with glorious achievements
and hallowed by memories of unrivaled
statesmanship, patriotism and prowess,
there have crept into its human machin
ery many grievous abuses and ailments,
demanding correction and cure, which
may or may not be accomplished by the
party in which they are engendered.
Happily the work of purification and re
form has been progressing most satis
factorily within our party under the pres
ent chief magistrate, and with such emi
nent success as to command the unexam
pled approval of the press, the people,
and our party, expressed through State
conventions and by the Republican na
tional convention in the extraordinary
declaration that "we believe his emi
nent services are entitled to and will
receive the hearty approval of every citi
zen." "What, then, does the party owe
the country and itself? Manifestly, the
continuance of the faithful servant.
Common honesty and a decent recogni
tion of fidelity demand it. Little short
of hypocrisy would denv it. But being
denied, the alternate should be a man
whole public life is a guarantee that the
wood work will go on. He should be
the highest and best type of political in
tegrity, statesmanship, and Republican
principles.
Mr. Blaine is not such a man, but, in
my opinion, embodies most in American
politics that is menacing to public mor
als and integrity in government. "With
a long public career, mainly distin
guished for a sort of declamatory and
pugilistic statecraft, he is not the inspi
ration of a single valuable policy or the
author of an important statute, but, on
the contrary, has often suggested and
supported unwise and bad and opposed
good legislation. "With a record clouded
ly suspicion and accusation of Jobbery
and corruption undefended, he brings to
us personal antagonisms which have torn
and weakened our party in the past, in
vading the administration of the late la
mented Garfield with demands of per
sonal vengeance so virulent as to inflame
the spirit of assassination and culmi
nating in" the defeat of Judge Folger and
consequent election of Grover Cleveland
Governor of the Empire State. Mr.
Blaine's friends justified their defection,
which defeated a most excellent man, by
the plea of fraud in one proxy at the
State convention. Such excuse pales to
whiteness when compared with the dis
honorable methods employed to secure
Mr. Blaine's nomination. Here many
delegates were treated as merchandise,
to be bartered for wine, money, or
promise of position. The convention,
instead of being a deliberative body, was
converted into a howling pandemonium,
overflowed by the worst elements of
Chicago, admitted without tickets.
But returning to the candidate. The
acknowledged leader of his party at
home (the Pine Tree Prohibition Statb of
Maine), he registers an ignominious de
feat for his State only four years ago,
Sending the presidential campaign, so
isheartening to our party's cause that
only the timely and stalwart efforts of
Grant and Conklingr could have redeemed
the field and secured Garfield's election
a work soon rewarded by the gallant
knight when opportunity (as Garfield's
adviser) was given him by dealing a
cowardly blow from ambush to his old
antagonist, Roscoe Conkling. Himself
a speculator, enjoying a fortune too
great to have . been acquired by honest
industry, legitimate business enterprise,
or his country's service at $5,000 a year,
he sympathizes with and profits by spec
ulative stock-jobbing and gambling
methods of acquiring wealth methods
which have wrought ruin, disgrace and
business disaster beyond computation,
schooled youth and persuaded middle
age to avoid honest and useful industry,
made suicide and insanity commonplace,
unsettled values, placed the fruits of
honest toil in the power ot the Goulds
and Armours to bear down or bull tip
in the markets as whim or interest may
dictate ; methods which recently gave us
but an exaggerated illustration of their
iniquitous consequences in the Grant &
Ward fifteen-million-dollar failure and
robbery.
Reference to Blaine's congressional re
cord relating to subsidies, class legisla-!
tion, corporate exactions, etc., will
readily satisfy the honest inquirer of his
uniform support of monopolies and indif
ference to the common weal. Little
wonder that he omits in his letter to.re-1
fer to or explain the cause of the great,
disparity in the distribution of this mar
velous increase of wealth accumulated
during the period he chooses for compar
ison ; that he fails to note the fact that
the one three-hundredth part of the $44,
000,000,000 is held by one man, while
others rank little below, and his own pa
latial residence, commanding a rental of
SI 1,000 a year, suggesting more than an
average per capita of wealth. Little
wonder that he is silent on the subject of
inter-State commerce, the regulation of
which is demanded by all producers and
legitimate traders. Great corporate in
terests command non-interference. It
was a lame defense of his devotion to im
proved civil service to cite the fact that
during a prolonged public service he only
advised the removal of "four persons."
The expert observer will conclude that
the true betterment of the service de
manded the removal of ten times four..
He should have emphasized his position
by noting the fidelity with which a horde
of relatives have been constantly fed at
the public crib, notably the favorite
brother Bob, drawing pay for another's
service. Nor will the citation of his pa
cific assurances to Mexico quite cover up
his South American policy and interfer
ence to protect the ' Landrau guano
scheme. The death of his servant, Hurl
but, whom he feigned to rebuke, may
serve to partially conceal the true in
wardness of this affair, as did his garbled
rendering of the Mulligan letters first
mislead many charitable people touching
the Little Rock bond job.
The disingenuousness of his letter of
acceptance is further betrayed by its sig
nificant silence touching the events of
the past three years. Bringing down his
historic figures to the present would have
revealed the fiction involved in his
statements ; would have shown a marvel
ous shrinkage in nominal values; would
have noted the downfall of business
prosperity and business morals, and
would have pictured as few can do so
graphically as he the furnace fires dying
out, he wheels of factories standing
still, wages reduced, beggary usurping
the place of labor, bank and business
failures, creditors and depositors wanton
ly defrauded, homes lost and crooked
ness in public affairs. Mr. Blaine is ob
jectionable furthermore for the company
he keeps, for the friends he has made.
Will the chief promoters of his nomina
tion be his chief advisors if electedl
There's the rub. I need mention no
names, but will suggest that the least ob
jectionable of his pet supporters are the
Tribune't supporters of Greely in 1872
and accusers of Blaine in 1876 and 1880,
charging him with bribery and other
' penitentiary crimes.
I With no pronounced issues between
the two great parties, we can safely af
ford to yield temporary executive con
trol at this time to an honest man, though
he be a Democrat. And if grave ques
tions of public policy were at issue, they
cannot be determined by the Executive.
This is the prerogative of Congress, the
lawmaking branch, heretofore for a time
and now under Democratic control. It
is vastly more important to good gov
ernment that the Republican party be
restored to supremacy in Congress than
that the administration of law be in
trusted to an unworthy partisan sur
rounded by bad counsel. While Mr.
Blaine i3 known to be unworthy, Gov
ernor Cleveland has demonstrated his
fitness and worthiness for the position
by his fidelity, ability, and integrity in
the discharge of his executive duties
as mayor of Buffalo and governor of the
great State of New York, and in my
opinion a very large majority of intelli
gent and unprejudiced voters believe he
6hould be elected. If one-half of the
Republican voters who agree to this
opinion have the courage of their con
victions and vote conscientiously he will
be triumphantly elected. The scandals
affecting the domestic lives of all can
didates should be committed to the pol
itical ghouls and hyenas.
While it is my fixed, purpose to sup-'
port Cleveland and Hendricks, it is no
less my determination to support all fit
and worthy nominees of the Republican
party for ctounty, State and congress
ional positions. Regretting and depre
cating the conditions which compel
what will be denominated a bolt, I re
main, very truly,
Thad. C. Pound.
The Landmarks of the Campaign.
The landmarks by which the Democrat
ic party was guided in safety through rock
and shallows and false currents to the
excellent nomination of Grover Cleve
land were :
Clean government against corrupt
government.
Rebuke of a shamelessly brazen and
scandalous Republican nomination.
The public necessity of driving ras
cals from power.
The vindication of the people's right
to inaugurate the President they elect.
These landmarks stand out to-day on
elevated ground as distinctly and clearly
as they did before the Chicago Demo
cratic convention. It is necessary that
the people should keep their eyes stead
ily fixed upon them if they desire to se
cure for the country the benefits of the
wise and patriotic action of the Demo
cratic convention.
The Blaine managers are making des
perate efforts to divert public attention
from these landmarks. They are resort
ing to every conceivable device to turn
the canvass from the straight course of
Aministrative reform. They are befoul
ing the campaign with vulgar, disgust
ing personal slanders; nosing into the
early private life of a candidate who has
been honored time and again by his fellow-townsman,
and made governor of the
great State of New York by an unpre
cedented majority. They are charging
a party embracing a large majority ol
the bona-fide voters of the United States
with all the crimes on the calendar, from
forgery down to the mutilation of a
child's grave. Hopeless of finding a
single assailable spot in the Democratic
candidate's invulnerable armor of integ
rity, they coin the most foolish false
hoods about his acts and his motives. In
their despair they dig up all sorts of ex
ploded electioneering canards of the
past and seek to revive them for use in
he present campaign.
The Democrats nominated and the
people will support Grover Cleveland,
Decause ne is an earnest, fearless re
2rmer, who, as President of the United
States, will purify the administration of
the government, enforce economy in the
departments, put a stop to official cor
ruption, and appoint only men of honor
and integrity to public positions.
The Democrats nominated and the
people will support Grover Cleveland be
cause his simple honesty stands out in
marked contrast with the crooked ways
and shameless corruptions of Blaine, the
disgraced ex-Speaker of Congress, who
saved himself from expulsion first by
shamming a sunstroke and next by
taking refuge in the Senate while under
fire in the House.
The Democrats nominated and the
people will support Grover Cleveland be
cause they recognize the necessity of
turning out the rascals who have been
lunningriot in Washington ever since
Grant was made President.
The people ought to take care that
Grover Cleveland is elected by a major
ity large enough to check any attempt at
fraud which would seriously risk the
peace of the country, and emphatic
enough to rebuke the theft of the presi
dency in 1876 and its purchase by
" soap " in 1880.
Every Democrat and every honest man
should steadily keep the landmarks of
the campaign in view. When people
read about the Butler burlesque, the
Morey letter, the Augusta tombstone, the
cipher dispatches and other important
matters, including lying personal slan
ders, let them remember their mission is
to drive a dishonest and dangerous party
from power, to re-establish simplicity
and honesty in the national government,
to bring public robbers to justice and to
ave the nation from the dishonest hands
of Blaine and his disreputable star-route
upporters.
Turn the rascals out! New Tori
Torld.
Worklagmen for Cleveland.
A delegation of workingmen, com
posed of H. A. Thompson, president of
the New York Car Drivers' Union; J. J.
Cavanagh, president of the Engineers'
Union; B. 31. Abell, president of the
Brass Workers' Union; A. A. Cartey,
president, and R. O. Ferrier, secretary
of the Independent Labor party, called
on the National Democratic committee
in New York a few days ago and pre
sented the following statement in answer
to the assertions made by General Bu,tler
in his letter of acceptance :
"We desire to correct the statement
made by General Butler in his letter of
acceptance that the National Democratic
convention at Chicago refused to insert
in their platform a single demand of the
workingmen in a plank in the interest of
I labor. It may be true that the commit
1 tee on resolutions refused to be governed
to carry out the pledges made in tHB
platform of 1882, but the opposite is the
case, for every measure demanded by the
workingmen has been granted, despite
the active and earnest opposition of the'
Republican legislature of this State, and
that by and through hi3 efforts more ha
been granted to the workingmen iu the
way of practical legislation and more hai
been accomplished for his benefit than
has been done by all the labor unions oi
political parties of these United Statei
from the Declaration of Independence
until this day.
"Every measure asked for by the Anti
Monopoly League and the Labor party of
this State, as inserted in the Democratic
platform in 1882, has been granted, and
Grover Cleveland and the Democratic
party of this State can honestly claim the
merit of inaugurating all the measures
that have been taken up by other State
legislatures, and passed to the great ben
efit of the working classes and incorpor
ated in the national platforms of the
Democratic and Republican parties. As
for the great outcry made over the vetoes
of the Five Cent Fare bill, the Mechan-'
or dictated to by General Butler, but it
is not true that they refused to listen to
or grant the requests of the workingmen,
for the committee on resolutions granted
a hearing to three different committees of
workingmen one from the National
Labor party, another from the Federated
Trades Unions and a third committee oi
New York workingmen. The committed
on resolutions listened to their argu
ments, and inserted in the Democratic
platform every measure demanded . by
those bona fide representatives of labor.
"We also'wish to correct the misstate
ment that Governor Cleveland has failed
ic's Lien bill and the Car Drivers' bill, it
is sufficient to say that not one of those
bills were prepared or presented to the
legislature by a workingman or by a la
bor organization, but were measures by
and in the interests of middlemen and
speculators and for the benefit of the
wealthy, and were not asked for or de
sired by the working classes."
Henry Ward Beecher's Position
General Horatio C. King has had an
other interview with Henry Ward
Beecher, in which the latter expressed
the opinion that neither Ball, Mitchell,
nor any of the clergymen who made the
original attack upon Governor Cleveland
had furnished any facts in support of
their charges. He regarded the assault
on the governor as one of the meanest
and most dastardly things that had hap
pened in his remembrance. He author
ized General King to say further for him
"I have nothing more to say at pres
ent, but what can be put in a few lines,
and that is that I have listened to these
stories of Governor Cleveland about what
he did when he was a good deal younger
than he is to-day, and all the gross ex-,
aggerations that have been made by hit
enemies since that time, and the state
ments of gentlemen with whom I am ac
quainted and whose character I well
know satisfy my mind that the governor
had been subjected to gross and outrasee.
ous misrepresentation, such as could hav
never taken place except in the heat o
a political campaign. While I f orebore
and waited until I had adequate light
I am satisfied now that Cleveland is the
proper man for President of the United
States, and that as against Mr. Blaine's
public and political conduct, Cleveland
is as an angel of light. How any man can
vote for Blaine and feel a conscientious
scruple about voting for Cleveland on,
the ground of morality surpasses my con
ception, for I regard Blaine as one of the,
most corrupt men in pecuniary affair
that we ever had in our government
I have no hesitation in telling my opinios"
in regard to the candidates."
How Aslor Became Rich.
A recent writer, speaking of the late
John Jacob Astor, thus speaks of the
mode by which he acquired his great
wealth: It was neither furs nor teas
that gave him twenty million dollars.
When he arrived in New York it con
tained only twenty-five thousand inhabi
tants. In 1809, when he had begun to
have money to invest, the city had be
gun to double in population, and had
advanced nearly a mile up the island.
Astor foresaw the future growth, and
bought all the lands and lots just beyond
the verge of the city that he could get.
One little anecdote will show the wisdom
of this proceeding. He sold a lot in the
vicinity of Wall street in 1810 for eight
thousand dollars, which was supposed to
be somewhat under its value. The pur
chaser, after the papers were signed,
seemed to chuckle over his bargain.
" Why, Mr. Astor," said he, " this lot
will be worth twelve thousand dollars."
" Very true," replied Mr. Astor, " but
now you shall see what I shall do with
this money. With eight thousand dol
lars I will buy eighty lots above Canal
street. By the time your lot is worth
twelve thousand dollars my eighty lotg
will be worth eighty thousand dollars."
Which proved to be the fact. In the
course of time the island was dotted all
over with Astor lands to such an extent
that the whole income from his estate
for fifty years could be invested in new
houses, without buying any more land.
Peter Henderson says that he has sold
600 worth of early cabbages from a sin
gle crop on one acre of land; that he
followed it with a crop of lettuce which
brought $140, and the lettuce with cel
ery, which sold for
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
A. Word to Delicate People
Without being actual dyspeptics, &
great many people suffer from what is
termed weak indigestion. The symp-,
toms of such a condition of stomach
and intestines are only too well known;1
the feeling of uneasiness after eating,;
with probably some degree of distention
and flatulence, acid eructations, consti
pation or the reverse, or the one state
alternating with another, discomforting
or alarmrng sensations about the region
of the heart, swimming in the head,
noise in the ears, sleeplessness or non
refreshing slumber, or occasional head
aches, general ennui and weariness, and
lastly, nervous symptoms of any or all'
kinds, not the least distressing of which
may be some of the many phobias that
afflict people with weak digestions, from
cardiphobia to hydrophobia. I have had
patients who 'no amount of reasoning
would convince that they were not suf
fering from heart-disease; others who
suffered they said from incipient soft
ening of the brain ; some who had no
lungs ; others minus liver.
"I don't believe," a patient told me
only the day before yesterday, "that I
have an ounce of liver left."
Well, such people, at all events, have
my sincere sympathy, and my advice to
them in the matter of diet is somewhat
as follows :
Eat moderately : on no account take
what may be called a full meal. Tako
iooa wnenever nungry; lor instance,
have breakfast immediately after getting
up, merely going out of doors for five
minutes previously. If hungry about 12,
have a cup of cocoatina; dine at 2 o'clock
off a tender joint, or steak, or chop,
with potatoes sparingly and greens, m
little soup, and tapioca or rice pudding.
No pastry, or sweets, or cheese. Take no
fluid until you have nearly finished the
solids. Vary the food every day. Fish
only if quite digestible, which it often
times is not ; no veal or pork, but mut
ton, beef, game and fowl. . Fruit before
breakfast, but not after dinner. Har
per's Bazar.
Food for the Sick.
Hygiene and food these two are the
materia medica and the therapeutics.
Let us be brief. In the diarrhoea of in
fants and children, do not forget that
glycerine, extract of malt and pepsin
cure when other things must fail. Seven
cases of summer complaint that became
chronic on our hands and which had
beat us from every quarter. We renewed
the fight by ordering extract of malt two
parts, pure glycerine one part, table
spoonful every four hours. The change
was something wonderful. Digestion
was re-established. Malt helps the gly
cogenic function of the liver; glycerine
is force like the combustion of oil and
alcohol. In a case of chronic diarrhoea
in a lady who has been bedfast for a year
how emaciated I tongue red and beefy,
skin like the waxy hue of diabetes we
ordered twenty grains of pepsin to be
added to a pint of new milk, set away in
a warm place. In an hour or two coagula
tion commences. Beat up with an egg
beater, then set away in a warm place for
four hours, so that the pepsin may con
vert the albumonoids jnto peptones. One
ounce of this added to two ounces of
other milk and drank; repeat every two
hours. This with malt, a teaspoonful
three times day, and plenty of barley
water, oatmeal water, and the pap made
from the lump, obtained from boiling
four hours three or four teaspoonfuls ol
flour snugly tied up in a bundle. Grate
the lump and boil into pap with skim
milk. When cool enough to be swal
lowed add a teaspoonful of malt to a
half cup of the pap. This treatment,
without any medicine, cured this desper
ate case. You may treat cases of chronic
syphilis in the 6ame way. Cod oil comes
in well in many of these cases of chronio
disease, along with malt and pepitized
milk. We make a pancreatic emulsion
from the fresh gland with water, glycer
ine, and bicarbonate of soda. Typhoid
and pneumonia patients have been
treated in the same way with great ' suc
cess. Health and Home.
Hot Years.
In 1302 and 1304, according to a
French periodical, the Rhine, Loire and
Seine ran dry. In 1615 the heat through,
out Europe became excessive. Scotland
suffered particularly in 1625; men and
beasts died in scores. The heat in sev
eral departments during the summer of
1705 was equal to that in a glass furnace.
Meat could be cooked by merely expos
ing it to the sun. Not a soul dare ven
ture out between noon and 4 p. m. In
1718 many shops had to close; the
theaters never opened their doors for
'several months. Not a drop of water
fell for six months. In 1773 the ther
mometer rose to 118 degrees. In 1779
the heat at Bologna was so great that a
great number of people were stifled.
There was not sufficient air for the
breath, aud people had to take refuge
under ground. In July, 1783, the heat
became intolerable. Vegetables were
burned up and fruit dried upon the
trees. The furniture and woodwork in
dwelling-houses cracked and split open;
meat went bad in an hour. The rivers
ran dry in several provinces during 1811 ;
expedients had to be devised for the
grinding of corn. In 1822 a protracted
heat was accompanied by storms and
earthquakes; during the drought legions
of mice overran Lorraine and Alsace,
committing incalculable damage. In
1832 the heat brought about cholera in
France; 20,000 persons fell victims to
the visitation in. Paris alone. In 1846
the thermometer marked 125 degrees in
the sun.
A cave exceeding in extent the Mam
moth Cave of Kentucky has been dis
covered at Bustamente, in Mexico. It
has been explored for a distance of nearly
four miles, and bears traces of Aztec
ruins.