y?

_Answer_. The business interests will take care of themselves.
A dollar has the instinct of self-preservation largely developed.
The tariff will take care of itself. No State is absolutely for
free trade. In each State there is an exception. The exceptions
will combine, as they always have. Michigan will help Pennsylvania
take care of iron, if Pennsylvania will help Michigan take care of
salt and lumber. Louisiana will help Pennsylvania and Michigan if
they help her take care of sugar. Colorado, California and Ohio
will help the other States if they will help them about wool--and
so I might make a tour of the States, ending with Vermont and maple
sugar. I do not expect that Cleveland will do any great harm.
The Democrats want to stay in power, and that desire will give
security for good behavior.

_Question_. Will he listen to or grant any demands made of him by
the alleged Independent Republicans of New York, either in his
appointments or policies?

_Answer_. Of this I know nothing. The Independents--from what I
know of them--will be too modest to claim credit or to ask office.
They were actuated by pure principle. They did what they did to
purify the party, so that they could stay in it. Now that it has
been purified they will remain, and hate the Democratic party as
badly as ever. I hardly think that Cleveland would insult their
motives by offering loaves and fishes. All they desire is the
approval of their own consciences.

--_The Commonwealth_, Topeka, Kansas, November 21, 1884.

BLAINE'S DEFEAT.

_Question_. How do you account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine?

_Answer_. How do I account for the defeat of Mr. Blaine? I will
answer: St. John, the Independents, Burchard, Butler and Cleveland
did it. The truth is that during the war a majority of the people,
counting those in the South, were opposed to putting down the
Rebellion by force. It is also true that when the Proclamation of
Emancipation was issued a majority of the people, counting the
whole country, were opposed to it, and it is also true that when
the colored people were made citizens a majority of the people,
counting the whole country, were opposed to it.

Now, while, in my judgment, an overwhelming majority of the whole
people have honestly acquiesced in the result of the war, and are
now perfectly loyal to the Union, and have also acquiesced in the
abolition of slavery, I doubt very much whether they are really in
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