Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-02
Pleasing Blaine.

1t is quite generally reported that repre-.
sentative Hale of Maine ought to be made a
cabinet officer because it would "please
Blaine" and Chandler. Very likely, but
why please Blaiue2 Why, he was de.
feated candidate, defeated because the PEG.
pie did not want him aud would not have
him, aud so a man that is not wanted must
be pleased. Ben Butler was not wanted as
governor Of Massachusetts and so he was
pleased" and his tool, Simmons, was put
into custom house by Gen. Grant iu face
of all Boston, Massachusetts aud New Eng.
land, except Senator Dawes. Let us sec
about this pleasing Blaine. If he is to be
pleased. why not other candidates They
must be taken in Of course on the same ground
as Blaine. Morton was a candidate, and he
has friend, in fact several Of them, but of
the chaser sort" in politics. Post. Master
General Tyner is one Of them who "runs"
the department very much as boy runs his
coaster, about where it is inclined to 90, the
regular partisan way. Yes, and Conkling
was a candidate and who but knows that
"our Roscoe" has his friends who want Office
at all hazards. Then Bristow was a candi-
date aud had frieads, though Grant decapi-
tated every one he could reach, but it so
happens that the friends" of Bristow aud
Jewell and Schurz are not applying for Office
"Pleasing Blaine" then means turning the
country over to the off se.seekers, or their
friends, and this country exists does it, the
republican party has been called into being
and barely saved from extinction to please
Blaine by giving Office to his friends? 1t
is we'll to have the new doctrine propounded.
These United States, with forty millions of
people, vast wealth, untold resources, with
a century's national history crowned with
glorious achievements, exists chiefly for the
sake of pleasing Blaine" worthy object
surely.
If such are the claims Of this son of
Maine, on what are they based, wha. has he
done to create such claim Has be done
any more for the real good of the country
than thousands OF others? If so what is it,
in what way has the country derived profit
from his efforts. He is smart yes, and SO
are others as much so as he Then he has
more than ordinary tactical ability, but he
came as near "tacti.caliDg" his party to
ruin as could be and it be saved. He "fred
the northern heart" last session over the
awful condition Of the South, which awful.
ness consisted largely in the presence and
conduct Of the men his own party sent there.
Does any one suppose the intimidation by
down.easters would have been what it was
in Louisiana if the people of that un fortu.
nate state had not been crushed and abused
by the Kellogg. Casey ring Of carpet-baggers,
aided and sustained by the federal govern.
ment2 There was no such state of things
in Arkansas where, thanks to Judge Poland,
federal interference was banished some time
since. We have no question but that the
democrats bribed, buldozed and did most
everything by way of fraud and intimidation
to carry Louisiana, but it was a desperate
case, in view Of the base rule of tho admin.
istrative party, and for this Mr.. Blaine and
his friends are largely responsible. Suppose
he had champioDed the cause Of abused
Louisiana in 1874 and maintained states
manlike position until now put his euthu.
siasm and energy and eloquence into it,
would he be to-day asking iavors of another
We trow not. Blaine's course during the
canvass was such as to inaame the North as
far as he could against such southern leaders as
Hill, Lamar aud Stephens, aud ombittered
them; but to-day his own party, the wise
men of it, demand place in the cabinet for
some of these men. In a word Blaine's
course has been aagrautly wrong, manifestly
selfish, and for the country ruinous, as we'll
as most disastrous to his party. But for all
this he is to be pleased"
NOH We buOuIu CdIo DuJ lulu hOOut pleda-
ing him were it not for the principles in
voved namely that man who wants Office
for himself or friends is to be."peased" by
dealing out to him the most important aud
responsible positions in the land. We sup.
posed this government belonged to the peO-
pie and now they ask Hayes to fill these pO-
sitions with the best men whether Blaine is
pleased or not Blaine's likes aud dislikes
are no more than ours-the people demand
the best men of President Hayes. If the
country belongs to Blaine aAd Morton and
Cameron and party clique, let us know it,
but until it does let US have no more Of this
nonsense, this base corrupting partisanship,
this unpatriotic serviity to corrupt men,
about pleasing Blaine" II may be well