Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-16
MORNING APPEAL.


Senator Blaine is quoted again somewhat
untimely, it strikes us), as commentator
upon the Adams family. 1t seems that Blame
was in 1875 the recipient of the unwelcome
piece of advice to abandon the idea of running
for the Presidency and lend his aid to the
nomination of Charles Francis Adams. He
fired up at this piece of impertlnence and
wrote his opinion Of the Adamses with great
freedom His advisers were Sam Bowles and
Charles Nordhoff'-eminent for the volume OF
their incapacity as political olacles. He
talked back in this fashion, namely
The Republican party can be beaten under
some candidates i'll 1876 and still have tu-
ture, but if it should win with Adams 1t would
never breathe again. The day OF his lnaugu-
ration would be the day of its funeral He is
not the equal in talent of his father or grand
father, and although have very slight per
sonal acquaintance with him, Judge him to
have plentiful supply of the qualities which
made the Adamses the conspicuous failures
among our earlier Presidents, and a great lack
of those characteristics which, with all them
faults and failures as executives, still made
them Justly illustrious i'll our annals. The
Presidents who were great leaders of men and
parties have been successful Presidents
Washington and Jefferson among the early
Presidents, and jackson and Lincoln at later
periods. The most shining examples among
the men who possessed in a pre-emnent de-
gree the talent and aptitude for the station
were Hamilton, Dewitt Clinton, Henry Clay
Seward and Stephen A. Doug las, but Of not
a single quality of any one of them can you
nd no Loo Ut in FIancIS
Adams. Stat magni nOmlnls umbra-and
only the shadow.
The MORNING APPEAL does not always
agree with Mr. Blaine Far from it. In this
instance however the Senator speaks our sen
timents, with emphasis and force. Charles
Francis Adams is the rusty charge Ill the gun
of every political idiot of the conservative va
rietv. The incapabes are always shooting
him at the Presidential target Once during
the absence of the editor of this paper, an
amiable but wholly misguided locmm tenens
hOisted Adams name as a candidate for the
Presidency in 1876. Such suggestions are of
a piece with the thoughtless repetition OF
many another baseless vagary. When the
mind gets tired of a political problem it sits
down and rests on the nearest tombstone.
Charles Francis Adams is a tombstone. That
Is what Blaine means when he says that g He
stands the shadow of a mighty name quot
ing his Latin from the title-page of Woodfall
Junius The sage of Quincy is an elaborate
but melancholy obituary. He is the sign and
token of respectable death. Some years ago
he went to Albany and pronounced an eulogy
over William H. Seward. Then up rose Gid
con Welles, the old man of the Sea, and
bounced him The onslaught was terrible. 1t
was, if anything, worse than Jerry Black
fusilade at Adams's sons, through the columns
of the Galaxy-the Erie cIitiques, we mean.
Blaine is not altogether good, himself, but he
is quite truthful in his comments and conclu-
sions upon Charles Francis Adams-who is
about as unfit for the head of a political party
as the Dead March in Saul is for the music of
a marriage feast Live men and not dead
memories, living issues and not the traditions
of the past, these must be pitted against what
ever agressions and activities may exhibit
themselves over against our lines.