The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-06

CARoLINA April. 8. .is7SE

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to call 'Brindle Bill. Now. Kelloyp Is =
carpet-bagge,r, and the carpet-bagger having
become, as honest old Tom Robertson saws
mated at the North, execrated at the South
ana desp,sed by the Niger" Blaine finds
Songenlal fellowship in Kellogg. There,
lore Blalno seizes tho coat,tails of Kelloyp
and dre1pects Kellogg to pull him into tho
fresideney four years from now. I once
Knew fellow whose ideas of locomotion
were similar to Blaine's theory of political
progress. This fellow, having partaken
largely of the peculiar constitutional law of
a late administration, walked solemnly into
water closet at one end ola railway sta.
tion platform, took seat and INQUIRED
why in hi don't this train start 7" 1t
Is fortunate for Kellogg that his reputation
is as bad as reputation can be ; otherwise
blaine's advocacy of him might be ipiuri.
Gus.
And yet Blaine represents his constitu.
ency with fidelity. Perhaps you are not ac.
4ua!nted with the constituency of Blaine.
Biaine's constituents are those natives of
Maine who neglect to emigrate precipitate
ly as soon as they are old enoug to realize
what kind of State they have been born
IN. Providence keeps a few people in
Maine, who are carefully selected with
view to influencing all respectable folks to
emigrate at once. Well, these are Blaine's
constituents-the few persons retained as
moral scarecrows by Divine Providence
After this explanation you will understand
the secret..of Blaine's wonderful hold upon
the people of Maine. No hold has ever
been seen like Il, unless-vssssxcept that
hold which Blaine got on the Mulligan let
ters. And no hold like it will ever be seen
until the devil gets Blaine, constituents
Mulligan letters and ALL
But, to be serious Blaine is be-
coming the most colossal nuisance of
the century. He is not only delug.
ing the name of the American people with
disrepute, but he is becoming disturber of
the peace, and an invetcrate peddler Of
no1ious notions which are designed to be.
devil the feeble minded. Never accomplish
ing anything and proposing nothing, he
hangs on. the verge Of politics like q Bedouin
upon the fanks Of caravan, watching for
some pilgrim with a sick camel to drop out
Of the procession.
If the fools were oil dead, Blaine
could do no harm. But some of them
still live, and, as a consequence, Blaine
alwayss.hea just enough of following to
keep his 5wH, Sspelit m to the intoler-
able point. and 70 infect tES poiitiSal asa,Os,
.phsrs ~ - pIInnIeaaspt. .siasll W. -
no success ID him but he always comes
near enough to success to nerve his misguid-
ed. followers for another effort in his behalf
His followers are of two classes: First, play
cd-out and uscd-up old hacks and frauds,
who have been kicked out of all other fell
lowship, and, second, credulous and enthu-
siastic boys, who are led to believe that
iron cheek and leather lungs constitute the
true statesman, and that Blaine's system of
tcn-cent thimble-riggery is the true game of
politics.
AS q Kennebec town councilman, Blaine
woulC have been success. But in the
arena of national politics he figures as ridi-
culously as a cockroach turned out to pas
turc in a ten-acre lot. 1t is only when he
becomes the boss cockroach of horde of
grasshoppers that he ceases to be ridiculous,
and he only ceases to be ridiculous when
he becomes pestiferous. He may not be
able to accomplish anything of great detri-
mcnt, but he sometimes has power to delay
the accomplishment of that which is bene-
fcial-as in the present instance he OBJ
structs the pacification of Louisiana and
South Carolina.
When Stanley Matthews and Mr.. Evarts,
On behalf of Hayes, advised that poor shiv-
ering upstart, Chamberlain, that the good
of the country required his withdrawal from
tho position to which he pretends, Mat
thews and Evarts simply tried to do by mild
persuasion, out of pity, what simple justice
would have dictated should be done by the
hair of his head-and what will be done by
the hair of his head, too, if, at Blaine's in
stigation, he should stick there thirty days
longer. But Blaine thinks he sees an op.
portuuity, and graspsit.
Now, if a little niger should see mules
tail, and, imagining that it afforded him o
good opportunity to steal ride, should
grasp the tail, with tho consequence tradi-
tional in such cases, everybody would laugh
and express wonderment that, after two
centuries Of uniformly disastrous expert
ment, the Ethiopian should still be so infat-
uated as to grasp mule by the tail. But
the niger in this case would not be one
whit more absurd than Blaine is when he
embraces the carpet -bagger and tries to
make political capital out of him. He
might as well 60 out into the fields and be-
stride the decomposug carcass of dead
horse with the design of taking ride =
Poor Blaine When that great big Presi.
dental maggot gets into small head il pro-
duces rickets. Blaine chopped his tongue
would cleave TO the rooof of his mouth
That was the most discreet wish I ever
knew him to avow. IF it only would, he
might possibly obtain reputation for good
sense in the course of time--unless he
should learn the deaf and dumb art of talk
ing with his fingers and even if ho did