The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-12-13
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4 . !. DEeEaBER Is, 1878.
Blalne,s Fizzle!..

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Blaine's Fizzle.
q orr washington correspondent gave 10
q ,he Dispafch Of yesterday u fair idea OF
sscrator M. A1Sr's gnal destitute g IN nus
a,tnn,nt ID hang out the bloody !" stirte e
Hon The occasion is rare, ana we ear are
called upon to quote noted authorities OF
times past. We gather that our correspond
on. hit the nail on the head from contempt.
rary sources. The Senator made 50 dead - 9
failure that the Democrats consider them
selves swindled. since they expected t ils
the movement would provoke debate OUT
OF which they " calculated . to make some.
thing. But the "exploit" OF BLAINE Il1 was
SO nnpy that bis bantling persisted 10 n's
hands before it acquired the art Of imDiping
the means of life. We know no pnsase
that better describes the futility OF the ae-
monstration than that Of q half-Witted man
quoted above: that it was a:"signai oestl-
tate."
Onr correspondent states that colonies
uAIJcy ,, THOMSON was presentin the Sem
atc and heard Senator BLAINE. The Colo
mel has been for long years familiar with pup
lie men and public doings in Virginia, ana IS
perfectly posted about them. he went eS-
pectipg great things, and. like Senator l HCR-
MAN. he likes can eloquent thing" and
sometimes cheers it when it is against him.
Bnt the Colonel must have been disappoint-
j ed. He is a man OF "infinite JEST and
viii, be apt to make o good joke out OF IT,
BLAISE's modification must have been in
deed great when he learned that Colonei
THOMPSON witnessed his failure.
Undoubtedly the Maine Senator arranged
the "eXplosion with the idea that ne
would thus play the grand card OF his pre-
sldential hand, and give tone TO the ap-
preaching election. He is. too shreWd a
man not to see that he took the "Wrong
sbute.v and is altogether out. The best
thing he can do now would be to change his
tactics and become Mr.. DUMBLAINE here
after. He finds that his speaking only drifts
him further from the presidency; and ne
would probably approach nearer to the CD
ject OF his ambition by " Shetting atp.'
Mr.. THuRMAS's reply was exactly the
thing-ncithe" too long nor too short-not
a word too many and not word too few.
He very properly proposed to extend the
INQUIRY so as to ascertain whether cltlzens
or any State had been threatened With DIS
missal from Office or with denial OF any right
il they did not vote to Suit their employers,
and whether money had not been raised by
assessments upon office-holders for elections,
in violation OF law; also, whether supervisors
and marshals were not employed TO take
part in the elections. 1t is well that the in
auiry should be general.
Mr.. BLAINE has been so much In The naplt
OF smashing around and hectoring over the
southern States that he evidently conceiVes
If to be part OF his senatorial duty to SUI
perintend the southern plantations and keep
the planters in place. These be plainly
but delusively still regards, in the words OF
Mr.. THURMAN, a helpless people" hence
he seeks to outrage them.
Mr.. BLAINE's conduct is very bad and IN
every way cratic. II he thinks he is pro-
noting his own prospects by it he is as
much mistaken as il he singed his flag-his
bloody shirt. In no way could he gain,
even il he succeeded in widening the breach
between the sections and increasing section
ai hate; for that would only rebound to the
advantage OF General GRANT, who is the can
didate of the bloody.shirt party for the next
election. That party thinks not seriously
OF BLAINE. All the capital that be can make
by rearousing the rancors OF war VIII most
assuredly increase the strength OF GRANT.
This will be the merited retribution that
will fall upon the Maine Senator. He Will
prove to be only the cats paw that Is pull
ing GRANTS chestnuts out OF the fire.
But we have no apprehension that either
BLAINE or GRANT will derive any proht
from the absurd attempt to revive national
alienation. 1t cannot succeed. MIR. THUR
MAN, in single sentence, concentrated the
whole truth-viz., " that property, educa-
ton, and intelligence will assert their SUI
premacy." That is enough to account for
the solid South were there nothing else, and
this Mr.. BLAINE knows, his hypocritical
cant about depriying the negroes OF their
rights to the contrary Notwithstanding. He
cares nothing about the negro. His desire
to get the negro vote is the explanation OF
his idle TRADE upon the subject.
Mr. THURMAN spoke the whole truth in
the matter. 1t will be accepted by the ma
ton as such, and their verdict will be that
it is right that the supremacy explained by
Mr.. THURMAN should continue. 1t is right
socially and morally, and it is best for the
nation that it should, for were it settled
that the supremacy should be on the side OF
ignorance and barbarism, the land we live
in would rapidly become hell upon earth.
And this is the very line Of thought which
has taken possession Of the American mind.
Mr.. BLAINE and all OF his hypocritical party
oil extremists would as we'll give up their
foolish efforts to blow into flame the bit
OF malignant moonshine, which, like rot
ten mackcrel, displays the feeble phospo-
resent light which has deluded them.
Let us have peace from these marplots.
KEARNEY PITCHING INTO BUTLER.-[From
the San Francisco Call Report j" We car
ried Boston by 1900 votes, having the sym.
nathy OF all except the blue-bloods and q