The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-16
JAMES c.. BLAINE.
The Kind of Strong Man the
People Want.
HOW He sQUELCHED THE REBELLION
IN MAINE.

From the Bangor (Me.) Wing Il Courier
In the discussion OF the choice Of the Presi-
Dental candidate Of the Republican party, the
principal argument in favor Of third term for
General Grant has been based upon the alleged
necessity that we should have strong man :"
to cope with the threatened purpose OF the De-
mocracy to resort to the most unscrupu!ous and
revolutionary measures TO prevent the lnaugura-
ton OF another Republican President Assum-
ing that these wicked designs will be carried to
their extreme. it is argued that General Grant.
as the Republican candidate, would be better
able to overcome and defeat them than any
other leader that has been named. The logic
of this claim Is not SO apparent. 1t is true that
General Grant proved one Of the greatest of
military chieitains. but the contest for the
Presidency is CIVIC and not military one,
and We are now preparing for az appeal to the
ba!lot-box and not to civil war. What we need
is not a candidate who could lead his hosts to
battle after the Mexican plan of deciding cleo
popular enthusiasm and support tina. his alec
ton will be put far beyond cavll or dispute.
This is a constitutional Government. and the
fundamental principle, so emphatically re-af-
firmed by the result OF the grea. war for the
Union. is that the Constitution has in itself the
sentiments OF selfpreservation and al the
strength required, to protect auI maintain
our institutions. The sentiment o.; the people
Of this | MON is that the Constitution and the
Laws are stronger than any man, and that
whenever their powers are properly and firmly
invoked, they will prove invipcble against any
assaults OF faction or conspiracy.
We believe that the sort o. "strong man" de-
manded by the Republicans of the nited
States for their leader in the campaign CT 1850
is one who recognizes moi only the sacredness
but also the potency OF the Constitution as
conseryator and preserver OF the rights Of the
people. and who, without setting himself above
the law, has the craftsmanship, sagacity, and
courage TO invoke and marshal every lawful
agency and power TO ;he vndication OF free
ballot honestly counted.
For such man We need not look in vain, or
seek beyond the citizenship of our own State /:
and events OF the past six months have more
clearly than ever before identified our glorious
leader. James G.. Blaine, as the kind OF '.strong
man" needed and desired by the Republicans
of the country for their standard bearer and
chief in the coming contest.
/: is now matter of history that the con-
spiracy to steal the State OF Maine was an i'm
portant part of the organized plan OF the De-
mocracy to grasp the next Presidency by fraud,
and the exposure has shown it to have been
the most startling and monstrous crime ever
attempted against the suffrage rights OF the
people. The conspirators had the advantage
Of being entrenched in power as a CO. ordinate
branch OF the State government, and the fact
that the Chief Executive and his councillors
prostituted their powers and lmmunities to the
perretration OF the great crime OF setting up.
by fraudulent count and fraudulent certificates.
another coordinate branch Of the government.
which proceeded in turn to set up fraudulent
Executive, rendered the task Of exposing and
overthrowing be gigantic conspiracy an almost
superhuman task.
When Senator Blaine returned TO Name in
the middle o. November. alter his arduous
Campaigning in the West, he found himself,
confronted with plot Of villany unparalleled
and almost Incredible. The consp.rators had