Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-07
JAMES. G. RLATNE.

James G. Blaine, of Maine, is a candidate
for the Presidential nomination of the Re-
publican party. There is no longer any
doubt of the fact, for several State conven-
tions have already declared their preference
for him accompanied with instructions to
their delegates to vote for him as the candi-
date of the party. He has secured nearly
a quarter of the delegates thus far chosen,
and if appearances keep up as at present, it is
possible that he will go into the Chicago
convention with nearly that proportion of
the delegates.
Mr.. Blaine has claims upon the Republi-
can party that-ought to be recognized, and
there is fitness in his candidacy for the
highest office in the gift of the people. For
many years past he has been the chief advo-
cate of the ideas of his party. He has been
the foremost man in both the House and the
Senate to give the people correct idea of
how the party stands on questions of
national concern. Since the close of the war
he has been the most active of all Republ1-
can partisans in advocacy of the idea that
the rebellion was still in progress and yet
threatened the life of the republic. He has
insisted that no man who bore arms in the
confederate army could be loyal to the
Union unless he was willing to vote the Re.
publican ticket. He has insisted that every
murder, every assault and every larceny in
the Southern States were evidences that the
people there were still rebellious. He has
been the chief of the cabal that has insisted
that the Democratic party at the North was
disloyal to the Union during the war and re-
mains disloyal still despite the fact that two
thirds of those who composed the Union
army were Democrats from their birth. He
has never ceased to cast reproach upon the
South or upon the Democratic party, his ma
Lightly seeming to carry him to the greatest
of extremes. This is great recommends
ton to him for the nomination.
Mr.. Blaine has other recommendations to
the consideration of his party. He has been
prominent in many of the jobs that have
brought disgrace upon the country. He was
b,
Little Rock & Fort Scott Railroad company
when it was clamoring for Congressional
aid. He received and profted by some sixty
five thousand dollars worth of the bonds of
the company, and was conveniently pros
trated by sunstroke when the exposure was
made. Out of sympathy for his forlorn
physical condition, which was thought to ba
fatal, he escaped censure. Then when the
Mulligan letters were published he induced
his horses to run away and throw him from
his carriage, and again averted censure.
Mr.. Blaine is the chief faunter of the
bloody shirt in Congress to-day. He is con-
tinually spelling for an oratorical fight, in
the course of which invective takes the place
of argument. He can conceive of no virtue
outside of the Republican party; of no vice
that exists save in the ranks of its oppo-
nents. He is fit man to be selected to lead
party devoid of political honesty, bank
rupt in personal integrity, and utterly in
capable of proper administration of the
affairs of the country. He has a personal
following in a few of the States where preiu-
dice predominates reason, but nowhere else.
Antagonized to any man of prominence in
the Democratic party he would meet with
disastrous defeat If the Republican party
wants to seal its own doom it will select Mr..
Blaine as its candidate at Chicago next
month.