Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-10-12
Democratic County Ticket.
BLAINEISM.

BLAINEISM.
Ex-senator James G. Blaine is be-
ginning to manifest great activity.
He is evidently bent upon making the
most of the necessities and mistakes
Of the President and his administra-
ton. When the struggle in Maine
was ended Blaine, who had contribut-
ed very little Or nothing to elect Re-
publican congressman, went West, as
far as Kansas, to enjoy its honors
and claim as a personal victory what
had been gained at his home mainly
through stalwart exertion. In New
York he advises his friends to oppose
Folger.
In Pennsylvania where liberalism
and stalwartism are represented by
opposing tickets and candidates, the
antagonism of Blaine's friends to
bossism and Arthur is still more open
and striking. But it is in regard to
Virginia Indebtedness that Blaine at
one and at the same time makes a
bid for southern votes. and attempts
to infict a death blow upon Malone
and the administration.
II should be glad" said Mr.. Blaine
recently at Chicago, ''to see Govern
ment aid Virginia in some practical
way in settling her debt. When we
were at war with Mexico, we made
that country an allowance of many
millions for its loss of territory, and
i think we could afford to be equally
liberal to one of our own states, dis
membered for our benefit. Another
consideration also weighs powerfully
with me, and that is Virginia's cession
of all the northwest territory to the
common good, nearly one hundred
years ago. Why should Virginia
alone, Of all the confederate states,
be made to suffer territorial despoil-
ment! What would give that state
lasting relief would be but a trile to
the nation"
If Mr.. Blaine has been truly re-
ported, and his words mean any
thing-and everybody may rest as
sured they mean a great deal-that
politician has announced his determi-
nation to advocate the assumption of
a debt by the general government,
about which the citizens of Virginia
are divided. and which the Malone
ties, with the sanction of Arthur, aim
to repudiate.
We have neither time or space to
compare the rival schemes thus pre-
scented. We have 10 sympathy with
reputation in any form. Blaine's
proposition may have the merit of
novelty, and it may he also his design
to run al issue Of assuming southern
debts against Arthur's policy of UNION
with anti ourbonism. What strikes
us most is the tendency of Republican
policy. whether Liberal or Stalwart,
towards Capitalization, increased taxa
ton, political corruption and prolong-
atiau NJ nafiop. .1ahfo1pore Tho
bonds of Virginia like those of some
other southern states, are in compar-
atively few hands, and mainly held as
a speculation. They represent a
nominal sum of a little over twenty
five millions of dollars, and might
constitute the basis of another syndi-
cate, which would readily prefer to
give a successful lobby from ten to
twenty-five per cent. commission, to
taking its chances with such a popu-
lation as that of Virginia.
Mr.. Blaine has recently become
possessed Of large landed property in
Virginia, and that fact will add to his
increasing influence there. His prop
osition seems to proceed upon the
idea that the ~largeness of the appro-
priation demanded of congress, and
the opportunities for emolument it
will present, will overcome whatever
resistance may be made to it. 1t
may take in Virginia, and secure
there the support Mr.. Blaine needs
and covets so much; but as a separate
measure it will scarcely succeed, and
is almost certain to entail great EN-
barrassment on him and his friends
in other sections.