Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-19
THE REVOLT OFTHE GARFIELD RE-
PUBLICANS IN PENNSYLTANIA.

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Crediting Mr. Blaine with having made
a full and ingenious statement when he
informed his friends, in declining the
nomination for congressman at-large,
that the policy of the government had
changed since the Inauguration Of the
present administration, it becomes diff
fcult matter to place proper construc-
ton on the endorsement the Maine Iand
Ohio Republican State conventions have
. given the present administration. Ac-
cepting Mr.. Blaine's representations
as true, that the policy of
the government has changed
since the accession of Gen. Arthur to the
presidency, the action of the Republican
state convention can only be explained
on the hypothesis that either MIR. Blaine
has fashioned his political course to meet
the changed situation since the
death of President Garfield, or else
he has found himself unable with
out patronage to manipulate and shape
the policy of the Republican
party ir his own state. In the absence
of protest from the ''plumed knight"
against the action of his party,
and IN view of the generally accepted be-
lief that Secretary Chandler owes his seat
in the Cabinet to Mr.. Blaine, the only
rational construction possible 10 place on
the conflicting statements of Mr.. Blaine
and his home henchmen, is that he has
trimmed his sails to catch the popular
breeze, and will hereafter float with the
current.
The reforms contemplated by President
Garfield can neither be inaugurated nor
consummated under the leadership of
Mr.. Blaine, sustained by the Arthur
machine and the questionable methods Of
a ward politician Of Chandeliers antece-
dents. The difference between the Gar
field and Arthur administrations is of a
fundamental and radical character and
no man can consistently endorse the lat
ter who was ever an earnest supporter of
the former. The difference is one which
Mr.. Blaine inadequately describes when
he confesses 10 mere change in the
policy of the government, for the ma
chine policy of the present administra-
ton is as incompatible with the
elevated tone of the Garfield
administration as light with darkness, or
the constituent elements Of an alkali and
an acid. Mr.. Blaine, who has amassed
during his public career a fortune esti-
mated as high as ten million dollars, can
well afford to accommodate himself to
the situation, having ignored, as he has,
the commonplace considerations of prin-
ciple and consistency. But will the peo-
pie who place higher estimate on those
dual essentials to good citizenship, en-
dorse Mr.. Blaine's courseH Are the
people of the country who sustained
Gen. Garfield while living and followed
his bier to his final resting place at Cleve-
land, prepared TO follow Mr. Blaine into
the Stalwart camp where the odors of the
Grant regime vet inger, and the corrupt
influences which robbed them of their
great leader are yet potent?
The concentration of events which led
to the revolt in Pennsylvania against the
longer domination of the Gamer
ons, leaves no room for doubt
as TO the attitude of the
people on the issue of machine rule when
not obscured by those to whom they look
to illustrate it. Had Mr.. Blaine raised
the standard of revolt against the "chan ge
of policy which he assures the public
has taken place under the present admin
istration, and more especially against the
selection of machine politician like
Chandler as representative man of the
reform element of the country. he
would have become a conspicuous