Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-09
The Sentiment Of Various People and
PapNTS on the Nomination,
Flowers Budding Into Bloom as
D%emocracy's Candidate.
Some Secrets of the Late Chicago
Convention Coming to Light,
How Blaine Gould Have Been
Beaten by the Arthur Men.
The Vice-P Presidency, and What
1resham's Chances Were.
Logan's Candidacy, and the Hole 1t
Made in Illinois Politics.
PRESS COM N

"A BEACoNSFIED BEYOND II SEA-
LONDON, June Under the heading,
"a Beaconfield Beyond the Sea-" the
Pail Mall Gazette says "Blaine's nomi-
nation is the most notable event for
England since Lincoln was assassinated.
Wherever Blaine can Dust the British
from a position they hold on the Ameri.
can continent, he will endeavort to replace
English influence and trade by American.
His menacing intimation and his d,sre-
gard of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is an
evil augury for the future relations be-
tween England and America. His inter-
vention in Peru was most ominous when
he declared that he disliked England to
win commercial triumphs in a field be-
longing to America. England will watch
with extreme solicitude the progress of
the campaign
WHAT THE THUNDERER THINKS.
The Times says: "Blaine's nomination
will be read with satisfaction. Not only
has he been the most popular candidate
but the most conspicuous and respected
politician in the republican party, which
has done itself honor by the nomination
of SO we'll known and distinguished a
man. If the democrats could make up
their mind to q definite, reasonable free.
trade policy they would certainly secure
more sympathy this side of the Atlantic
than hitherto. In the meantime, we
congratulate the republican party on its
choice of a candidate 80 eminently suited
as Blaine to represent and uphold the
dignity. of the United States"
Chicago Tribune (rep.). The nominal
ton of James G. Blaine is the triumph
of popular sentiment. His nomination
vial be received with acclaim as a long
deferred tribute to his great abilities and
eminent craftsmanship; but it has a sig
nifcance far beyond any personal coli
siderations. 1t is an evidence that under
the rules and practices of the republican
party, of which district representation in
the national convention is the most es-
s%ential, the popular will of the party can
not be defeated. No living American
statesman ever filled tho hearts of the
American people more completely than
Blaine does. The martyrdom of Lincoln
and Garfield has won for them a peculiar
veneration which no man in life can hope
to attain. But Blaine has reached the
highest place in the public esteam.
Blaine is an addition to all his personal
claims is the legitimate successor to the
popular confidence which Garfeld's brief
administration inspired. AS Garfield's
premier he was almost as Conspicuous a
figure as Garfield himself, and he was the
originator of a continental American pol
icy which was the most striking and
brilliant of Garield's administration. No
presidential candidate ever had a better
assurance of election than Blaine has to-
day unless it was General Jackson or
Thomas Jefferson.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee Sentinel, rep }: 1t is
known that the Sentinel did not favor
the nomination of Mr.. Blaine for the rea-
son that it believed there were several
other gentlemen urged as candidates
equally qualified and more available; but
in the selection of candidates the majority
has a right to command. A party or.
gadization is impracticable when the right
is denied
st. Louis Republican, (dem.)
Mr.. Blaine is well known to the coun-
try. He is neither an insignificant nor
al obscure parsonage He has been be-
fore the public for more than twenty
years, as member and speaker of the
house, United States senator, secretary of
state and three times candidate for the
uomination which he has received at last
and his record, good and bad, is pretty
familiar to his countrymen. If he is not
the ablest man in the republican party,
he has few superiors in this respect in the
party; and he is by all odds the most
popular ~favorite on the republican side.
Indeed, the warm attachment of the
masses of the party to his person OBJ
scures their vision to his weaknesses and
his defects; and, while he is clearly en-
titled to the honor now accorded to him
by every rule of popular preference, it ia
the most unfortunate nomination
for the republican party that could
have been made-for, now that the
protracted and interesting struggle is
over, we can say what lie would not have
been prudent to say before-that of all
men before the republican convention
Mr.. Blaine was the choice of the demo.
Gratis for their antagonist; he is the man
OF all Others whose nomination they de-
sired; and that for this sufficient reason