The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-06-24

have never been in favor of, and will not now
support Mr. Blaine for President of the United
States.
THE DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY.
Boston Herald Gnd.) j. June s.
AT last the Democrats have an opportunity
| Twenty-four years they have been out in the
cold. More than half the voters in the country
cannot remember Democratic administration.
Thus they have paid the penalty of a wrong
position on the great and comprehensive ques-
| ton of human rights.
They have made many blunders. They have
lacked both convictions and courage. They
| have had no policy to present, but have been
| content with mere opposition to the Republi-
cans. They have been constantly Outgeneraled.
Now their time has come. The Republican
Convention has developed vulnerable points. 1t
| has nominated ticket which repels the lnde-
pendent voters and the better element in the Re
| publican party.
If the Democrats are not wholly blind they
will see their opportunity and make ticket
which will attract Independent votes. They
will also see the folly of cOntending with the
Republicans for the support of ultra protection
ists
The Democratic party, to deserve success,
must have both men and principles which APP
peal to the majority of the voters.
THE WAY TO UTILIZE TT.
Philadelphia Record June9.
The refusal of the New York Times, the New
York Ecening Post the New York Commercial
Aducrfiaer the Boston AdUertiser, the Springfield
Republican and ether organs of Republican senti-
ment TO support James G. Blaine makes very
plain the course of the Democratic party in the
present contest. Nearly all of these influential
Republican journals are earnest advocates of
tariff reform, and they will give a Democratic
candidate nominated on this platform a hearty
and effective support. 1t is true that none of
these newspapers will support Blaine in any
conceivable circumstances, rs their opposition
to him rests chiefly upon the ground Of his per
sOnal unworthiness Of the Presidential office.
But if the Democrats commit the blunder OF
nominating candidate who is not in full sym
pathy with the movement for tariff reform, they
will chill into neutrality great political element
which, if wisely cOncated, would make the
election Of Blaine impossible.
LITTLE LESS THAN REVOLUTION.
Springfield Republican, Junes
The list of Independent and Republican jour
nails which have promptly ranged themselves
against Blaine is extraordinary and significant
1t includes, besides the Republican, the Boston
Aduertiser and Herah the New ork 1imes
Epening Post and Herdld the satirc Puck, and
undoubtedly Harper's Weekly. The dispatches
from all the country indicate unmistakably that
these journals represent serious disapprobaton
of the Republican nomination, and they will
efficiently voice that disapprobation The ac-
tiOn of nc other OF these means exactly what
that of the Boston Adcertiser does. 1t represents
in its ownership and its traditions that staid, de-
liberate conservative class often referred 10 with
q little derisOn as Boston respectablity "a
class of men and of habits of thought net lightly
meved, but whose moving indicates little less
than revolution. 1t means the revolt of the
character of the community against this un-
worthy work at Chicago. Men in professional
and business life, with whom honor is a posses
sion of great price, and TO whom the national
Chief Magistracy is not prize for tainted smart
ness, are not going to tamely endure this gross
affrOnt put upon them by the politicians. The
Advertiser is an old Republican paper and has
condoned the party errors time out Of mind in
its horror of independence, but the limit has
been reached and it is itself an Independent
newspaper.
AN OFFENCE HARD To CONDONE
Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.), June7.
To make public man against whom charges
most seriously affecting his personal and official
character have been again and again made, and
virtually conceded by himself, the candidate of
great party for the country's highest office, Is
worse than a blunder-it is grave offence
against both the country and the party. That
was what we tried to say with great clcarness
| and emphasis before Mr.. Blaine nominated,
| and we now say it again after he has been nOmi-
mated We declined then to shout with the
| large mob which demanded his nomination, and
| we decline to do it now. We contended that in
| view of the undsproved charges against Mr.
| Blaine, to nominate him would be an error and
| a wrong-an error, because it would place the
| Republican party in a defensive position in a
campaign likely TO be 80 closely contested as TO
render ii essential that its position should be a
| peculiarly aggressive one; a wrong, because for
a great party to bestow its highest honors upon
| the unworthy and to deny them to the worthy
| was 10 condemn the one and extOl the other.
We felt that TO warn the party whose principles
we profess our faith in against the commission
of this error and wrong was our planest duty.
| We think so still.
AN ALARM BELL IN THE NIGHT.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch lind. Dem.). June :.
From the whole line of the Independent press
| leaps the live thunder of assault upon the Chi
cago ticket, and hencefOrth till the election the
Democratic papers can keep their columns
| crammed with the charges, cOndemnatiOns and
inyectives tattooed over the person of James G.
Blaine by the principal Republican papers now
| supporting him. In gravity of accusation and
bitterness of censure they have never been ex-
ceeded in the party warfare of this country, and
Blaine is the only man whose political life has
| ever survived such attacks from any quarter
| To have sustained them from all the most in
fiuential organs of his own party and still be-
come its nominee Is an achievement without q
parallel In our politics, and one which only Q
man of phenomenal haTdihood would have dared
10 attempt His success under the circumstances
will sound TO millions like an alarm bell in the
night throwing down as it does the gauntlet o.
alf that Is vile and dangerous to all that is con
servative and virtuous in the elements of oul
public life. BY holding up his dangerous errors
of foreign policy, his more dangerous politica
af1iations in domestic affairs and the benefit t
be anticipated from q purer, safer and NOR
restful administration OF affairs than the Repu6
iicans can promise US with Blaine at their head
the Democrats can beat him, provided thei
platform and ticket afford the assurances whcl
Inc nomination OF Blaine has denied to the In
dependeut voter and 10 q very large class O
honest. conservative and thoughtful Republicans
THE ANTI BLAINE ELENENT.
Cleveland Plaindealer (Dem.), June T.
II IA the deliberate judgment of this formidab
large element In the party, judgment base
upon facts that no amount OF shouting and drum
bsntine can efface, that James @. Blaine 10 a
unsaSe man 70 in,rust with the responsibilities
10 hieh an ofiice; that bis election would
fFas,Gkt with danger to the interests OF the cour
tn. and that In fact the very worst thing this
} enid come TO pass in this country would be
mako James G. Blaine President OF It. This
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