Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-28
rHar.AGGREssIvE,, CAMPAIGN

AGGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN
Mr.. Blaine and his li~eutenants strug.
gled to make this, that and the Other
thing prominent in the campaign; but
they found at last that nothing could be
more prominent before honor-loving peo-
pie than the besmirched character OF the
Republican nominee for President. There
was no use to try any longer to dodge
the Mulligan letters after the second ter.
rible batch were published. Their gen.
~uineness could not be denied, and, OF
course, they had to be discussed. The
Blaine organs, persisting in their futile
course of ignoring this all.important sub
iect, withheld these letters from the
public, when they appeared in every
newspaper in the United States which
did not have a motive for suppressing
them. Mr.. Blaine was too shrewd a
politician not to see the damaging force
OF this new publication, and the still
more r%uinous, effect of deliberate sup
preston by his organs. Consequently,
on Monday, Sept. 10, on the morning of
which day the new Mulligan letters had
been published by Democratic and indie
pendent journals, but suppressed by the
Blaine papers, VT find Mr.. Blaine giving
to the public this statement, made to
the reporter Of a Maine paper and tele-
graphed all over the United States:
Mr.. Blaine replied that his only de-
sire was that every voter in the United
States might read the letters for himself
and not form his judgment from editorial
misrepresentation in partisan journals.
There was not a word in the letters, Mr..
Blaine added, which was not entirely
consistent with the most scrupulous in
tegrity and honor. He hoped that every
Republican paper in the United States
would publish the letters in full.
Now, the declaration is very signif-
icant. 1t is the first public notice that
Blaine has taken since his nomination
Of the damaging charges against him.
1t shows that he has been driven to
abandon the desperate tactics designed
to divert the attention of the people to
impertinent issues, and has at last been
forced to face, or make a p~retence Of
facing, the n absorbing issue Of the
campaign. That he cannot meet this
issue with any hope of success Mr..
Blaine realizes as fully as any one, but he
also sees as clearly as any one the fact
that to ignore it longer is certain dis.
aster and defeat.
Naturally enough, but with evident
hesitation and reluctance, the chief
Blaine organ has been forced to follow
its masters in this new departure. On
Monday, the 18th, the New York Tri-
bune contained no mention of the Null.
ligan letters, whose publication in every
live newspaper was the political sensa.
tion of the campaign. On the Tuesday
following the Tribune, having got its cue
from Blaine, made the bluff pretence Of
publishing them, but suppressed all the
most significant and damaging ones. On
the succeeding Friday Mr.. Blaine ap.
peared in this city, and on the follow
ing morning his organ printed for the
first time the Mulligan letters in full
with a labored argument to show, first,
that there is nothing in them; second,
that they relate to "simply a series Of
private business transactions with which
the public has no concern" and, third
that they ''vindicate Mr.. Blaine"
No defense is possible. Mr.. Blaine
has started out to show himself through
the country in order to belittle the
frightful charges against him by al
exhibition of cheek. Meanwhile, Cleve
land calmly stays at home attending tt
his duties as Governor of New York.