Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-02

E0Vu0OAt vs VSApS' sONs
The Frulss % 1lh Canvass.
~ fsas that Mr.. Blaine Is not doing
h2iocsaf and his cause justice In his tour
lHtoueA OHIO. He Il making 1t to make
votes; NJ Idea ID to arouse his friends
ooenthusiasm and action, and stimulate
tAslr efforts to carry the state. 1t Is
~ politicians belief, derived from
their experience, that confidence
I and ardor are the prime con
&itious OF success. Mr.. Blaine was
nolninated largely upon the belief
that be was great vivifer, and his party
oxpected him to pilot 1t into and through
most vigorous and exhilarating cam
paien. 30 far the effort to get up such
8 ennvass has been q conspicuous failure.
III. Blaine has been 30 forced to defend
IL record as to greatly hamper his effort
20 make an aggressive canvass. He
started out early in this attempt by
causing the Halpin attack to be made
against Governor Cleveland. 1t is we'll
understood now that this was done at
h7D Instance. 1t seemed to work we'll
for his interest for time. His often
slvo campaign, however, ended with
this effort; and he was soon forced
into his corner by the story of
his matrimony and the Mulligan
letters. He has picked his flint
ana started to Ohio with intent to shake
on all the issues but that Of protection,
having decided that this is his safest
and strongest hold. He meets the people
1t all the stations, and there are plenty
Of them to meet him. But he shows
great lack Of vigor in taking advantage
Of the opportunities which his tour was
made to open up to him. He
b in bad physical condition, and not
fit to do the work laid out for him.
He II fiery talker, and in good order
would be able to create enthusiasm and
leave behind him strong impression
With his speeches. He is not up to the
mark Of the occasion. He cannot do
the work laid out for him. He is a
broken down man, and the people who
- him know it. He is bad adver.
tisement for himself. He would have done
much better to have staid in Maine than
to have gone through Ohio to make
poor Impression.
a report of his spsech at Hamilton,
Ohio, yesterday, makes him talk in a
very weak way, the subject of his few re-
marks being the tariff. which he declared
was very good thing indeed, and was
n no way to be held responsible Tor the
present business depression, which would
have come apobcw. ''There has never yet
been polia9Qnstnd by the wit of man
that win sssuGke through all time,
and aIl seasons q continuous flow
oe prosperity" he said ; which is
doubtless true, but nevertheless a great
rejection upon the wit of man. If
men were wise always, they would be
prosperous always. No doubt it is not
the tariff that makes the hard times
now and no doubt it is not the tariff
that makes the good times. Mr.. Blaine
did not seem to see that he was knock
ing to pieces his theory Of the vital need
to our prosperity Of a high tariff, by his
declaration that the tariff had nothing
t0do with our present lack of prosper
X ity. It was q confession that the tariff
ID not the issue Of the greatest political
importance, upon which he proposed to
hang his political banner. Mr.. Blaine
would have been wiser to find and ride
m issue that promised change from
our present business condition, than to
get astride the tariff as meek mule
that had not muscle enough to kick to
hurt. The poor innocent thing Was not
TO be blamed for anything bad. " You
{ had great drought In Ohio this year"
he said, /" but you do not, on that ac-
count, avow that you will have no more
rains'' and he thought the tariff was like
the rain. What an imagination The
E drought comes because there is no rain |;
but the business trouble comes when we
have Mr.. Blaine's tariff; which makes
. adiRerence. But Mr.. Blaine is never
very good at facts and he is Ill now.
II he keeps on with such speeches, how
evef, his friends will need to withdraw
him into an imbecile asylum.