The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-06-12
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End OF the Preliminary Funeral.

Inc hepubllcan party committee
"hari-kari," at Chicago, and the
tatooed man won.
We were greatly surprised at the
nomination of Mr.. Blaine by the
Republican Convention; almost as
much surprised as we would have
been at the selection of Arthur by
that delectable ooncourse, for we
thought that the rule which gov
in military affairs of always avoiding
the doing of those things that the
enemy wishes you to do,beld good in
political affairs, and so thinking, we
hao in our own mind and judgement
set Arthur and Blaine aside, and
swept the horizon with telescope
in search Of dark horses, after giving
due consideration to the claims Of
Sherman, Logan, Edmunds,and those
'penny-dips" Gresham, Hawley and
Harrison-of course no one attached
any importance to the claims of the
dude of the war Office, little Bob
Lincoln.
We did not expect Blaine or Arthur
to be nominated because we knew
that they were the representatives of
a great factional fight in the Repub-
lican party that was born of the
Grant Blaine contest at Chicago in
1880; suspended by virtue of truce
negotiated at Mentor by Simon
Cameron and Grant in the fall OF
that eventful year; re-anlmated by
the treachery of Garfield towards
Conkling in the matter of distribu-
ton of the New York patronage, and
eliminating in the assassination Of
the President end the sceptre passing
by virtue of Guiteau's bullet from
the kennel of the Halfbreeds to the
den of the Stalwarts.
The bitterness of this feeling in
the North is inconceivable to those
who have not sounded its depths;
the hatred of the followers Of Arthur
for Mr.. Blaine, who they regard as
the author of all their woes, and
vice versa, is without parallel in our
political history; and the tenacity
with which their respective Northern
and Western adherents clung to
their leaders, is born more Of hatred
for the one than love for the other,
and this fact was so well recognized
that the cool headed politicians re-
gardod the setting of both aside as
absolutely essential to party success
and party existence.
But the nomination has been made,
and the Blaine men are as jubilant
over their parti2an victory as though
they had captured an enemy's strong
hold, but the Arthur men are just
about as happy over tho result as
Gen. Lees boys were when they
failed to capture Cemetery Hill at
Gettysburg, and there are tens of
thousands Of Stalwarts in every
Northern State who would rather see
any Democrat in the country elected,
than Blaine.
AS to the reform element in the
party, it regards Blaine as the most
corrupt man in America, and will
work early and late for his defeat.
AS 70 the Independent element, it
will support any honest man the
Democrats may nominate, against
Blaine, and the Democrats in this
emergency dare not nominate any
man of spotted record.
As to the fnanciers and business
men of the country,tl 81 regard Blaine
as crank on the subject of the in
auguration of foreign war, and for
the sake Of that peace that favors
commerce they will knife him, re-
gardless of party
The unanimous nomination OF
Logan for second place was the con-
summation Of the bargain that gave
Blaine the victory, and that he had
no opposition is conclusive evidence
that ambitious men had no time to
waste in making fstile fights; This
nomination is worth more to Logan
than to any other man, for it comes
to him in the commercial capital OF
his own State; in city where he is
particularly weak, and will greatly
aid him in his pending Senatorial
fght,for his term expires next March
Had he been at the other end of the
ticket it would have been formidable;
as it is, his popularity cannot give it
strength or standing-the tail has
not the vertebral strength essential
to the wagging ofso huge caninite'