Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-07
Es G.. BLAINE.

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had been nominated for the Presidency
of the United States strictly Repub-
l;,an low. And this was the general
party feeling all over the country. The
nominee has Enthusiastically enthused the
great mass of his party. The Republi-
cans on the Pacific Coast are especially
under his charm, whatever it is. From
first to last he got the vote of each State
and Territory Of this region solid. Nor
was this solidity Of votes any more re-
markable than the divided support which
he got in the South-in those States
which had been counted upon as solid
for Arthur on account of the influence
of the Administration. In fact, it looks
now. when the smoke of the fight is
rolling away, as though, had there been
no such material barrier as Mr.. Arthur's
power through patronage, the Repuoli-
can party would have nominated him
either by reclamation, or by an over
whelming vote against all opposition on
the very frat ballot. There is no use in
undertaking to decry him. He possesses
an extraordinary popular power. The
Pacific Coast delegates went for him in
convention as one man because they
thought they saw in him an exponent OF
what the Coast is contending for-the re-
striction Of Chinese immigration and the
salvation of the silver interest. Still, as
everybody knows, these ideas of policy
are not looked upon favorably by the
Republican party of the East. Their
putting them as planks in their platform
signifies nothing. The great majority OF
Republicans who live East are in favor
of Chinese immigration and are the enc.
mics of silver, the proofs of which need
not be published now, as they have
been given often enough already to be
Familiarity known by the intelligent
world.
But Mr.. Blaine's popularity is not Sec
tional. Those branches of the Republi.
can party that are a~ntagonistic to each
other on grounds of public policy are
nearly all united on him. As intimated,
the actual enemies of the Pacific Coast
vie with Pacific Coasters in their enthu-
siasm t. promote him to the highest
Office in the gift of the people. Hence
the favor in which he is held evidently
does not depend upon territorial consid-
erations. The causes of his strength
among the Republican masses must be
recognized as general. How did it come
about that he was preferred to MIR. Ar
thur in the latter's W State? Mr..
Arthur's administration, the chief critic
rion by which he could be judged in the
matter of the Presidency, was generally
conservative and acceptable. The Repub-
licans had nc reason to apprehend any
risk in putting him at the head of the
Government for four years. Almost
every State Convention of his party
indorsed his administration. There
is a good deal of poppycock in such
Endorsement, but we are convinced that
the Republicans looked upon Mr.. Arthur
as a safe man. Yet, when it came to a
question as to whether he or Blaine
should be preferred, we see with what
emphasis the preference is expressed.
We find that the fractional spirit that has
kept the Republican party divided into
Half.breeds and Stalwarts, a bitter and
rancorous distinction, threatened to de-
stroy the political organization until
Blaine entered the arena as a candidate,
when the chasm seems covered all over
at once by the hands of united friends
grasped across it.
The man is personally strong. He is an
active intellect. He is brawny, too, as
well as brainy. He is bold and aggres-
sive. His public life has shown that
he is powerful every way among power
full men. He is full Of magnetism. In
short, he is Of the sort that grow upon
the public to such a size that nothing
describes them 80 well as the saying oft
repeated in regard to Blaine, HE is a
man of the people," He has always had
following, greater or less. and to that
following he has seemed one of them.
This is q deduction from the history of
his public life, and he has been a part of
the great public ever since he was known
at all outside of his native town.
But there is another element OF
strength that Mr.. Blaine has, as a can
didate for the Presidency, which makes
all others Insignificant in comparison.
He is the actual nominee Of the corpora
tions of the United States. They know
that he is a stiff man with sufficient
leaning towards them) and they are all
going for him. One of the Indications Of
this is the triumphal cars Of Mr.. Croker
rafting on in splendor towards Chicago.