Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-03
AN INTERESTING QUESTION IN
JOURNALIST.


Under this head, the New York Sur
discusses Mr.. Blaine's political future
with relation to the Independent Repub'
lican press. 1t is an ingenious and pleas
ant article, although it carries a flavor o.
it's own disappointment in the recent Pres
idential election, and makes Mr.. Blaine:
personal power greater than the influence
OF many leading metropolitan newspapers
combined. We do not believe this, MOI
do we believe that they can be used te
promote his predicted candidacy in 1855
Mere campaign papers started to take
their places will be worthless. But this
is the Suns editorial.
Suppose that after all, in spite OF his
defeat, Brother Blaine should continue
to be the leader among the Republicans;
suppose that he should inspire and direct
his party with more undisputed influence
than he has ever done before, and sup
pose that Republican sentiment should
become SO conferred around him under
his bold and passionate guidance as tc
make him the inevitable candidate OF the
party in 1888. Would not the interest
be increased which now attaches to the
course of those former Republican
journals that bolted their party for this
canvass only and on account OF Blaine
alone?
These journals left the Republican
partv exclusively because of the leader
ship of Blaine, and took particular pains
to affirm at the time that they were none
the less Republican thereby. Some OF
them even claimed to be better Republl-
cans than those who didn't bolt. They
would be Republicans in practice again
as we'll a. in theory, after the election,
provided the candidate so obnoxious to
them should be beaten. Well, MIR.
Blaine has been beaten, but he seems to
be very far from the dead and buried
politician that these newspapers ex-
pected he would be after they had accom-.
plished his defeat. 1t isn't at all certain
that he isn't, after all, a bigger man IN
his party since his defeat than he was
before. 1t is not improbable that for
the next four years he will continue to
be the foremost figure among the Re
publicans, Just as he has been for the
last five months. He evinces no inten.
ton of abandoning his interest in politics,
and who can tell but that the forces and
sentiments that have just given him
within a few thousands of half the votes
cast at the recent election, may not be-
come rather intensified than diminished
under the coming Democratic administra-
tion, and turn to him with far greater
determination and unity at the next
election than they did in this? If things
should turn out in this way, what will
esteemed boiling Republican con.
temporaries do? Will they give in and
accept the inevitable by returning to
their former affiliations under the leader
they have just now slaughtered beyond
resurrection as they fancied? Or will
they find themselves crowded out OF the
Republican ranks for good, and converted
into permanent allies Of the Democracy ?
1t may be said that the Republican
party, having just felt their power when
welded against it, would not contem-
plate a second trial Of strength, and
would choose a candidate who should be
acceptable to them. That would hardly
be the case. A widespread sentiment of
any kind is bound to have the necessary
medium Of expression, and if the Repub-
lican party should see itself deprived OF
a considerable number of newspaper
organs, new ones would spring up, and
thus the places of the old journals would
be filed by others, and their Importance
to their old party would be gone. The
present numerical preponderance of the
Democratic press is. doubtless, only tenn
porary, and before long, in n way or
another, the old balance will be restored.
Whether this will be brought about by
the return of Republican newspapers that
have now supported Cleveland, or by the
creation of new ones, depends very much
upon the future course and success of the
Hon. James G.. Blaine. He is by no
means dead yet.