The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-23

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Blaine's circus, now traversing the
country, is made up of brass figures. and
its clowns are full of bluster. But nei-
ther the one nor the other can convince
men who realize that those qualities are
Just what are not wanted in q dignihed
President of the United States. Rich
mao'ad (Ra.) State.
Two Portraits Of the Republican Can
r didate.
The American people are presented
with two portraits of the Republican
ure and on this.''
The one Blaine is ga plumed knight"
without fear and without reproach, the
typical and grand American, the ex-
FOUNDER of great issues, the defender of
the Republican faith. His words are
strictly true, his methods fair and open
as the day, his acts honorable to him
self and to others. To him the op-
pressed of all nations are to look as their
tower of strength, and under the magic
of his power the American flag is to fly
again upon all seas and be respected In
all lands. He wields success; he is rich;
he is smart; he is the pattern for Amefi-
can youth. He is the worthy heir of
Garfield, the fit successor of Washington
and Lincoln.
This is the Blaine for whom honest
minded and patriotic Republicans de-
sire to vote. They can not. He does
not exist. He is visible only to the shut
eyes and violent self deceit of those who
having ears will not hear and having
eyes will not see.
The real Blaine is of another pattern.
He spells Nation with big N, but
Blaine with bigger B. His principles
are in his pocket He appears first ON
| the National stage, when the Nation is
| fighting for its life, as lobbyist filling
his pockets. There is no speculation
which he can resist; but. rich as he is,
he has never earned money by any vis-
ible business or procession. His polit-
| ical and business methods are the
| same which have wrecked banks.
robbed honest men of their savings,
defrauded women and children, sent
men to the Jail or to their graves. and
lured youth to ruin. This man is q
coward; he writhes, and winces, and
bewails the tsagonies" and .'bitter hui
miliations'' of his financial crooked
ness; he receives insult without word,
and still writes to his dear Fisher with
kind regards. Forced by threats of po-s
litical ruin to make good the valueless
stock be has loaded upon those who
trusted him, he boasts his generous self
sacrifice for his friends. He tells lies;
he contradicts himself; he asks others
to lie that he may pose as an injured
innocent; he takes 'sforty-four millions
of people into his confidence" with the
usual egrontery of the confidence man.
At last he has it explained to the Amer
ican people that he is not smart. after
all; he has been the easy victim of petty
sharpers. His plume is the white feather
AS statesman he has done nothing
that makes leadership. He stabs honest
finance in the back by prorlaiming that
gold resumption is impracticable he
aoes his best against civil-service reform
by appointing a hostile committee.
When public opinion shows its drift he
turns with the current-too late! He
will keep the people burdened with
needless hundred millions of war taxes,
and rid us of the surplus by turning
over to States which pay little, like
Maine. the proceeds from States which
pay much, to the utter destruction of
ment.. When the people prick this
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with Reputation in Virginia, and takes
pains in his history to tell West Virginia
and Virginia alike how they may evade
their debt Secretary of State. his pol
lev is buncombe. He can not spare
/ time to care for an Irish-American in an
English Jail. but he can protect the
guano CLAIMS of newly naturalized
Frenchman by bulldozing broken
power into recognizing President who
| will favor his friends. He bullies Mex
leo only to pocket the insult when sne
quietly pockets his clustering letters
without reply. He has not the respect
even of his own Ministers. This great
| American makes America a by-word
among the nations.
AS candidate be is all things to all
men. At county fairs or railroad sta
tions he has abundant and particular
sweetness for every place and for all
people; he advertises his affiliations
with all religious sects which have
votes. and every political question
which he darcs not face he lodges as q
''local issue" He denies to nature the
credit of her bounty and to labor the
credit of its toll and skill that he may
claim for party and a policy the vel
fare of country happily too prosperous
to be ruined by all the mistakes Of poll
ticians. Around him flock the wors {
men of both parties. Finally. TO quote
his own organ on Mrs. Mandelbaum.
the noted fence. he adopts "a line of de-
tense always in great favor at the
Tombs. That is, not to establish ones
own innocence, but to prove some one
else's guilt"
This is the real Blaine-Blaiue as
drawn by himself, in his own words
and acts. He is all of piece. His
letters are only the typical confession
of an unworthy career. He is the worst
possible ideal for the rising generation
of America. 1t is for this man that
self-respecting Republicans are asked.
for the sake OF the party's past, to vote.
Can they do it?
Men do not change in q day. This is
the Blaine Wild. if elected. would be the
head of this great Nation. But he will
not be elected. The tide is rising
against him. There is moral sense in
the American people which. in its sober
second thought. sees through sham and
pretense, and which will see "that no
tricks are played upon Justice. ~