The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-29
MR.. BLAlNh'S UAkEl R
OPEN TO SPECTRUM ANALYSIS.
~ hh AolhioH 10 Year IRON tho Hytna Jaa,pai.
ism OF hs Opp0sitiea-Ths Attempts 10 At.
"ssis nis GraAa Character VII Fs,,
Short Of tho nark-Uinsr I,.ms,
Special N,paIeh 10 t,x In,e,lioeae.r.

epee1ds Nspaseh 10 Lt< In.eiiceaeer. l
NEW Yoax, July 2s.-The Mail and Ee.
lrs" ot to-day has telling editorial on
the attacks on Mr.. Blaiue's early record
which have been begun In the Democratic
prefs. It says: such journalism Is not
sood politics In the case Of any man like
MI. Blaine, who hes been fighter from
the start; who has conquered by open
motnoos every inch Of the ground he has
won, and who he, achieved an extent OF
popularity with Americana Of all crepds
anu races, and that no bjg,t, wha.ey.
or his abilities, ever won In !,
free and enlightened country. The game
OF overhauling and reproducing the early
uttsrancee Of men Of real power aud fairly
Won popularity has always been losing
one. 1t was tried on Peel and D,sraeli and
Gladstone; and in each case 1t was dis
NAL and disastrous failure. Yet the glar-
Ing Inconsistencies and early political fol-
lies OF these great leaders were enough to
invite the experiment. The illustrations
in American politics Of the same unwil-
l'ngness to obscure the mature la.geuess,
dagaclty and liDerality Of great men by the
shadows Of forgotten mistakes, or OF the
hot controversial expressions developed BY
peculiar times are so plenty that we need
not give them:
After noting the position in which tbs
Democratic party is placed, in the matter
OF early record, by reason OF Hsndricks'
nomination and drawing comparison be-.
tween bis action and that 81 the mau who
formed the Republican party, the Journal
eavs oi Mr., Blaine's part in that work:
"braver or better or wiser political work was
never zone sy any politician In the coun-
Try, and the common 8 .pss OF Irish
or German Americans will Judge OF the
spirit IN which thoss rsyolutlonlsts anil
party builders worked by the general re.
cults they accomplished, and by
the spirit they have shown since they
brought out the magnificent oI4an;z,lion
that elected Lincoln, saved the nation, en-.
iranchised and opened to the poor men of
all foreign lands, not only the North en-.
rlched by Republican policies, bnt tho
South surrendered by tho Democracy to
owned labor, and the New West which tho
democracy wanted TO surrender to slave
labor.
The editorial concluder: Great public
careers are not judged by the microscopic
examination Of dishonestly selected speci.
mens. The American people know grpst
leader alter they have had him before
them Tor twenty years in q lsrgs way, and
neither sensational journalism nor vicious
personal politics has ever harmed such
man. Mr. Blaine certainly has nothing
to fear and great deal to gain from any
assaults that bring before Americana,
natlyts or adopted, the beginnings OF his
career q, public man. Keep no the e1-
aminations Of the files Of the ksunebec
Journal. gentlemen Of the demoralizsd and
Wretchedly led opposition. The more COM
pleteiy you can awaken and eniiven tho
public interest in this chapter OF Mr..
B!alne,s career the more We ehall ba
pleased"