Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-06-26
In{nsrnee to Republican success,

ln(nernee to Republican Ruce.s.
Gesge William Crtis, in his snaacb
IN thRepublican cQvention i'm onnos;.
ti0n the rssOlutin declarjn0 that
everylelegate was a honOr bonnd 70
suppS the nominee said: 81 beg this
convection to assum, that eyerv man
nerl Ian honest and honorable mar
dnponventl0n did .ssume what Mr..
OurP asked, and tb resolution was
MiClEawn. Every Oh interpreted the
LeM1k o! MI. Curtis } mean that his
pLesqce In the convection was pledge
th.3 p would abide blythe action of t6e
cord alton. '"'
~ 1'se issue of Harer's weekly for
thf week Mr.. Curtis san
tldefy to Republican prldp reouires in
dliferene to present Repubkn success. and
Harper. weekly, which moethan once has
not hesltted in the interest ofbublic morality
ana partpurlfcat!on to oppos other Repub-
lioaii nohpatlons, can not susfn the signif-
cant one sainst which it has 4 earnestly pro-
testeu, an'whlch is a practice abdication of
hepuDllcalcharacter and purple
This declaration is the rbre remark
able becase it is proceeded by the adj
mission hat the nomintion of Mr..
Blaine lis doubtless agreeable 10 the
majority d the party know at Chica-
Co." But emarkable or nol the decla-
ration Is Il be discussed inlcOnnection
with whatMr. Curtis and offers said in
the convection of last week.
II Mr.. Ctrtis did not intentto support
the n0minie Of the cOnyentih when. he
made His speech last week hetoOped to
deeeption by juggling his lords. On
the nrst day OF the cOnvsntid he had
said: ibis IL the supreme.cOulejl of the
OF the Republicans" and ON he night
given TO The OratOry Of the Nominating
speeches Mr.. Curtis spoke OF "th splan d.
ID story Of the Republican nsrts story
which lswritteA upon the hears of all
American eitizens, because L fa,ounts
Ssa II services for liherg, for thscoun,
t~, VplS< RsshNSind thar those Cf any
paySy lr any oSier nation aud at any
other Neri0d Of time. y
IL Wa this supreme council Of this
party With such splendid story that
nominated James G. Blaine; and id lom-
mated linn just as it nominated bra.
ham LiicOln in 1860 and James A. Ear
field In 1880. 1t does not matter mich
what HTper's weekly does, for it has
frequently blundered In most critical
times, BUT it does matter what Geo
tam Curtis does. After what he
rdlid in the. Chicago convention
ot Subscribe to i1e, doctrine OF
isof that sheet, If Mr.. Cur
the Harper establishment
efknT and free man." he
by the grace Of God Re-
free man," go out OF it
d Supported Abraham Tin
o. Harper's Weekly did iot
Aeroa or, tho riOht sida at the
10 Of the war. Harper's Weekly
and had its influences BEEN
sYaa6 it would have done the Unior
ri lealculable harm. Bat as 1t wa
stC0ng enough to sail against Thu
slIssm it came to right about and RAJ
w On the current.
The course Of the paper ia the grea
rsfis of our National life was c0ntrolie
by business rather than patriotic mt
tiyps. 1t bas frequently opposed Repuf
liean measures for no better reasO
than thoze which caused the. manage
ment to hesitate at the beginning OF TN
war. The paper may be against BAN
now with as little effect as 1t wa
against the Republican administrator
inthe early days of 1861. But MIR. Cur
tvs, who opposed Blaine in 1876 and 1873
when he was defeated and who was
member of the Supreme COuncil" tina
nominated him in 1884, owes the part
mwAOse ranks he has acted more OF a.
NeyF lanaaion than is given in the an
Npt6cement in Harper's weekly. II MI
Curtis should in his own acts justlf
what Mr., Knight, of California, and nj
Hawkins of Tennessee, limited at in Tn
convention, he is placed very AWKWARD
before the people.-Inter Ocean.