Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-30
The Independents Opportunity.


Ex-President Woolsey made known
his purpose to support Mr.. Blaine,
early in the canvass, and he has now
shown that his course Is we'll cOnsld-
cred, his support earnest and positive,
and his purpose definite. by accepting
the Republican nomination for ElectOr.
His course has been determined by his
conviction that the supreme duty OF
patriots is to prevent the National Gov
eminent from falling into the hands OF
an unpatriOtic party. and that Mr.
Blaine is to be preferred to any Demo
GRAFT
This pronounced action of DR..
WOOlsey leaves the Independent move
ment without ground to stand upon,
and leaves Connecticut without an In
dependent movement DR.. Woolsey is
an eminent and highly-honored repre-
sentative of precisely that independ-
ence. thOughttulness, and conscience in
politics upon which the Independents
profess to found their movement. He
is is known to be a man OF exalted aud
sensive prObity, eXacting even to fastid-
iOusness in all matters of morals. and
himself an authority upon ethics.
He is known to be a man whom no
consideration OF a partisan or personal
nature can turn by a hairs breadth
from the course prescribed by his en-
ightened and sensitive conscience. To
many thousands of men in this country
his teachings have been the ground
work of ETH IS and character, and his
Judgment a controlling influence. His
decision carries with it an authority
similar to that which the opinion of a
great jurist on points Of law bears
among lawyers.
BY deed and word this eminent
teacher and type of conscience in
politics, as in all the affairs of life, now
tells those who look to him for advice
and example, that in his deliberate
Judgment it is the duty Of all Repub-
licans. all patriots, to save the country
from the calam ;tY of Demo- rule
by supporting Mr.. Blaine. The tn5u-
ence of his act can not be SMALL either
in Connecticut or in the country gener-
ally. 1t must set those Independents
who really are sincere to revising their
judgments and questioning the sound
ness of their own course. 1t must
make them ask themselves whether,
after all, they have not erred in their
disappointment at the refusal of the
party TO nominate the particular man
they wanted for candidate.
1t is a noteworthy fact that most of
the men who, like DR.. W OOlsev, are best
known as representatives of principle.
courage and true independence in poll
tics, have reused to DIN in that bolt of
the discontinued VIII calls .tsel1 hide
pendent, but is really Democratic.
President White, The JdOre Roosevelt,
Senator Boar, Sherman S. Rogers a d
many others of like note and probity,
including even the SPECIAL iuOl and
favOrite Of the Independents. Senator
Edmunds himself are supporting Mr.
Blaine in full conviction that in that
way they best and most surely promote
the welfare o. the Nation and Lne ca Use
OF good government, which they hold
to be superior to party.
But Mr.. Carl Schur remains. He is
as earnest and positive now in his OPP
! position to Mr.. Blaine as he was in
| 1876 IN his Fifth Avenue Hotel mani
| festO against the nomination of a per-
| lOn cOntemptuOusly described in Ian
| guage which he declared meant
Hayes" 1t is true that Mr.. Schurz
/ afterward put the manifesto in his
/ pocket made speeches for Hayes and
/ accepted a place in his Cabinet; but
/ that was incidental. Mr.. Schurz is pIO-
( foundly convinced that political moral
| ity demands the defeat of Mr.. Blaine,
and so the Independents are not left
/ quite desolate.
The time has come for the young
| nen. and the sincere men who were
/ driven by disappointment or seduced
! by a delusive cry into. this Independent
/ bolt, to pause and think, and review
! the ground of their action. 1t Is time
for them to ask themselves seriously,
what their real duty is, as Republicans
and patriots; to consider the results
/ which must follow the success of the
! Democrats, and to ask themselves
whether they are willing to aid in the
! production o. such results. Some OF
| them are sincere men. They have now
an opportunity to decide calmly, with
the facts before them, the question
they decided hurriedly aud under the
/ influence Of excitement and passion.
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