The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-24
PUCK ON BLAINE.

We have received the following letter:
TO II Editor Of the Puck
STR Notwithstanding your opposition
to James G. Blame, don't you really believe
he will be elected next president of the U.
81 Come now, give US an honest opinion
of thoughts, as they occur to you during
your moments of sober second thoughts,
and you will greatly oblge
A REPUBLICAN READER OF Puck
who will vote for Blaine and Logan.
No. We do not believe that the Ameri-
can nation will disgrace itself by electing
Mr.. Blaine president.
And ii he were elected what then?
Would he be any the less tricky and dis
honorable politican2 Would John A. Lo-
gan be anything but turn-coat slave
cstcher2 Would dishonesty be honesty
would unprincipled smartness be wise in
tegrity; would demagogue's tricks be
statesmanship9 Would lie be the TRUTH
We publish the above communication be-
cause it is fair example Of the desperate
tactics of Mr.. Blaine's followers. They
have had from the beginning but this one
argument He will be elected. Yes, he is
dishonorable man; he has proved himself
unfalthful to his public trust; he is not
statesman - at The best but smart and
snowy demagogue; he is utterly unfit to be
president of the United States -- but - lie
will be elected: therefore let us support
him. This has been their one solitary plea.
And at the first, we will admit, we thought
it might be to some extent effective among
the people. We saw that it was possible
that sustained effort of brilliant impu-
dence might carry the dellrum known as
the "Baine boom" through to a successful
conclusion. But now two months have
passed since Mr.. Blaines nomination, and
the sustained effort of brilliant impudence,
which the Blaine movers would call an
aggressive campaign" is not seen.
Impudence enough there has been, in all
the conduct of the Blaine campaign; but
it has been stupid impudence. We have
lad the dull and futile lying of the Trib-
une; the fatuou, misrepresentation of the
country press-such part of it as still clings
to the disgraced party; the blatant extrav-
sgance OF the campaign orator. the con,
temptible apologies Of the few respectable
Republicans who have been whipped in to
support the man they denounced ten weeks
ago, and we have had the base and brutal
SANDER of Mr.. Cleveland for which the
Boston Journal and an unnamable paper in
this state must bear the responsibility.
Hero and there excited office-holders have
gathered together the unwilling citizens
and hung across the highways the flag of
their country, and marred It's sacred stripes
with the portrait of man whose greedy
heart never knew one patriotic thrvb. And
the hired brass bands play, and the hired
orators spout, and the hungry politicians
yell, and the Tribune misquotes the Post,
and the Honorable Dir. Hoar's defense"
of Blaine is carefully hidden from the eyes
of Mr.. Blaine's supporters, and Mr.. Will
liam Walter Phelps declines to earn $780,
600 for Yale College by proving his candi'
date to be an honorable man, and Vermont,
the stronghold of the party, gives reduced
Republican majority in the local election.
There is impudence here; but where is
the brilliancyl We were 10 have an Sag
gressive campaign" Blaine was to sweep
the country like whirlwind He was to
go into the White House on great billow
OF popular enthusiasm. His opponents
we're to be kept on the run" And what
do we find after two monthsl Mr.. Blaine,
cast of aud condemned by the best men
and the best papers OF his owa party, con-
Quoting hating, hestating campaign of
trickery, evasion, shifts and lies, the only
'.aggressiveness" of which is seen in infa-
nous and indecent methods of unmanly
warfare, Why is thisi
Because the man is coward at bottom.
He ,slwsys has been blusterer and brag-
CART; q swashing fellow, of great martial