Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-06-13
THE GREAT REVOLT.
The Republican Press Turn
ing its Guns on Blaine.
\ Chapter of Comments Which Put
Ice on the Blaine Boom.

New YORK, June 10. The Evening
Post last evening contained the fol
lowing; Various statements having
been made as to the probable course
OF Harper's Weekly in regard to the
nomination of Blaine and Logan. a
reporter of the Post to-day visited the
publishing house of Harper 4 Bros.
in order to obtain, if possible, an au-
thorized announcement on the sub
ject. In reply TO his inquiry repre-
sentative of the house made the state
ment by authority that Harper's
Weekly will oppose the Chicago nom
nations; that decision to this effect
was reached by the members of the
house unanimously, and that the pen
of Mr.. George William Curtis and
the pencil of Mr.. Thomas Mast will
be eNerted in support of this course. >
i; New York Post (rep.): What is to
be the issue from this deplorable and
disastrous, but deliberately created
muddle, it is yet too soon to forecast.
That Mr.. Blaine cannot be elected we
look on as certain.
Utica Press (Rep) The national
republican convention has completed
the great work for which ii was called
together and nominated James
Blaine of Maine, as the candidate of
the party. How well or how i'll it
has done its work will be decided
hereafter by the republican voters at
the ballot box. To us, we say frankly,
the selection of Mr.. Blaine is a great
disappointment.
Springfield Mass Republican
(Rep): these nominations are revo-
luticnary. They are such as the re-
publican party has never before pre-
sented and will carry dismay and
alarm to thousands of men who have
regarded this as tie party of safety,
Of integrity, oS principle, and Of high
moral ends They portend deserved
disaster and defeat to the republican
party and revolution in the nation
al administration.
Boston Advertiser (rep): With un-
abated devotion to the great purposes
Tor which the republican party was
organized and has been maintained,
~e declare our inability to support the
nomination, either in the present as
pect of the political field or in any
which now seems likely to present it.
self.
Boston Transcript Uep): The re
publican sentiment of Massachusetts,
has been deeply disappointed by Jas.
G. Blaine's nomination. Mr.. Blaine
is the style of public man which a
constituency like that composing the
republican strength of Massachusetts,
instinctively turns away from.
Boston Herald (ind.): Believing
that Mr.. Blaine would be bad and
dangerous president, we hope to see
hlm defeated. Believing him to be a
weak candidate, we expect to see him
defeated.
Rochester Post Express (rep): The
republican national convention has
preferred taking a risk to insuring a
certainty, and, of all the risky courses
open to 1t, 1t has selected the most
risky.
Buffalo, n. Y, Express (rep.): Mr..
represented, and probably never will
represent, that considerable portion of
his party which is governed by prin-
ciple rather than by sentiment, and
without whose votes no republican
candidate for president can be elected.
New York Times, rep. The con yen
ton was a scene of triumph for the
Blaine republicans, a triumph as
| boundlcss as space. 1t was the com
plete abandonment of wild intoxica-
ton, with no thought for the terrible
next morning. New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, New York,
and Indiana have been turned over TO
the democrats. Independent republi-
cans refuse the party their support.
Defeat and perhaps dissolution stare
the republican party in the face.
Rochester, (N. y Herald. rep.
Moreover, we do not believe Blaine
will receive the united republican sup
port, by which only can he succeed at
tho polls.
Louisville Times, ind: We believe
Bayard would beat Blaine in New
York and Massachusetts,, and with
some northwestern tariff reformer, like
Villas Of Wisconsin, as second on the
ticket, carry the country in the ex-
pressive phraseology of the track,
''hands down"