The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-15
what Blaino's Friends Said or HIM.

have no wish to assail Mr.. Blaine,
nor need l do so. Twenty-four hours
In your presence would not be time
enough in which to read Republican
testimony, and that talone, OF his fright
Iul unttness to be President Of the
United States. He is the same man of
whom the Cincinnati Commercial said
eight years ago:
do you really mean that a man who
has been stock -jobber in subsidy rail-
road schemes would be a good reform
candidate for the Presidency
He is the same man Of whom the
same Republican paper said:
The Blaine letters prove all he has
been charged with. The troublesome
fact is that there is a low tone of pub
lie morality in the estimation of the
uses Of public position for private
gain"
And again the same paper ON June
l6, 1875, said:
We make no personal war upon Mr..
Blaine. His public record condemns
him, and it would be the madness of
the moon for the Republican party TO
60. to the country under his leader
ship"
James G. Blaine is also the same
man OF whom that other Republican
journal, the Cincinnati Gdsette, thus
published its opinion in 1876:
The exposure of Blaine will have
the effect to put the Cincinnati conYen-
ton on its guard. Had he been nOmi-
mated before the disclosures were made
the party would have been reduced TO
the necessity of forcing him of the
ticket or accepting the alternative of
an overwhelming defeat" The same
paper again spoke of the same man,
then as now candidate for the Presi-
deney, as follows:
These letters confirm the report
that Blaine was a speculator in the Sc
curities of subsidy railroads, 49, He
became one of the ring, and speculated
largely in the securities of the COM
pany. This dark transaction cannot
be explained away. 1t will stand
against Mr.. Blaine as long as he lives,
and Is in itself sufficient To condemn
him in public estimation"
Again, the same man stood for the
following photograph, which was taken
by the same Republican newspaper:
Yesterday it was the Kansas City
bonds which were traced to the imme-
date vicinity Of Mr.. Blaine. Let us
see: He has now appeared at different
LILIES WIFI SOueWuaJ palnlul clear
ness in connection with the Northern
Pacific, Sioux City, Union Pacific, Kan
sas Pacific, Atlantic & Pacific, MissOu-
i, Kansas s. Texas, and the Fort Smith
3 Little Rock"
1t was Of James Blaine also that an
)ther great Western Republican Jour
nal, the Chicago Tribune, wrote, when
IN the 4th Of June, 1870, it said:
1T is perfect nonsense to talk now of
making him (Blaine) the Republican
candidate for President. The party
,annnot afford to be placed on the de-
ensive side and go through the cam
)aign explaining, denying, and defend
ng the wildcat railroad stock specula-
ions Of anybody. Mr.. Blaine is smart
,nough to see that he would be disas-
rously beaten and his party probably
uined."
But why pursue the Republican
roof furtherY Blaine has not chang
ID in his character nor in his methods,
Tor have the editors of these papers
hanged their estimate of him. Their
upport of him now does not mean
hat he has reformed, but that they
ave from party necessity accepted him
lst as he was when they denounced
i'm as more fit for criminal punish
lent than for political promotion
endtor VOorbees' Washington, Indiana
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