The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10
DOESN'T WANT IT ALL ONE WAY.
Notes from Various sources.

Cincinnati Sun: One thing is sure, Blaine
will make it the liveliest, red hot campaign that
the country ever saw. Blaine will most likely
take the stump.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: There is an
immense groaning and whining about the unpop-
ularity of James G. Blaine in New York. Is it
shown by the fact that every Republican con-
gressional district i'll the State of New York,
with a single exception, was represented in Chi
cago by Blaine delegates
Louisville CourierJournal: The Republican
platform is broad enough for pagan and Chris
tian, Jew and GENTLE. allopath and homeopath,
wholesaler and retailer. capital and labor to
stand upon. If every man but John Chinaman
can't find something therein to his liking, he
must be mighty hard to please.
A Massachusetts delegate to the Chicago con-
vention, says that none of the members of his
State delegation will refuse to support Blaine.
He says that the report circulated in Chicago to
the effect that Henry Cabot Lodge would resign
the craftsmanship of the Republican State com
mittee is without foundation. Lodge is DESTROYS
of running for Congress on the Republican tick
ct this fall, and he will not bolt Blaine.
There was printed in the Congressional Record
Saturday morning about thirty pages of Mr..
Blaine's book, '"rwenty Years in Congress-. "
The thrifty congressman who adopted this means
of putting Mr.. Blaine's opinion on the tariff into
cheap form for popular circulation, was Mr.. j.
H. Brewer, of New Jersey. 1t is printed as hav-
ing been delivered in the House while the Morri-
son bill was pending last May, and is simply pre-
coded by a half dozen lines commenting Mr..
Blaine's remarks as the clearest and most con
elusive argument on the tariff that Mr.. Brewer
has SEEN.
Chicago Special: The Hon. John c. New, of
Indiana, said that Blaine and Logan -yorId
arouse great enthusiasm in lis State. While the
nominations might lie somewhat unexpected TO a
large number OF the Indiana Republicans. il was
a ticket that would command their admiration
and hearty support. The Indiana Republicans
runoO Au1-1 ,-1 ,-,4I
~sistance they would carry the State by a decisive
majority. Mr.. New would not make a prediction
as to what the majority would be. but was Ger
tain that it would give the electoral votes of In
diana to the Republican ticket without any
chance of a contest.
No one who has ever attended any previous
national convention of either party at any place
can have failed to note the almost total absence
of drunkenness. For a week the town was
crowded with strangers from all parts of the
country, but no one seemed disposed to paint it
red. Had it been a gathering of clergymen
there could hardly have been more sobriety.
Evidently the American people are improving in
this regard. No doubt the bars did a thriving
business. but it is certainly no longer the fashion
to lose ones head when important business is to
be transacted. This is a triumph of common
sense over a barbaric idea of smartness.
On Thursday night the Arthur and Edmunds
men knew that their respective causes were
hopeless unless they combined. The Edmunds
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friends would not go to Edmunds. The Arthur
men submitted the name of Gresham, but Sen
ator Hoar was foremost in opposing him. Do
what they would, the Arthur men could not win
over the Edmunds men to the Postmaster gener-
al. Then the Edmunds men submitted the
name of Hawley, as a man upon whom a comb
nation could be formed. But as the Edmunds
men would not go to Gresham the Arthur men
would not go to Hawley, and then all hopes of a
compromise ended.
Murat Halstead; Taking it all through, the
convention was we'll handled. There was
some trouble last night because there were
%, 900 people who wanted to get into a
place holding $1,000. But that was an cpl
sode. The press was well fixed, the delega-
tions were we'll accommodated, the hall was
far better ventilated than usual in such cases,
and the facilities for telegraphing were excellent
and easily within reach. There has been more
telegraphing done from the city of Chicago with
in a week than from any other city on any other
occasion in the records of telegraphy, and 1 wish
to say for the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany that l have been amazed by the accuracy
with which they have transmitted my own dis
matches.