Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-26
eureka Uoilp 5rntutel.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 26. 1884



The Philadelphia Press has the follow
ing. which, endorsing as it does a state
ment in the Boston Journal, may be said
TO come from two very level-headed bus
mess journals, misguided in politics :
A gentleman from Boston, after look
ing over the political situation in WASH
ineton. wrote to the Journal OF that city
az follows ''In my opinion the next
campaign is not to be a boom Tor any
man. / mean no mere political high
flyer is going to be elected. The business
men Of the country, the leaders OF It's
enterprise, its industries and its material
interests are becoming aroused as they
have seldom been, and they will insist
that the nominee shall be a level-headed
and trustworthy man." This is undoubt.
edly a terse and correct description OF
the situation. The Presidential canvass
soon to open will be p~re-eminently a busi-
ness mems campaign. 1t would probably
have taken that character in any event,
but the course of the Democrats in insist
ing upon an uncalled for agitation OF the
tariff question has removed all doubt
about the matter. The business interest
cannot stand by idly while values are
unsettled and the industries OF the coun-
try are injured. We may expect, there
fore, in this Presidential canvass a more
hearty participation of the men OF affairs
than the nation is accustomed to witness.
But we are bound to infer from the
Press and Journal that the Republican
idea of a business campaign is to be n
which boldly demands as a part of the
Republican platform a high protective
tariff. On that issue the party will find
it difficult to retain three of the most in
fuential papers in New York State, the
New York Times, the New York Even
ing Post and the Buffalo Express, besides
a large number Of others in other States.
The tariff as a business issue cuts both
ways. Unprotected manufacturers, i'm
porters who are crushed by high duties,
workingmen who are required to pay high
prices for protection and get low wages in
return, are all alert this year, and are not
to be turned by a campaign of lying and
intimidation such as there was in 1880.
But where in the whole Republican
bunch of candidates now before the
country will they find n who answers
the Boston Journals description as ga
level.headed and trustworthy man-no
mere political highfyer?" The Press
mentions Sherman, Blaine, Edmunds,
Arthur and Logan, and yet not one of
them attended to any business of any
kind within the last 25 years except
office-holding and ofice-seeking-unless
we may except Gen. Logan, who passed
part of the time in the army, the only
one of this array of candidates Of the
party who saved the Union, who smelt
rebel powder. All of them are rich, yet
not one of them is ga leader of the en-
terprises, the industries or the material
interests of the country-but all of
them are rich apparently on parsimoni-
Gus savings from salaries which cannot
pay a years rent for either one of the
houses which their families occupy.
On the other hand, the Democratic
leaders are all of them men of affairs.
All of them are rich (f rich at all) by
the force Of honest hand or brain work,
and all Of them level.headed and trust
worthy. Scan over the list-Tilden,
Flower, Mcdonald, Thurman, Hendricks,
Bayard-scan the list and attempt to
compare with them such an array
Sherman, Blaine, Edmunds, Arthur,
Logan. Let the Democrats understand
that it is to be a business campaign, and
push that issue with the enemy.