Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-11-20
THE MISTAKE OF TIE REPUBLl.
CAN PARTY LEADERS,.

That the national convention last June
made fatal mistake in the nomination Of
James u. Blaine was believed by many
at the time and has been proven almost
conclusive]y and to the CONVICTION of
nearly all ty the results of the election.
AS is well known TO the readers OF the
Alert we favored the nomination of Lo
gao for the first place on the ticket and
we believe now that if he had been NOM
mated he would have been elected, and
that the republican party would be stron
ger today than at any time In the p'st
eight years, instead OF being stricken by
disaster, humillated by defeat and put to
shame by the rebuke of the people.
If Logan, the gallant soldier and un.
blemished statesman, had been at the
head of the ticket there would have been
no revolt IN the republican party to burst
asurder its ties in the east There
would have been no MuIligan letters to
vainly attempt to explain away, nor other
charges OF corruption and jobbery laid at
his door that even his political enemies
would not have repudiated. Logan is
man of the masses and In heart and soul
he IS with the common people.
The campain on the part of the repub-
licrn leaders, principal among whom was
Blame himself, was made upon a false
Issue, that of protective tariff with the
battle cry of protecting home industry
and 4 nerican labor. The American Ia
borer is not fool. lie can think as well
rs work and reason from cause to effect
as well as the political leaders This
question was sprung just before the eIec-
tion four years ago. and 80 late IN the
campaign and so suddenly that the dem
ocra;s had not tlre to recover from the
shock before the election, and the result
was victory for the republican party by
carrying the state of New York. The re.
publican leaders deceived the lat oring
people then by promising them under the
protectlye tariff system plenty of work
and COED wages. The present campaign
found laborers revengeful for the decep
ton. found thousands Of them out of
work or on half time and reduced wages
In this condition Of things II was suicidal
for the party to come before the working
people with the same issue upon which
they were deceived before, and especially
TO make that the leading issue. The pe0-
pie cannot be twice decc we'd on the same
subject
The political party that takes up the
tariff as leading issue takes up two
edged sword which is just as liable to cut
bacxward as forward. 1t is not an issue
between the republican and democratic
parties and cannot be made such without
severing both IN twain. Both sides OF
the question are represented IN each par
".
That Mr.. Blaine injured his cause by
his personal canvass is shown by the
heavy reduction of the republican major
ty 10 every state he personally canvessed.
In doing 50 he broke over precedent,
shocked the settled public sentiment OF
proprie,y aud incurred the stigma OF an
office beggar He cannot have forgotten
how the personal canvass of Douglas in
1860 lowered him ia the estimation OF the
people, and he ought TO have known that
the same effect would result from his own
canvas Lincoln remained at home and