The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-24
4 arRona EnpoRsENENT.

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A STRONG ENDORSEMENT
Ellis Il. Roberts, former associate
in congress OF Hon. James G. Blaine.
from New York, writes the following
editorial in his paper, the Utica Herald,
Of April a: 'sThe strength which has
thus far beea developed for Mr.. Blaine
has come from the homes and farms and
shops, and not from selfconstituted
leaders anywhere. 1t must continue TO
be 30 to the end, so far ss Mr.. Blaine's
original friends are concerned. They
stand aside and permit the popular
movement to take its own course. They
will seize nothing by force or by
strategy If, then, Mr.. Blaine should be
nominated at Chicago, it will be by the
spontaneous and irresistible demand of
the Republican rank and file OF Repub-
iIcan states. Such nomination would
carry success with it. It would be the
answer to every imputation and every
charge. 1t would be the best cure for
every sore of faction. II would be the
emphatic assertion that the people, OF
their own Yolltion, chose him for their
leader, and that their trust is equal to
their admiration. II would be the re-
buke to the pretence that the canvass
would be defensive, for it would render
it aggressive from the outset.
A'campaign for Mr.. Blaine could not
be defensive. He has been in public
life so long that If nominated it would
be after scanning every criticism, after
rejecting every charge. The people re-
member that Mr.. Blaine was speaker
when the treasury of the United States
was purified from the Sanborn con.
tracts, from the corruption which assailed
il, from the combinations which made
General Butler almost master in that de-
Partment. Without the legitimate sup
port of the speaker the work Of reforma-
ton could not have been accomplished
with the thoroughn ess which attended
it. During the whole period for the
publication of the Republican party
Mr.. Blaine has been in the front, and
has rendered services which NO Other
man could have given. He was the
nearest friend of President Garfield, and
sustained him with vigor which never
| fiinched, and q wisdom which illumin.
ated all affairs. For what was best il
the administration of the martyr
president he was in grea
part responsible, and certainly
he was DEVOTED in its support. H'
is now the natural heir of the wealth o
favor and affection and enthusiasm
which the American people cherish TO
Garfield. A few of the same men WHIT
pursued Garfield with malignity to tn
grave may try campaign of detraction
but the people have heard whatever cal
be said, and the nomination, If made
will be the final verdict upon every i'm
putatIon that has ever been invented
No Republican can be put into tn
field who will not be assailed. Alread
the habits of Senator Edmunds are 81
7 verely criticised. But the entire recor
, of Mr.. Blaine has long been before th
3 country, and the popular uprising
D caused in some measure by the indIgnt
3 ton of thinking citizens at the assault
( which have been made. Garfield
q choice of his foremost adviser will
r taken as worth more than any faction
Y or partisan arraignment.
: Mr.. Blame will stand for intelligel
e support of the principle of protection
q American industry. He will continl
# President Garfield's task of elevatiI
3 the civil service. He will labor for Il
Il increase of national utility and go'
n feeling, and he will receive among t
y best southern people generous suppo
Ie to that end. He is an American
II Americans, and prudently, but in ma
y ly way, he will maintain the dignity
i the republic. With him as presidel
no secretary of state would get hIms
q into the lamentsble plight which \
e. Frelinghuysen has run into by exposi
T. state secrets and thrusting minister
IN the United States into a quarrel wi
Is Bismarck.
1t We are every way content 10 leave
III matter of the presidential nomination
"A, the Chicago convention. We have soug
rs, to counsel harmony and patient waiti
p for the expressions of the popu,
1g will. We are not advocating I
or nomination of Mr.. Blaine. We do !
at say that the convention will find it W
on to nominate him. We do predict thai
ar the people In their primaries and ho
of gatherings, IN their original cow
er- tions, 10 their sovereign capacity, sh
of name him, the CANVASS will not be
ITS fensive. II will start with such popu
lp- strength as has never before been exh
st, tied without patronage or organiza att
all It is the voice which rises on the lips
he the people, without suggestion and wi
IN out training. If nomination were
re- give it discipline and system no opp
CHI ton could stand before it. The Chics
I'd. convention may see some sufficient !
sn- son for selecting another candidate;
Tor II must be for some other cause than {
ay canvass for Mr.. Blaine would be
yer fensive. A canvass for him would b
ull campaign of fire."