The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-06-18

such tenacious hold upon the
hearts of the people that they would
rot, could not, let him remain in
the seclusion to which the lottery
of assassination had retired him,
but without effort or seeking of his,
have insisted upon bringing him
once more to the front, saying to the
country and all the world: "rhis is
our leader, better loved and more
fully trusted than ever before. We
viii crown him with the highest
honors within our gift"
THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN HIM.
From The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
No political party ever made a
mistake when it concerned its action
to popular expression. The Repub-
lican National Convention has done
this; ana therefore its action will be
ratified at the polls. The people
the men ofthe plough. the workshop
and loom-believe in James G..
Blaine. They believe in him as a
man OF the most alert intelligence
and the best Political equipment in
the country, versed in its history
and familiar with its political prob
lens. They believe in him as a man
of warm heart, whose sympatnies
are confined to no class and bound
ed by no sectional lines. They be-
lieve in him as a man who under
stands their needs and will meet
their requirements. They believe
in him as man who appreciates
the economic issue of the hour, who
is devoted to the rigid maintenance
of the good faith of the Republic and
who will uphold the dignity and the
interest of American Industries
against ruinous foreign competition.
They believe in him as man who
is an American in every fiber of his
being and who has an American
policy for an American Govern
ment.
A JUST AND CONSISTENT CHOICE.
From the Kingston IN. W Freeman.
Whether the party did the most
expedient thing yesterday, events
can alone determine ; but we hold
thatit did a just, consistent and eour-
ageous thing. Mr.. Blaine is the
most conspicuous American living
who has recognized right TO the
Presidency. He has the highest
qualities of leadership, and the larg-
est and most enthusiastic following.
For 20 years the eyes,of the country
have been upon him az a man who
must inevitably, by the law of lead
ership and preference, become some
day its President. Expediency has
too often turned away from recog-
ornized craftsmanship in searching
for Presidential candidates, and fix
ed upon some dark horse" some
soldier without qualifications for civ
ic administration, or some third-rate
politician concerning whose record
the most that could be said was that
nobody knew either good or i'll of
him.
STRONGER THAN GARFIELD AND Ar
THUR.
From me 81. Louis Post -DisPafch.
1t would be fatuous to claim that
Blaine and Logan are not stronger
than Garfield and Arthur were imme-
diately after their nomination. Lo-
gan is Western man, and carries to
the ticket the soldier enthusiasm
and the support ofthe stslwart fac
ton. Blaine was bred and brought
up in the Ohio valley and has all the
magnetic traits that attract the Wes-
tern masses. He is the most astute
politician, the most fertile in expe-
dients and most aggressive of his
generation. The time is favorable
to another outburst of the Young
America" or manifest destiny"
spirit which sometimes becomes
potent fact in our politics, and his
name will arouse all the jingoism
we have among us.
HE EBELIEvEs IN THE people,
From The wilm ingtOn DELL News.
Mr.. Blaine is the best and most
distinctive representative of the idea
of American nationality. He be-
lieves in the people, in the mass, In
the great and enduring understratum
of American society, and the people
from the humblest to the highest
believe in him. His faith and feel
ings, even more than his ideas and
convictions, crop out all over the
platform on which he stands this
morning He does not believe in
cheap labor, because il degrades the
people, and the platform reflects his
sentiments he believes in America
for the Americans, and the platform
re-echoes his patriotic faith he be-
lieves that one man is just as good
as another, whether his skin is white
or black, his nationality Irish or
American, and the platform empha-
sizes his manly judgment.
AMERICAN FAIR PLAY OPPOSED TO
MUD-MACHINES.
From The Boston Trarefer.
The same earnestness and spirit
which have at last placed the stan
dard of the party In Mr.. Blainsls
hands will go far to help him carry
it to victory. There are some Re-
publican elements to be conoiliated,
and some apprehensions to be re-
moved. The personal phase of the
hostility to Mr.. Blaine in certain
quarters has already done its worst,
and is not to be seriously feared.
Already the recoil from the viru-
lence with which he has been assail-
ed is distinctly felt. The work of
detraction has been overdone, and
the er-potent instinct OF American
fair play NAV be trusted 20 assert
itself.
BLACKJACK" LOGAN
From the Wilkes Barre Record.
The pet name of our candidate for
the vice presidency should not be
written Black JACK, as the newspa-
pers of the country have il, but
Blackjack, that being the name of
the toughest and gnarliest kind of
an oak growing in the Western coun-
try. When the secessionists Of the
Southwest came in contact with
Colonel Logan, during the early
day5 of the war of the rebellion, they
pronounced him the blackjack Fed
eral officer of volunteers, because he
mos az tough n o,,stonert IN deal with