Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-22
.AmERICA FOR AmERICANs.''

Under this headline, the Salt Lake
Tribune, which is a very ably edited
journal aud ordinarily very conservative
and we'll tempered, makes a furious on
slaught upon the editors of its own po-
litical party that have protested against
the nomination of, and refuse TO support,
Blaine and Logan. The attack it makes,
we have to explain, is general and all
along the extended line; but the assault
is especially fierce and bitter upon George
Jones of the Times, e. L. Godkin OF the
Post and Kepler and Scwarzmann
of Puck, who are of English and German
birth. Says Judge Goodwin:
ssAll that is masculine, all that is
progressive, all that is American and
could be called in case of war to sustain
the country, in the Republican party are
for Blaine"
We believe this statement is not fair.
It is a fact that the citizens OF the United
States of foreign ~parentage are ardent IN
their devotion to the land of their adop-
ton and vie with native born citizens In
earnestness for its support and protec-
ton aver as against the governments I'M
der which, by accident of birth, they
first saw the light. At most, no natural
lied citizen of the United States can be
presumed to prefer any other nation than
his original home to this nation for
which he has foresworn all other national
allegiance. 1t hardly becomes a Repub-
lican journal to refer thus sluringly to
the foreign element in it's party. The Tri-
bune's harshness towards certain editors
of foreign birth may be excusable on
strictly partisan grounds, because OF
their protesting against the party's
nominations for President and Vice
President; but this harshness, if
iustifable at all, is only SO
when directed against the Professionals
treated as any other Republican editors
would be treated under similar circum-
stances, without any reference to their
nativity. When, however, the assault Is
made upon all members Of the Republi-
can party who did not happen to be born
on this soil, the animus of it can be
sought for logically only in the incen-
diary principle of knownothingism. We
are not needed to defend the protestant
Republicans, whether native Americans,
German, English or what not. They do
not, in fact, think it necessary to defend
themselves. Their warfare puts the Re-
publican party on the defensive. 1t
drives the Tribune out of its ordinarily
excellent humor to say such tart and
really aimless things as this:
The opposition to Blaine is by foreign
ers or by a select class that, while being
too small boned and too white-handed to
descend to the arena and make a gallant
fight for a principle or a candidate, are
not too great to be exceedingly anxious
about the spoils Of office, and who for
twelve years have always bucked and
bolted when they thought the lions
share was not left to them. h real
American Republicans should with re-
newed energy gather around Blaine and
Logan.
We believe that such paragraphs as
these will not intimidate the Protestants.
Such heated speeches will rather serve
to convince them that they are in the
right, and induce others to join theii
ranks. The effect may also be to dem
onstrate to men Of foreign birth that the
friendship of the Republican leaders for
them is not substantial enough to endure
any opposition on their part that inter
feres with party discipline-that it is 8
friendship for service only. To sum II
all up, our Republican friends are badly
hurt by the sudden collapse OF Mr.
Blaine's boom. They are very angry,
Their editors, forgetting discretion FOL
the time, lose their heads, make capita
for Democrats, and actually manufacture
the most effective weapons for Republl
can defeat at the November polls.