The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-06-19
Blaine, ParYenue.

Blaine, Gdlfeuue.
1t is conceded everywhere that
Mr.. Blaine has ability, great and even
ability; that his services
% the party have been many and val
le-immeasureable indeed. But Z
Blaine must be downed. He lacks
,he finish, the grace and culture in his
political enterprises, which are de-
by blue-blooded radicalism of
New England, and cultured rapacity
Of New York. Blaine, parvenue,
won't do. The slippery namby
pambyism of Hayes, the fraud
reaper, was far more acceptable
because it was "tony." There was an
air of quiet gentility accompanying
its painful mediocrity which
completely salved the intense New
England disappointment regarding
its utter and beggarly weakness.
Grants wolfsh lack of grace and cul-
ture was swallowed up IN the glare
of his great achievements. He was
to the cultured New Englanders but |
another vigorous young Napoleon.
whose fidelity to his profession and
whose intense labors in war left him
no time to study the graces of elegant
life. His genius lifted him high above
the petty demands of graceful life.
His bearish manners and clod-hopper
get-up was charitably overlooked.
Lincoln, the great rail-splitter, was
another child of genius and the
grand events in which he
accidentally figured as chief
figure-head, made him illus
trious and eligible in the eyes of
New England for the highest places
in the gift of the people. In fact the
great blue-book, blue-nosed and blue
blooded New Englanders have been
been gently fed on western boorish-
ness and braines until they at
last have a surfe1t, and now that
they have an eastern man to the fore,
10 and behold! he happens to come
from the same pedagoguish, railsplit-
ting tanners that are growing to be per-
fectly hideou sto the dillltante Adames
the bookish Longfellows, Whittiers,
etc. Now all this constitutes as pref
| ty a kettle of fish as was ever seen in
politics, and it is one the dem
ocrats should hail as the enter
ing wedge which is to separ-
ate the republican soul from its body,
We are sorry that the thing has to
come to the republican party in
Blaine's person, because, notwithstand-
ing his many sad moral lackings, he
Is personally very clever fellow
devilish clever in the English sense
But it is good which we would gath
er even at the expense of greater
hazard to a far greater and better
man than James e. Blaine of Maine
There is one sign Of promise in all
this. and a patriots heart leaps
with joy to see it, it is the fina
: protest against the modes which
have prevailed ever since tht
commencement of our great war
1t is the effort, strong and vigorous,t tt
woo back to our political life, thu
purity of one of the most ad
vanced nations on earth. Polite
\ have become a trade, grovellins
> dirty trade, and the decency of tn,
nation is alarmed with a great fea
/, that the condition has become charac
! teristic. They protest-in the Wig
: orous slang of the west-they kicl
like mules, and demand better things
Under the old regime such thing
5 were not seen. While the southern
influence was strong in the nation,
certain standard of decency was de
l manded and it was reached. Frank
: Pierce, j ames K. Polk and James Buch
3 anan were clean, good men, gentle
men, as well as patriots and states
men. These New Englanders lool
f back to those good old days of honest
patriotic devotion to the good OF tn
country, with delight, with sad long
ings for an early return to the simpl
> days when personal cleanliness wen
, far toward making up the sum of tn
, excellencies which are to be looked TO
, in the makeup of the candidate of
great party for the highest place with
, in the gift of free people. The.
would return to the old days AM
, their old time ways by thu
, shortest possible route, ant
at the smallest expenditure o
time. The democracy of the nation
fully and completely sympathize
with its friends, the republicans, an,
will doubtless offer them man t.
vote for who will present tn
sbarpest possible contrast tt
the bold, bad, charming bu
excessively crooked Blaine, tn
standard bearer of the God-an'
, morality party of this nation.
Blaine, parvenue, must be beaten
say these good New Englanders, ant
amenl and amen! is the echo coming
up from every clearly political hear
in all broad America. 1t resounds t,
, the full extent of the Pacific slope. I
/ reverberates through the gran'
corridors of the Rockies. 1t sweep
over the prairies and plains o
the west. 1t wakes the echoes in tn
sleepy sunny south; its rice, its cot
ton and its orange fields. 1t is heart
in the furnaces and FORCES of Ohio
Pennsylvania, and in the busy marts o
trade and money in all the great cite
: east. The man to head this grand re
volt against republican policies, repub
lican- corruptions and republican
shameless shams, is most unquestiona
bly, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware