Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-22
AN OHIO VIEW.
From the Toledo, Ohio, Blade .-prob;
troleum V Nasty.

From the Toledo, Ohio, Blade-probably Pc
| troleum V. Nasty.
The Boston Advertiser, the special
organ of the silk-stocking, kid-glove,
standing-collar, blue-coat-and-brass-
neutrality-suspicious. of Boston, refuses
to support Blaine. Blaine cannot
claim Il descent from the Mayflower,
nor did he inherit q name and money.
Blaine does not live on Beacon street,
nor is he the kind Of man who is
popular among those who do. Blaine
is a man who commenced life as n
teacher, and by sheer force
of intellect and industry worked
his way up to the very
highest round OF the ladder. But he
has never forgotten that he is made of
the same kind of clay as other men.
He has never forgotten that he is of
the people. There is nothing English
about him. He is Democratic in his
tastes and habits. lie is a man Of
culture, but he keeps his culture for
use rather than show. lie has no
! family 10 speak of, his parents having
been plain farmers i'm Western Penn
sylyania. 1t is doubtful if he can
trace his ancestry three generations,
and it is more than doubtful if he
cares a straw who or what they were.
He makes no preiensions TO blood. lie
has made himself and knows what he
is. That suflices him.
Because he is a conmOncr, because
he does affiliate with the people, be-
cause there is nothing English about
him, these feeble Republicans of Bea-
con hill pull up their shirt collars, put
on their gloves and amblc out of the
Republican camp. They can never for
give Blaine for being man, a full
blooded, great-brained man. They do
not like the idea of following Il man
who has not cOat-of-arms, who edu-
Gated himself and made his own way
10 cminence. They resent his lack of
pretense, his distaste of varnish, as
much as they dislike his boldness and
confidence in himself. They will not
support a man who despises them be-
cause he knows them. This is what is
the matter with aristocratic Beacon
hill and its supcrannuaied organ, the
Boston Advertiser.
The same beings got such a control
of the Republican party in Massacnu-
sets that the decent, working end of
The party, to kill them out, elected
Butter governor. Butler made the
mistake Of supposing that his popular |
i'y was what did it. 1t was nothing
of the kind. II was the protest of the
Woodworking Republicans of Massa-
chusetts against the silk-stockinged |
and kid-gloved, English-aping aristoc-
racy OF the Republican party. They |
threw Butler in the face of the perfum- |
ed gentlemen as a rebuke. Could they !
have found a more Objectionable man
to them than Butler thew would havo |
elected him.
They hate Blaine with all their fee /
bic strength because he is in sympathy |
with the common people. They hate
him in sort Of emasculated way be-
cause he is far removed from their bas-
tard aristocracy as possible. They hate
him because he is not Of them, be-
cause in times past lac punctured their
pretcnscs, dcrIdcd their claims to SUI
periority over tie balance of mankind,
because he has respect for labor and
what labor acconplishes, because he is
a bitter, uncompromising opponent of
aristocracy and class, because he is one
Of the people and representative
man of the people.
And the organ of this class in Bos
ON, protessedly a Republican paper,
refuses TO support Blaine, and will do
Ill in its power 10 elect a Democrat
it will amount to nothing.
like the class ii represents, it is pure
y drcss-paradc affair. The mer-
:hants, manufacturers and working
men of Boston will walk over these
'arriers of pouncet boxes rcmorse-
cssly, and Massachusetts will give
Blaine her old-time majority.