Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-06-07

or ILLINOIS.
1t is the privilege of newspapers in
the territories to address remarks to their
distranchised readers upon the subject
OF presidential nominations. Not to
advise them to vote for the candidate Of
their party choice, but to hope and wish
that their many more fortunate political
friends inside the United States may be
lmpelled to throw their ballots in favor
of the nominees Though Dakota has
no further voice in the creation of the
president it helped to place before the
people, at Chicugo. there is no question
but that majority of its citizens were
and still are heartily in favor of James
G. Blaine. The territories really have
more interest IN the selection OF presi-
dent than the states, as the latter possess
facilities for self government while the
former are entirely dependent upon the
governing force sent them by the chief
executive. Therefore Dakota will stand
as an interested spectator of the close
political contest inaugurated upon
the fourth ballot in the Chicago
convention. Mr.. Blaine was fairly
nominated and by a good
majority of the representatives of his
party assembled for the purpose placing
republican candidate in the field.
What is still better, he was nominated by
the votes OF the strong republican states
The sentiment is growing in strength
that the strong republican states should
possess proportionate strength OF voice
IN the choice of candidates for the party,
and though there is no written law upon
the subject, this sentiment was COM
piled with in the selection of Mr.. Blaine.
For many years he has been before the
people prominently as one fitted for the
high duties of the chief position in the
nation and has twice before been lead.
ing candidate in republican conventions
That, through all the mutations of time,
the clash of strife and the wreck of fac.
tions, he has retained his popularity and
has grown in the affections Of the people
is sufficient evidence of the abiding
strength of his name. President Arthur
made possible the nomination of Mr.
Blaine by his policy as an impartia
ruler and his loyalty to the party as
whole. he put the knife into the vital
of faction and as the breath went out O
each expiring element of antagonisn
within the republican party, there was
welding together of interests, unifca
tion of sentiment which dulled the Ell
mites of the past and gave to republi
canism solid front and one flag
President Arthur did this unselfshly
for the good of his party and the peac
of his country, and in so doing has mad
his bitterest opponent during the fac
tional days his own successor. AS is usua
after republican convention there i
L joy in the democratic camp over til
alleged weakness of the republica
selection. This Joy is short lived, last
ing only up to the fatefu
day in November when the ballo
decides the case and the
the shattered columns Of democracy ar
drawn back to undergo the recuperatlv
process of another four years of retire
ment. A man SO strong in republicanisr
as Mr.. Blaine cannot be weak before til
country. He will succeed Presiden
Arthur on the 4th of next March an
there will be no occasion for the creatio
of commission to decide the result.
The nomination of John A. Logan t
the second place upon the ticket wi
satisfy the soldier element and the mas
of loyal citizens who stood b
them during the contest in whic
the coming vice presider
brought lasting renown TO his name an
glory to the flag beneath which b
fought. The day of the exaltation of til
military hero in this land is passin
away, and as the prominent actors IN th
drama of blood are stepping aside it
fitting that one of their honored repre-
sentatives should be given the recogn
tion which was extended to Gener.
Logan by the Chicago convention.
These are the two candidates upo
whom the republicans of Dakota CO
fix their gaze during the coming col
test, remembering that they go befol
the country upon platform which col
tains the first party recognition of IL
fright of the territories to govern then
selves.
The senate has passed the bill givin
to Dakota twenty-four members of Il