Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-13

ton will solidify republicanism at home
and lift the great republic stin higher
among the nations of the earth.
The Philadelphia Press.
AS member Of the house Of represen-
tatives, as senator of the United States
and secretary of state, and in all his
public relations. Mr.. Blaine uniformly
has shown himself to be the master
spirit among his peers. The presidency
is the natural and proper elimination
of his career. He has proved his illness
for it, and has deserved it for his public
services. The convention could not
have made nomination which would
have been one 1.-THE as acceptable to the
republican masses, or which would have
made its success in November nearly as
certain or as easy as it win be now.
Thanks to democratic congress, the
republican outlook was never better
than at present. But the rank and file
of the party will be inspired with new
courage and increased faith from the
fact that the republican standard bearer
in this coming presidential contest is
that leader of leaders, James G. Blaine.
of Maine.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
Mr.. Blaine is a type, and a pictur-
esque type, of all that is bad and all
that is bold in the party of which for
years the real, he is now both the actual
and the nominal chief. He is a man, as
it is party, without conviction and
without restraint. He is a man, as it is
party, thoroughly unprincipled, ag-
gressive, reyengeful and flexible. He is
man, as it is a party, Of a varied,
many colored wool, capable of extreme
generosity and brutal selfshness, ''all
things by turns and nothing long" In
the middle ages he flourished as men,
Der OF the CondOttieri. There was
time when in Spain he went by the
name Of Gil Bias, and he is still remem-
bered in Italy as Fra Diavolo. In his
veins courses the lightning blood of the
Arabs. In his personality, he is cross
between Corsican and Yankee. All
that is emotienal in the republican char
aeter, all that is domineering in repub-
lican instincts, all that is grasping and
constituencies in republican aims and
methods as fittingly and fully reproduc-
ed in this brilliant advelturer, who has
aroused within the bosom of his polit-
zeal associates, despite the danger, a
species of blind alteration, and forced
from unwilling and frightened rivals
their submission and homage.
The Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t remains to be seen whether the
democrats when they meet in conven-
ton next month will accede to the
wishes of the people, as the republicans
have done. Will they put aside the
tficksters, and choose a man who is of
the people and for the peoplep The
nomination of Blaine and Logan makes
it absolutely necessary that they shall
do this, or go down in utter defeat.
The bitter feeling now existing be-
tween the free traders on the one hand
and the protectiOnists on the other must
be forgotten, and there must be union
OF all the interests of the Democracy if
the party expects to be able to success
fully combat the ticket put in nomina-
ton. The game is in the hands of the
democracy. The people are ripe for a
change in party administration. The
question is, will the violent, the vicious
element stand aside and permit the
democratic party, and no little coterie
within the party, to make its nominal
tions? Extremists, whether under the
banner of Carlisle or Randall, must step
aside and allow the cool heads and the
common sense element of the party to
rule. The way to success in November
is not strewn with roses. There is hard
and earnest work ahead of the demo-
cratic party, and no opportunity should
be frittered away. We can win if we
will.
New York Times.
1t is much better, therefore, that Mr..
Blaine should be the candidate than
that Mr.. Arthur's friends should have
been successful in their purpose to
thrust him On the party against it's will.
We have clearly seen and plainly said
that the great majority of republicans
did not want Mr.. Arthur for their can
didate. Had he been nominated, his
defeat would have signl6ed nothing as
regards the heart and virtue of the par
", nothing as to the favor its principles
and present practices find in the eyes of
the American people. There will be
nothing ambiguous about the defeat of
Nh. Blaine. He who runs may clearly
read the verdict in advance: "a candi-
date unworthy of confidence and a par
ty too careless of its own honor to be
trusted with the nations"
That defeat will be the salvation OF
the republican party. 1t will arouse its
torpid conscience, it will stir it to self
publication, it will depose the false lead
ers who have fastened themselves upon
it, it will send the rogues to the back
ground, and will make the party once
more worthy of honor and power in the
republic it has so nobly served. When
the party has passed through the fires
or defeat and is well of its peccant hu.
mors it will come back to the impregna.
BILE ground of right it stood on when il
beat down treason and disunion, to q
position in which it shall embody the
highest and best impulses of American
life, to state of heart and mind which
shall fit it to be again the custodian OF
that matchless trust, government Of
the people, by the people, and for The
people,"
One word as to the position of the
Times. 1t will not support Mr.. Blaine
for the presidency. 1t will advise M
man to vote for him, and its reason,
for this course are perfectly well under
stood by everybody that has ever reat
it.
Henry Ward Beecher.