Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-22
ROOmfNG "THE MAN FROM
AIN


So the Republicans are going to nom
mate Mr.. Blaine. The friends Of the
ssPlumed Knight" are asserting all over
the country. says the New York Herald,
that his nomination is as good as made.
If they are to be believed, the Republi'
can voters are lying awake of nights in
their impotence to see Mr.. Blaine nom
mated.
1t may all be true, this tremendously
pressing cry for 'Blaine of Maine;'
though it seems to US sometimes that the
voices which most loudly cry out TO.
ssBlaine of Maine" are the voices Of the
great army Of 'outs." Still, in this we
may be mistaken. 1t is possible that the
convention will nominate Mr.. Blaine
with a loud hurrah. Also that the coun-
try may elect him with a still louder
hurrah.
Nevertheless, we advise the Republi-
cans to be careful. 1t is n thing to
nominate a candidate and another to
elect him. When a convention nomI-
mates a man and the people thereafter
ratify the nomination, that is a good
piece of work. But when a convention
nominates a man and the people reject
him, that is not so comfortable.
No doubt the managers of some great
corporations and the controllers OF many
monopolies would like Mr.. Blaine; but
these gentry are not going to elect a
President this year. No doubt the po-
litical bummers, manipulators and camp
followers of the party would rejoice IN
Mr.. Blaine's nomination, but they are
not going to elect a President this year.
We advise the Republican leaders to
be careful. The Democrats can beat
ssBlaine of Maine" because they
will have a great deal OF RepublI-
can help in doing it. They can
beat "BIaine of Maine because
he is the weakest candidate the Republic
cans have, and because his nomination
at Chicago would be a public and official
announcement that the Republican party
the party Of great moral ideas"-had
at last fallen SO low as to place at its
head a person described the other day by
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in these
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If the engineers and managers of the
Republican party shall select a candidate
for the Presidency stained by jobbery, in
alliance with the policies of the great
railway princes, hand and glove with
corrupt Hobbies, and in full faith with
the corrupt and corrupting gangs who
swarm our Legislatures and live by sleek
plumber it will be the duty of every pa
triotic Republican to secure his defeat,
and 80 on.
But there is no danger of Mr.. Blaine's
nomination. The Republicans have had
some severe lessons of late. The people
punished them for tolerating Robson,
and the party temporarily retired Robe
son. The people punished them for ele-
waiting Keller to the Speakership, and the
party has turned its back on Keller by
ratifying a unanimous committee report
which in effect declares Keifer a ~falsifier
and perjurer. The Republican leaders
have load enough to carry in the coming
campaign without adding ''Blaine OF
Maine" to it. They are carrying Dorsey,
Brady, Kellogg, Robson and Keifer.
They would be g~luttons if they added
Blaine.
And then the whitewash might not
hold out if so great a surface were to be
covered. No; Mr.. Blaine will not be
nominated at Chicago.