Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-01
UTICA STALWARTO REVOLT.
Many Oneida County Republicans
Opposing Blaine.

Mr. COnkifng's Friends issue an
Address TO Republicans Renounc.
ing Blaine and CO~ndelnning His
kecOrd.
UTICA, N. Y, Oct. 23.-The opposition
to the Republican ticket on the part Of
some of Mr.. Conkling's old Stalwari
friends in Utica has taken open form. Al
a meeting on Monday evening they re-
solved to stand and be counted, to issue
an address giving reasons for their opposi.
ton to Blaine, and wage active warfare
henceforward. An Executive Committee,
with John E. Brandegee for Chairman,
was authorized to circulate the following
address for signatures:
To Republicans: The undersigned Re-
publicans Of Oneida county, not present
ing themselves in the attitude of debating
to their fellow-citizens, desire to place be-
fore them in a brief form what to their
minds constitute unanswerable objections
to Mr.. Blaine as a candidate for the Presi-
dency. Without attempting to elaborate
an argument, they simply present these
conclusions:
First-His prostitution of his official
position in his most influential station as
Speaker of.the House of Representatives,
TO his W private gain and emolument.
OF this he is convicted beyond cavil out of
his own mouth. No candid man, as we
think, who will read the Mulligan letters,
can reach any other conclusion.
~Second-The falsehood, evasion, and
utter insuficiency of his attempted ex-
PLANTATION in his speech in the House,
tuhAn aO hn a 81 - mad h. knDlr .-ko L.. -.
idence 44,OO0,OO people, only to betray
and deceive them.
Third-The lack of all statesmanship in
his long Congressional career, which has
failed to identify his name with any single
affirmative act of well-defned or conspic-
uous public importance, and in its mega
tive character has contributed to the de-
lay or defeat of many measures of wise
legislation.
Fourth-The attempt, by debating to
his correspondent the writing of a letter,
ostensibly voluntary, containing state
ments which he and his correspondent
knew to be glaringly false, presents a case
containing all the elements of, if it be
not fairly charged as subornation of per-
jury.
Fifth-As it is a distinguished mark of
c%leanness OF hands that a public man re-
tires from Office no richer than he enters
it, 30 on the other hand it is a serious i'm
putation that one thus situated, with no
private fortune previously accumulated
and no lucrative profession to supplement
his legitimate wages, should be ranked
among ~millionaires, who, like lilies, ''toil
not, neither do they spin" and yet receive
the rewards that can only fairly be won by
honest effort and legitimate gain.
Sixth-While in the home field no credit,
but, as we think, great %dishonor, has at
tended the efforts of Mr.. Blaine, in the
field of diplomacy he has exhibited both
ignorance and incompetency, coupled with
a reckless audacity that might we'll, but
for a timely arrest, have exposed the Ma
ton to results destructive of the peace and
harmony of the civilized world.
notwithstanding the sound rule that
the office should seek the man, not the man
the Office. this aspirant for the Presidency
has thrice thrust himself before the people.
Twice rejected as a candidate, and only
nominated by the unceasing clamor and
interested partisanship of a class who
largely support him, contact with whom is
| degradation, in defiance of the Judgment
of sound and sober thinking men, he only
awaits now his third, and, we trust, his
final condemnation.
We believe that-in following the dictates
OF conscientious convictions no Republican
~forfeits in any degree his standing and po-
sition in the party to which he has been
and is still attached, but simply maintains
the right to which the party has always
been pledged, of 'free thought, free
speech, and free men,"
In conclusion, while we are we'll aware
thai this declaration will expose us to the
criticism and quite probably the ~vitupera-
tion-of which we have already received a
full measure-of blind zealots and inter-
ested adherents of the party, we look, on
the other hand, with some confidence for
kind treatment and candid consideration
for the old and long-tried friends from
whom, on this single issue, we reluctantly
separate. We part in grief, and not in
anger. We readily concede to these
friends, made such on many a hard-fought
field for the party we served and the
Union we loved, the same liberty OF choice
and honesty of purpose that we claim for
ourselves. But we cannot, however severe
the struggle, give up our convictions or
surrender our manliness at the mere be-
hest of party. Like the old Reformer, we
can only say. Here re stand. We can
not do otherwise"
"God help and save the Republic"
LEWIS LAWRENCE, g. A. CLARK,
FRANK SANG, A. B. wALLING,
NJ. J. EVERETT, ELI ovERToN,
A hlh L sIf Z. 8SsronD. g. 4 I. s WasRbuHs,
VIM. j. BACON, Q. MILLAR.
N. A. WHITE, j. CUMMINGS, JR.,
JAMES EATON, NJ. o. TERRY.
oHAs; NJ. WHITE. 4. g. LUCAS;