Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-07
NAMED TO BE BEATEN.
Tne Leadiug Kepubicsn Journsi OF tho
Country predicts Bisioe's Detest-A
worthy pAir OF candidates.


1t is the best, after all, that James q.
Blaine should be the candidate Of the Rs.
publican party. His nomination has been
urged with earnestuess aud sincerity by a
majority of that party, and the sjority
| must rule In this country, even when in
the wrong. Tho party now appeals to the
| country with a candidate who stands for
something. lie represents the average Of
Republican principles and purposes, Of
Republican honor aud conscience, as they
/ now are.
| We shall not be surprised If some Re-
publicaus who do not like MIR. Blaine re-
sent with heat this allegation that man
who as speaker of the House OF Repre-.
sentatives bartered his ofhcia! influence
for private gain, who as secretary Of
state made the enforcement OF a swindling
claim against q distressed and perishipg
sister republic the most conspicuous feat
turo of his foreign policy, man who has
had no part or interest in the work done in
the last five years toward tho publication
Of the public service, is fair type and rep
resentative of the party that saved the
union, freed the slave and restored the
national credit. But in sobcrness and
truth, good friends is that not SO? Is not
the name of Blaine the only name that
really stirs the hearts Of the Republican
masses Did not his devoted band Of ad
hercnts, without the aid of the Oftioehold e
ers, who in most states were enlisted
| I,pl,y apntinr D,f, 10, &
from any department of the government,
but against the influence of all, 80 far rs
that iniluenOC was exerted, lead to Chicago
an army of delegates larger than that sup.
porting any other candidate? Did not
Blaiue's name lead on the first ballot,
and increase its lead by jumps to the
last, when nearly two thirds of the con
vention was registered in the Blaine
column II Mr.. Blaine is not a fair
representative OF Republican principles
and purposes, of Republican honor and
conscience, as they now are, then the
Republicans Of Maine, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa aud Kansas
were willfully betrayed in their primaries,
in their district and state conventions,
aud at Chicago; and We have nowhere
read nor heard that Republican sentiment
10 these states, or in any state, was stitled
or perverted in order to secure Blame
delegates Nor was Mr.. Blaine nominated
in Ignorance of who aud what he was.
The party has its eyes open. 1t has taken
4 thta an nnt in tho IarE h,N In hrnaA IA
] | light
/ II is much better, therefore, that Mr.
It Blaine should be the candidate than that
$ Arthur's friends should have been success
full i'll their purpose to thrust him on tn,
party against its will. We have clearl,
n seen aud plainly said that the great ma
= jorty Of Republicans did not want Mr.
Arthur for their candidate. Had he beef
nominated, his defeat would have signitied
nothing as regards the heart and virtue o
the party, nothing as to the favor it
principles and present practices tiud il
the eyes of the American people. There
will be nothing ambiguous about the de.
feat of Mr.. Blaine. He who runs may
clearly read the verdict in advance {: " A
candidate unworthy of confidence and a
party too careless of its own honor to be
longer trusted with the nations"
That defeat will be the salvation of the
Republican party. 1t will arouse its tor
pd conscience, it will stir it to self purih
cation, it will dispose the false leaders
who have fastened themselves upon IT,
i: will send tho rogues to the background
and will make the party once more worthy
} of honor and of power in the Republic 81
nobly served. When the party has passed
through the fires of defeat and is well rid
of it's psccant humors 1t will come back tc
ths impregnable ground of right it stoot
on when it beat down treason and dis
union, to a position in which it shal
embody the highest aud best impulses o
American life, to state of heart anC
mind which shall fit il to be again tn,
custodian of that matohlsss trust, "gov
ernment of the people, by the people, auC
. for the people"
q One word as to the position Of thi
= Times. 1t will not support Mr.. Blaine fol-
the presidency. IL will advise no man tc
vote for him, and its reasons for this cours,
{ are perfectly we'll understood by every
a body that has ever read it. Without the
/. mention Of names the course of tho Time
, was foreshadowed in its issue of May &c
n when it replied to the question of CORES
Z pondent in these words
, " IL the nominee OF the Chicago Repub
, lican convention is man worthy to b,
president Of the United States, the New
York Times will give him q hearty and
: vigorous support. II he shall be man
unworthy to hold that great office, mar
, who, personally and politically, in office
a or out, represents principles and practice,
which the Times abhors and has counseleC
r its party to shun, we shall watch with
great interest the efforts OF those responsi
bic for such q nomination to elect thei
> candidate, but we can give them no help.
, The interest the Times will take in thi
canvass is that of friend and physician
/ It is not with cynical indifference, bu
with unspeakable sadness, that it sees th,
Republican party perversely set its fac
towards error and its feet in vicious paths
, for 1t has done some service to the party
But with patience and with unfailing hop
the Times will oheerfully and with sinceri
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