The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-27
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

The New York Stats Zeitung says:
We hope that the democratic party,
through some available candidate who is
the opposite of Blaine, will secure the
defeat of Blaine, but we would prefer that
the country had been spared the danger of
the election of such a president 1t does
not occur to us that Blame is weak
character. His magnetism is no empty
phrase. We cannot say that he was a
leader in the sense that Thadeus Stevens
was When he lett congress to become
the head of the executive Cor he was the
only head of the Garfield administration
he was obliged to prop up his popularity
by combative foreign policyAwhich
should tickle the vanity of the nation, so
little did he regard the true interests of
the people. To this course the man will
always adhere, no matter in what position
he may be-
The Boston Aduertiser, hitherto strong
ly republican, says:
To large section of the republican
party, the news that the fierce struggle at
Chicago has ended by the nomination of
Mr.. Blaine will appear ominous of disas
the party of sound government and of
high and moral purpose is required to
abdicate its place as the exponent of
principles, and to undertake the exculpa-
ton of man, and to them it will appear,
as we believe, that the decision of a
national convention no longer reflects the
mature judgment of great party, holding
itself responsible for the guidance of the
nation, but is the chance result of con-
test, in which intense ambition, the most
degrading political methods, and clamor
OF mob within the hall of the conven-
ton. have had a victory. We need not
enter upon any formal declaration of our
own entire agreement with those repub-
licans who thus fail to find in the nomina
ton any fit expression Of the established
principles and avowed aims of the repub>
lican party. The events of the last three
days have given us no answer to the
objections so often urged in these col
umns against the nomination of Mr..
Blaine, and against the course of Mr..
Blaine as public man, and have pre-
sented no contingency in which these
objections could be waved, consistently
with truth or political honor.
We have then nothing to re-
treat and nothing to modify.
With undated devotion to the great pur-
poses for which the republican party was
first organized and has been maintai
we declare our inability to support the
nomination either IN the present aspect OF
the political field or in any way which
now seems likely to present itself.
The Boston Herald, another stauncl
republican journal says:
The republican party have at last hai
the audacity of its desires, and has nom
mated representative of the aims, meth
DDS, principles and purposes of the average
active politicians" who shape its actor
and contribute to its success. 1t is wei
that the issue is to be clearly drawn. Mr.
Blaine is no stool pigeon nor mask
There is no cant of reform about him
The people know him; they can CUES
what his administration would be. The
have had a taste of his quality in the stat
department. They remember his caree
as speaker. They have seen the sort O
men most prominent in his support a
Chicago. From the samples of Elkins
Clayton, Platt and the rest they can i'm
agine the feast to which they will be in
vited should ne be elected president. |
the people want Blaine, as his admirer
insist that they do. they have an opportu
rity to show it. Hypocrisy and fear ar
alike cast aside. 1t is Blaine or defeat
Believing that Blaine would be bad an
dangerous president, we hope to see hir
defeated, believing him to be a wea
candidate, we expect to see him de
feated His zealots say he can be elect
ed without the vote of New York. The
will have chance to prove it. Perhap
they think he can be elected without tn
help of Massachusetts. 1t is not improt
able that they may have chance to prov
this also. If the democrats rise to the OF
casion, nominate Gov Cleveland and Civ
him an honest support in his own state
we believe he will carry the election
The republican party has been in power
long time. More frequent changes in til
control of the government were contem
plated by the trainers of our system an
would be healthful under it. Dynastie
are unrepublican and undemocratic. TIL
government of the people by the peopl
is safe in the hands of any majority of til
people. Now may be good time for til
republican party 10 step down and out
The national convention has acted as if
thought SO.
The Springfield Mass Republican
the leading republican journal in tn
state, says:
The most prominent features of MI