Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-17
For state Omcers.
SOME SOLEMN FACES


The Rev. Edward Everett Hale is one of
yet time to turn over the government of the
country to the Democratic party. Says Mr..
Hale: What is called the Democratic party
means the Solid South, with such help as it
can pick up among few disconnected peo-
pie at the North generally Irishmen who do
not know the way in which their race has
always been treated by these people. If Mr..
Blaine were to be chosen by the northern
States only, as Mr.. Lincoln was chosen in
his election, he would receive vote as strong
as Mr.. Lincoln. 1t is the southern aristocra-
cy-what Governeur Morris calls Ffthe south
ern oligarchy''-which is expected to defeat
Mr.. Blaine and to govern the country. They
must not be permitted to do this, because
they do not know how to govern the country
They never did.
Mr.. Hale shows how the Democracy has
revealed its incapacity to govern the coun-
try. It has b1undered uniformly in serious
matters because its leaders do not know the
American people and do not believe in the
American people. In twenty years these
southern leaders have not been able to build
school system. They have not been able to
attract immigration. They have not estab-
lished a rule of law and order ''They do
not know how to administer a republic
They fought the national currency. They
are provincial sentimentalists To
go back to Democratic rule would
be to go back from the lightning
express to the stage coach-from the Reming-
ton to the fint-lock ''The southern States,
says Mr. Hale, care still very thinly peopled
They have very few of the organ izations of
life with which government has to deal. The
simple, patriarchal life which their writers
boast of has very little in common with the
conditions of modern society in other parts
of the world"
Mr.. Hale has no idea that Grover C1eve-
land would be able to do more with his party
than James Buchanan did, and he does not
think this is a time for trying experiments.
He has considered the charges against Mr.
Blaine. He finds that Mr.. Blaine met them
frankly when they were first made; that
a committee of his political enemies could
find "no foundation for them,' that Maine
sent him to the senate without serious oppo-
sition; that Garfield, who knew all about the
charges and the facts, made him his Secre-
tary of State, and that nearly evenly divi-
ded senate confirmed the nomination with
out dissenting voice. Says Mr.. Hale: Such
evidence will satisfy history that the charges
pressed against Mr.. Blaine's honor belong to
the class of charges made against the honor
of Aristides and Cimon, Lord Somers and
Fenelon-men who are the more beloved to-
day because their own times were unjust to
them. So strong was the feeling in most
parts of the country that Mr.. Blaine had been
unjustly treated, that, after he had been in
private life nearly three years, wave of
popular feeling gave him the nomination
of the Republicans at Chicago. 1t was
movement of the people. But the people
cannot be made to give such support to liars
or to thieves So soon as the people of his
own State had an opportunity they showed
their opinion of him by giving the largest
Republican majority they had given in
years The city of Augusta, his home, gave
the Republican candidates larger vote than
it had ever given. Every Republican SEN
ator sustains his nomination. Every Re
publican member of the house of representa-
tives sustains it. Every living member of
Mr.. Hayes cabinet (save schurz), of General
Grants and of Mr.. Arthurs sustains it. 1t
is absurd to say that any charge of dishonor
can be made against a candidate thus sus-
tanned by those who know him best
This is fair and strong statement of the
case. We commend it to the consideration
of our readers who are inclined to think that
this is good year for assisting the southern
Democrats.