The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-12
NO CROW FOR GEO. VIM.
Tho Editor of Harper's Weekly
Refuses to Partake OF the
Unclean Bird.
he Draws a Comparison Between the Tvs
Great Parties Complimentary
to Neither,
A Man Too Pure for Modern Politics
How Did He Escape an
Early Death?

New York, June ll.-Huper's Weekly
to-day publishes the following editorial,
thus setting at rest all anxiety in the
minds Of politicians throughout the coun-
try, 1t vii! not support Blaine;
"IAe nomination Of Mr. Blaine does not
change the view of its inexpedicncy that
We have freely expressed HmYer'S
Weekly has said nothing upon this sub.
ject without careful consideration, and
the fact Of the nomination does not
change its conviction that the Republican
campaign, with the candidacy OF Mr.
Blaine, must be prolonged explanation
and defense. The campaign Of this ycal
will be one in which the personality ol
candidates will be more vigorously scru.
tinted than ever, because there Is no
great supreme issue Of National peril ol
National policy which will engross the at
tention of the people, and thi, scrutiny
stances, when a party appeal, to tn
country for vote Of confidence, it viii
naturally be judged for the representative
whom 1t deliberately selects. To him tins
country viii turn TO see what the parry
honor, and what qualifications it hold, to
be essential for the highest trust. IL
would, we think, have been posi-.
bic to name candidate whose
nomination with the present feeling oil
the country, would have been equivalent
to an clcctOu--a candidate who would
have aroused all the old Republican ell
thusiasm, by appealing to the desire Of
pure and progressive politics, which was
the animatlng principle Of other Repub-
!icau campaigns. Originally the RepuJ-
licau party was a reform party, and hay
luz achieved the greatest Of reforms In
emancipation, and In an amended CouSti.
tuition freed from All faint of slavery, it j.
strongest when its young and ardent
crs, tue real workers Of the party, feel
that il is still essentially a progressive
and aggressive reform organization, and
when they know that il IS led in a Presi-
Dental year by candidate who is in
character and career a true and fitting
representative Of political progress and
reform The fact that candidate is Sc
lected who is not such representative
properly alarms them and shakes their
faith in the party. 1t Is true that the
Republican party is always strong in the
weakness Of the Democratic Opposi.
ton; but that IS 4 negative strength.
The Democratic party really stand for
nothing but opposition, and a repulsive
tradition, the endeayOr 10 identify it
with any definite policy except that which
Is known as
GENERAL CUsSEDNEss"
fails, but that is not an argument which
can elect President. The nomination
Of Mr. Blaine, although it is doubtless
agreeable to the majority Of the party, as
shown at Chicago; because d large part
OF the apparent opposition, as in the H.
diana and Illinois, and even in the Ohio
delegations, was friendly to his nomina-
ton, ought 10 teach Republicans as show
ing how dangerously far the Republican
standard has fallen. The nominations at
Chicago, made against the most friendly
Republican remonStrance, have forced
upon Republicans the conviction that the
great objects of the Republican party,
honest and economical administration,
peaceful and honorable foreign relations,
the progressive publication of the public
service ut home, a wise reduction of the
revenue and that sense of general security
which springs from the moral elevation
of the administration, are not to be eX-
pectcd from Republican success.
TO THIS STATEMENT
it was his reply that less is to be eX-
| pectcd from the Democrats. Those who
have aroused the deep and general pro-
test OF the Republican conscience must
bear the responsibility of the result
Fidelity to Republican principle requires
Indifference to present Republican sue
cess, and Harpcr'S Weekly, which more
| than once has not hcsitated in the inter-
est of public morality and of party
publication to oppose other Republi-
can nominations, can not sustain the
significant one against which it has 50
earnestly protested, and which is prac-
teal abdication of Republican character
and purpose. The sad and kindly face
OF LincoIn's portrait, which hung in the
hall, seemed to watch the proceedings of
the Convention with an air of earnest So
licitude and apprehension, and it had dis
appeared from its place before the nom-