The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-31
spent up Yearnings" Of James G..
BlaIne.S Soul.

BlaIne's Soul.
1t Is about az amusing to read
some of the taffy given by the party
organ to its presidential candidates as
it is disgusting to read the abuse that
it heaps on the opposition candidate.
Sometimes the tsfiy is also disgusting.
It is too sweet, and there is too much
OF it. The following, taken from q
late issue OF tbs Manchester Union, a
Republican paper-is simply inn
inense:
"Mr. Blaine walked to church
very quietly AMI soemnIy last Sab.
bath and listened to the sermon with
deep attention. Whenever allusion
was made to Lincoln, Garfield, or to
tho 9 who had made great sacrifices
tor the cause Oi their country, his
feelings were apparent to all. So
deep we're bis emotions that by q
magnetic sympathy, the vast congre-
cation was coon baptized by an old
fashioned soul-relieving crying spell.
Mr.. Blaine can never listen to religi-
GUS music but bis lips culver and his
eyes suause with tears. To relieve
the pens up yesrnings of his soul he
sometimes huns tune himself"
Here the news is heralded to wait
ing world that Mr.. Blaine walked
to church quietly and solemnly."
Was it necessary to tell US this? Has
Mr.. Blaine heretofore gone to church
in boisterous and hilarious manner?
Now if Blaine had pirouetted to
church singing John Browns Body
and firing of his six-shooter, that
would have been something to write
about. He went to church like an
ordinary man and we cannot see that
for that he is deserving of any credit.
He listened to the sermon with deep
attention." which was very credi.able
considering that ne had the ability to
"sass back" at the preacher il he
wished to do 30; and further consid-
ering that he is man who doesn't
liked to be So dead head in any en- :.
terprise."
Probably the preacher was q Re-
publican. and did not quote from the
epistles OF James to Mulligsn, or re.
fer to the candidates missionary
efforts in the guano country, as the
bold. bad Dem ecraiic editors do.
How touching it must have been
when allusion was made to Lincoln
and Gar6eId's sacrifices for their
country's cause. to see the eagle eye
OF the man who aspires to fill their
chair spring leak-to sac him
unostentatiously crop scalding tear
| INTO the contribution box! o, it was
too, too touching. We are glad that
we wele net present. II would have
been SO affecting. Tfe-e is not
enough'moisture in us to produce q
briny tear, but no doubt we would
have been filled with sympathetic
emotion, and we would haYe had to
do something. Possibly they would
have allowed ns te "relisve our pent-
up SOUP by splitting out OF the win
dow.
To sea that magnetic sympathy
catch hold of the congregation and
wiring "old fashioned" tears out of
their weeping eyes. until all the color
faded out of the carpet, must have
been gorgeous-a sort of old-fashioned
gcrgery akin to the Republican SIM
Elicity that used to exist in the past
We are glad to learn that James G.
Blaine "relieves the pent-up yesrn-
ings of his scui'' by humming tune
10 himself. and not as we Go down
here in Texas, where candidates usn-
ally relieve their pent.up yearnings
by filing up on cheap whiskey, and
painting the town red. Even on:
Democratic readers will rejoice to
learn that Mr.. Blaine "hums" when
bis yeainipgs get SO pent-up that he
is in danger of copgesting his lung
pad. Especially will it please them
to know that he ''hums to himself"
He is not vain enough, as some pee
pie would be, to hire ball and hum
to 80 cents head audience.
Mr.. Blaine should give the MAN.
chester Union the $25. ZOO subsidy
that Sifiings didn't get. and the
above eulogaic gem should be used as
a campaign document.-Texss Sit
ings.