The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-11

purpose Is required to abdicate It's place as the
exponent OF principles, and to undertake the
exculpation OF man. And TO them II will APP
pear, as we believe, that the decision Of a ma
tional convention no longer reflects the matured
judgment of a great party holding itself re-
sponsible for the guidance Of the nation, but Is
the chance result OF a contest In which the In
tense ambition, the most degraded political
methods and the clamor OF mob within the
hall OF the convention have had victory
With undated devotion to the great purposes
for which the republican party was organized
and has been maintained, we declare our in
ability to support the nomination, either in the
present aspect Of the political field, or in any
which now seems likely to present ITSELF"
New YORK EVENING POST: Zone can, in
acting with the party, sink objection to the
candidates opinions, or to his manners, or to
his temper, or to his public aims or policy, or
to his political career, for the sake of the great
things which party unity may be expected to
bring about. But no voter can sink his objec-
tions to a candidate on the score Of personal
dishonesty No voter dares to tell his friends
or his family that he is going to vote for man
knowing him to be a knave. In dealing with
this class of objections, his obligations to hui
man society take inevitable precedence of his
obligations to any party, however old, honored
or useful That Mr.. Blaine cannot be elected
we look on as certain Whether he can be de-
feated without running the organization which
Is being prostituted In the service of his selfish
ambition, remains to be seen. The extent of
his defeat-that is, the size of the majority
which will remove him permanently from the
political arena-will depend largely on the ac-
ton of the democrats. They have now an
opportunity offered them such as has not pre-
sented itself for quarter OF a century. What
ever happens, we believe great political pur-
fication will be the result, and we shall somehow
have party which will represent the American
people in its noblest mood, and will adequately
express the national respect for the virtues by
which governments as well as homes are main
tanned and defended"
NEW YORK TIMES: "There will be nothing
ambiguous about the defeat of Mr.. Blaine. He
who runs may clearly read the verdict in ad-
vance. A candidate unworthy of confidence, and
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 torpid conscience IL will stir it to
self-purifcation. 1t will depose the false lead
ers who have fastened themselves upon it. 1t
will send the rogues to the background and
will make the party once more worthy of honor
and OF power in the republic it has so nobly
served. When the party has passed through
the fire Of defeat and is well rid of its peccant
humors, 1t will come back to the impregnable
ground of right 1t stood on when it beat down
| treason and disunion, to the position in which
| it shall embody the highest and best impulses
| of American life, to a state of heart and mind
which shall fit it to be again the custodian of
that matchless trust, government Of the peo-
ple by the people and for the people, One
| word as to the position of the Times. 1t will
not support Mr.. Blaine for the presidency. 1t
| will advise no man to vote for him, and its
| reasons for this course are perfectly well
| understood by everybody that has ever read
| it. The interest the Times will take
| in this canvass is that of friend and physi-
clan. 1t is not with cynical indifference, but
| with unspeakable sadness that it sees the re-
| publican party perversely set its face toward
error and its feet in vicious paths, for it has
| thence and with unfailing hope the Times will
cheerfully and with sincerity labor to set the
| party right again, and, when it shall have had
its new birth, to draw to it all that is soundest
| best and worthiest in the manhood of this
republic"