Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-23
Mr.. Frank Hatton's Opinion of the
Republican Presidential Can
didate.
rFrom the Burlington IOwal Gazette, Oct. II, 1884

uIudtt.
From the Burlington IOwal Gazette, Oct. II, 1854
The following searching and blister
ing editorial was written by Acting
Postmaster General Frank Hatton and
published in the HaDkeye May 29,
1881. 1t expressed the sentiments of
a large portion of the Republicans then
and larger portion now. The grave
charges made by the Democratic press
against Mr.. Blaine have not been Sc
crets with Republicans or with the
country for eight years. Those in the
confidence of Mr.. Hatton know very
we'll that his opinions have not changed
but have only been confirmed and in
tensifieo SINCE
DEATH OF BLAINIsM.
There is one think settled and the
sooner Ger ain gentlemen in the Re-
publican party recognize the fact the
better it will be for the party. This
country will never submit to have fas-
tened upon it that which is represent
ed in the word Blainism. In 1876 the
Republican party narrowly escaped the
great infliction, and as little as can be
said in praise of the administration of
President Hayes, from Republi-
can standpoint, it can be said that it
left enough of the party intact to make
possible the election of Mr.. Garfield.
Thousands of good men all over the
country earnestly supported Mr.. Blaine
in 1876. Captured by dash and vim
possessed by the man of Maine, exhib
tied on tho floor of the House, and by
a magnetism which the arts of dema-
gogue made attractive, he succeeded
in gaining for himself reputation as
a kind of "great commoner," who re-
joiced to come down and mix and min.
gle with the common people. By
these arts and tricks he rallied men
about him. But his real hackers, his |
political intimates were and are the
of all that is tricky |
and insincere in politics as well as of
all that is bad and corruptlng. His
great aim and their great aim was, and
still is, to get control of the govern
ment. Bob Ingersol, the great Chris
tian eater and soda fountain eulogist |
of Blaine, remarked at Chicago, as the
gloom of his chiefs second defeat set
tied about him. "Well, if Blaine were
President there might be some steal
Ing. but his administration would be
marked with great deal of humanity"
AS prospective snarer in the "hu-
manity," to say nothing of the other,
it can well be said that Robert drew it
mild.
Defeated at Cincinnati the "Knight"
and his followers went vigorously at
work, and for four years everything
known to the tricky politician and the
hungry place hunter, added to the au-
dacity and impudence, was worked to
make Mr.. Blaine the nominee at Chi
cago. But during these four years the
tricks of the demagogue and the ways
of the political crook became known to
the people, and from the day of the
partys deliverance at Cincinnati the
of the Blaineism waned. The
of Gould at Chicago
could not save it. Nominated in the
Convention by James F. Joy, who had
publicly denounced him a short time
before as corruptionist, charging that
he had, as Speaker of the House, re-
fused to appoint certain committee
unless he should be the recipient of a
certain amount of railroad bonds, but
nominated only to see his vote start in
below that received at Cincinnati, and
lwindle as each ballot was taken until
t faded out of sight. And there
Blaineism died death that will know
10 waking. Itmay attempt to set up
shop here and there for the purpose of
'evenge, but like the milk sickness, it
will never again be anything more than
! local disease.
Blaine's interest in the Republican
party has fed. Driven from the House
oy threatened investigation, he sue.
,eeded in gaining place in the Senate,
,nly to find himself a dwarf and
glad to escape and to seek
shelter under the cloak of the man
who had carried off the prize that he
lad twice contested for, and while
bus sheltered he seeks to stab the man
lbout whose form he clings that he
nay not be entirely lost to public view,
md, with revenge eating at his heart,
le aims to assassinate the party that
'efused IN its wisdom to make him its
eader. When he has traficked away |
he patronage of the State Department
IS he did his power as Speaker he will |
become political tramp and any party
that will embrace him can get him.
Nixine BUSINESS With Sentiment.