The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-06-21


IndependeN is a religious paper, but
at the same time extremely Repub-
lican as viii be seen by its caustic
remarks abont the Democratic party.
1t largely controls the moral and re-
ligious sentiment of New York and
its opposition dooms Blaine and Lo
gan to defeat.
It says:
The Independent will not support
the ticket nominated at Chicago.
1t commands neither our enthusiasm
nor our convictions. Our convictions
were not transferred by Powell Clay
ton, with his drove of Arkansas del
egates. Our enthusiasm is not kin
died by gush and dash and 'mag
netism." The level head and down
right conscience of the Republican
Party demand devotion to principle.
Devotion to party is not enough.
We love the Republican Party and
are proud of its history. 1t has
saved the nation. 1t has liberated
the slave. 1t has paid a third of the
national debt. 1t has restored our
currency. 1t has reformed our civil
service. 1t has recovered harmony
between North and South. But q
party must stand on it's present re-
cord and not on its past history. The
Republican Party is worth nothing
to us except as it continues to rep
resent principle and reform. II it
ceases to do this, the quiet, earnest
patriots to whom we speak cannot be
coaxed to keep swinging it banners.
When it is dead they will bury it.
That is what must be done with
corpses.
Blaine and Logan are fis comrades.
They were the two most objectiona-
bic candidates before the Convention,
and it was natural that they should
combine and conquer They repre-
sent the selfsceking, demagogical
element, which uses a party for per.
sonal preferment. No one suspects
them Of an earnest desire for sin
gle reform. They are not known as
advocates of a pure civil service, of
frugal expenditures of the public
funds, or of the publication of polit-
zeal methods. On the other hand,
they have the reputation of being
shrewd and unscrupulous party die
tators. Their chosen, eager friends,
who have engineered their success,
have been the star-routers Of the West
and the bummers of the East, whom
Mr. Arthur flung away when he be-
came President. We have no heart
to go into Mr.. Blaine's personal re-
cord; but we regard it as not that OF
man who is fit to he the candidate
of the Republican Party. We can
advise no vote for men who represent
not the conscience of our party, but
the profits or the prejudces of its
camp followers.
Do we, then, advise our readers to
vote the Democratic or some third
party ticket? BY no means; for we
are not yet forced to believe that the
Republican Party has sunk to the
level of it's ticket or its platform.
What there is of conscience and in
telligence in the party repudiates its
anti-C Chinese treason to the Declara-
ton Of independence, its eight hour
quackery and its bimetallism. With
some excellentplatitudes the platform
is the work of a demagogue and not
Of o statesman. 1t BELTS its candi-
dates.
But we have no desire to 90 over
to the Democratic Party with all its
history Of shame and blunder. For
we are 10th to believe the Republi-
can Party dead. We prefer to be-
lieve it is sick. 1t may recover.
Meanwhile defeat may give it
shock which will purge it of some
bad humors and reinvigorate its en-
feebled principles. IF some power
could give the Democrats grace to
nominate respectable candidate,
like Bayard or Cleveland, they would
make the election of Blaine impossi-
BILE. We understand that Mr..
Blaine's campaign will be conducted
with all the vigor which shrewdness
and money can command; that it will
be unsurpassed for it's noise, fire, en-
thusiasm, professions and torch
lights; that it will exhaust every de-
vice Of the most accomplished trad
ers and manipulators Of votes; and
yet we believe it will fail. The ticket
may carry some Western States by
tremendous majorities; but good
Democratic candidate will sweep New
York by majority almost like that
of Cleveland two years ago, and Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut and New
Hampshire would follow. We said
before the Convention that Mr..
Blaine could not be elected. We
were not making threats then; now
we add that he ought not to be elect
ed. The conscience of the true Re
publicans, who love its faith more
than its fishes, will surely defeat its
unworthy ticket, either by refusing
to give their votes to its candidate,
or by transferring their votes to the
Democratic ticket, or, possibly, to
third ticket not yet provided for.
But, meanwhile, we beg Republi-
cans not to forget the long love they
have given to their party. The party
must ha eayad in spitn If ;toolf W.