Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-24
Lancaster fnteIliger,csr.
FRIDAY EVENING OCT, "a. 1881.
HIS Foes In His Party.

HIS Foes In His Party.
SONS discussion is being had in the
newspapers as to the vigor with which
Blaine IL being supported by the Came.
ron element in Pennsylvania, the Conk.
ling In New York, and by the friends of
other leading Republican politicians
and statesmen in the several states, who
have not been Mr.. Blaine's friends and
well wishers In the past. Mr.. Blaine has
been an aggressive man all his life, and
has been eminently distinguished for the
zeal with which he has sought to push
the fortunes of Mr.. Blaine. lie has
come In collision with q great many of
the strong men Of his party and no one
doubts their personal dislike of him. The
debatable question is whether they will
permit their hostility to him to quiet
their desire for their party's success and
to what extent it will affect their efforts
In its behalf. Comparatively few Of
these men have openly declared against
him, and If the Republican party will
have the hearty support of the rest, it
may hope for success but if there really
exists q belief among Blaine's enemies
in his party that their welfare will be
promoted by his defeat he will have no
chance of election.
This question will only be settled by
the election. Upon the surface Blaine's
personal enemies appear as his political
friends and supporters. 1t is true that
they are not manifesting any great en-
thusiasm in his behalf, but they do not
appear to be seeking to interfere with
the manifestation of enthusiasm by the
clans they have led. In Pennsylvania
the great body of the Republican party
has trained under the leadership of Cam
eron and his friends and the great body
of the Republicans of the state appear
to-day to be heartily for Blaine No
doubt the situation is mainly beyond the
control of the Cameron leaders, and they
feel that they would break themselves to
try to stem it go they go with it. But
they know very well that it will lie IA
cold day for them when Blaine is elected
and 1t is quite contrary to their nature
that they should hope for any such re
suit. That Blaine's defeat would not be
mourned by a large number of Peunsyl-
vania Republican politicians may fairly
be assumed. That they will make any
extraordinary effort to elect him, or 90 a
step beyond the measure of support that
is demanded by the appearance of sup
port they desire to keep up, may be
taken for granted. They will go along
with the boys and hurrah with them and
be as easy as to the result, as WAS the
old woman in her husbands fight with
the bear. At Conkling's house in New
York many of his friends do not even
care to keep upa semblance Of support
of the Republican national ticket. In
New York, indeed. there is less of dis
stimulation of the dislike to Blaine than
In Pennsylvania, where there is more
hide bound Republican party. Here the
Independent Republicans were those
who revolted against the Cameron die
tation to the party, and now that they
are in line with their candidate for
president, the old regulars, who still
expect to control the state political
machine, keep step with them to that
end. AS New York is the great battle
ground, the Republican feeling there is
of more interest than in Pennsylvania,
aud the indications OF revolt from
Blaine in the Empire state are particu-
larry distressing to him and amply
warrant his recall to that field of labor /;
in which, however, he can do little by
his personal presence, as the hostility is
personal to him, and man cannot do
much to moIlify his foes in thrusting his
presence upon them.