Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25


for Mr.. Blaine. IT says:
The nomination OF Mr.. Blaine is the best
it could have made, and it will require all
that the Democrats can do to bring about
his defeat. Recognizing the nature and ex-
tent of his popularity within the limitations
which we have mentioned, we are free to
say that there is no room in the campaign
for any Democratic plumbers, and no place
in the programme to accommodate the
capering and vaporing proclivities of certain
Democratic cranks who assume to lead the
party, and who have led it time and again
from the emergencies of hope to the GER
tainty of defeat.
Should he be elected we believe his adj
ministration will be liberal one. He is
the ablest and most experienced public man
to be found in the Republican party, and if
the country is to have another four years of
Republicanism, we believe Mr.. Blaine will
give more general satisfaction than any
other Republican. He will at least fly the
American flag over the White House and
the State House, and there Will be some
consolation in that.
The Houston Post, one of the ablest
Democratic papers in Texas, expresses
itself in hardly less striking and sig
nifcant manner, and rings the alarm
bells to warn the Democracy in the fol-
lowing vigorous fashion:
The Democratic party must be aware that
by nominating Blaine the Republicans have
exhibited the finest trump card in their
deck. 1t is of no use to disguise the fact;
Blaine is a very strong man, difficult to
beat He has the magnetism of the few
select, who stand head and shoulders above
their fellow men; his private record is a
pure one-to the best of our knowledge
and his ability has been tested a hundred
times and not been found wanting, The
Democracy should not underrate their
enemy. No use to make fun of Blaine's
book. That book will turn out to be the
most efficient document of the season. The
Republican managers will send hundreds of
thousands of copies of that book through
the South and other Democratic strong
holds, and seek to convert Democrats by
the charm and the eloquence of Blaine's
Twenty Years in Congress" We have
read that book. 1t is written in the style of
an approved master, and it will catch the
| unwary by its fine phrases and its show of
impartiality. Blaine is the man of all men
who will give the Democrats a hard battle
for the Presidency.
There is very little disposition in the
South to assail Mr.. Blaine or Mr..
Logan with the bitterness it has mani
tested toward previous Presidential
candidates, and there is no disposition
to underrate his strength as leader,
and In more than one quarter there is
evidence to show that his election
would not be regarded as calamity.
The Republicans of the South are also
wonderfully encouraged by the nomina-
tions. The CRUSADER, plucky little
4oI o. 41.o
very stronghold of Bourbonism, says
that if Mr.. Blaine is elected ballot box
stufing will not only be very danger
Gus but very unpopular in the South,
and announces that when the news of
the nominations reached Natchez a
crowd of ardent Blaine men went out
on the bluff and fired hundred guns
in their honor. The Lynchburg (Va.)
NeaCs calls the attention of the Demo
Gratis to the attempt which will be made
by the Republicans to carry Virginia.
The Virginia Seaport says:
All Republicans can cheerfully unite to
secure this result, and thousands and
thousands of Democrats will heartily join
in the accomplishment of this end
The Richmond Wing reioices in the
prospect exultantly:
We are going to have a good time once
more, and want you to enjoy it-what used
to be called, in the days of Mr.. Monroe, an
era of good feeling. Shortly we shall have
ratification meetings all over this grand old
Commonwealth, from Accomac's seagirt
shore to the mountain recesses of Scott and
Lee, where the names of Blaine and Logan
will be made familiar as household words
to the ears of the hardy mountaineers of the
Southwest, as well as to the amphibious
jewellers of Chincoteague.
Little West Virginia is in a blaze of
enthusiasm. Within forty-eight hours
of the time the news Of the nominations
reached there a score of Blaine clubs
we're organized in various parts of the
State, and from half dozen prominent
Blaine promising him the electoral vote
of the State. The Parkersburg Club
sent him one in which they say: "Moye
back the houses and widen the streets,
for we must have room. West Vir-
ginia is for you, and don't you forget
it." The Wheeling hoteIEgencer says !:
"The Mountain State will be wrested
| from Bourbon dominion and again
placed where she rightly belongs-in
the ranks of the Republican States. !"
At Glen Easton, in that State, the
Republicans formed great procession
and the Democrats fell into line. These
are samples of the general feeling
among the Democrats of the South.
There is no question that they feel an
admiration for Mr.. Blaine. He, as we'll
as Gen. Logan, is known to them, and
| they cannot help but admire their cour-
age and brilliant qualities, even though
they may not vote for them. It is by
no means impossible that they will
carry one or more of the Southern
States, and it is by no means improba-
BILE that by making some of these
States debatable ground the line of the
Solid South will at last be broken
Exchange.