The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09
BLAINE AND LOGAN,


goes by its running qualities for the country
at large will be developed, just as they were
at once manifest in this State. Examined in
the light either of sentiment or what may be
called practical politics, the invincibility of
the combination must be apparent That
Blaine's name will give the Republicans of
Maine in September an unprecedented MAORI
ty, such as was given to Lincoln and Hamlin,
can not be doubted. Every town and ham
let is alive with enthusiasm, every pine tree
mods its stately head in welcome of the ma
TONS choice. Maine will be ablaze from now
until September and lead the roll of elections
with a tremendous vote that will set
the whole country on fire. Remembering the
memorable contest in the Chicago convention
of 1880 over the leader of its delegation, in
which General Garfield espoused the cause of
the State and of individual sovereignty, and
recognizing in James G. Blaine the embodi-
ment Of President Garfelds spirit and pur-
pose, there is every probability that the Re
publicans of West Virginia will carry that
State in October, and make it certain for the
Republican column in the following Novem-
ber Ohio will give a decided majority in
October. Blaine is wonderfully popular in
Galfeld's State, for obvious reasons. Not
of John Sherman could wean Ohio from devo-
ton to the memory of Garfield as represented
in Mr.. Blaine. From the first half of the
delegation were enthusiastically devoted to
Blaine, and the wish of the whole State was
represented when Judge Foraker with
drew Mr.. Shermans name, cast the
entire strength for Mr.. Blaine, and moved to
make the nomination by acclamation. With
Maine at the head of the Republican column
in September, and West Virginia and Ohio
next in line in October, hand-in-h hand, he
would be fatuous man, indeed, who could
entertain a serious doubt of the result in
November. That Blaine and Logan make the
electoral vote of Indiana sure for the Repub-
lican party cannot be questioned, and is not by
prudent and level-headed Democrats. What
ever of apparent tergiversation there may
have been in the action of Indiana at Chicago,
one cause was the strong sentiment for Mr.
Blaine in the State and in the delegation.
Added to the prevalent Blaine sentiment is
the devoted regard, especially of the
soldiers, to the most conspicuous vol
unteer soldier of the war-General
John A. Logan, the Black Eagle
of the Union army. The soldiers love
John Logan. They know his bravery, his
intrepidity, his devotion to right, his loyalty
to friends, and his tried ability as we'll. No
man has stronger following in Indiana than
he, and, associated with Blaine, the ticket will
be simply irresistible.
OF course, the Democratic press will fill itself
with all sorts of charges and assertions, think
ing thereby it is making campaign. We
hope it will pursue that course. 1t will
speedily find out that it is not the Republican
party nor its candidates who are on trial. but
that the question it will have to answer to the
public conscience is as to its own fitness for
control Of the government The charges
they are a twice-told tale. The country is
familiar with them There can be no sur.
prises as to his record The worst that
the fell spirit of detraction and SANDER could
invent has already been given the widest
publicity, and the answer of his party and of
the people to it all is an undiminished conf
dence, devotion surprising that given to any
public man since the days of Henry Clay, and
finally the nomination for the presidency in
obedience to an impulse the force of which
has never been matched in the history of the
Republican party. All that can be said of
Mr.. Blaine was said and fully known when
James A. Garfield made him the principal
figure in his administration. No sooner was
the election of General Garfield known than
the demand for Mr. Blaine to be Secretary of
State was universally heard, and when the
President elect responded, the selection was
as universally approved. If Mr. Blaine was
fit to be Secretary of State in 1881 he is fit to
be President in 1885, and those purists
and newspapers now giving themselves I'M
easiness over the nomination of Mr. Blaine
only write themselves down as controlled by
prejudice rather than justice, for they were
among the foremost friends of President Gar
field whose most important political act was
to give the seal Of his unqualified Endorsement