The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-29
The Attempt to Stampede the ColOred Voters
Into the Democratic Camp by Harp
ing on LOgan's Record.
How Mr.. Hendricks Viewed the CoIored
Race When He Was in the Senate.
John Finerty Makes an Appeal for Emanci-
patton Of Irish Voters from Democratic
COntrol-The Labor Vote.
MIR. BLA1NE,s EARLY RECORD.
A Line of Action Which win Not Result in
Benefit to the Democracy.

A Line of Action Which Win Not Result in
Benefit to the Democracy.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
New York, July 8.-The Mail and Express
of to-day has a telling editorial on the attacks
on Mr., Blaines early record which have been
begun in the Democratic press 1t says:
''Such journalism is not good politics in the
case of any man like Mr. Blaine. who has been a
fighter from the start who has conquered
by open methods every inch of the ground he
has won, and who has achieved sort and ex.
tent of popularity with Americans of all creeds
and races that no bigot, whatever
his Abilities ever won in a free
and enlightened country. The game of
overhauling and reproducing the early utter
ances of men of real power and fairly won pop
ulaFity has always been a losing one 1t was
tried on Peel and Disraeli, and Gladstone, and in
each case was dismal and disastrous failure
yet the glaring inconsistencies and early polit
lcal follies of these great leaders were enough
to invite the experiment. The illustrations in
American politics of the same unwilllngness to
obscure the mature argeness, ,lsagacity and liber-
ality of great men by the shadows of forgotten
mistakes, of the hot controversial expressions
developed by the peculiar times, are so plenty
that we need not give them"
After noting the position in which the Demo-
cratic party is placed in the matter of early
records by reason of Mr.. Hendricks's nomina-
ton, and drawing comparison between his ac-
ton and that of the men who formed the Re
publican party, it says of Mr.. Blaines part in
the work.
Drawer, or better, or wiser political work was
never done by any politician in the country, and
the common sense of our Irish and German
Americans will judge of the spirit in which and
of the ends for which these revolutionists and
party builders worked by the general results they
accomplished and by the spirit they have shown
since they brought out the magnificent organiza-
tion that elected Lincoln, saved the Nation, en-
franchised labor, and opened to the poor men of
all foreign lands not only the North, enriched by
Republican policies, but the South, surrendered
by the Democracy to owned labor, and the
new West, which the Democracy wanted to sur
render to slave labor"
The editorial concludes
Great public careers are not judged by the
microscopic examination of dishonesty selected
specimens. The American people know
a great leader after they have had
him before them for twenty years in a
large way, and neither sensational journalism
nor vicious personal politics have ever harmed
such man. Mr. Blaine certainly has nothing
to fear and great deal to gain from any as
saults that bring before Americans, native or
adopted the beginnings of his career as a public
man. Keep up the examination of the files of
the Kennebec Journal, gentlemen of the demor-
allied and wretchedly led opposition. The more
completely you can awaken and enliven the pub
lie interest in this chapter of Mr. Blaines career,
the more we shall be pleased.