Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-22
Mr.. BLAINE's DRIYEl.
Drives Him to Revolutionary Utter
ances.
What Reputable Papers Thlak Of
HE Froth.
BIaine's Exposure Of His Inw.sdnsss.
NJ T. Hrah

BIaine's Exposure Of His Inwstdness.
~ T. HTsh
We believe that no patriotic citiIea-be
he Republican, Democrat Peoples party
man or Prohlbitonist-will read The speech
Blaine made at Augusta without
night without thanking God most fervently
for the delivery Of the people Of the United
States from the danger and disgrace Of
having such Q demagogae and incendiary
Tor their President. Ii 10 the 6rst instance
in which Presidential candidate maddened
BY defeat has tried to inoculate his country
with sectional passions in revenge Tor its'
choice OF another man. Unless No under
estimate the patriotism Of the people North
and South, they viii greet il with such
scornfll anger everywhere that it viii be
the last instance as well ss the first
In the civil war one great crime was ct.
tempted which honorable belligerents on
either side regarded with unanimous horror.
We mean the attempt to inoculate the coun =
try with yellow fever. But it pales in wick.
eduess beside Blaines attempt to inoculate
the country with sectional passions; 70 tear
open the healed wounds of rebellion; 10 per
meate the North with sense Of humiliation
from the election OF Governor Cleveland to
the Presidency; to infect the freemen with
fear cf REINSTATEMENT; 10 inspire white
workmen with dread Of the frcedmen's COM
petition in their fields OF labor, and 10 I'm
peach the sincerity OF the allegiance Of all
Southern white men.
No rebuke is too severe for this yillainous
speech, and the shame Of il is aggravated
by the fact that il was Ms deliberate ~ It Is
das,ardly. Mr.. Blaine's words are not the
unpremediated harangue Of hot temper.
They are the studied u,terancs Of q cold
blooded malign:iy.
I!ut We belIeYe that there is small danger
os ha, IN tIum such words as bis u. this day.
We have faith that the evil he would wreak
upon his country will be visited on his own
head. 1.-THE Republican party does not un.
load itself OF Blaine after this speech II will
add damnation to defeat,
Unhscoming, but Characteristic.
Erstiag Pos, Iad Rp.
4, would have been difficult for Mr. Blaine
20 make q more unbecoming and unseason-
able acknowledgment Of his defeat than he
made in his speech at Augusta, but Il was
very Characteristic. He has always held
the solid South" in reserve to get him out
Of trouble. Now, oi course, he feels worse
than ever about the South and its future.
We recall these utterances Of this remafka-
bic demagogue, not for the purpose OF ex-
posing his Inconsistency, because he Is no
longer worth exposure or even for the
purpose Of illustrating the remark.
able good fortune OF the coun.
trv in escaping fsur years Of
him, with his varied powers Of mischief aud
his restless activity in the Presidential chair.
His remMks are worth notice mainly bc-
cause they are an appeal to what Is perhaps
the most formidable prejudice among Re.
pubcaps with which the friends Of good
government have Of late years had to con-
tend, and that By which Republican cor.
ruptionists have most profted. Now, one
of the best results Of Clcveland's election
will, in our opinion, be the destruction Of
this most mischievous delusion, on which 30
many Republican rascals have prospered
during the last ten or fifteen years. Lake
mos, delusions which have tradition at their
back, il could not be destroyed BY any
amount OF reasoning. Actual experiment,
such a. we shall now witness, will extirpatc
il in . short time.