The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-02
POLITICAL E W
What the 1%ndependent" Thought Of
Mr.. Blaine Eight Years Ago.
How the South Is Made and Kept Solid for
the DemOcracy-Mr. Blaine Is Not Con-
Quoting the Maine Canvass.
BLAINE EIGHT rEARs AGO.

A Great Religious Journaps frOsese Asa
Moral Assassination.
New York Independent, June IS. 1876.
wbatbar blaine will be the presidential
.- - rI.onnoti convention i 40 wa
NY -
go TO press, the Prooiem VnasEomaAnS W "esoAfeu-
The delegates fayoring his NOMINATION., as com-
narad w;th tbosa favor;np any other candidate.
$500 49,. TN. $4,000 -
are nearly tnree 10 one. Anese uelesates oVmo
from far the largest number OF States, ana
these States happen to include nearly all the
c4.4aa 4ha4 ,su 80. eou oboosa Ronrhl;car
0s"ses snae WI noAs I" snOOo
electors Where the hepuDncan party Is most
certain OF success there Mr.. blaine Is the strohg-
esL rms Iact mas increasingly aPpeaFeu eVeE
since the canvass IN respect 70 canoioaVes CON-
menced, and It was never more conspicuous IMAM
az TINS very nour 49,
II a good general can nnd out what ms enemy
aont want MN 70 90, ne WI Dc amos. elS
70 40 IL ms Is Inc very lining Whecn, ns onS q
being the judge, ne had better do; II the III
cinnat1 convention acts upon TINS rule, Ut.
Blaine Will be its nominee. Inc democrats LOT
some weeks past have concentrated upon MN
tneir whole nre. his ponScai oes1rucson = y
their Judgment, important 70 tnelr cause: why
Because he Is the man most to pc dreaded \ me
nay OF battle. Inc moStVe rs aS RalpaDAe az Ing
means have been infamous, Inc oeslgn Il, u
possible, to prevent ms nomination. ana u !ne
Clnclnnata convention praeucaliy coucurs Win
this design 1t will do the very thing winch tne
democrats desire 70 nave oone; anu tnat 70 JUST
the thing when IL snouio not 10.
1T would De amusing, IL were not SO lntenseiy
provoking, TO the frfends OF mi. Blame 70 oo-
serve the course pursued by tnose nepuolcans
who desire the nomination OF some other person.
We do not ind any fault VIII Iner preference.
They have a right to- IL YET Wnen tney Decome
the abettors OF Democrats In aioul conspiracy
70 destroy MI: Blame; Wnen Iney JPN nan
with his enemies and the enemies OF me NepuD-
Ecan party to strike down the man whom Inc
party has been accustomed TO nonor; Wnen tney
not only 90 not seek to defend MIN agalnsI .
merciless assault OF siander ana hes,. put ratner
eneer on the assailanss; wnen onSy dgI Sai. b esL
dence, studiously dlstort facts, ana 40 tneir pest
to present Mr.. Blaine at the greatest possible
disadvantage; when by hints and lnnuenooes
they suggest what they have not the manilness
to affirm in plain language, and what tney know
would be a lie if they did affirm it, when they
leave no opportunity un1mproyed TO make q
false impression upon the puonc-yes, Wneh
they would conslgn Mr.. Blaine TO lnfamy,
simply to make room for some other candidate,
then we tell these gentlemen, whether they be
the friends OF Secretary BrlstoWj or senator
Morton, or Senator Conkllng, that there are q
few Blaine men In this country who DO not pro-
pose to acquiesce IN such a moral ASSASSINATION.
They are prodiglously IN earnest and now ter
ribly indignant Neither BristoW men, nor
Conkling, men nor Morton men have helped their
cause one whit by their course In respect to Mr.
Blaine.
The country has been strongly moved with
49, =.
We coneede that toward the close OF the week
before Last things looked rather omlnous for Mr.
Blaine. Mulligan and his virtually pilfered let
ters-we say pilfered, because, by every rule OF
honor they belonged to Mr.. Blalne-weres iil-
ported from Boston, What tIanspired did for
the moment leave MI. Blaine under 2 cloud Of
suspicion; and his Democratic enemies thought
that at last they had gained their point, ana MS
Republican opposers, accepting the thought and
thoroughly pleased with the result, began 70
quarrel among themselves as to the ownership
Of his political estate. The question then was
whether the Blaine delegates would go for Sec
rotary Bristow, or Senator Morton, or Senator
Conkling. ,f.an@S
Alas! for these premature calcuiatlons! VI all
the dead men That were ever killed the ex-
Speaker IS certainly the lvellest no better as
play, OF true manilness, or inner exhloition ortne
qualities that make one equal TO any tasks or 9
more triumphant vlndicatlon OF personal and
othclal honor was ever presented IN the House OF
Representatives than that furnished q week ago
last Monday Dy this same dead man. When-Mr
Blame nao nnished ms speech ana read every
one OF the letters, to winch Mulllgan mad no
title, ana Wnien, nad ne oeen an honoraOie man.
ne would wltnouG soLlclsaSlon nave gwen 70 tneir
author, tne polltlcal consplrasors and assassins
were IN dlsmay; Ana Wnen tne speech ana tne
letters reached the Puohc, not only Blame
meQ, QuG every uhu u Vfu6 anu uOUlo Impulses,