Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-10-21

Mr.. Blaine Is the first presidential can =.
6ldste Of great party to embark in
regular stumping tour. 1t Is not new
1or party candidates to seek the ear and
Tho presence Of the people and aim to
Inspire their enthusiasm with their words
end action but they have not UNDER
taken II before as regular business Of
the campaign, and thrown off all dis
guise Of their purpose to solicit votes
Mr.. Blaine started out in this canvass
with some affectation of modesty. He
rode through the states and shook the
hands Of the people from the back plat
forms Of the car, contenting himself
with . few words of greeting of no par
ticular political Significance. But when
h got out into Ohio the heat of the poll.
tical fever seems to have inflamed his
blood, and he started into stump speak
ing canvass for himself with as much
abandon ~ though 1t was some one else
whose election was in question for the
highest Office in the land. 1t
may be that it is Western
affected Mr.. Blaine, and that he is
simply doing in Rome what the Romans
would have him do. We suspect that
this IL the case, and that there is moth
ing shocking to Western sensibilities in
presidential candidate on the stump.
Everyone knows how different is West.
ern thought, poetry and civilization from
that Of the Atlantic slope. When you
get In the prairie states you gel into
different human atmosphere. The peo
pie are wilder and less self contained,
freer and less reserved, bolder and less
prudent. You see it in the men who say
loudly what they do not mean, not being
crazy in their business which is always
ballooning and smashing, in their girls
who are never great but always loud and
dashing.
The girls are in politics, of course.
on Indiana, through which Blaine is
now stumping, the Republican girls turn
out with the boys in marching column,
arrayed In white duck uniforms with
red slashings, and sing and cry while the
boys howl and yell. That is typical
Western style. 1t would be considered
horrid here. No respectable girl would
do it. There the girls claim politics as
their field of excitement, though
they do not want to vote. They simply
want to be in, to "go the whole hog "
along with the men, and the men say
amen.
Mr.. Blaine had certainly better stay
out West where he can do anything that
seems to him advisable to promote his
canvass. He should not venture East
after his Western experience, for
he will not have the same free
dom here and he might get
into trouble in attempting to execute it.
If Mr.. Blaine was appearing in the
East, he would not have been treated as
he was at Fort Wayne. 1t would not
be considered proper here to howl down
presidential candidate. But then, as
we have suggested, it is not thought
here to be good form in a presidential
candidate to convert himself into q com
mon stump speaker. So the treatment
Of Blaine at Fort Wayne must be judged
according to the wild Western standard,
by which probably 1t is all right for one
party to hold its meeting right under the
nose of the candidate Of the other and
to howl him down if it has the lungs to
do it, though he be presidential candi.
date and none the less a thief for al
that.