The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-13
PRESIDENTIAL REYERIEs.

tional politics impresses US as tn
stiffness of the hunters cabin in tn
lake did poor Natty Bumppo. 1t is to
Internally still and it is filed with th
painted war-be-decked savages, VIII
will, ere long, spring forth with will
| yells and the business of scalp-liftin,
commence at once. in the republicsl
camp, Blaine is coying with the Blacl
Douglas of Illinois, known to fam,
and to his sprightly little wife a.
Black Jack Logan. Blaine is the
leading ibertine, the accomplished
seducer of the republican party, and
for an honest party-man to be seen
submitting to his Establishments is
not only mere suggestion of politi-
cal unfaithfulness, but it constitutes
confirmation strong as proof of holy
writ" Blaine is dangerous schemer.
He IS veritable thorn in the side of
the republican body polite, and Tester
ing sores and inward bruises always
follow his slightest manifestations.
He is bold, determined. a1d his Luci-
ferian ambition is to reign in hell or
usurp the governing prerogative in
heaven. Nothing short of this will
ever even amuse the plumed knight
of Maine. He started out, from his
eerye in the Pennsylvania everlast-
ings by the Maine route for the white
house, and it does seem that he now
stands broad in the glare OF that COW
esed goal of so many towering ambi-
lions. OF one thing we may rest per-
fectly assured, and that is that he will
grapple with any influence no matter
what its power, which stands
in the pathway upon which
his footsteps have entered. Poor Jack
Logan will live to understand this
awful truth to dot long ere the re-
publican convention has given the
hosts of the faithful an official banner
man. In Blaine's hands the inlet |
tered aboriginal dragon will be but as
a helpless pulling infant. 1t is our
deliberate opinion that the country |
confronts the almost absolute GER
tainty that Blaine will be the repub-
lican nominee. If so, the democracy
will have to grid its loins for a fight
which it can never win on the Chinese
plan. Hard fighting all along the line
will be the rule, and no false or max
er-believe warfare will do for him.
We will be compelled to construct an
issue. 1t must be a real one, and it
must underreach the whole structure.
Of the national policies.
Nothing short of sharply defined,
'traight-edged and clean cut tariff
will do this. The dishonest
protection theories upon which the
republican party is based as the legal
successor and heir of whigism, must
De arraigned sharply in the national
platform. The great west
and the reviving and confident south,
who have so often fronted each other
N the crimson stained fields of the
late unpleasantness," must lock
hields for fight of another descrip-
ion, which will be quite as deadly,
)ut bloodless, deciding interests, how
'ver, of far more gravity than any set
led Yon dark day at Appomattox.
They will press the bloody shirt issue.
They will put millions upon millions of
money into the corruption fund, and
he glitter of gold will stand as the
un of Austerlitz to their leader. To
meet this the democracy can only op-
'ose the steady front Of unflinching
rinciple and the heroic resolve to win
r die. There must be no changing
ront in the presence of such a
aader as Blaine. The democratic
must be arranged, its prin-
iples determined AID its discipline !:
ettled before it steps upon the war =,
ath at all. The country is ripe for a :
omplete emancipation from republi- ,
an rule and ruin and with the free :,
'ade issue sharply made, the south and 3
nd the west will stand as a unit {
gainst the exactions of pampered :
lew England. The west and the !
outh aregalled andoutraged because,
,r all these years they have been po-
tically, but the hewers of wood and :
lie drawers of water for tyranny as !
rinding and as repressive of the agri- .
lltural and pastoral interests of these :
go sections, as was ever tolerated by 9
manly and a free people who have :
i along held the means of redress in
heir own hands.
The smoke of battle has rolled
way and the commercial and
,cial interests of the west and south {
ep to the front in place of the feel
g, malign and ugly, out of which G
ar came to us few years since. 1
1entical in all things, as these are, t
e must stand shoulder to shoulder {
IT their defense, and we must march q
,gether over the border, and stand
!, fall as one people for the benign
Id healthful principle of policy which '
'sters both alike. Business is bust ;
ess, but cut of Identical bu nness in
,rests often grow social and political +
liances which are indissoluble.