Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-10
SERENADING BLAINE.
THE sALurE FROM MS owS rARri
what tho Leading Republican Now spspers
Think ana say OF the Outcome
~ chicago Last friday,

what tho Leading Republican Now spspers
Think aud say OF the Outcome
NJ chicago Last friday,
Brooklyn Union, Rep.
At the height Of its power the Repubi.
can party would have found such ticket
too heavy load. At time when 1t
less than o majority Of the
votes of the American people the party
can survive the fate Of the ticket only by
repudiating 1t. There is no majority,
whether fairly represented or not, that
should be permitted to impose ON
thoughtful and conscientious voters
the necessity of sacrificing conviction
party duty. What is, perhaps, more to
the purpose, there is no majorty, real or
imaginary, in the Republican party, who
in the present state of party feeling, need
make the attempt. Whether the nomina.
ton of James G.. Blaine be a triumph for
all tho rascality and jobbery in admins.
tration which has found shelter under the
Republican name, or whether it be the
response to u sentiment of admiring en-.
thusasm deeper and moro lasting than
was ever aroused by any American states.
man since Henry Clay, it is none the less
abandonment of every principle of pro
gressive politics which the party has
adopted and of every vital reform Of which
1t made itself the champion. The reck-
lessness of Blaine might be restrained by
responsibility, his venalty might shrink
and disappear under the fierce light that
beats upon the presidency, his demagog-
ism even might drop its claptrap and as
sume the likeness OF statesmanship, but the
man whose canvass has beon directed by
some of the most corrupt elements OF
the party owes too much 10 jobbers and
officemongers North and South, to render
even the turning loose of hungry Demo.
cratic hordes in quest of patronage and
p!uuder o possibility more undesirable
than his election. To those Republicans
who have striven to keep the standard of
party action as high as the standard OF
character accepted among honest men to
DO the candidate of Clayton and Elkins
will be regarded as n more despcablc dis
tiuction than TO have been the patron and
prompter of Stephen A. Hurlbut. To the
| men who have nominated James &. Blaine
| will be left the task of electing him
Whether they have willfully or ignorantly
| misunderstood the attitude of those Repub
| licans without whose aid the ticket cannot
be elected, they will not long be left il
| doubt about the nature of the revolt they
have provoked. Those who have sown
the wind need to be ready to reap the
whirlwind.
A Democratic Opiuion.
Mr.. Henry Watterson writes for the
| Courier Journal (Dem.) Louisville
"James Gillespie Blaine, long loved il
secret, but held at arms length for pru-
deuce sake, is named as the candidate fol
president OF the United States. Mr.. Blaine
is q type, and picturesque type, Of al
that is bad and all that is bold in the
party of which for years the real, he is
now both the actual aud nominal chief.
| lie ia a man, as it is q party, without
conviction and without restraint He is q
man, rs it is party, thoroughly unprln
cipled, aggressive, revengeful and adapt
able. He is a man, as it is a party, o
varied, many colored, woof, capable o
extreme generosity and brutal sefshnes
all things by turns and nothing long
In the middle ages he hourished Their
was time when in Spain he weLt by tn
remembered in Italy as Fra Diavolo.
his veins courses the lightning blood {
the Arabs. In his personality he is
cross between Corsican and Yanke,
All that is emotional in the Rspublica
character and that is domineering ii
Republican instincts, all that is graspin
and conscienceless in Republican arm
and methods, is flttingly and fully repro
duced in this brilliant adventurer, VIII
has aroused within the bosom of hi
political associates, despite the danger,
species of blind alteration"
A Weak Nomlnatlon.
| A very general canvass among Republi
| can congressman made by Philadelphia
! Record correspondent with the assuranc
that no names would be published In con
nection with their opinions, shows that
| majority regard the ticket as the weakes
that could have been nominated at Chicago
| They see that it will not staEd fou
months examination under the ligh
thrown on it by the Independent press
They generally concede that the Iudepen
dent Republican vote is already lost /
Blaine, and will say that il the Democrat
do not nominate man for whom th
| Independents can conscientiously yot
the Independents will either nominate a
Independent ticket or stay away from th
polls.
who's to be Postmastsr General.
y. Y. Times, Rep.
The party's new candidate for presider
is deeply indebted TO Powell Clayton, {
Arkansas +; Chauncey l. Filley, of Mis-
souri, Stephen B. Elkins, of New Mexic
and New York Logan H. Roots, Q
Arkansas I; ex-senator Spencer, of ALI
bama Richard G. Kerens, of Missouri
and Frank L. Money, OF Louisiana, fC
political services rendered. Several G
these have practical knowledge of th
operations and requirements Of the Unite
States mail service and Republicans VIII
regard the nomination as equivalent TO q
election, arc already indulging in som
speculation as to which one OF them wi
be made postmaster general.
Knows Him to Bo knavs.
The EDeRing Post, Rep, the mouthpieC
| Of the Independents and Civil Service n
form Republicans, repudiates the nomin;
tion in the following unequiyocal terms
! The jobbing, corrupt element in I'll
! party, which sees In politics simply
means Of distributing divideads out OF th
national cxchequer, and to which all pC
litical issues are simply devices to distraC
public attention from their industry, ha
} long been slowly coming TO head, in til
, fashion OF tumor, in Mr.. James g
Blaine. No voter dares to tell h
friends or his family that he is going
vote for man knowing him TO be a knay,
That Mr.. Blaine cannot be electe
We look on rs certain. Whether b
can be defeated without running the organ
ization which is being prostituted in th
service of his selfish ambition, romans t
be SEEN"
n Defensive Uampsign.
Phila. Evening Telegraph, Rep.
The national convention, with fu
knowledge of what iC was about to d,