The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-06-18
THE BLAINE REVOLT
SOME SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

The signs of the times betoken q
hard, uphill job for the Blaineites
and q boom for Democracy. The
evidence of discerd and outright re-
volt among the Republicans are not
n little startling to the party. They
little dreamed what storm of OPP
position would be raised when they
put the nomination of Mr.. Blaine
through under the whip and spur.
There has probably never before
been such an outcropping Of dissent
and dissatisfaction caused by a Presi-
dental nomination. Abiding to
this feeling especially in the States
of Massachusetts and New York, the
Post of Washington, says, ain the
former States, the Boston Herald,
the leading Independent paper of
New England, and the Boston Ad-
UertiSer, the Boston Transcript, the
Springfield Republican, and the
Worcester Spy, Republican journals,
decline to support the candidates
and oppose them with earnestness,
and the Massachusetts, Reform Club
unanimously passes resolutions de-
nouncing the nomination and ap~
pointing committee TO call meets
ing Of independent voters at an ear
ly day to take steps for practical
reputation Of the ticket. -
In New York, the Independent,
which has always been a steadfast
supporter of the Republican party,
its nominations, and its principles,
announces that it will not support
the ticket nominated at Chicago. 1t
says that the party is worth nothing
except as it continues to represent
principles and reform. When it is
dead the quiet, earnest patriots who
have sustained it must bury it. The
Independent prefers to believe that
the party is sick rather than dead,
and says a defeat may purge and
reinvigorate it. The conscience of
true Republicans will surely defeat
its unworthy ticket, and eff the
Democrats nominate an unexcep~
tiOnable candidate, like Bayard or
Cleveland, they would make the
election of Blaine impossible. The
New York Times, the New York
Eoening Post, the Brooklyn Union,
the Buffalo Express, and the Roches-
ter Post Erpress--Republican jour
mails all-unite in opposition to the
ticket and the platform upon which
candidates stand. In addition, prom
inent Republicans and Independ-
ents are quoted, the number ofwhom
is limited by the restrictions of news
paper space, who declare, with some
times startling emphasis, that they
are against the Republican party
this year.
The Republicans are beginning 10
be very much alarmed under the
strong armed utterances of such
powerful organs and creators of pub
lie opinion as the above. We have
been reading some of these papers,
and find them fierce and determined.
The New York Heratd declares that
the nomination of Blaine was the
triumph of the worst elements of
the party. 1t says:
eff party cannot suppress its evil
e'ements-if, on the contrary, the evil
elements become The most vigorous por-
tion Of the party and threaten to suppress
the other elements--then the people at
the p ills should suppress that party.
s.In every National History which ex-
hibits the operations of party govern
ment-ihat is. the simple course of
events, and that will be the course of
events once more unless this whole ma
ton is absolutely demoralized and de-
graded to tie low standard of the Blaine
level"
The Herald then speaks of the
spectators who want to use the
party for corrupt andlnfamous polit
ical game" and says:
"If they t.lrmph tho hoLr OF ita de-