The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

ton, Is the same Elkins who led the Blaine
forces at Chicago, and did more than all other
Blaine leaders to secure the triumph OF the
people in Blaines nomination"
BARTON MONITOR: "The nomination OF Mr..
Blaine will be great disappointment to YER
monters as IL WAS quite confidently hoped that
Senator Edmunds would receive the nomiDa-
ton. Those, however, who have watched the
workings OF politics had not expected that
thing 80 fit and 80 devoutly wished, might oc-
cur. The country is big, and while Vermont
is thing to be admired and her best men are
always power In congress, when IL comes to
selecting presidents she is quite sure to get
left. Edmunds Is too good, and his real stand
ing is above the plane from which presidential
candidates are selected. While he Is held by
the masses all over the country in highest
esteem, when II comes to shouting for political
campaigns, the shouters are not with him.
The politicians are not with him. Those who
hope to receive money for political services are
not with him; that large number OF worthy
and unworthy men who are seeking places in
the employ Of the government are afraid of
Edmunds he Is In no ring, no clique. And
hence while he possesses, really, all the quail
ties which make him fit candidate, other
men possess those that win in conventions, and
for that matter carry elections"
BRArrLEBoRo PHOENIX. can attempt to
disguise the fact that the Chicago NOM
nations were a great surprise and disap-
pointment to the people of this state would be
useless. Since the formation Of the
party no convention has been the center Of
such high hopes and expectations as the one
Just held. The issues between the two great
parties are not as distinct as they formerly
were; the lines are not now very sharply de-
fined; hence the better element among the re-
publicans earnestly desired the nomination of
men of the purest character and OF the highest
craftsmanship, believing as it did that the
campaign would be more largely a personal
candidates had
been the case at any former election This
was necessary in order to unite all factions
and that young men who have never become
identified with either party, and men who for
two years past have been hating between two
opinions, might be attracted, by the conspicu-
GUS abilities and worth of the candidates, to
the party which saved the nation from treason
aud slavery and which has given a long line of
illustrious men to the country. The great &C.
casion came and has passed, and the republic
cans of Vermont mourn for what might have
been. Edmunds and Lincoln had been prom
inently named as candidates for months be-
fore the convention. . The wisdom
OF nominating these men was so apparent that
wayfaring delegates, however unwise, need
not have erred. But, carried away by an en-
thusiasm that was in part spontaneous and in
part manufactured for the occasion, instead of
acting under the guidance of sober judgment.
the convention passed by these candidates and
other unexceptionabe and available ones, and
nominated Blaine and Logan. 1t seemed to
forget that the convention did not elect, and
that the democrats are likely month later to
nominate strong ticket when four mouths Of
a heated campaign will follow, in which each
candidates record will be searched and every
questionable act heralded to the country, and
at the end of that time the people will express
their approval or disapproval of the respective
tickets at the polls All republicans recognize
the distinguished abilities of the men placed
in nomination, and the great services they have
performed for the party; but the best men
were demanded of the convention and they
have not been given. We expect to support
the ticket, but we shall do so feeling that it
might and ought to have been better one
one entirely UNDERSTANDABLE to all republicans
everywhere"
OUTSIDE THE STATE.
MANCHESTER (N H. MIRROR AND AMERI.
CAN: Sincerely believing that the Chicago
convention might have selected a stronger can
didate we regard the nomination of James G.
Blaine as mistake"
NEWPORT (R. ~ News: "The feeling against
the Chicago ticket is increasing in bitterness on
every side. 1t is largely confined to the com
paratively silent voters, who will not be heard
from until election day"
| FLUSHING TIMES: " II the democrats are wise
enough to nominate a man whose character
will insure to the country wise and safe ad
|
preference to our party's nominee"
FALL RIVER News: " Neither parties nor mer
are perfect, and II we wish to accomplish any
thing in this world by party action, we must
take human nature as it is and make the best
of it The republican party has recognized IL
James G. Blaine leader by the divine right o.
| God-given ability"
NEW HAVEN NEWS: I" A republican nationa
convention has at last made one of those mis-
! "a
| charge upon its foes. Whether the error proves
fatal depends largely on whether the coming
democratic national convention gives voter
only choice of evils"
Boston PILOT: "The democratic party hal
| its opportunity in front. There are dozer
democrats who can beat Blaine and Logan
Bayard can beat them; Tilden can beat them
any other democrat. Nothing but faulty o
actual treachery can prevent democratic
success next fall
NEW HAVEN JOURNAL AND COURIER: " How
far all this opposition will 60 and what it will
accomplish remains to be seen. There is NJ
doubt that 1t is serious, and perhaps it is ever
more serious than it now appears to be. MI
Blaine and his friends will havea great victor
il they can triumph over the rebellion in tn
republican party and the opposition of tn
| democrats"
UTICA PRESS: Sin order to emphasize on
disappointment over the nomination, we do nc
think it necessary to revive the stories of tn
scandals with which Mr.. Blaine's political ca
reer is clouded. They are not forgotten. w
feel it duty, however, to be true to our con
victions, and we have expressed an opinio
adverse to Mr. Blaine because we believed hi
nomination was unfortunate for the republica
party
LOWELL COURIER: "We do not believe an
teeter-board managers are going to control thi
fight The republican party has well-define
mission which Is yet uncompleted. IL ther
are any American citizens who are so niue
opposed to Mr.. Blaine that they cannot hel
elect him, they must do the next best thing
and we shall have to get along without the
assistance But the republican party hs
spoken, and its members will fall in and brin
the colors out again to victory"
ROCHESTER, PosT-EXPREss: "The republ
can national convention has preferred taking
risk to ensuring a certainty, and of all Il
risky courses open to it, it has selected III
most risky. In nominating Blaine a mort
challenge has been offer to the floating vo
of the country, which always has it in |
power to decide close election, and the ind
pendent republicans have been confronted vii
having been driven home, it has been clincht
on the other side by adding the name of Jof
!, A. Logan to the ticket"
:, PORTLAND PRESS SIT is the privilege,
! course, of journals which do not like NJ
q Blaine to support some one else, and get lei
: But they ought not to give reasons for oppo
a ing him which have no foundation in faC
, They ought not to say that Mr.. Blaines non
a nation was brought about by dsreputab
q methods, for that is false. Mr.. Blaine WI
i nominated simply because he was the fir