Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
AN OHIO VIEW.

The Boston Advertiser, the special
organ Of the silk-stocking, kid-glove
standing collar, blue coat-and-brass- -but~
ton Republicans of Boston, refuses to
support Blaine. Blaine cannot claim a
descent from the Mayfower, nor did he
inherit name and money. Blaine does
not live on Beacon street, nor is he the
kind of man who is popular among
those who do Blajn is man who
commenced life as teacher, and by
shere force of intellect and industry
worked his way up to the very highest
round of the ladder. But he has never
forgotten that he is made Of the same
kind Of clay as other men. He has nev.
er forgotten that he is of the people.
There is nothing English about him. He
is democratic in his tastes and habits.
He is a man of culture. but he keeps his
culture for use rather than show. He has
no family to speak Of, his people having
been plain farmers in Western Pennsyl-
vania. 1t is doubtful if he can trace his
ancestry three generations, and it is more
than doubtful if he cares a straw who or
what they were He makes no preten.
sions to blood He has made himself
and he knows what he is. That sufices
him.
Because he is commoner, because he
does affiliate with the people because
there is nothing English about him, these
feeble Republicans of Beacon Hill put
up their shirt collars, put on their gloves,
and amble out of the Republican camp.
They can never forgive Blaine for being
man, a full-blooded, great-brained
man. They do not like the idea of fol-
lowing a man who has not coat of-arms,
who educated himself and made his own
way to eminence They resent his lack
of pretense, his distaste of varnish, as
much as they dislike his boldness and
confidence in himself. They will sup.
port man who despices them because
he knows them. That is what is the
matter with aristocratic Beacon Hill and
its superannuated organ, the Boston
Advertiser.
The same beings got such a control of
the Republican party in Massachusetts
that the decent working end of the par
ty, to kill them out. elected Butler Gov
ernor. Butler made the mistake of sup
posing that his popularity vas what did
it. 1t was nothing of the kind. 1t was
the protest of the hard-working Repub-
]icans of Massachusetts against the silk.
stockinged and kid-gloved, English-aping
aristocracy of the Republican party.
They threw Butler in the face Of the,
perfumed gentlemen as rebuke. Could
they haye found a more Objectionable
man to them than Butler they would
have elected him.
They bate Blaine with all their feeble
strength because he is in sympathy with
the common people, They hate him in
sort of emasculated way because he is
as far removed from their bastard aristo-
cracy as possible. They hate him be-
cause he is not of them, because in times
past he has prnctured their pretenses,
derided their claims to superiority over
the rest of mankind, because he has
respect for labor and what labor accom-
plishes, because he is a bitter, uncom-
promising opponent of aristocracy and
class, because he is one of the people and
representative man of the people.
And the organ of this class in Boston,
professedly Republican paper, refuses
to support Blaine, and will do all in its
power to elect Democrat. Fortunately
it will amount to nothing. Like the
class it represents, it is purely dress
parade affair The merchants, manu-
facturers and workingmen of Boston will
walk over these carriers of pouncet boxes
remorselessly, and Massachusetts, Will
give Blaine her old-time majority
Toledo, Ohio, Blade.