St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-28
BLAINE ON THE srALwARTs.

B1aine's Notice of ReVoIt Against Cameron
Conkling and Logan Four Years Ago.
The following article, which appeared in
the New York Tribune of May 20, 1880, was
written by ''Gail Hamilton a relative of
Mr.. Blaine and a member of his family, and
on the back of the last page of the manu-
script, as shown by the fac smile printed in
the New York papers of Thursday, appeared
the following direction to the nominal editor
of the Tribune:
''MY DEAR REID: This is timely appeal
and should be printed at once. J. G.. B.
The battle of law against lawlessness was
fought in Maine last winter, on a narrow
field indeed, but with fierce intensity and
with brilliant success. It is raging in Illinois
at the present moment, and the next week
we devoutly hope and confidently believe,
will witness for law a triumph as complete
and as brilliant as that achieved in Maine.
In Maine it was the Democratic party that
reared the standard of lawlessness against
the Republican party. In Illinois it is one
wing of the Republican party against the
main army of Republicans. In Maine Garce-
lon started out of obscurity into infamy to
beloved, shames his loyal fame to trample
down the liberties which he once fought to
secure. Behind Logan, Swallowed and silent,
and by his silence consenting unto the death,
stands another form, the form of one whom
the American people have delighted to honor
and whose attitude in this contest they con-
template with an amazement that is almost
incredulity.
But let no man be deceived. The cause
is greater than any man. The Republican
party is the party of law and order, of con-
stitutional liberty and popular government
and free elections, and it will fight absolute
ism and dishonesty in its own party just as
valiantly as it fought them in the Democrat
ic party. 1t will fight them on Northern soil
just as promptly and if need be just as per-
sistently as it fought them on Southern soil.
Gentlemen, delegates to the National Con-
vention at Chicago, let no man deceive you.
Cameron COnaklihg and Logan haze nothing to
lose the disruption Of the Republican party. If
Grant we1e to be elected they acoald hold the ad-
rainiStraton IN their hands. # Blaine or Sber-
man be elected Blaine or Sherman qcl1 be PYesi-
dent and these oy have only their fair share
Of pOacsr and place, caich stands to them for as
great defeats acoatld TIE Incoming Of a Demo
cratic administration. Through the nfatuation
hand openly and have made the defeat of
Grant duty. 1t is no longer question be-
| tween man and man. 1t is a question be-
tween Parliamentary Government and mob
law 1t is question Of life or death to the
| Republican party.
| For there is, in the judgment of our wisest
and coolest counselors, the gravest danger
| that General Grant cannot be elected. The
Revolt against him is wide and deep, bitter,
| irrepressble, constantly increasing. The
Senatorial triumvira te win deny it; viii say
that Grants the only man who can be elect
ed; will say that it is only handful of NAL
contents here and there who make the revolt,
and that after the nomination the disciplined
masses will go up to the polls and vote the
! Republican ticket.
Be not deceived. They will not do It, We
may lament or exult over the fact but it is
fatal not to recognize it. Good party men
veterans like Thurlow Weed and trained
| troops like the followers OF Sherman in Ohio
and of Blaine in Maine-will go to the polls
and vote protestngly for Grant. But there
are tens of thousands of men who dontcare a
continental copper whether they are consid-
cred good party men or not, aud they will
net vote for Grant. They do not hide or
evadc. They proclaim openly by the th 1us-
!
| party men, enthusiastic and lifelong Re
! publicans, declare that they will not vot e for
| Grant, that they viii take the stump az ain st
him. The events of the last few days La We
added multitudes to the anti-third term
army. The disgust en3eJadeyed By the dowy}ngs
and tnyHings OF Cameron haze degeopeG into Dis
| gust s1,der the budgeou Of Logan. Logaa's
candid 6y.utalitg hLs ce1red the 05' The m
Scremaouyl fraud. the unparalleled 0io'e,,ce ,ntirh
be9seDlployed to broeg Gy1tat in daoe reused
tie peoDle 10 reyolUe that he &t1H stGy out They
I fought a four years war to establish popular
/ government at the south. They will not sur
render it in the north, even TO the victor in
/ that war. They have not resisted fraud and
| force in South Carolina to submit to them
and support them in Pennsylvania The po-
/ htical burglars OF Illinois, who stick at no.
/ thing, and the political hermaphrodites Of
Massachusetts, who stick to nothing, will
/ make desperate lunges and feeble lurches at
/ Grant, but the honest and tranquil manhood
/ OF tails country deaes the first and despises
/ the second.
Republicans hate the methods and the
purposes OF the Democratic party, bm they
/ ueosy hrte tina, 30 intensely rs 1cIea they see
/ them ii,trod ;ce5 asto TIE Rep,t5licts patty II
I G,eJ Dl.ta hraY tie ciezs'btg a5td 6.dl-doz5tg Of
! Democracy G,ey mi ha'v Z g,ye AMI simple, in
I ne form cqt g.e;se Of DsDs1cr@cB aad Skeeltilg
under he 5iaqers Of u ot5'ica,s sDs ard guard
/ irg itgs. jesLe1 d,s h;ell5 Of he Stal,ourts.