The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-08
The Nominees.

The Nominees.
The strength Of Mr.. BLAINE Is In ONO
mot in New York. He Is considered In
ohio the heir TO GARrIELD's popularity
and the guardian Of GARFIELp's fame
The washington Post OF YESTERDAY gives
nm Ohio IN advance, saying that the Demo
crafts win not consider Republican vic
tory in that State In October as indicating
IN any degree what the result will be In
the United states In the presidential cleo
t,ou. But this IS surrendering the citadel
before the garrison has been summoned to
defend Il.
Mr.. BLAINE Is better than his bad plat
form, and better than his worse party. He
Is, however, part and parcel OF that party
and cannot he looked at except as the rep
resentatiye and nominee Of the party that
called negro to preside over its Ma
tional Convention. aud libelled the South
In It's resolutions and speeches. He
will soon write letter OF acceptance. and
we are sorry to have to say that he will
probably use no word OF dissent in speak
ing Of the declarations contained in that
many-colored piece Of political patchwork
called the creed OF the National Republican
psrty.
In 1886, when HuGH L. WHITE and VIII
LIAM II. HARRISON ran Doth OF them
against the Democratic nominee for Pre-
sidcnt OF the United States, q Tennessee
orator who had been a friend OF Mr..
WHITES told story TO illustrate his
position relative to WHITE, and which
,y;,l serve to illustrate the position OF all
GOOD Democrats and southrons relative to
BLAINE. He said that an old farmer bac
died leaving, amongst other things,
a flock OF sheep to be divided be-
tween his two sons, one OF whom
was a sort Of idiot or "natural." This
foolish boy had pet sheep, which he
priced. so 1t was thought, above all other
things. Accordingly the "smart" brother
when be divided the sheep put all the
shabby ones into pen along with
"ALECK," the pet sheep, which the fool
ish brother was expected to choose for
his, whatever he might have to take along
with IL; and all the good sheep he put into
another pen, and then invited the "na-
tural" to take his cnoice. The sup
posed simpleton looked long;ngly at
his pet sheep, and broke out with,
I" ALEcK, ALEcK. love you nightly, but
you have got into bad company" and
straightway chose the other pen. So 1t will
be with the southern man who admires
BLAINE's record: "JAME, JAMIE, i love
you nightly, but you have got into bad
company" Mr.. BLAINE cannot be sepa-
rated from his party, however willing we
may be TO acknowledge that he is possessed
OF some admirable qualities, and however
ardently we may hope that If he should be
elected he would treat the South with more
fairness than any Of his Republican pre-
decessors have shown towards her.
Otherwise as to LOGAN. We fear that he
is a bad man--as bad as his abominable
party. But bis name has In it no charm
for the negro. Had LINCOLN been nomi-
mated instead Of LOGAN, the negroes
of the southern States would have
been worked up to frenzy BIZ his
name. We are glad, therefore, that
"LoGAN" is the " slogan" AS war
CRY "LINcoLN" would in the South have
been much more dangerous-not as i'm
periling the success of the Democratic
party, but because the ignorance and SUI
perstition OF the negroes would have al
lowed thrm to believe that the great eman-
cipator, like the Cid, had returned to life
to put down the opponents of the negro
race as the Cid put down the enemies OF
his country.
We thank Heaven that the Republican
ticket is made up OF the names OF BLAINE
and LOGAN rather than those OF ARTHUR
and LINCoLN-not simply because Ma
HOMES schemes have come to an untimely
end, but for good and sufficient reasons
which need not be catalogued here.