The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-09

TATTooED WITH HONORABLE WOUNDS.
St. Louis Morning Call.
They have called him ''the tattooed man So
let it be; the word of reproach shall be a name
of honor The word Of envy shall be title Of
glory. He is a tattooed man. The wounds of
the fore front of every battle for the peoples
rights during the last quarter of our century
have left their marks upon him. He Is tattooed
with everything that is highest, and noblest and
dearest in our history. The preservation of the
union of the States the redemption of the ma
tional credit the defeat of the rebels in war and
the more dangerous traitors in peace-with all
these is this leader tattoOed. Tattooed with
this, and more, tattoOed with genius that Is
marvellous; tattooed with magnifcence as a
leader with generosity an opponent, with Wis
dom as a statesman; tattooed with list of deeds
in public life that in spite of calumny mark him
as great true, noble man.
THE PARTY WILL BE woRTHILY LED.
Albany Evening Journal.
The Republican party, lnvincible as the expon-
ent of progressive ideas and courageous actions,
will be worthily led by the man whom ithas hon
ored with its approval this day. All citizens who
desire that this country shall stand before the
world as nation, great and benignant in its
might, as the robust type of successful govern
ment by and for the people will heartily approve
the nomination of the illustrious statesman from
Maine If the Republican party has yet a mis-
sion to fulfill, it has shown wisdom in the Sc
lection of candidate who has been answering
IN obedience to its decisions, and powerful in
championship of its settled policies. If there is
need of honesty, vigor, leadership and capacity
in the chief executive those qualities will be
supplied in the triumphal election of that candi-
date to the office of President
HIS MAGNETISM IS NOT AN EMPTY PHRASE.
New York Staatz Zeitung (DemJ
We hope that the Democratic party, through
some available candidate who is the opposite of
Blaine, will secure the defeat of Blaine, but we
would prefer that the country had been spared
the danger of the election of such a President
1t does not occur to US that Blaine is a weak
character. His magnetism" is no empty phrase
We cannot say that he is a leader in the sense
that ThaddeuS Stevens was. When he left Con-
gress to become the head of the executive flor
he was the only head of the Garfield administra-
tom, he obliged to prop up his popularity by
a combative foreign policy which should tickle
the vanity of the nation, so little did he regard
the interests of the people To this course the
man will always adhere, no matter in what posi-
ton he may be.
HE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Springfield (Ill.) Journal.
James G. Blaine will be the next President of
the United States. This is the will of the repub-
lic and this foregone conclusion rests in the fact
that no other man lies so near the hearts of the
American people as the Maine statesman. His
devotion to the whole body of Republican
doctrines is as unimpeaehable as was that of our
immortal martyr Presidents, and to this fealty
he adds unequaled courage, discretion, penetra-
ton, and decision. What other men required
weeks or months to understand he comprehends
at glance If now the Democrats nominate
Tilden it will simply be contest between a
pigmy and giant athlete, and nature decides
all such contests
CAN WE FIGHT A DEFENSIVE CAMPAIGN
New York Commercial Advertiser.
President Arthur can afford to be beaten by
the elements which have prevailed at Chicago.
If the opinion of reformerS the cowboys and the
star-route gang did not openly clasp hands to
compass this result they worked for common
object Can the party successfully fight through
a campaign in which it must be constantly on the
defensivel Can the upright and intelligent
voters of the party be persuaded to support
Blainel If the man the convention has chosen to
supplant President Arthur can approach in dig
nifty, in purity and in patriotism the administra-
ton we are now to lose, he will do more than the
best judges of events and character have thought
to be possible.
HE WILL NOT BE EASILY BEATEN.
New York Sun tDem)
A great many Republicans are opposed to Mr..
Blaine, but those who imagine that because of
such detection the country is now to witness a
spiritless canvass and an easy triumph for the
opposition are in our judgment very much in
error. MIR. Blaine is a fer tile and sensational
politician, and he will force the fight from the
start With prudent counsels, a good candidate
and a judicious and patriotic platform, the De-
mocracy may now win great victory for the
country but we warn them that it will be no
holiday task that every point will be hotly
contested, and that every advantage they may
gain will have to be fought for in tremendous
earnest
THE TRULY PROGRESSIVE PARTY.
New York Tribune.
On the whole it is declaration of principles
which assuredly accords with the tenor of pub
lie opinion. Progressive, and yet not so far in
advance of the time as to lose public support
the platform fairly represents the present atti-
tude of the only truly progressive party in the
country, The world has learned, too, that the
Republican party means all that it says-and a
little more. Its firm steps of to day will become
the solid facts of history tomorrow. And if
it anywhere steps with caution and tentatively
we may rest assured that the firm tread and
irrevocable advance will come a little later
For the Republican party is the party that
moves.
A SAFE DEFENDER OF HIS COUNTRY.
Pittsburg Telegraph
There are great many conservative people,
not fond of noise and hurrah who would have
preferred a less brilliant man than Mr. Blaine
for President, but no one can deny that Mr..
Blaine, carried to the executive chair upon such
platform as that constructed by the late con
vention, will prove a much safer defender of the
commercial interests of the country than any
Democrat which the communistic whisky-ring
party, straddling between Kentucky and Penn
sylvania, and touching both only with its toes,
propped up by Tammany, with the safety net
stretched all over the negotiating South, can
place in nomination.
A STEADY GLOW OF BRILLIANCY.
Buffalo Express.
1t is not manly it is not patriotic, to decry Mr.
Blaine's true greatness One need not be his po-
litical supporter to recognize his splendid quail
ties, nor his eulogist to admit them. He was
once characterized by an earnest opponent as "a
brilliant, but tainted man. We know that he is
brilliant. His briliancy is of that sort which the
faint upon his character cannot dim. 1t is not
flash, but steady glow. All his old competitors
have disappeared, while he remains the leader
still, ADLER and greater than when his "audacity
of genius" was first recognized or when he had
freshly torn from the throat of treason the
tongue of SANDER"
A GLORIOUS CANDIDATE.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
We are sure of a glorious candidate in Blaine.
The more we hear from him the better and we
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