Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-12
soundest, bssi, snd worthiest In the taSn.
hood OF this republic.

!. soundest, besi, snd worthiest Ia the tzNn
70 hood OF this republic.
- New YORK Tribune, Rep.
e Mr.. Blaine 10 the atronnest eandidat
a the Republican party could have nomi
II mated, because hs beat represents its con
viotions. Those who supported Pfssiden
y Arthur, Senator RiDunds and othel
\ candidates with so much yea
q and fidelity dessrvs honor ioi
d their conscientious eiI1ita, and
d yet they will realizs before many
days, we feel sure, that the people wer;
! wiser than most OF their leaders
: The name of M. Blaine had hesn
so identified with the economic
policy which the Republican party holds
most dear, that the popular preference
for him, st time when that policy was
threatened by Democratic majority In
Congress, WAS exceedingly natural. On
this account, Mr.. Blaine's friends bslieve,
he will receive more votes than coald
! have been secured by any other oandi-
date in the Pacific states, In West Vir-
ginla. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York
New York Herald, Ind.
Finally the great agony Is over, and
Mr.. Blaine ia The candidate OF the Re-
publican party for the ofHos OF President
of the United States. We are sorry fer
1t, and We believe that the Rspu blioans
will all be- sorry for 1t next Novem Der.
But although every man who cares for
the purity Of public life and the welfare
Of the country and especially all those
who hoped for the redemption of
the Republican party from the
evil elements that have already
nearly dragged 1t down the
depths, must poignsntly regret
nomination like this, yet there has
grown within day or two in many Or
cles sentiment that will regard the
nomination with certain grim sense of
satisfaction. Indignation of decent
opinion at the ever-reourring nuisance of
the Blaine candidacy, revolt against
| the open shamelsssnees of the Blaine men
and their methods and at their
| scheme OF carrying things with q
roar and not by reason, has
made men feel that at last there was
perhsps but one cure for all this, which
was to have the Blaine element carry the
convention and nominate their man, and
then see the man and the party buried
| out OF sight by an overwhelming defeat
at the hands of the people. All who
have felt that way havs their cure before
them; and they may at least congratulate |
themselves that they are nov indeed in |
a fair way to have done with Blaine |
forever.
REV York Star, Dem.
Tattooed all over with the indelible |
proofs of venality and corrupt practices,
James Gillespie Blaine OF Name has been
chosen as the standard bearer of the /
Republican party. he represents all |
that is worst in that party, its history
and its policy; and to this fact precisely
is his nomination due.
New York Son, Ind.
II will not be- enough to defeat Mr..
Blaine at the polls 1t will not be enough
to have against him an immense majority
of the people it will not be enough 10
have majority of the electoral colleges.
Frsud and force will be brought into play
by the Republican office holders IN 1884
just as freely as they were in 1875. Mr..
Blaine Is man Of desperate expedieDts.
His party is desperate party.
Harrisburg Patriot Dem.
The Republican party has made Its
fatal blunder at last. It has nominated a
candidate for President who cannot poll
Mr.. Blaine has many enthusiastic sup.
poSters he has also many iinplaoable
enemies within his party. The thought,
ful, conservative Republicans are against
him because OF the meddlesoms and
dangerous foreign policy he sought to
establish when at the head OF the Garfield
csbinet. For the same reason the conn
fnerctal and busiDess interests oppose |
him. Nor will conscientious and scru.
pulous voters fail to be impressed by the
terrible picture drawn Of his character as
q public man by the journals OF his own |
party.
The Republican party, daxzled with
the qualities that please the mob, have
placed this man in nomination, thereby
giving to the Democratic psrty the
greatest opportunity it has ever had to
recover power by nominating some clean,
able, cafe and progressive statesman like {
Grover Cleveland or Thomas f. Bay ard {
Springfield Republican, Rep.
We have, then, nothing to retract and
nothing to modify. With unRbated
devotion TO the great purposes for which
the Republican party was organized and q
has been maintained, We declare our In g
ability to support the nomination either c
ia the present aspect of the political field
or In any which now seems likely to pre-
sent itself.-Boston Advertiser, Rep.
II this election eau be carried by dash q
and enthusiasm and splendid leadership, | {
the event may possibly justify The t
Rudaoity OF Mr.. Bisine's friends at
Chicago, but the chances are fearfully | L
against him. His character has been 80 @
blaokened and distorted by
the newspaper organs Of the present ad- t
during the strife for the | r
and it is apparently 30 i'm y
possible for tine indisereet and unsorupu- @
lous friends OF Mr.. Arthur to support i
him, that the fight for Mr.. Blaine must p
be sort OF forlorn hope at the best, a
light only to be won by sheer desperation
aidsd by wonderful Iuok.-Ba6aio G
Express, Rep. u
The Blaine campaign opens with a q
list OF independent and Re 3
publican journals In firm opposition. y
rhey are the New York Times, the New Il
York Herald, The New York Epeninq Ebss, D
probably Ha'pa's Weekly, Puck, the Boston g
ddpertiser, the Boston Herald, and the o
Philadelphia Record, The Buffalo En- Y
'ress says the chances are "fully against a a
3laine, and that the fight for him ia ).
oiiba ~ hOp1 ht Dbht- luS IhliAQelDnfR l
Telegraph denounoss the nomination but
imports it to save the party. 1t will be n
cen that the array is sufficiently formid- S
Ible to make the Blaine managers conduct u
heir oanvass on the theory that, If they p
re to win, 1t must be without the vote of Ii
lew York or Massachusetts York u
Evsning Hbst. v
The Chicago convention asks a large f
md, by every one's admission, in1usn- p
isl minority to accept a candidate whom II
believes to be personally base, and 70 u
epresent more than augbt else the base 81
md corrupt and dangerous element In p
american politics. What makes the n
natter all the worse is that the situation OF
hus created ia one in which no compro- VI
Mise ia possible. No voter dsres to tell h
lis friends or his family that he is going 81
o vote for man, knowing him to be a o.
tnave. What is to be the issue from e
his deplorable and disastrous, but delib- b
rstely created, muddls it is yet too soon p
q foraopat That nv pIa{oa 49, \ Ia