Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-07
Mental Peuguitude.

Boston Herald.
Mental Penguitude.
When the sRepubaican feommittee
called on Mr.. Blaine to inform him Of
his nomination its spokesman doubtless
asked him what he had in his market
basket. We can easily imagine the
Plumed Knight stiekings his tongue in
catch meddlers. - He doubtless used
the statement fguratively, having no
purpose, at that early stage 81 the
game, to be more than half confidential.
The committee thereupon retired.
and Mr.. Blaine. assisted by two editors
and New Jersey politician, proceeded
to open his basket and assert the con-
tents. The result has been.telegraphed.
1t is called Mr.. Blaine's letter of ae-
ceptance. This letter is well worth
reading. forming as it does sort of
humorous contrast to the Flumed
Knights career. From the Blaine point
of view it is a very Sinsipid. document.
The Maine statesman has suddenly
grown fat in the mind. He IS grave
and dull He is suddenly become seri-
Gus and sober. He is no longer the ar
rogrant aud aggressive politician with
q policy distinctly Amerca but the
meek and lcwly Republican Moses feel
ing around in the bulrushes for baby
innocent enough TO deceive and please
Colonel Pharoah Gould and other dig
nitaries of the gilded Republican court.
Mr.. Blaine goes largely into figures
of the five and six make twenty
seven Sort showing conclusively by
rules of his own invention and applica-
ton that the Republican party is not
only responsible for the prosperity of
the -countrs-for~t the increase of~poptl-
slation and the Increase of railroad
mileage responsible also for our
glorious climate and the highly es-
teemed seasons which have proven so
fruitful to the sons and daughters of
toll. Mr.. Blaine piainly leaves it to be
inferred that If the thieves that are now
engaged in robbing the people through
the medium Of the Republican party
are turned out Of power, there win be
trouble and confusion in the land, and
it win be fonnd that such men as MIR.
EEarts and Private Dalzell agree with
him. =. So ss....5,E.z5.< -,
Com ;ng from Mr.. Blaine, the letter
is a remarkable document. 1t is lack
ing in all those characteristics that
commended Mr.. Blaine to the peculiar
elements that demanded his nomination
at Chicago. The ...boom'' is wanting.
There is no echo of the brass band;
the him-ram of the kettle drum is not
heard . Indeed, after all that has been
said. the letter falls fiat It is incom-
petent to the occasion ii It lacks mettle
and yigor. Some one has been smooth
ing Mr. Blaine's mental activity with a
Jack plane. i The letter reads as ii it
had passed through the dull medium of
Philadelph editors brain. u The
tartness and originality that ordinary
observers imagine they find in MIR.
sBiaine'ss, style have been arinsed and
Succeed out sndahis letter is just dry
enough to emphasize a Ahalting cam
paign. lzu.
There is just one point in it calculated
to attract the attention of the people.
Referring to the fat that Immigration
from China has been prohibited, Mr..
Blaine suggests, in a sympathetic way,
that the time may come when it win be
necessary for the Republican party to
prohibit immigration from Europe. This
is intended to be taken as an intimation
that Mr.. Blaine is ready to head a cru
SADIE against the Irish and German i'm
migrants that are pouring into this
country by way of Castle Garden. This
is rather a queer position fm. the Repub-
lican candidate to take at a tmewhen
his organs are engaged in an attempt
to wins at least a. portion of the Irish
vote This curious statement probably
esearedithe attention of those who re-
-vised Mr. Blaine's letter, for, however
much they may sympathise with such
a proposition to prevent Irish and Ger
man immigrants irom landing on these
shores, they would hardly indorse il
publicly. !.'ast3 81 ~ .sl jos
Altogether. the letter iss weak fiat
and uninteresting. The 'tboys'' will
search it in vain for un opportunity to
start a s.hurrah.'' Atlanta ConstiItt-
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