The Opelousas courier., 1884-06-21
Boiling Blaine.
Republican and Independent Organs thai
Refuse to Take the Medicine.

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Springfield Republican.
These nominations are revolutions
ry. They are such as the Republican
party has never before presented and
will carry dismay and alarm to thou
sands of men who have regarded this
as the party of safety, of integrity, OF
principle and of high moral ends. They
|portend deserved disaster and defeat to
the Republican party and a revolution
in the National Administration.
New York Truth.
The Republican party has been gull
ty of a ~stupendous blunder in nomina-
ting James G.. Blaine. With such a
candidate it must enter upon a defen-
siye campaign from the outset, and
that, too. with the candidate the Demo-
cratic party preferred for the Republi-
can nomination. 1t must be confessed
that under such conditions the outlook
is not promising for the party which
has so long had control of the Govern
ment. but which now seems willing
to sacrifice itself for a man whom it had
twice before condemned. Whom the
Gods would destroy they first make
mad.
Boston Advertiser.
We need not enter upon any formal
declaration of W entire agree
ment with those Republicans who thus
fail to find in the nomination any tit
expression of the established principles
and ayowed aims of the Republican
| marty. The events of the last three
days have given us no answer to the
objections SO often urged in these col
umns against the nomination OF Mr..
Blaine and against the course of Mr..
Blaine as q public man, and have pre-
scented no contingency in which these
exceptions could be waived consistent
ly with truth or political honor. We
have, then, nothing to retract and
nothing to modify. With undated
devotion to the great purposes for
which the Republican, party was or
ganized and has been maintained, we
declare our inability to support the
nomination, either in the present as
pect of the political field or in any
which now seems likely to present it
| self.
New York Telegram.
When a great party which has con-
trolled the destinies of this country for
the past t~wenty-four years, and around
| which cling so many halloWed memo
ries, deliberately stoops to the disgrace
of selecting for its standard bearer q
man who ia the synonym of political
corruption, the first feeling on the part
of every right minded citizen is pro
found grief.
New York Evening Post.
That Mr.. Blaine cannot be elected
we look on as certain. Whether ht
can be defeated without running the or.
ganization which is being prostitutet
in the service of his selfish ambition
remains to be seen. The extent of hi
defeat-that is, the size of the majority
which will remove him permanently
from the political arena-will depend
largely on the action of the Democrats
They have now a n opportunity offered
them such as has not presented itsel
for a quarter of a century.
Boston Herald.
Believing that MI. Blaine would be
bad and dangerous President we hop
to see him defeated. Believing him t,
be a weak candidate we expect to se'
him defeated. His zealots say he cal
be elected without the vote of New
York. They will have a chance t
prove it. Perhaps they think he cal
be elected without the help of Massachu
setts. Il is not improbable that the,
4 - :, hare q afrnnn Fn Taof this nfan
Boston Transcript.
There is no doubt that a consider
able Republican opposition to the nom
nation win appear in New York. Thi
will not be without its effect on Con
necticut politics. What will the Mas
sachusetts Independents and civil ser
vice reformers doa Their attitude
important as respects the presidential
vote Of the State. They ian swing j
at their will. These men do not be
long to the crowd who took it int
their heads that one year of Bntlel
would sober and benefit the Republi-
can party of Massachusetts,. Brief,
they are not bogus Independents, an6
their votes and influence will witIou
doubt be. cast where it will work tn
most harm for trading politicians.
Brooklyn Union.
Whether the nomination of James G
Blaine be a triumph for all the ras
cality and jobbery in administration
which has found shelter under the Re
publican name, or whether it be th,
response to a sentiment of admirin,
enthusiasm deeper and more lastin!
than was eyer aroused by any Ameri
can statesman since Henry Clay, it i
none the less an abandonment of every
principle of progressive politics which
the party has adopted, and of ever,
vital reform Of which it made itself th
champion. The recklessness of Blain,
might be restrained by responsibility
This venality might shrink and dis
appear under the fierce light tina
beats upon the Presidency, his dema
gogueism even might drop its clap,
trap and assume the likeness of states
manship, but the man whose canvass ha
been directed by some Of the corrupt
est elements Of the party owes to
much to jobbers and ofice-mongers
North and South, to render wen th
turning-loese of hungry Democrat
hordes Id quest of patronage and plum
der a possibility more desirable thai
his election.
The fall of the river is q subject TO
universal congratulation. The DANCE
line is now above water, for the frs
time Id about four months. We are I
haye no more creYasses this season