St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-04
LET H1HE PE4CE-

Both the great parties appear TO be ready
to begin the campaign of 1883 on the spot.
The Democrats say that Gov. Cleveland must
have another term, a matter that cannot be
so well determined now that his first term Is
not even begun, though there is no reason
able doubt but that some Democrat will be
elected four years hence, aud Cleveland's
chance to be that Democrat will be decided
by the wisdom of his first administration,
from which, of course, the country hopes
much.
In the Republican camp there are two pro-
nounced candidates and Blaine and Logan
have been formally put in the field. The
frie ads of the late defeated, inspired largely
by the heat aud hate engendered by
the loss of the control of the gov
eminent and the sad pickle they
expect to be in, when, after a time a great
crowd of Office holders will be turned out
into the cold world, to exist somehow with
out govern ment rations, are vehewently urg-
ing the continuance of the Blaine clubs, the
retention of the party machinery in a well
oiled state, with constant parade and drill.
Blaine himself is to be stationed al Wash
forces, and nothing win be left to such weak
and unfortunate lieutepants as Elkins, Jones
and Chaffee, who wrecked the late campaign
by blunder after blunder, considered most
inexcusable aud objectionable by the chief
victim of their unhappy skill.
The friends of Mr.. Logan are so confident
that he is a great man and that he ought to
have been nominated in 1854 instead of
Blaine, who not only treated Logan with the
contempt that is put upon interiors, but
actually refused his cooperation and assis-
tance, when if that eminent political bur-
glar'' had been at the head instead of the tail
of the ticket he would have pulled the party
through. These people see and feel
all the defects and deformites Of Blaine and
by contrast are inspired by the manifold
genius and virtues of Black Jack. They
start out with the assumption that Logan is a
statesman and patriot and prove this to
their satisfaction by pointing to the fact that
on the night of November 4th he knew
that he was beaten. and did
not join Blaine in falsely claiming the cleo
ton, to the disturbance of the public mind,
the creation of doubt and distrust, the
ieopardizing Of business interests and the
liability Of the utter shipwreck of the govern
mental fabric.
The establishing of the Logan standard
now, they conceive viii result in his triumph,
in securing his party nomination and the
election, no matter what may happen in the
intervening four years, and they are in dead
earnest, and mean to kill off Blaine and
knock out all other corners and give Logan q
clear field.
1t is to be doubted il the "Common peo-
ple," as Mr.. Blaine speaks of the masses of
the sovereigns of the American Republic,
are in any mood to begin another Presidcn-
tial campaign at the present. date. On the
contrary they are gratifed at the approach of
an era of peace and quiet in which business
pursuits may be undisturbed and industrial
enterprises be given full scope without being
clouded or choked by unhealthy, factious ex-
element. More than this. The American
public love fair play and they propose to give
the President-elect fair chance and To con-
ade In the party whereof he is the head until
it has had an opportunity to demon
strate a policy and its capability to
redeem and restore the government to some
thing like the purity that existed in the purer
days when Roman virtues were not cast
away and when of men in public station it
might fairly be said: