Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-06-13
pLArHR AND LOGAN.

all pointed to the defeat of both Arthur
and Blaine, the two leading candidates.
Logan found out that he could not be
nominated for the first place, and so he
threw his strength to Blaine, with the
understanding that he (Logan) was to
have the second place. He got it.
Republicans are noted for kicking
about their candidates and for swearing
they will not support the ticket but
they are also noted for being liars, and
when the time comes for voting it must
be said to their credit that they do not
scratch much. just now there are many
objections being made to the ticket,
and not few independents declare
they will not support the nominees, but
they will just the same.
Blaine and Logan are both men with
national regulations. The one is a rec
ognized scholar, bold and fearless par
tisan, and one of the ablest men in his
party. He has grown rich on a small
salary, and generally understood to be
a corrupt man. Logan has good horse
sense, and vast mine Of experience.
He has never been charged with being
corrupt though he is a well known
demagOgue, and has for twenty years
banked OH the bubble reputation he at
tanned in the army. He is one of the
many small-calibre statesmen who
would never have been heard of but for
the war and like the many he viii de-
mand recognition during his life time
for the part he took in saving the
Union.
This ticket will receive the full party
vote, and it will be necessary for the
democrats to put up two first-class men
If they would succeed. Men who can
carry New York, and at least one other
doubtful state. Tilden and Hendricks
can do this ; Flower and Mcdonald
can; Field and Cleveland can and
Payne and another good man can. We
have more good material than the re-
publicans showed up, and some Of it
will be used at Chicago in July.
Undoubtedly Tilden and Hendricks
are preferred by nine-tenths OF the dem
ocrats of this country, but it may occur
that Mr. Tilden will not consent to be a
candidate. We fear he will decline !;
and if he does there may be some trou-
BILE in getting as strong a man.
Blaine and Logan can't get there this
year.
Extracts from the leading newspapers
Of the country are given below, and it
will be noticed that all is not harmony
yet, and in fact it becomes evident
every day that Blaine Will meet with
opposition in his own ranks.
Pittsburg Lea1er.
Mr.. Blaine is a man of unquestioned
ability, and if elected will fill the Office
of chief magistrate with dignity. His
record as secretary of state, however.
was not calculated to give the greatest
confidence, and augurs i'll that he will
adhere to the conservative policy of our
government and direct his main efforts
to the development of our unparalleled
resources, a policy that had more to do
with our phenomenal success as a nation
than all other things combined. The
fear is entertained by great many that
his administration may precipitate some
ugly foreign entanglements and possi-
bly, enibroil us in war with one of the
European governments.
The Chicago News.
1t is perhaps needless to say that the
act of the convention has not changed
our opinion of the man who is now the
nominee of the republican party. That
act may constitute in the eyes of many
a veritable political Lethe, but we see
10 reason to follow those whose convic-
tions are so easily changed. No one has
disproved the charges made against Mr..
Blaine nor haye they ever been with
drawn. In short, he is to-day in all res
poets the same man that he was before
the convention assembled. We have,
therefore, no regrets whatever on this
score. He is now the standard bearer
of one of the great political parties-de-
hberately chosen by men whose right to
select him is indisputable, and whose
responsibility for that selection is equal
ly obvious.
Boston Herald.
Believing that Mr.. Blaine would be a
bad and dangerous president, we hope
to see him defeated. Believing him to
be weak candidate, we expect to see
him defeated. They will have a chance
to prove it, perhaps. They think he can
be elected without the help of Massa-
chusetts. 1t is not probable that they
have chance to test this also. If the
democrats rise to the occasion, nomi-
nate Governor Cleveland, and give to
him an honest support in his own state,
we believe they will carry the election.
The republican party has been in power
for long time. The government of the
people, by the people, is safe in the
hands Of any majority of the people.
Now may be good time for the repub-
lican party to step down and out. The
national convention has acted as il it
thought so.
81. Joseph QIo.l Gazette.
Blaine's nomination means the fri
umph OF the mercenaries over the re-
formers. 1t means, If an election were
to follow it, the beginning of another
era OF public plumber, vaster, and more
deplorable, and more destructive in its
consequences than even that of Grant,
which lasted for eight predatory and
Il n
disgraceful years. 1t would mean un-
rest at home, and strife and interior
ence abroad. 1t would mean the resur-
rection and the rehabilitation of that
hungry horde of political freebooters
marshaled at Chicago by William Pitt
Kellogg and Powell Clayton. 1t would
mean the machine-oiled, creased
made new again in every defective part
and put to do its DEVILS work where
ever there was an election TO be corrupt