Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-06-20
mR.sCURrIs, EDITORIAL.

ing leader, written by George William
Curtis. We give it entire, not exclud
ing the "cussedness" of the Democratic
party. 1t is proper that the people
should have the full text of such a lee
ture by any public man who yields such
an influence as Mr.. Curtis does in form
ing public sentiment:
ssThe nomination Of Mr.. Blaine does
not change the views OF its ~expediency
that we have freely expressed. Har'
per's Weekly has said nothing upon this
subject without careful consideration,
and the fact of the nomination does not
change its conviction that the Republi-
can campaign with the candidacy of Mr..
Blaine must be- prolonged explanation
and defense. The campaign of this year
will be n in which the personality Of
candidates will be more vigorously scru-
tinized than ever, because there is no
great supreme issue of national peril or
national policy which will engross the at
tention of the people, and this scrutiny
invites defeat.
''Under such circumstances, when a
party appeals to the country for a vote
of confidence, it will naturally be judged
by the representative whom it deliber-
ately selects. To him the country will
burn to see what the party honors and
what qualifications it holds to be essen
tial for the highest trust. 1t would, we
think, have been equivalent to an election,
in a candidate who would have aroused
all the old Republican enthusiasm by
appealing to the desire of pure and pro-
gressive politics, which was the Animal
ing principle of the other Republican
campaigns. Originally the Republican
party was a reform party, and having
achieved the greatest of reforms in eman-
cipation and in an amended constitution,
freed of all faint of slavery, it is strong
est when it's young and ardent workers,
the real workers" of a party, feel that
it is still essentially a progressive and
aggressive reform organization, and when
they know that it is led in a Presiden-
tial year by a candidate who is in char
acter and career a true and fitting repre-
sentative of political progress and re-
form. The fact that a candidate is Sc
lected who is not such a representative
properly alarms them and shakes their
faith in the party.
sIt is true that the Republican party
is always strong in the weakness of the
Democratic op position; but that is a neg
alive strength. The Democratic party
really stands for nothing but opposition
and a repulsive tradition. The endeavor
to identify it with any definite policy ex-
cept that which is known as general
cussedness" fails; but that is not an argu-
ment which can elect a President. The
nomination of Mr.. Blaine-although it is
doubtless agreeable to the majority of the
party, as shown at Chicago, because a
large part of the apparent opposition, as
in the Indiana and Illinois, and even in
the Ohio delegation, was friendly to his
nomination ought to alarm honest Re-
publicans as showing how dangerously
far the Republican standard has fallen.
The nominations at Chicago, made against
the most friendly Republican remon'
STRANGE, have forced upon Republicans
the conviction that the great objects Of
the Republican party-honest and eco.
nomical administration, peaceful and
honorable foreign relations, the progress
sive publication of the public service al
home, wise reduction of the revenue, and
that sense of general security which
springs from the moral elevation of the
Observation-Disclosures not to be expected
from Republican success.
'To this statement it is no reply tina,
less is to be expected from the Demo
Gratis. Those who have aroused the deeE
and general protest of the Republican
conscience must bear the responsibility
of the result. Fidelity to Republican
principle requires Indifference to pre-
sent Republican success, and Harper
Weekly, which more than once has moi
hesitated. in the interest of public moral
ity and of party publication. to oppose
other Republican nominations, cannot
sustain the significant one against which
it has so earnestly protested and which
is a practical abdication of Republican
character and purpose. The sad anc
kindly face of Lincoln, whose portrait
hung in the hall, seemed to watch tn,
proceedings of the convention with al
air Of earnest solicitude and apprehen
sion. and it had disappeared from it,
place before the nomination was made. ;
The Blaine Family.
Some people may be curious to know
about Mr.. Blaine's family. For their in
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