Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-09
Mr.. Blaine at the South.



When Mr.. Blaine's eyes are sore
with gazing reproachfully upon the
kickers in New York and New
England, he turns them hopefully
to the South. In Virginia and
West Virginia, in Tennessee, North
Carolina and Florida he hopes to
find some compensation for the
losses which he may have to bear
in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and
New York. To repel the strenuous
assaults that are made upon his
battered character he is even said to
be planning sally into the heart of
the enemy's country. Hints are
made that he may invade the
South.
The plan is an interesting one,
and perhaps it is TO be hoped that
ii will be carried out. Mr.. Blaine's
campaign in the Southern States
would be in the nature of forlorn
hope, and forlorn hopes are always
exciting and attractive. The mag
net might not draw very much from
the South, but the South
would draw much entertainment
from his performances. Brother
Blaine has an active imagination
and a honeyed tongue, and nobody
knows what antics these gifts may
lead him to play with facts. II he
concludes to adorn the Southern
stump, we shouldn't be a bit sur
prised il he assure his Southern
hearers that he was a SOutherner
by birth, and he sympathized with
the South in the civil war. The
wise discretion displayed both by
him and his substitute in that war
would bear him out in making the
latter assertion.
Brother Blaine really likes the
South although he has had to abuse
it so much, especially when beg
carly, prying fellows in Congress
have had the impudence to investi-
gate him. Next to sunstrOke, the
South is his biggest card. But he
"pitcheS into" the South from purely
professional reasons. He is like the
the man who, after abusing WASH
ington's Administration applied to
Gen. Knox for a government office,
explaining that he meant nothing
by his abuse he simply Thought
it was popular"
ADuSAflH tHC QUILL 10 iitl oO pup
ular as it WAS in 1876, and perhaps
if Mr.. Blaine goes South it will be-
come even less so. 1t is Il favOrite
superstition among the epileptic
Republican organs that the Southern
Democrat is horrible ogre, who,
after making his breakfast OF n col
ored baby, gallops to the nearest
settlement and peppers with buck
shot all the Republican men, wom-
en- and children within range. If
Brother Blaine and his corps of
shOuters return, hoarse but other
wise uninjured, from DiXie's Land,
the superstition will be a little
weakened, and the Tribune's cam
paign poets will be out of subjects.
AS far as the Southern Democrats
are concerned, the Maine mission
AIRY and his assistants, ifthey should
go South, would be as safe as if they
were to speak in Faneuil Hall or at
the Union League Club. With their
own party in the South they might
have some trouble. Some of the
Federal Office holders in the South
are very unsavory. Brother Blaine
with his love for all mankind eX-
cept Chimes, would be deeply
grieved to see the profound scOrn
with which the white Southern Re |
publicans look upon the eolored |
Southern Republicans.
But however painful to him or
to the rest of the world |
il would be if he were to make ode |
termined effort to carry thesOuthern |
his effort, even if he should |
go so far as to stump them himself, !
would most likely be in vain.