Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-05
Aancaster fntelligenrer
FRIpAY EVENING, SEPT, s. 1884.
Shct by a Widow.

That Is q very hot shot poured into
Mr.. Blaine's side at close pistol range by
his neighbor, Mrs. Lot NJ. Morrill,. Mr..
Brown, Of Ohio, has been done very
brown, aud Mr.. Blaine. of Maine, is very
badly scorched by Mr.. Browns under
taking to summon Senator Morrill, to the
work of bolstering up Mr.. Blaine's repu'
tation in Ohio. Mrs. Morrill's statement
of what her husbands opinion of Mr..
Blaine was will be universally accepted
as true, drawn out naturally as 1t has
been by Mr.. Brown, Of Ohio. IL she
had volunteered the statement OF her
dead husbands opinion about the Re-
publican candidate, there would have
been some room for the Republican
press to decry her act as unwomanly
and unwifely, because there are a good
many people who think that women
should not obtrude themselves on public
attention and who might think that it
was wrong in her to uncover her hus'
bands grave to expose to the public his
confdentially expressed opinion OF Mr..
Blaine. But when Mr.. Brown, for
Republican committee, called for Mr..
Morrill's testimony, what Republican
organ can say that Mrs. Morrill, should
not have given it 4?
This testimony is very valuable. 1t
is well known that a great many Re-
publican statesmen think of Mr.. Blaine
as Mr.. Morrill, did, but for the sake of
their party and their position in it they
refrain from declaring their opinions
now, and many of them even so far
sacrifice their self-respect as to proclaim
him good, when they believe him bad.
Senator Edmunds is on record of old in
condemnation of Blaine, but he has not
the courage as yet to reiterate his opinion
since Blaine has been his party's
candidate. Mr Conkling thinks badly
of him, but he is silent as being out of
politics. There are many other prom-
nent Republicans who forbear to assail,
and force themselves tn sustain Blaine,
because he Is their party's candidate. II
is a most natural position, aud perhaps
they are not to be severely blamed for it
in the present condition OF political
ethics, wherein it is established that
when man has been invested with his
party's candidacy his multitude of sins
are covered as with mantle, and for the
sake Of the party which sustains him
they must not be- uncovered By the
faithful.
These ethics have not penetrated the
female mind. Women are not
permitted to be politicians. The wives
of statesman are their confdauts, and
sometimes, as in the case of Mrs. Logan,
their engines and boilers. When they ne
come widows, they are freed from the in
iiuences which restrained their husbands
lips from speaking the truth as they saw
it about men and things; they are re
solved to their natural tendency to see
things as they are and to speak of them
as they incline. Mrs. Morrill,, indignant
that man who stood in her husbands
path and offended his sense by dishonest
deyices to climb to wealth and power,
lets loose in her widowhoOd her hus
lands judgment Of the baseness which
fftnded him, in homage to the love of
truth, purity and honor which the
Almighty has implanted in women,
bove men, and which makes US
sometimes think that the ruling of the
world has been given to the wrong sex.