St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-16
BLAINE RLISTER.
Raised by 4cting Postmaster General Hat
ton I'm 1881.


ton ia 1881.
Burlington Qowa) Daily Gazette, Oct, IL
The following scorching and blistering
editorial was written by Acting Postmaster
General Frank Hatton and published in the
Rackese May 90, 1881. 1t expressed the
sentiments of large portion of the Republi-
cans then and larger portion now. The
grave charges made by the Democratic press
against Mr.. Blaine have been secrets with
Republicans or with the country for eight
years. Those in the confidence of Mr.. Hatton
know very well that his opinions have not
changed, but have only confirmed and in
tensifed since. The Rdlckeye insists now
these are campaign ISLANDERS. VIII the Chi
nese editor persist in calling his chief liar?
/ Let us see.
DEATH OF BLAINEISM.
There is one thing settled, and the sooner
certain gentlemen in the Republican party
recognize the fact the better it will be for
the party. This country will never submit
to have fastened upon it that which is repre-
scented in the word Blaineism. In 1876 the
! Republican party narrowly escaped the
great iufliction. and as little as can be said
! dent Hayes, from Republican standpoint,
/ it can be said that it left enough of the party
intact to make possible the election of Mr..
Garfield. Thousands of good men all over
the country earnestly supported Mr.. Blaine
in 1876. Captured by dash and vim pos
sessed by the man of Maine, exhibited on
the floor of the house, and by magnetism
which the arts of demagogue made attrac-
| tive, he succeeded in gaining for himself a
reputation as a kind of ''great COM
moner," who rejoiced to come down
and mix and mingle with the COM
mon people. BY these arts and tricks he
rallied men about him. But his real hackers,
| his political intimates were and are the
representatives of all that is tricky and in
sincere in politics as well as of all that is bad
| and corrupting His great aim and their
| great aim was, and still is, to get control of
the government. Bob Ingersoll, the great
/ Christian-eate and soda fountain eulogist
of Blaine remarked at Chicago as the gloom
of his chiefs second defeat settled about
him: ''Well, if Blaine were president, there
might be some stealing but his administra-
ton would be marked with great deal of
humanity As prospective sharer in the
humanity" to say nothing of other, it can
well be said that Robert drew it mild.
Defeated at Cincinnati, the ''Knight'' and
his followers went vigorously at work and
for four years everything known to the
tricky politician and the hungy place hunter,
added to audacity and impudence, was
worked to make Mr.. Blaine the nominee at
Chicago. But during these four years the
tricks of the demsgogue and the ways of the
political crook became known to the people,
and from the day of the party's deliverence
at Cincinnati the prospects of Blaineism
| waned. The reinforcement of Gould of Chi
cago, could not save it. Nominated in the
convention by Jas. F. Joy, who had pub
| licly denounced him a short time before as a
corruptionist, charging that he had, as
speaker of the house, refused to appoint a
certain committee unless he should be the
recipient Of certain amount Of railsoad
bonds. but nominated only to see his
vote start in below that received at Gin
cinnati and dwindle as each ballot
was taken until it faded out of sight And
there Blaineism died death that will know
no waking 1t may attempt to set up shop
here and there for the purpose of revenge,
but, like the milk sickness, it will never
again be anything more than Z local
| disease.
Blaine's interest in the Republican party
has fed. Driven from the house by threat
ening investigation, he succeeded in gaining
| place in the senate, only to find himself
dwarf and nonentity, glad to escape and
to seek shelter under the cloak of the man
who had carried off the prize that he had
twice contested for. And while thus
sheltered he seeks to stab the man about
whose form he clings that he may not be en-
tirely lost to public view, and with revenge
eating at his heart he aims to assassinate the
party that refused, in its wisdom. to make
him its leader. When he has trafficked away
the patronage of the state department, as he
did his power as speaker, he will become a
political tramp, and any party that viii en-
brace him can get him