The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-28

anxiously for some men or some acts
on which to lay the blame. We find it
very convenient and very popular to
lay the blame to our fellOw-citizens
who cast their votes for the prohibi-
ton candidate for President. If those
citizens of New York who cast their
ballots for st. John had voted for
Blaine, James G.. Blaine would have
been President-elect of the United
States. But we had just as good a
right to vote for James G. Blaine for
President as our fellow-citizen had to
vote for John T. st. John.
In speech made by Mr.. Blaine at
Augusta, Nov. IS, Mr.. Blaine said:
"The great instinct of an American is
equality equality of right, equality of
privilege, equality of political power
that equality which says to every citiz-
en-, 'eYour vote is just as good, just as
potential as the vote of any other cltiz-
en- This is not true because Mr..
Blaine said it; but, rather, Mr.. Blaine
said it because it is true. The voters
who cast their ballots to secure the
election of st. John for President ex
ercised their sovereign right the same
as all other citizens, and no one has
even the shadow of right to challenge
their action. Well, if we cannot make
the blame of our defeat lie against the
St. John voters, let us find some others
who may be chargeable with it.
Ever since Roscoe COnkling became
leader in politics his county, Oneida,
has given a Republican majority.
During the late political canvass he
never opened his mouth in favor of the
election of Mr.. Blaine. On the contrary,
TIA of Conkling's political followers
issued before the election a manifesto
directed against the election Of Mr..
Blaine. The result was the Republican
loss in Oneida county alone was fully
equal to Cleveland's plurality in the
state. Now if 900 of those disaffected
and rebellious Republicans had voted
for Mr.. Blaine, instead of for Grover
Cleveland, James G. Blaine would have
been our next President. It is a
supreme sorrow that in a tremendous
crisis like the present, when the ruin
of the greatest, the freest and most
prosperous nation on Gods footstool is
to result from placing the Democratic
party in national tcontrol, that we
could not have possessed some coercive
power to compel those 600 cantanker-
Gus Republicans to vote as we wanted
them to. We can manage the case
better by shifting the blame from the
$1,000 New York prohibitionists to the
half of those 1920 rebellious Oneida
county Republicans, and it will GER
| tainly be easier to coerce the smaller
number, and insist on their voting as
we want them to.
Perhaps by turning again and look
ing from our uncomfortable position
we may make the case more manageable
by finding single scapegoat on whom
we can lay.tho sin of defeat, and then
sacrifice it. Let us look at Rev. DR..
Burchard. 1t is said he lost; by the
utterance of three words, more votes
for Mr.. Blaine than a dozen campaign
orators could make. Why did not
some prophet warn us so that we could
have choked the reverend doctor aud
had his funeral the day before that
New York meeting of ministers? 1t
would seem useless to choke the doctor
now. He says he is very sorry he
made the fatal ALTERATION; that the
words were misinterpreted and their
meaning misunderstood and misap-
piled. We can find plenty on whom to
| lay the lame. There are several horns
| to the dilemma of our defeat. There is
one yet unmentioned, which seems to
be longer and stronger than the others
Too many Democrats voted for Cleve
land. This horn is long enough fer all
of us to take hold of.
r. f. ROBERTS.