Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-16
BRAVE BDLTERS.

The Reform movement in Boston has
taken tangible shape aud the meeting Of
twenty-five hundred prominent Republicans
in that city for the purpose of orga uizing
a Republican bolt agains, the nomination
of Blaine is one Of the most formidable
political movements within our history.
The REGrsrER said:: During the sitting Of the
Chicago convention there would most likely
be a split in the Republican partyof greater
consequences than the division in the Dem
ocratic party at Charleston in 1860. 1t
now begins 10 look as if our prediction was
being verified The boiling movement is
not confined to the Bay State but it is
equally as formidable in New York and Is
catching throughout Nv England
One Of the best evidences of the strength
of he bolt and Us possible elect 1ron Re
publican organization is, that the New York
Tribune. which at first pooh-booed' the
movement, and then ridicued it. has got
down 10 real hard begging and most pa
theticallv pl, ad with the boilers to come
back into the ranks and help save the grand
old party The boilers seem to turn the
deaf ear to the Tribune and treat its hu-
initiating appeals with deserved contempt.
The Young Mems Republican Club OF
Brooklyn, which is the most effective politi
cal organization in that city has called a
halt and has appointed committee to in
Ouire into Mr. BLAINE record before the
club gives It's endorsement TO the Republi-
can candidate The New York Times the
eading Republican paper in the Union,
suggests that oEe officially the Brooklyn
Club will encounter in gathering BLAME ;
record is that one important series Of docu-
ments, known as the Nulligan letters, was
purloined by BLAINE aud possibly destroyed.
TIE Times, however suggests ibat the club
might address letter to Mr.. BLAINE polite
IL requesting the production of the letters,
or at least a statement of their contents.
According to Mulligan testimony these let
tiers weighed 80 heavily on Mr. BLAISE'S
mind that he at one time contemplated
suicide. II BLAINE had suicided at that
time it might have saved his party from
selfdestruction this year. But he didn't,
and the Republican party has now cut its
throat with the BLAINE razor.
In discussing the bolt in Massachusetts
the Boston Evening Transcript, one Of the
leading Republican Journals Of New Eng
land, says:
The friends of Mr.. Blaine will find the
long list Of names appended to the protest
against Blaine nomination rather dismal
reading No more influential Republican
manifesto has been published for many
wears. The attempt TO jeer t out OF sight
with any stock epithets about the signatures
will not I'll up the chaSm which the PreSi-
dental nomination has made in the Repub-
lican ranks Of Massachusetts. Our State
has its dos 70 asies, but VA never driven
f,Om anv POSITION Out of fear OF loneliness.
Massachusetts can stand alone. IL need be.
Mr. Blaine cannot desire the electoral vote
Of a State which was so anti-patriotic dur
inc the war Of 1872 as he described its po-
siiion in the United States Senate on no.
table occasion. although money has been
literally contributed by our Republican cit
liens 10 keep Main erect, politically, in re-
cert wears This OutburSt Of Independent
feeling is one Of the most hopeful signs Of
American politics.