St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-29

stump declaring that Mr.. Blaine lisa patriot.
n statesman and an honest man. In May
last Judge Tourgee did not hold to such an
Continent:
''If the Republican party seeks to commit
harikari, the quickest and surest method for to
do so is by the nomination of James G. Blaine
for the presidency. His disabilities as
candidate are radical and incurable.
SIN the first place, he is the incarnation of all
the reprehensible elements of the Republican
party. He is politician in the low sense in
which the term is used. To his mind states
manship is synonymous with trickery. While
this characteristic gives him great strength with
the 'heelers and strikers who manipulate con-
ventions, 1t is source of incalculable weakness
with the people, especially in the struggle SO
close and doubtful as the present one. >
''ln the second place it should be remembered
that Mr.. Blaine has nothing of substantial
strength in his own record with which to rally
the disaifected or apathetic, even of his own
party. He was one of the few young men of his
own party who, at the very climax of his man
hood, while enjoying the most robust physical
health, was able to resist the infectious glow of
patriotism during the nations great ordeal
During that time, when even the plough handles
burned the clodhopper's hands so that he was
perforce compelled TO drop them and catch up
the musket, Mr.. Blaine resolutely withstood the
temptation to serve his country in the field, re-
sisted the example of many of his
associates in the halls of con-
gress, and sedulously kept a soft seat
warm and filed his purse by the opportunities
which period of war always offers to men of
thrift, GOODNESS and sagacity.
sin the third place, it should not be forgotten
that his legislative record is of that questionable
character which is the hardest of all things sue
cessfully TO justify or defend Not proven is
unquestionably the public verdict in regard to
the charges that have been made against him.
Further than that, no one can CO. Even charity
can offer no more tenable hypothesis in regard to
them.
"Fourthly, the man who clamors for Mr..
Blaine's nomination, even in the face of assured
defeat, should not forget that the qualities of his
mind, even admitting the immaculateness of his
intentions, are the very ones best calculated to
encourage doubt and uncertainty in regard to an
administration controlled and directed by him. -
Mr.. James d. Warren, the chairman of
the Republican state committee, and an ar
dent Blaine man nO1O, said in his paper, the
Buffalo Commercial, May IA, 1884:
During his brief career as secretary Of state.
the business men found out that Blaine is pre-
cisely the kind of man that they do not want to
see at the head of the administration. He re-
manned just long enough to show that if he had
the power he could and would make an infinite
amount of trouble. Years have passed since he
walked out of that Office, and from facts revealed
it has been discovered that Blaine was the eUiI
genius of the Garfield administration. He would
surely have brought it into difficulties, and posi-
bly, into disgrace. Outside of a ring of politi-
clans, who have found in Blaine bold fractional
leader, ready for q raid Uhere ''Sp0itS' 9Cere TO
be found, there was no regret expressed, nor was
there any felt when his name was stricken from
the list of cabinet officers. The man at that
time tested and found wanting. We do not turn
over the defLed pages Of his record as member
of the national legislature. The business men
know how much there was in his career
then to mark him as a man imDulsive, dangerous
and unreliable. The business men who carry
common sense into politics satisfied with Ar
thur. They prefer the calm, self reliant, con-
sentative statesman to any 'plumed knight who
however brilliant in any sense of the word he
may be, takes good care that no strong Hght
shall be turned upon his public record.
When a man ceases to be consistent he
ceases to be honest, and il may be imagined
that the amount of influence upon the public
mind, person like the distinguished author
of ga FOOLS Errand," and the other able
editors above named (as well as many other:
who might be named) is, as it ought to be
of the minimum quantity. 1t seems moth
| ing can discourage these able gentlemen
when vision of public plumber is in sight
Evidently they have the capacity to endur
the exhilarating pleasure of being plunged
into sulphuric acid bath, and come u
smiling and happy, declaring they liked il