The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-03-27
PREMATURE POLITICS.


The Augusta speech Of Mr.. Blaine.
coupled with other facts and significant
indications then and since observed.
point to the conclusion that this am
bilious politician Will be a candidate for
the Presidency in 1888. The more or
less active proceedings looking 10 this
end. whether prcconcerted or not. are
from every point Of view ill-advised
and disastrously premature. No one
can now tell what four years may
bring forth. The questions uppermost
then may be unfamiliar and unknown
now. The issues OF the day and hour
must be dealt with by the men of the
day and hour The President of rail-
way or bank Is not selected five years
before his services are required. nor is
the Pres dent of college chosen until
he is wanted. The public man best
fitted to serve rs President Of the United
States IN 1889 can not therefore be
singled ont in 1885
II should not be forgotten by the ton
previous friends Of Mr.. Blaine that there
are fatally serious objections to that
gentleman as party candidate; non
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never lee. As the Presidential candidate
of the Republican party the insur-
mountable objection exists that he Is
vcheprcntly opposed py large and re-
spectacle minority of his own political
faith. Ii is useless TO argue that tins
Republican opposition Is without reason
and should not exist. II Is enough to
know that il is most formidable. and
does exist. and that it embraces dozen
influential public journals and scores OF
influential party men.
IL il good politics. to adhere to a
leader whose enemies inside the party
fold are so numerous and so persistent.
simply because he j. the favorite Of the
element casting the majority vote, IL
minorities have no rights they have nj
least decisive powers. as Mr.. Blaine
has lately learned Their wishes must
be respected in politics from motives oil
policy and prudence Is il probable
that II General William I. Sherman had
been the Republican candidate for the
Presidency he would not have been
elected to that Office? Would not Gen.
cral Hawlev have had the united sup
port of the Republican party at the late
election? And would Senator Sherman
: have encountered the opposition within
+ his own party. arrayed against Mr.
: Blaine, in view OF his record rs Sccre-
: tary Of the Treasury That Mr.. Blaine
made crcdiiablc and brilliant po-
litical canvass all must conccdc. with
the limitations placed upon his popu'
larity by his bad record and the i'm
! pediments that so heavily weighed him
Q down. neither he nor any one else SC
= handicapped could. perhaps. have done
: better. But many letters which he long
9 ago wrote were susceptible Of a mos
r unfavorablc Interpretation. and it was
9 and is unfortunate that he ever wrote
J even one letter that he deemed Il pru
: dent or necessary 70 order burned.
While therefore this popular lcadc
:. has those personal qualities which vii
n make him power in politics so long a
u he lives il docs not seem To be his DIES
O tinv 10 ever reach the chief Office IN tn
!. Republic. Three times has this -rca
u honor eludcd his Crap. Running 10
: the Presidency j. all very well for TN
, first dozen years. but after that y bc
Il comes somewhat monotonous to the rco
O pie. Our history shows that those VIII
o have sought the Chief Magis'racy mos
r persistcnily have never reached y J
r comes, if at all. unsought ~.
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