The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-01-16

4 Inc loSt-clcction fury with which a
few Republican papers have kept up a
vicious campaign, with james q. Blaine
As their imaginary leader, has had a
tendency 20 bring out conspicuously
hard facts. which under a judicious and
decent course might have remained in
comparative dormancy.
The sometime accepted proposition
that Mr.. Blaine. Notwithstanding his
defeat, was the strongest candidate the
Republicans could have put forward.
finds its most earnest opposition now
among thinking Republicans.
| The ranting editors and small poll
ticians who are now carrying on POI
litical warfare after the peoples verdict
has been rendered, with the name OF
Blaine as their text, are got in line with
the best Republican thought or tho best
Republican management of the coun-
try; and they have violated those prin-
ciples of political decency which ought
to be common to all parties.
They have forced to the front the fact
that Blaine had notduring the campaign
even the half-hcartcd support OF the real
leaders Of the Republican party, and Is
wholly without their friendship or sym
pathy now.
There is no doubt that John Sherman,
j. Donald Cameron and Roscoe Conk-
ling. and many other Republicans al
most equally prominent. are glad in
their hearts that Blaine was defeated.
John Sherman has openly rebelled
against the effort 10 maintain Mr.. Blaine
as tue Republican hero Of the hour. and
he has done so in such manly way that
ne has commanded the respect Of all
Republicans who have stopped to think
He has refused to subordinate his pri-
vate or public action to the Blaine boom.
He has declined to accept the Augusta
keynote as a signal for assault on the
South. He has indicated his purpose,
as Senator Of the United States, not
TO enter into any mean-spirited scheme
to reject the Presidents nominations
and embarIass the affairs OF Govern
ment. He has defied the men who pro-
pose to read out of the party every per-
son who does not bow the knee TO the
Maine god.
MIR. Sherman was deprived OF the
support Of the Ohio delegation in the
Chicago Convention Of 1880. and prob
ably cheated out OF the Republican
nomination for President that year by
the dirtiest trickery and basest treach-
cry in his own State. In 1884 he again
failed to receive the unanimous support
of his own State. which was due him as
the representative Republican of Ohio.
The noisy fellows were strong enough,
under the encouragement of such DEM
agogues as West, Of Bellefontaine, to
break the delegation and send Ohio TO
Chicago divided. The substantial Re-
publicans of this State were for Sher-
man, aud they are for him still; and
they know he was beaten by the
clustering. boisterous tactics OF the
Blaine men, They have given Blaine
only party perfunctory support. and
now they do not intend 10 waste their
time singing his praises or following |
the leadership of man who has played |
his last card in politics. They win not |
unite their fortunes with the notorious |
" purchasable fellows who few years |
ago were dcnouncing Blaine as cor
rupt man, and who are now following
him. rampageously but impotently. be- !
cause they have been ruled out Of all !
other political society.
Don Cameron was not reserved to ev- |
cry body during the recent campaign. /
He was opposed to Blaine, and did not
stultify himself by taking an active part l
for the Republican nominees. There
were occasions when he denounced
Blaine in as pointed tcrms--both as to
his public life and his personal conduct
las were ever applied by the warmest
Democrats or the most ardent hide
pendent Republicans. Cameron's de-
nunciations were terse and terrible. |
Cameron is a leader. and no man has
done more than he has 10 take the Re-
publican party out OF scrapes. He has
been one Of its wisest counselors and
most aggressive fighters. He is still n
leader, and it is not hard to tell the di-
recton in which he will lead.
One Of the deepest humiliations to
those who are trying to keep them
selves in prominence BY holding on to
Blaine's coat-tails Is the well-grounded
theory that the defeat Of Blaine Is the
glory Of Conkling. The statement
telegraphed throughout the country
few days ago that Blaine ascribed his
defeat to Conkling, and acknowledged
that Conkling had his revenge, has been
denied; but, nevertheless, nearly every
body seems to think that was what
Blaine would have said had he spoken
fully and from his heart. Blaine didn't
stump New York. Why didn't hep II
was certainly one OF the doubtful
States. It was the State without which
the Republican ticket could not be
elected. Mr.. Blaine's friends and adj
visers were afraid to arouse the power
Of Conkling. and they are now in
chagrin because they find that the ar
misticc between Blaine and Conkling
was fatal "a llaino oEd p1.axa