Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-08
PosT-ELEcTIoN FURY.

PoST-ELEcTIoN FURY.
The Hard Facts Made Conspicuous, which
q More Temperate Policy Would Have
Concealed.
The post-election fury with which 9
few Republican papers have kept up q
vicious campaign, with James 6. Blaine
as their imaginary leader, has had a
tendency to bring out conspicuously
hard facts, which under judicious and
decent course might have remained in
comparative dormaney.
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 a po-
iiticai warfare after the peoples verdict
has been rendered, with the name OF
Bia me as their text, are not in line with
the best Republican thought or the best
Republican management of the coun-
try: and they have violated those prin-
cipies of political decency which ought
to be common to all parties.
They have forced TO the front the fact
that Blaine had not during the campaign
even the half-hearted 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 to maintain Mr.. Blaine
rs the Republican hero OF the hour and
he has done so in such u manly way that
he 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 embar1ass 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.
Mr.. 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 to waste their
time singing his praises or following
the leadership of man who has played
his last card in politics. They will not
unite their fortunes with the notorious
ly purchasable fellows who few years
ago were denouncing 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.
Dor 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
for the Republican nominees. There
were occasions when he denounced
Blaine in as pointed terms-both as to
his public life and his personal conduct
AS were ever applied by the warmest
Democrats or the most ardent indie
pc ldent Republicans. Cameron's de-
nunciations were terse and terrible.
Cameron is leader. and no man has
done more than he has to take the Re-
publican party out of scrapes. He has
been one of its wisest counselors and
most aggressive fighters. He is still a
leader, and it is not hard to tell the di-
re elton 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-gTounded
theory that the defeat of Blaine is the
glory of Conkling. The statement
telegraphed throughout the country a
few days ago that Blaine ascribed his
ue1edt 10 oouhEuS, anu SChiiONLcuSco
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 he? 1t
was certainly one of the doubtful
States. 1t 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
mistice between Blaine and Conkling
was fatal to Blaine. Lord Roscoe
stood out of doors with the rain gently
sprinkling his uncovered head while a
Democratic procession passed. That
was enough to counterfeit the single
spectacular performances of the Blaine
hippodrome in the metropolis. Conk-
ling is again moving forward to leader
ship. His sneer is audible, and it af-
fficts the ears of the Republican poll
ticians he whipped in the Empire State
without raising his voice.
After an election mems thoughts are
less tram .neled by party enthusiasm or
selfish considerations than they are dur
ing campaign. The edict of the peo-
pie has been registered. and now the
growing sentiment appears to be that
after all Mr.. Blaine may not be the
greatest Republican in the country, or
the man who above all others ought to
have been nominated. There are many