The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-08
POST-ELECTION FURY.
The Hard Facts Made Conspicuous, Which
Aore Temperate Policy Would Have
Concealed.

AHO pOoN-CiCOelOH 1uI Win "u4Ch q
, few Republican papers have kept up a
vicious campaign, with James G. Blaine
as their imaginary leader, has had a
tendency to 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 rantino editors and small poll
ticians who are now carrying on po-
litical warfare after the peoples verdict
has been rendered, with the name OF
Blaine 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-
ciples 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 81
most equally prominent, are glad in
their hearts that Blaine was defeated.
John Sherman has opent,r rebelled
against the effort to maintain Mr.. Blaine
as the Republican hero of the hour, and
he has done so in such a manly way that
he has commanded the respect of ali
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 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 President nominations
and embar1ass the affairs of Govern
ment. He has detied 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 wear 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 az
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, and they are for him still; and !
they know he was beaten by the |
clustering, bosterous 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
" purchasable fellows who few years
ago were denOuncing Blaine us a 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 80 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
pendent Republicans. Camerun's de-
were terse and terrible.
Cameron is q leader; and no man has
done more than he has, to take the Re
publican party out of scrrupes. He has
been one of its wisest cOunseiors and
moss aggressive fighters. He IS still
leader, and it is not hartf to tell the di-
rect:on in which he viii lead.
One of the deepest humiliatJons to
those who are trying to keep them
selves in prominence BY hoidin,s- ON to
Blaine's coat-tails is the WELL grounded
theory that the defeat of Blaine Is the
glory OF Conkling. Yhe- statement
throughout the. country a
few days ago that Blaine ascribed his
lefeas TO ConklinC, and acknowledged
that Conkling had his revenge, has been
lenietH: but, nevertheless, nearly every
body seems to think that was what
Blaine would have said had he spoken
July and from his heart. BlairDeedidnT
stump New York. Whr didn't he@ Il
was certainly one of the deubtf5l
States. 1t was the State'withoEt which
he Republican ticket could net be
elected. Mr. Blaine'T friends and apE-
yisersv were afraid to arouse the power
If CcnAling, and they are now in
.hagrini because they find that the a-r
nistne between Blaine and C5nitiing
vas fatal to Blains. Lord Roscoe
TODD out of doors with the rainIgents7
his uncovered head while q
Democratic procession passed ThaA
vas anaugh 10 cOuateract the single
peetacJilar performance of tte Blaiagt
lipp0dr@me in the metropolis. Conk-
ing Is, again moving forward D,lea6ar-
hip. His sheer is ;audible. and it af-
iistSIE the ears of the Republican paIi-
icians, be whipped in the En- GRE State
Without raising his nDice.
.YffeE IN election mems tn snghss ace
Gss> traM-neled by party enthusiasts OF
eliish! considerations than thay are Gar
ny. a, arsmpaign. The edict If the ps9
,le hos been registered. and now ths
growing sentimeEE appears to be- dEst
lftRr- al Mr.. Blaine may not ba. the
greatest Republican in the country, oe
he nk=n who above all others ought tc
lave been nominated. TEare are 1iaAy
thousands of Republicans, who hare
leen diSappoIatEal by MIR. 8Gne's