The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-19
BLAINE AS ARCH AelTAToR.

BLAINE As AHCH AGlIAToR.
One of the last and greatest Of Mr..
GARFIELD's speeches before ne left
the halls of Congress was devoted
principally to the announcement of
the fact that the red shirt dodge was a
played out tssue-that whoever ex-
pected to direct and control American
thought mast hereafter lead it in the
direction of the practical, and turn it
toward the contamination of material
development. Several utterances of
this sort had been previously made,
one notably by OLIVER P. MORTON,
the great war governor of Indiana
which, however, he did not consistent
ly abide by. Yet, gradually and steadi-
ly, even the Republicans have been
advancing toward the sentiment Of
discsrding sectional feelings growing
ontof the late war from the national
campaigns between great parties. Even
Mr.. BLAINE, when nominated at Chi
csgo, announced his ooinion in his let
ter of acceptance that the scarlet rag
had better be museumed among war
relics.
But another change seems to have
come over the spirit of the Maine
statesman's dreams. When writing
under the modification of humiliating
defeat he opened the gates of his wrath
and poured whole flood of virulent
abuse upon people on whose votes
he had never even pretended to rely
for his election.
The Ohio Convention met and pulled
open the cicsrized wounds with most
malignant fury, and at time when
there seems to have been no earthly
occasion for such malevolent deyiltry.
They are furious because after the
war has been ended more than 20
years "rebels" have been restored to
participation in the administration of
national affairs. 1t comes like clap
of thunder in clear sky, and is at
first not susceptible of explanation
Now Mr.. BLAINE steps to the front
and affords an easy solution. Ohio
seems to be patented to him for some
reason and he gives the cue to the
party there as to their strategic opera
tons. They sound the alarm that the
nation is in danger of being revolu-
tionized, and call upon every demon
of hate and every genius of discord to
rush to the front and protect the I'M
ion. SO wild an absurdity might well
be misunderstood for the rawlings of
partisans utterly INSCRIPTIONS and
maddened by defeat.
A keynote is soGndedl From the
obscurlty of literary labors white
plume is seen to bend in the breeze.
Then comes clarion voice from the
grizzly peRce-warrior, and Mr.. JAMES
BLAINE announces his willingness and
purpose to take the stump in Ohio and
battle for Foraker. He wants blood!
He panteth TOR flesh, hair and hide
and upon the platform, which he
doubtless instigated or prepared, he
desires to stand and howl to the 70.
hottest corners of peaceful land tho
great wrongs he himself has sustained
and the dangers TO which fair Column
bia is subjected. But did not the peo-
pie know when BLAINE was beaten
that there would be change of goy-
ernmental administrations Is not the
political sky peculiarly free from
clouds of every description, and
does it not come with peculiar ILL
grace from a defeated politician to
essay the disturbance or general har-
mony for the. qualification OF personal
splitter 1t is a feeling unworthy of Mr..
BLAINE and will be derided. He will
make an ignominious failure, nor
should his grimsces and splenetlc
acrobatism be noticed further than by
that contemptuous silence which every
lover of his country must sacrifice
toward one who proposes to destroy
its tranquility. MR.. BLAINR's Au-
gusta speech, his Ohio platform and
his proposed canvass of the State at
a time when he has nothing to do
but mischief, all go TO show that he is
about to engage in q crusade against
the general peace Of thecountry. Tue
HERALD predicts that he will not be
sustained by his own party, and that
his unpatriotic effort will result in
disgraceful failure.