Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-27
MR.. BLAINE AND HIS ENEMIES.
Frank Talk in a Democratic journal.

From the New York WORLDS Washington Cores
| If the situation does not change in very
marked degree, Mr.. Blaine will be the
candidate of the Republican party in 1888.
All the signs and all of the talk of the lead
ing Republicans point that way. The
Republicans who do not ike him fear his
nomination, and those who like him de-
voutly hope as they have never hoped be
fore. There is absolutely 10 one in sigh
on the Republican morrison but Mr.. Blaine.
He has prominence that it would be fool
ish to deny or to attempt to ignore. As a
simple private citizen of the state of Maine
his utterances attract more attention than
would those of any official at
Washington. except perhaps the Presi-
dent Certainly no member of the
cabinet has anything ike his command
upon the popular attention. No member
of the senate or the house is so great an OBJ
| iect of interest If Mr. Blaine were to re-
visit Washington today am certain that
his every movement al the capital would
| be as carefully scrutiniZed and noted as are
Mr. Clcveland's acts. This enormous in
terest in Mr. Blaine is fact carefully
noted by the politicians They see that he
was never out of politics less than at the
present time. They see every paragraph
| written about him copied from Maine to
| California and have studied the effect of
the Portland speech of Citizen Blaine,
which was cabled to London papers only
| to become a general topic Of European dis
cussion. They concede that Mr. Blaine
today is the master of the Republican sit
uation. If he is not re-nOminated in 1888 no
one who is opposed to him can be.
One of the peculiar things to be noted in
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Mr. Blaine's enemies Now that he is in
private life he is as much of target almost
as if he we've in public place. If the
weather happens to be bad in Maine the
condition of affairs is credited to the malgn
influence of Mr., Blaine. An anti Blaine
man never reasons He just hates and hates
on with an energy and abandon that know
no rest. The abuse of Mr. Blaine with the
anti Blaine people has descended to rub-a-
dub. 1t has got beyond reason into the /
realm of mere unreasoning noise. Those |
who do not admire Mr.. Blaine's politics and
do not think he would make good presi- |
dent, need not feel obliged to continue to |
throw mud at one Of the most interesting |
men in politics. There is SO little in poll |
tics that is interesting that every one should |
pray for long life to Citizen Blaine, whose
mere presence among the living gives a
flip to the consideration Of every possible
political speculation.
A veteran Democrat said to me yester-
day: The day Of talking scandal about
Blaine is in the past Everything that can
be said about him has been said, while to-
day he has greater individual hold upon
the people than any man in the country.
There is no use talking about the dead mat
tiers of the last campaign. The Pan-Elec-
trio statesmen have supplied new issues.
The party that supports an administration
that carries Attorney General Garland and
his staff Pan-Electric associates need not
ask the people to help to rebuke Blaine's
candidacy
4 lThis talk is common among the better
class of Democrats They say that they
honestly advocated reform during the cam
paign and made themselves almost i'll in
their enthusiastic description of the reform
TO be brought out by Democratic admin
istration of the affairs of the government.
They see no real change in the admins
tration of affairs at Washington They see
tie corporation powers which have so long
controlled Washington laying its plans to
have and to hold the new administration
They see Democratic committee in the
house unanimously report stock jobbing !
extension bill i'll the interest OF the Pacific I
railroad gang of plunderers, without a word ;
of protest from the administration officials /
charged with the supervision of these j
roads They see this swinde of the gov !
interest stopped in the house only |
through newspaper publicity, and wonder l
if the president could not take his mind
the consideration of few petty pension I
papers to see if he could not do something i
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in the enormous debt of the Pa J
colossal height of one hundred odd mil /;
ton would incline the people to look rightly l
upon the awful crime of singing unconsid- t
cred few doubtful pension cases. /
A number of discouraged Democrats who t
have been carefully studying the situation ,
at Washington are beginning to ask them |
selves how much worse off would they {
have been had Mr. Blaine been elected pres f
dent They see the departments still I'M c
Ter the control of the very elements so de {
lounced by them during the last campaign.
They see an administration absorbed in
party details having no broad, general a
policy. They see the corporations more t
triumphant than ever. They see no pros |
,ect of any change or any outlining of any a
lew general policy. b
The presidents course is the very one to t
lelp Mr.. Blanes prospects as a Republican e
The negative course of the adj il
ninistration leaves the opposition party t.
lothng to do. There are no aggressons to s.
esst The record of Republican misdoing il
5 left undisturbed On account of this o
ack of active discussion there is no chance II
or the development of new Republican b
eaders Mr. Blaine today is the chief of T
lis party, and will undoubtedly so remain IL
ntil the next Republican campaign. fl
t is on account of his prominence and '
lis leadership that the canvass in Maine this
ummer promises to be SO interesting. 1t
not because there will be any real contest. i
he interest will arise wholly from the fact c
hat all the prominent Republican leaders :
ave been invited to speak, with the under
landing that the issues made are to be
hose of the presidential campaign of 1888.
T. c. CRAWFORD.
INGALLS, a BAD MAN. n
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