Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-09-06
BLAINE's BUNCOMBE.

We give below the opinions OF few
OF our exchanges on the buncombe blasts
OF one Blaine, at Sebago Lake, in Maine,
recently, and they show how truly
empty, frothy and replete with that cele-
brated article OF commerce in the North
of Ireland, called "ould CUFF" they
were:
st. Louis Republican: Mr.. Blaine's re-
appearance in politics has brought him
| within point-blank range of the Prohibition
| lists fire, and they are giving him no end of
trouble. In one of his recent speeches ne
stated that prohibition is a State, not q
national issue, and, while the Republican
party of Maine is in favor of it, the National
Republican party has nothing to do with it.
| But this adroit attempt to avoid the issue in
national affairs, while prohting by it in his
| own State, is not acceptable either to the
| Maine Prohibitionists or to the "saloon Re-
| publicans of other States. The Prohibition
lists assert that, if prohibition is not
| national issue already, they are going to
| make it 30 in the next Presidential campaign;
| they are going to destroy the Republican
party and put theirs in its place-and then
| Mr.. Blaine will have to take his position on
| teetotalism as he has taken on the tariff and
| other questions. At the same time the
| saloon Republicans in the great States of
Ohio, Illinois, New York and Missouri accept
| his espousal of prohibition in his own State
| as conclusive, and repudiate him accord
ingly. For all that he has done for himself
| by his recent speeches, Mr., Blaine had better
| remained quiet.
Washington Capital. Mr.. Blaine's re-
marks are dulled by the recollection of the
| cutting remarks which Senior Marisoal ap-
piled to Mr.. Blaine five years ago this sum
| mer. Mr.. Blaine, with equal rashness and
tnH,n 1,a1 ,,,Nn tAn frr
| versy between Mexico and Guatemala. He
had undertaken, as the self-constituted
| champion of Guatemala, to teach Mexico
at once her history and her duty. When
Senior Mariscal, then and now Minister of
| Foreign Affairs received his communica-
| ton, he said to friend: "This means war"
| Nevertheless, he answered sharply and
| bravely that Mexico did not propose to take
| lessons of any sort from the Secretary of
State of the United States, and enclosed
official documents which gave Mr.. Blaine so
| much light on the history he had misrepre-
sented that he answered never word
| Subsequently, it will be remembered, Mex
| loo and Guatemala went to Europe for an
| arbitrator, whose decision they accepted as
final.
Baltimore Sun: The South is attacked by
Mr.. Blaine and the West ignored, these
being the sections that pay the bonus given
| by the tariff to the Eastern producer of
manufactures and salt fish. The fact
paraded with so much glee by Mr.. Blaine,
| that the protected" States have since the
enactment of the present tariff law, put
| more money in the savings banks than ever
| before, and far more than all the rest of the
country taken together, is not surprising.
The law was intended to work that way.
The West and South cannot be expected,
however, to be enthusiastic over the relative
emptiness of their savings banks, as the re-
suit of the tariff, or admire the tariff the
For bny la1 in
ing their earnings into Eastern pockets.
New York Sun. Mr.. Blaine knows, as
everybody else knows, that the prohibition
ist vote can be won back only by the sacrifice
of another large and important element of
Republican strength. Would the gain be
greater than the loss? That is the question;
andif Brother Blaine only knew the answer,
the dryads of the pine woods around Sebago
lake would have come forth to see what
mortal it was that spoke with voice so full
of happiness.
Boston Herald: Evidently, the Republi-
can anxiety in Maine is chiefly directed to-
ward prohibitionists. Their vote is more an
uncertain quantity in that State than ever
before. 1t is a noticeable fact that the vet
eran Neal Dow, who aided in Mr.. Blaine's
canvass two years ago, is now speaking
against the, Republican ticket every day.
Louisville Courier-Jounal. Possibly Mr..
Blaine made his first speech at Lake Sebago
because of the facilities there for bathing
his great head after his effort was over.
Washington Herald: Somebody ought to
have rung chestnut bell freely on Mr..
Blaine's first speech in Maine. He seems to
have been asleep since the last election.
These are q few opinions by men who
judged the speech from an unpreiudiced
stand point, and who would not hesitate
to cut friend or foe if he should make
such spectacle of himself as Blaine did
at Sebago. But the real and powerful
critic whom Mr.. Blaine should fear most
is that grand old man, Neal Dow. He is
the most remarkable man in America.
He is more than S2 years OF age, yet
he speaks nearly every day, sometimes
twice and three times day, travels thou
sands OF miles every week, eats heartily,
sleeps we'll, and walks as briskly as q
young man. His hair and whiskers are
white, but his head is not bald. His
teeth are as white az milk and his face
has hardly wrinkle in it. For vigor and
ability to do hard work he is superior to
most men OF 80 years. Mr.. Dow is now
spearing Mr. Blaine daily. He has good
cause to do SO, and lie is backed by thou
sands OF Republicans who have for years
trusted in Blaine only to be deceived ,and
who will not now be again hoodwinked
into believing his solemn protestations,
for ii he alone holds Prohibition as
State issue and his party in the nation
by their platforms make 1t National
issue, he will again be in false position,
and his Prohibition-R Republicans will take
the lesser evil OF the two, which is sound
Democracy.