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


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 could guff," 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 he
stated that prohibition is State, not
national issue, and, while the Republican
party of Maine is in favor of it, the National
Republican party has nothing to do with 1t.
But this adroit attempt to avoid the issue IN
national affairs, while profiting 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 so in the next P esidential 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 CdpitdI. Mr.. Blaine's re-
marks are dulled by the recollection of the
cutting remarks which Senior Mariscal ap-
piled to Mr.. Blaine five years ago this sum-
mer. Mr.. Blaine, with equal rashness and
oficiousness had interfered in the contro-
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
Senor 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 mlSrepre-
sented that he answered never a 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
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,
I, L.
emptiness of their savings banks, as the re-
suit of the tariff, or admire the tariff the
more for having succeeded SO we'll in divert
ing their earnings into Eastern pockets.
New York San: 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. It is noticeable fact that the vet !
eran Neal Dow, who aided in Mr.. Blaine's |
y
against the, Republican ticket every day.
Louisville COaTieI-JOu1Gl: 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 a few opinions by men who |
Judged the speech from an unpreiudiced |
and who would not hesitate |
% cut friend or foe if he should make
such 4 spectacle of himself as Blaine did
It Sebago. But the real and powerful
,ritic whom Mr.. Blaine should fear most
s that grand old man, Neal Dow. He is
he most remarkable man in America.
He is more than 80 years of age, yet
he speaks nearly every day, sometimes
vice and three times day, travels thou
lands of miles every week, eats heartily,
'leeps well, and walks as briskly as a
young man. His hair and whiskers are
white, but his head is not bald. His
,eeth are as white as milk and his face
las hardly wrinkle in it. For vigor and
ability to do hard work he is superior to
most men of so years. Mr.. Dow is now
pearing Mr.. Blaine daily. He has good
.ause to do so, and he is backed by thou
ands of Republicans who have for years
rusted in Blaine only to be deceived land
Who will not now be again hoodwinked
nto believing his solemn protestations,
or if he alone holds Prohibition as a
tate issue and his party in the nation
" their platforms make it National
ssue, he will again be in false position,
nd his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will take
he lesser evil of the two, which is sound
Democracy.
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