Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-10-28

are incapable of bailding the honest
ships which the people now demand
for their navy.-C Chicago Herald.
STILL UNAVAILABLE.
Through in. 1854, How Can He in l88S1
What . Republican Paper Thfnks-
The tone OF the Blaine Republican
press since the Maine election shows
that Mr.. Blaine win be probably
strongly pushed for the Republican
nomination i'm 1883. 1t can not be
doubted that he desires it, because
nothing could be more distasteful to
him than to close his public life with,
such defeat as that of 1854 defeat
due to personal ard not to- party rea-
sons. He was not defeated because his.
party had lost public confidence, but be-.
cause he was its candidate. Buta great,
many earnest Republicans who disap-
proved of his nomination for various
reasons were yet so persuaded that
Republican opposition to Republican
nomination was kind of treason to the
country and to human liberty thatthey
have come to think the election of Mr.
Blaine Indispensable to the vindication
of the party and to the proper punish
ment of such offenders, and more than
one of them has been heard to say that
he now lived to secure that result Al
candidate who in addition to this kind
of support has the aid of the party ma
chine and the prestige which envelopes
the chief party leader enters the, con-
test with great advantages. It seems.
however, impossible that the wise
heads of the party should think Mr..
Blaine's nomination to be judicious-.
Many of the leaders who supported
him most strongly upon. the stump in
"a, and who most bitterly denounced
the treachery of Mugwumpery,. had
been most strenuously opposed to.his.
nomination. They knew that the
campaign would be necessarily pro-
longed and desperate personal defence
and apology and explanation. as, it
was. They have seen that all did not
avail. and they know that nothing
whatever has occurred to- make Mr.:
Blaine more acceptable candidate.
while much has happened which would
make it easy for many who voted for
in 49,.
1t is useless to urge in his. favor that
nothing new can be said against him.
What was said in 1884 was enough to,
defeat him.. and it was of q kind which
does not lose its force with cam
paign. IF the transactions of which
the Mulligan letters were the proof to
the public mind made him in the pub
lie estimation unfit for the presidency
In 1884. they will make him equally
unfit in 1888. If the explanations and
apologies and defenses were, fruitless
then, they will be equally fruitless
again. It was then said that he had
been indicated by his; election as
Senator. But by the same reasoning.
he has now been condemned by his de-
feat for the Presidency. The personal
arguments. are unchanged. There is
no reason to suppose, and, so far as
we know, there is no evidence what
ever, that the voters whe held him to
be personally unfit in 1854 win
believe him to- be any more
fit in 1888. IF this be so. win
the party argument be strong
er them? Undoubtedly it was the par
ty argument and the Irish Democratic
vote which enabled him to contest the
result so closely in 3d. But few intel
ligent men can suppose that the mere
party appeal against Democratic success
as public danger can be as strong in
r38 as il was in "a. In "a thousands of
honest Republicans believed that the
election of Mr.. Cleveland meant pay
ment of the rebel debt. and compensa-
ton for slaves, and oppression of col
ored citizens, and control of the Gov
eminent by its enemies, and radical
financial disturbances, and q general
y -4,r-k - sx.I n
enterprise. In view of such calamities
to follow the success of the Democratic
candidate, they felt that it was a crlm-
acter of the Republican candidate.
Undoubtedly he will be warmly pressed
as the most conspicuous leader, as a
great party organizer. as the Republic
an of the largest and most devoted fol-
lowing, as the only Republican who
can command an Irish Democratic
vote; and the strongest appeal of allin
a party convention will be the declara-
ton that in view of his defeat in 81
upon personal grounds, to set him
aside in '88 will be to acquiesce tacitly
in the personal charges against him.
Yet that he viii be really stronger
candidate in 'SS, or that the Cleveland
Administration will have been such as.
to make the party argument for him,
more decisive than in "a, can not be-
supposed. IL win be hundredfold
easier to be an Independent in 'SS than
in IA. Every form of obloquy and
b1ackguardism and falsehood against
Mugwumps has been exhausted, and il
is demonstrated that to vote against
an unfit Republican is not to vote for
national disaster. Men and brethren,
let as reflect upon these thingsS-Har.
per's Weekly.
Chairman Jones of the Repub-
1ican National Committee refuses to-
join in giving Mr.. Blaine . boom in
Pennsylvania. He says it is q ques-
ton whether Mr.. Blaine caves to pass
through another siege as Presiden-
tial candidate. Probably II Chairman
Jones knew positively that Mr.. Blaine
did not care to pass through another
siege he would not be unwilling to give
him boom. But, as he says, 1t IL q
question. and the funny part OF it Is
Mr.. Blaine doesn't answer that ques
ton. Chicago Neass.
A newspaper says: General
John A. Logan is industriously maxi
ing hay while the sun shines. and
seems to be getting along very nicely.
But General Logan's appearance Of
- II fo