Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-24

He must be kept in the race. If we mis-
take not, the party will refuse to consider his
declination.
From the st. Paul Dispatch.
! As the matter stands today, Mr.. Blaine is
/ stronger fthan four years ago. and the pro-
liabilities of his receiving denomination by
/ the unanimous acclaim Of the delegates to the
/ next Republican Convention are greater than
/ they have ever been before.
/ From the Knoxville Tenn journal.
/ James &. Blaine is a born leader of men.
( His person, his presence, his voice, his Ian
/ guage. all point him out as man among men.
! If he should never again be a candidate for
/ the Presidency, and never become Chief
Magistrate of the Republic, thousands of men
would go TO their graves in disappointment.
! From the Pottsville penn Republican. ]
| James 6. Blaine should be our nominee,
and if he is, he will defeat Grover Cleveland
/ in a second trial as Jefferson defeated John
/ Adams, as jackson defeated John Quincy
| Adams and as Harrison defeated Martin Van
/ Buren,.
! From the Northeastern Christian Advocate
/ We do not see why the letter need be re-
! garded at all If he is nominated and elected.
! the letter will count for nothing, save as
proof that he did not compel his own nomi-
nation.
From the New York Tablet.
In another important respect Mr.. Blaine's
name is tower of strength. Irish Ameri-
can voters recognize in him not only the
ablest opponent of English Free Trade but
a consistent outspoken champion of Home
Rule for Ireland. Every Irish American
knows that with Mr.. Blaine in the White
House the indignities to which this country
has been subjected by England would never
have been offered Every Irish American
knows that with Mr.. Blaine as President nc
disgraceful trucking to England would have
been attempted by any member of his Cabinet.
! Every lrish-Amercan knows that with Mr.
Blaine as Chief Executive no government
official would dare to enter INTO an unhoy
/ conspiracy to assist England in forging fresh
chains for Ireland and denying the right of
asylum to Irish patriots outlawed by English
tyrants. Let, then, the Repub-
! lican party nominate Americas foremos,
statesmen with reclamation. The hes. in
terests of the country demand this step.
/ From the Waterbury Conn Republican.
/ Are you quite sure Mr.. Blaine is on. of the
/ Presidential race Ii may be shown when
the Chicago Convention meets that it is his
/ duty to accept the nomination-and then what
| Did any one ever know the Plumed knigh,
To shirk public duty
! From the South Side (Long Island) OBJ
server.
The Observer" hopes that the Republican
Convention will disregard Mr. Blane's wishes
and nominate him by reclamation. He is toe
/ patriotic to refuse a nomination under such
. circumstances.
| From the Lawrenceburg (Tenn.) Union.
Blaine is certain of the nomination. if he
desires It, Now the question arises, can he
defeat Grover Cleveland We firmly be-
lieve he can. The time has come when none
but true Americans must be put on guard
and there is no man in this grand republic
who represents better Americanism than
James &. Blaine, lie is one and the same al
home and abroad. Whether he is elected
President or not, he will pass out of this
world the greatest and most brilliant states
man the United States ever produced, and
should the National Republican Convention
see tit to nominate some one else, well bet
/ our worth Jim Blaine will he found in line
battling for the success of his party.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Blaine does not say Il don't want nomi-
{
expected to say such a thing as that No
man would do any good for himself, his coun-
try or his party by saying that. If nomina-
ton by reclamation could be made, it would
certainly satisfy both the candidate and the
party, that is, if it were spontaneously unani-
nous.
From the Lewiston (Me.) journal.
After all the unlikely, and the likelest
man to be the next President of the United
States may be that man from Maine" who
perhaps today is studying the social life and
| political situations of Europe in the streets
of Florence.
From the Utica Herald.
From many and not few of them not
accustomed to appreciate the commanding
/ leadership of Mr.. Blaine, come predictions
that Republicans will not take no for an
answer to their summons to candidacy, and
/ that the districts and the States will call upon
I the National Convention with overpowering
force for his nomination. Mr.. Blaine was
never before so strong a. he is at this moment
in the affection and admiration of the Ameri-
can people The Presidency can not add an
| iota TO his stature, can not make him more
completely the typical American statesman,
cannot brighten single ray in the brilliancy
From the Pittsburg Times.
| Should, however. changed circumstances
cause il to appear that Mr.. Blaine is the one
man for whom the Republicans are looking,
who of all others will be most likely to carry
the doubtful States. and should Mr. Blaine
become convinced that his present views are
erroneous. and should the convention BY ac-
clamation tender TO him the nomination anc
| were he to rece,ie from the position of his
/ letter and accept the nomination, it would
| involve no dishonor.
I From the Easton penn Free Press.
| The letter which James G. Blaine writes
! from Florence does not, happily, preclude
| his nomination. Are the people
willing to acceed? Speaking for republicans
| in this sect n, we can, without hesitation,
emphatically say No" Republicans in
Northampton county are Republicans from
love of principle. They have no other idea
| in connection with their fealty to party.
There are no delusive hopes of emolument
for them. Aud they want Blaine for their
Presidential candidate.
Cannot His Decision he Reversed.
From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle I
Must Mr., Blainels withdrawal be accepted
as final. This is the question that will rise
spontaneously TO the lips of thousands of
Republicans in this moment of dissppoint-
ment.
Drunkenness Totally Unnecessary.
No man has any excuse for being drunk
ard now, not even the plea of an overcoming
liquor appetite Neither is it necessary for
any man to break down from an overload of