Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-27

shown. in high degree, seif-feliance, self .
sacrifice and true ambition qualities which, /
be it said for the honor of our country are
everywhere to be found among the young
men in America. Mr.. Blzineis an American
in all his aspirations, and looks to the destiny
and influence of the United States with the
philosophic composure of jefferson and the
demonstrative confidence of John Adams.
What this country needs and must have to
carry out and more firmly implant the live
principles on which our government was
founded. is TO cultivate. foster and in every
way encourage such intellectual and moral
products peculiar to American Republicanism
What incentive is there to urge the young
men and women, pure as their motives may
may be. to seek high places in State if, when
they arrive even at the Threshold, arrows of
envy in all forms are thrust al tn m Ia i'm
pede and harass their progress; political
scrambles even in the same party, and for
what! in the interest of good government!
to facilitate party progress.
No, but too often merely to be able to help
themselves and friends to places that they
might not obtain under another. Some such
would no doubt be left out under MI Blaine's
administration. Suppose they are. Has the
great Republican party got 10 sacrifice IFS
best heads in the interest of plac a-seekers:
The enormous vote of Mr. Blaine over
that of the leading heads of states shows
how he stands with those not after the loaves
and fishes.
If he is so popular with voters ,as the records
show, why is he not an available candidate !:
How has he been and is yet received mot
from mere curiosity, like some others, but
to learn from him) one other person only in
the history of our republic ever made half a.
many well received speeches without single
balk as did Mr.. Blaine in 1884, and that
other person was a twin spirit of true Ideal
Americanism, whose tragic death put this
country back at least twenty-five wears in
political and material progress. | need not
say that great and good man was James \.
Garfield, and like Garfield. Blaine was met
from the day of his nomination with storms
of detraction, yet he grew in popular favor.
NO might nor greatness in mortality can
| censure 'scape; backwounding calumny the
whitest virtue strikes. What king 50 strong
can tie gall up in slanderous tongues" But
under it all he was calm and strong and con-
| fdent; never lost his self-possession; spoke
no hasty or ill-considered wort- Indeed
nothing in his life is more remarkable or more
creditabie than his bearing through those long
months of vituperation and prolonged agony
of trial to a sensitive man. cruel draft upon
! the powers of moral endurance.
| The general mass of their unjust imputa-
tons passed unnoticed and with the general
debris of the Campaign fell into oblivion.
| And for all this and more, will the cold
hearted place seeker tell us we owe him moth
! ing. The man that says so deserves 10 live
under the intestinal John Bullism as repre-
sented in the present administration, the re-
mainder of his ungrateful life.
Mr.. Blaine should be nominated at Chicago.
There is not standpoint from which the
question can be considered aside from the
wishes of himself and wife) that does no,
emphatically say So
There is in him all the elements heretofore
possessed and moreover being older is less
ambitious, ripper in wisdom and if not the next
President of the United States, it will De fol
the reason that the Chicago convention
through its delegations, fail to learn and voice
the will of their constituents. ID. FL.
Quincy, March l4th, 1883.