Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-10
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Indications of the Rising Republican
Tide

Tide
The y. Y. Tribune has an editorial
which, after presenting a clear account OF
the splendid triumph of the friends OF
| Protection and wholesome laws in Rhode
Island, gives the following cheering state
ment of the signs of thorough Republi-
can revival in the country:
Local causes might be assigned for this
victory if it were without parallel elsewhere
But a sweeping Republican victory in Hart
| ford, and victories in other towns in Con-
nectIcut, have already sponged out the slen-
| der plurality for Democratic Reform" in
Connecticut. Similar victories in New Jer-
scy point in the same direction. Heavy
| Democratic losses in Grand Rapids and other
! Michigan towns, in indianapolis and other
| places in Indiana, and in nearly all the cities
of Ohio. darken Democratic hopes of recov-
ering those States Looking over the whole
| Northern field, the observer sees no State in
which the Republican party does not seem to
have better prospect of success than it had
in 1884 or 1856 Brave and honest action by
the Republicans on the liquor question is one
cause. Democratic uurescrved commitment
to the free-trade theories of President Cleve-
lands message and the Mills bill is another
1t is also an exceedingly significant fact
that Mr. Blaines most bitter enemies are
forced to admit his personal popularity
especially with the voters of agricultural
districts. where the best and purest elements
of the Republican party predominant. Adj
hitting that mo State is calculated to furnish
better illustration of the general tendency
of feeling in the party" than Vermont that
Its population is largely agricultural: there
are no large cities and few considerable ones
in the State; neither Federal nor State
patronage amounts to a controlling element
IN its politics; and the party conventions are
probably as free as they can be anywhere to
represent fairly and fully the opinion of the
party" the Mugwump Times with disgust
remarks: 'sThat this feeling should be so
clearly and emphatically in favor of Mr..
Blame is certainly strong proof that the
theory is without foundation which repre-
sents the Blaine sentiment as limited, artificial
and of no practical force. 1t is on the con-
trary. obviously very general, for the most
part entirely sincere and likely to endure so
long there is any chance of its finding ex-
preston in action" This confession that
The Times has been for years repeating
falsehoods about Mr.. Blaine aud his Repub-
lican support is the more interesting because
it comes under the lash of defeat
This state of things occurs with Mr.. Blaine
out of the field, as far he has power to
take himself out, and with his most active
friends bestIrring themselves for other
candidates. They are not united on any one,
and that is natural According 10 locality,
personal relations, and their appreciation of
different political needs or tendencies they
naturally look to different candidates as their
second choice. But the plain voters who
have the Republican principles at heart, and
are not yet convinced that Mr. Blane's wish
should be law for great national party,
show no little disposition to insist that the
issue raised by Mr.. Cleveland calls for the
nomination of the foremost champion of
Protection"