Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1888-08-17
BLAINE At HOME.
OF WASHINGTON COUNTY,

BLAINE At HOME.
In his little speech of greeting to the Re-
publican party bosses who came to meet
him as he returned from his picnic with
millionaire Carnegie, Mr.. Blaine managed
to indicate what line he intends to pursue
in his campaign work. The workingman
is to be impressed with the fact that the
issue is one of his wages. All other things
are subordinate to that He is TO be told
that the good Republicans are intent on
keeping his wages to the highest notch and
of making them still higher, while the bad
Democrats are determined on cutting his
wages to the lowest possible point.
Mr.. Blaine has "been SO long abroad" as
Mrs. Gilfory used to remark, that he posi-
bly, is not aware that the workingman has
been doing some sharp observing and hard
thinking whilst he was away hob.nobing
with the Prince of Wales and riding on top
of millionaire Carnegie's four inland The
workingman has seen that the capitalists
among Mr.. Blaine's Republican friends have
been busy squeezing down the wages of
labor and putting up the prices of every
thing which labor has to buy. They have
been forming trusts whose action is to re-
strict production and render the demand
for labor less, put up the price OF their pro-
ducts and put down the price of production.
The workingman finds on Saturdays that he
takes away less from the pay table and that
his money will not 60 as far as before at the
store. That's the kind ofargument which the
workingman has been treated TO in Mr. BIS
absence with princes and millionaires, and
it will take all Mr.. Blaines magnetism" to
overcome the effect of the practical argu-
ments of this kind which the workingman
has taken home with his basket Of supplies
on Saturday nights.
Whilst the workingman is being talked
sweetly to the "bloody shirt" is to be waved
in the eyes of those who can be deluded into
the belief that perhaps after all the war is
not over Mr. Blaine gave it a significant
flap in his first speech on coming home
He referred to "An American Congress and
an American President who are governed
by that element which sought TO destroy
this nation" Mr.. Blaine has been fourteen
months abroad, he reminded his friends.
In that fourteen months among foreign
princes and millionaires he seems to have
forgotten that the war ended many years
ago. He has been too far off to see the
changed condition of affairs South and
North. He has not yet come to under
stand that the bloody shirt has become so
ragged and dirty and disreputable that hun.
dreds of thousands of Republicans hold their
noses whenever an indiscreet Republican
stumper ventures to pull it out. Mr.. Blaine
will probably learn something when he is
taken into back room by Boss Quay and
talked TO little. But if Mr.. Blaine seri-
ously intends making his campaign on the
lines indicated the Democrats could ask
nothing better. They only hope that Boss
Quay will let him go ahead in his own way
or that he will take the bit in his teeth and
go his own pace in spite Of the boss who
does not believe in "chin music" and whose
motto is "work and silence"
Whilst we are writing of Mr.. Baine's
return home, We remember just here as we
go along, that this same James G. Blaine
and his followers of the lingo stripe would
had they the power, embroil the country in
foreign complications that would lead to
war. II is the aim of this class of men to
gain as much glorification at the expense of
the government as is possible to be had.
AS Secretary Of State Blaine brought US to
the verge OF an open declaration OF war with
England and only the counsels of conserva-
tive men whose patriotism was greater than
selfseeking averted the danger Were Har.
rison President Blaine would be the chief
of foreign affairs as well as the power be.
hind the throne, Harrison's election, were
such thing probable, would be public
calamity. Blaine, like many other leaders
in his party, is laboring for the plaudits of
his followers and not his country's good.