The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-26
THE COMING MAN.

IF prudent and skillful physician is
needed To heal the wounds of the repub-
lican party, what is the matter with
DIR. Jim Blaine?"-Sedhle Journal (rep. J
THE Blaine idea Of reciprocity win be.
come the leading feature in the republi-
can tariff program. Senator Blackburn,
Of Kentucky, believes that from now on
no other republican candidate than
Blaine will be thought of.-AuJuStd, Ga,
Chronicle (dem.)
THE words Of James G.. Blaine on the
Mckinley bill at the time IL was pending,
in the light of the recent elections, APP
pear something like prophecy, although
Senator Blackburn's report OF them
must be taken with allowance for demo.
cratic coloring PutsbuTg Commercials
Gazette.
On the second trial, after losing on
the first, Thomas Jefferson beat John
Adams for the presidency. Andrew Jack.
son beat John Quincy Adams, and Will
lam Henry Harrison beat Martin Van
Buren,. Why could not history, in this
way, repeat itself in the case of James
G.. Blaine and Grover Cleveland?-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
After the September election there wa.
a delusion TO the effect that the big man
from Maine was Thomas Il. Reed. But
the November elections have reduced
that colossal figure to ruin and establish
as beyond dispute that the only man
from Maine towers up in the familiar il
somewhat kaleidoscope figure Of James
G. Blaine PittSburg Dispatch, lind. rep. }
IT is among the probabilities that
Cleveland and Blaine will be pitted
against each other again. Blaine is
really the only republican leader who
has anything left upon which hope for
success can be based. Although he went
into the recent campaign and spoke
earnestly for the Mckinley bill. it is
pretty well known that he did not favor
it. He is a prOtectionSt, of course, but
he is shrewd enough 30 see that the kind
of protection the Mckinley tariff gives Is
not the kind the country will stand
Savannah NelCs (dem.)
THERE is a call for Blaine. All the
old champions of the "white pumed
knight" reiterate that Blaine's brillan,
talents, aggressive nature, and irresisti-
BILE magnetism will impart uninterrupted
victory to the republican hosts and add
splendid luster to the party's prestige.
There is apparently great deal of
Blaine talk-more than has been heard
for years. Possibly If the republican
presidential convention were to be held
next June the Blaine enthusiasm would
tide him into the nomination. But it
really looks as if the movement were
premature. There is year and half
in which to think over the subject. And
it is one which demands some serious re-
lection Minneapolis Journal.
MCKINLEY is so dead that the hope of
resurrection becomes preposterous. He
lies i'm his little grave side by side with
his still-born tariff bill, and on the sod
stands the towering form of the gentle
man from Maine remarking that the
measure is so impracticablc that it can't
open the worlds market To "another
bushel of wheat or another barrel Of
pork" That statement was Endorsed in
thirty-nine states last Tuesday. and
Blaine was thereby saved from the gem
eral wreck. Even Mr.. Harrison suffers
from the universal condemnation of a
policy which empties the pockets of our
wage-earners into the Golfers of over
protected monopolists. Mr.. Blaine,
therefore, is the most conspicuous man
among the republicans of the country.
-NelC York Herald, (dem.)
THE republican ship of state may have
lost couple of topSails, have been dam
aged slightly in the rigging, and have
been blown about eight miles out of the
course it was pursuing when the
squall of Nov. struck it, but it has
sprung no leak, its masts are all stand
ing, and its yards are uninjured. II re-
spends readily to the helm of Capt.
James CT. Blaine. Its colors still float
proudly and its batteries are still in con-
dtion to deliver many destructive broad
sides. In fact, IL is the same stout war
ship whose laundering volleys silenced
the frowning fortresses of rebellion and
have protected the industries of America
from the repeated assaults Of the pauper
pirates of European labor. With few
minor repairs it will be in shape TO begin
cruise that shall end in the harbor of
victory in '92.-Dltlltth Tribune, (Rep.)