Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-07-31

him into Office, by or in spite of an elfction.
Doubtless the members of the Supreme
Court Of the United States or the Court OF
Appeals of Maine would smile II the idea
that Mr.. Blaine is a lawyer were suggested
TO them. Mr.. Blaine is not TO blame for not
being lawyer. His friends are TO blame Tor
claiming for him legal ability, which is
specific kind Of ability, which he mas not
instead of magnifying his general abilities,
which are considerable. 1t is known that
the law points in the reciprocity act, In all
the treaties with South American States
and in all the correspondence with Lord
Salisbury were written by the President.
This is as il should be. Mr.. Blai rs not
lawyer. He may be q political r essity to
the cabinet, bu. if he is, he is necessity
that knows noiaw."
Nor do we5elieve that the MN in the
moon is weeping or the inhabita Us Of this
earth are learning for Mr.. Blaine to be
nominate1 for president. He tried three
times fos the nomination before he got il,
and WIN he got it he lost his election. His
l pcTIeT'iu CuiOBiStS ucCluiC tuob tuC Souiu
havenrd the nomination again Ay 1888, but,
If heteuld have had it, he then thought it
| wisef not to take it. Democrats like Mr..
Blghe. He is good stump sp{aker. He
isf genial gentleman. He has alwonderful
Yemory and an unrivaled imagi 4ation. The
Remocrats, indes They are
u ey will be
gIau II ne pets weIl--b,, s.,ho.. o not trust
him for cent. . or for IL rr Of money
o. any denomination, and therz "a sun
cient number of old. fashioned, an 'uea'
Y IiiRSdsepusiios.s -~i.- -i-- ID 9fnhdsnce
in Mr.. Baine's judgment, 1ot v say in the
solidty Of his character, Efectu&lly to pre-
vent him from being mVde President Of the
United States, no mater how many success
sive nominations he might have.
Mr.. Blaine has to thank his own as.
sumed, presumed and professed friends for
q good deal OF this sort OF feeling. He
was the political death of himself in
1884 and his friends will be the political
death OF him again, il he ever gets nomi-
mated once more, for they are your "dash-
ing" "cbivalrous," earnest "whoop. tup'
kind OF fellows. OF each one Of these Blaine
shouters the career has been an unnter-
rupted series of blunders for the past twenty
years.
Mr.. Blaine should hardly be held respon-
sible for the excessive enthusiasm of his
friends, but they themselves ought to give
the country rest on him as theme. They
are exhausting adjectives and overworking
paIticiples with reference to him. They are
filling their minds with the notion that a
great party is desirous of shaking from itself
all other commitments or preferences, like
the lion shakes the dewdrops from his name,
and that party wants to get up and ramp
and stamp and roar for him. That is not
so. The sober second thought of any politi-
cal convention is surest-and it is the sober
second thought which plays the mischief
with shifty men-this will be very unlikelyto
nominate him for President in the year of
1892 or in any other year.
Politics prefer safety TO sentiment, judg-
ment to jerks, sobriety to delirium, talent
to genius, principles to expediency, and that
Is the reason why the Clevelands and Har-
risons get nominated for President by ration.
al chaps, while the peerless preference"
of the fellows who think with their lungs
proves TO be not "in it" at all