The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-03

ing them harder at each succeeding
election.
There is no doubt that the Republi-
can National Committee was inn
pressed with the danger which these
loyal men of the Northwest foresee.
The selection of Minneapolis, a COM
paratively inaccessible city, for the
Convention, shows that the warning
was needed. 1t does not require a
great amount of political sagacity to
conclude from the result of the Repub-
lican committee meeting that the De-
mocracy has great opportunity of
regaining control of the Government.
The selection of Western candidate
for President would be to grasp that
opportunity. 1t is always wise in
politics, as in war, to strike your enemy
in his weakest spot, and the Republi-
cans have certainly acknowledged that
it will require superhuman efforts in
1892 for them to carry the Western
and Northwestern States. 1t is ad-
mitted that the epRublicans can elect
their President without New York if
they succeed in the West, but without
the West New York will avail
them nothing. An Eastern Demo.
cratic candidate would materi-
ally increase the chances therefore,
for Republican success in the West,
which they must have, and where they
themselves say they are weakest. On
the morning after election the Herald
pointed out the necessity of the Demo
cratic party going West for its candi-
date. The developments of the Re-
publican National committee simply
make public the facts and the situa-
ton long known and foreseen by the
Herald.
Our Washington dispatches continue
to show that the West is jealous of the
East. Unmistakable proofs Of bitter
sectional feeling were given in the
speeches of the Western men and by
the vindictiveness with which they
fought New York for the Convention.
San Francisco does not love Minneap-
oils, nor does Omaha. In fact it was
very distasteful to them to help a rival
Western city capture the prize. Yet,
distastsful as it was, there was no hcsi-
tation on their part in voting for Min
neapolis rather than have Cincinnati
or New York win the victory. Inter
views in our Washington dispatches
today presents this reason for Min
neapolis' choice by giving the state.
ments of the defeated Western boom,
ers. Thus it is made even more clear
that comparatively unknown and
presumably, at the start, weaker can.
didate from the West would make O
far better race for the Presidency or
the Democratic ticket than any man
supposed to be the strongest in the
East--the section shown to be un
popular with another section on the
favor of which his election will depend
If there had been any doubt about
it before, the meeting of the Republi'
} can committee proved also that Mr..
Blaine will be obliged to accept or de
cline to again lead his party in 1892
The sentiment of the West on this poin
was given to our Washington CORES
, pondentwhen Mr.. Eustis, of Minneapo
lis, said: at is going to be James G
: Blaine, whether he wants it or not i
will be Blaine anyway.
This determination to nominate Mr.
Blaine, an Eastern man; the declara
ton of West and Northwestern mer
that their people, irrespective of poll
tics, do not attach great deal Of i'm
3 portance to the tariff issue, but are in
clned to believe that there is a goo(
deal of buncombe talked on both side
about it, and the Western feelin!
against the East are facts sufficient
: 1t would seem, to cause the Democra
tic leaders to DO good deal Of think
ing.-N. Y. Herald