The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-06-25

vanced or the party in that State will
be liable to the charge of insincerity.
II good conduct and first-class record
will not entitle a man to the considera-
tion OF the Republican party of Mime
sofa what object is there in striving to
make such record? If success in pub
lie Life is to be rewarded with the
political knife, what man of character
will desire to serve honestly such a
constituency? In the senate of the
United States, Senator Davis ranks
among the ablest. His views are
listened to with attention and his
counsel carries great weight. AS time
goes on and he acquires a ripper exper-
fence and by reason of his longer SER
VICE he may speak with more vigor
and take more Mportant part in the
management Of public affairs he will
reflect still greater credit upon the
State he represents. The nation needs
such men as Senator Davis and the
people here hope that he may be sent
back for another six years.
1t has been several weeks since
Blaine was in Washington, yet there
are some people discussing his health,
his thoughts, DESIRES, ambitions and
sayings, as freely as if he was right
here in our midst and was every day in
| consultation with the men who are
sending out the stories. This is a dull
time and the Washington fake mill is
in full operation. 1t is certainly re-
markable that a Minneapolis editor,
who is credited with trying to get an
Office under the present administration,
persistently permits the most villifying
stuff to go into his paper about the
chief cabinet officer Of the Harrison
administration. In fact it can no
longer be concealed that Harrison is
fighting his own Secretary of State.
The attacks On Blaine in the Frank
Leslie publications, carrying at their
head the name of Russell Harrison,
the presidents son; the attacks in the
indianapolis Journal, the presidents
home organ; the attacks in the Helena,
(Montana) Journal, Russell Harrison's
paper; and the attacks on Blaine and
the Blaine family in the Minneapolis
Tribune, a paper conducted in the Har-
rison interest by a protested Harrison
man NJ; and one who is is supposed to be
seeking honors at the presidents
hands; all this indicates that the man
whose election was due to the fact that
Blaine would not be a candidate in
1888, is instrumental in villifying his
own officer. s
Attacks may be too harsh word to
call what has appeared in the Harrison
publications, but the publications were
OF a nature to belittle Blaine and
magnify Harrison. These organs of
the president strip the Secretary of
State of all the honor which he has
brought to the administration and
credit Harrison with that honor, when it
is we'll known that Harrison had nothing
to do with the conception Or, carrying
out OF the vast projects except to give
a reluctant consent after the pathway
had been marked out by the greatest of
Americans. It might not have been
actually attacking the Secretary OF
State but it was taking from him that
what is mans natural Inheritance, the
product of his brain.
Failing in this, for the American
people are not so easily fooled as to be-
lieve that because Benjamin Harrison
is president that he is entitled to the
credit of what his brilliant Secretary
of State devises, or that he conceived
what Blaine performed months before
his sluggish mind was in operation;
everything that Blaine has done so I'M
mlstakably bears the Blaine imprint
that the people who love and honor
him can not be deceived, failing in
these attempts, the organs try another
tack and intend to prove that Blaine is
physically incapable Of enduring the
fatigue of a campaign. With this lat
ter theory they must impress the peo-
pie, for Blaine's health is the only
thing that stands between him and the
presidential nomination and triumphal
election. But this theory is abandoned
by most of the organs and only the ILL
advised and always-wrong-crowd are
indulging in it. The problem of
Blaine's candidacy cannot be solved by
guess work Of these uninformed and I'M
Intelligent nobodies. The people of
the United States will have something
to say about the matter, and if Blaine
will consent to be candidate they will
not only nominate but elect him. That
Minnesota will do her share in this
good work there are very few people in
Washington doubt.
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