Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-09-10
HARRISON AND BLAINE.
Their Respective Standings with til
PennsYlIauia PIatfnrm- Makers.


:hine conducted by Matt Quay gath
cred representatives of the party man
ageraent at Harris burg to name candi-
dates for sta te officers and to formulate
hints about the rational ticket next
year. President Harrison was at Ben
nington talking patriotic common
places at the base of a shaft reared to
commemorate Starl<s victory over a
portion of Burgoyne's army. Mr..
Blaine, whose vacation has been a long
one, was still lettering at Bar Harbor.
Each heard the news before sunset.
The Pennsylvania republicans, who in
1850 We're against Blaine and for third
term for Grant. all but formally de-
clared for Blaine's nomination in 1892.
When a rich father wishes in his last
testament to disinherit particular son
he does not ignore him lest the con-
-tention be made that the omission was
an oversight, emitting the youth under
the paternal ban to share with the
other children. He cuts him off with
a shilling. The Pennsylvanians do not
forget Harrison. He is remember
He has his shilling. The convention is
careful to
Damn with faint praise assent with civil leer
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
wiring 10 wound, and get afraid to strike
lust HAT fault and hesitate dislike.
There is a perfunctory Endorsement
of the Harrison administration MAIN
1y because Blaine and Wanamal1er are
part and parcel of it. But when the
plat:Orn-mal>ers reach BIaine's name
the praise is no longer faint. There is
ELUSIVE laudation of 'one of Pennsyl-
vania's native sons" Eulogistic cpl
tibet Is on the free list. Blaine's
diplomacy is superb. 1t has electrified
the hearts of all. 1t has made the
American eagle a proud bird, one that,
like Marlborough at Blenheim. in the
language of that archhatterer, Addison,
rides on the whirlw:nd and directs the
storm. 1t has opened foreign ports to
our comm cree, gates heretofore
barred" These magnificent achieve
ments Justify the confidence and fur
nish new occasions for us now to re-
affirm the loyalty and devotion OF the
republicans of Pennsylvania to her
most distinguished SON" Not the loyal
ty and Devotion of 1850, which were
decidedly lacking, but the loyalty and
devotion of 1881. when Grant was not
looking for a third-term nomination.
just what nation James G.. 5 superb
diplomacy has caused to tremble in the
presence of the grand old eagle. just
what commercial gates heretofore
barred he has opened to the products
of America the Pennsylvania eulogists
of the favOrite son do not stop to
specify: and it is Imaginable that they
do not particularly care. They put
Blaine TO the front, Harrison to the
rear, and though they abstained from
formal declaration of preference the
notice to Harrison is unmistakable. He
may cherish hope of a denomination,
but he cannot have the delegation from
the second state in the union, a state
that gave Harrison Il plurality of eighty
thousand.
Though upon taking thought the
Pennsylvania convention chose to omit
from its formal resolutions the direct
statement that we earnestly express
&he hope that the republican national
convention of S92 may place in unan-
imous nomination for the presidency
which nomination We feel will be fol-
lowed by triumphant election
Hon. James q. Blaine. of Pennsylvania
and Maine" yet its purpose was made
clear. MIR. Blaine is entered for the
race. Mr. Harrison is served notice
that his claim viii not be regarded.
When Harrison selected Blaine for the
chief place in his cabinet he may have
fancied that he had shelved a formid-
able rival. Whether there was any
understanding, tacit or expressed, be-
tween these men regarding the renom-
lnatiOn which One-term presidents usu-
ally seek is not likely to be known save
nv Sal N.Y. NH
man of moods, who seems to fear each
ache and shiver of advancing age as a
veritahle death summons. has not de-
clared his purpose as to 1892, nor has
he committed himself to any public
expression favoring the denomination
of Harrison. If Harrison shall find
Blaine utterly selfish, ignoring wholly
the restraint which n cabinet officer
puts upon his political ambition when
his chief is in the field he will have
learned one phase of the Blaine char
acter of which he had sufficient warn
ing in the mans public career. He was
exalted to the speakership and abused
that great trust for his personal enrich
ment. The officer who was false to
the nation will experience no qualm of
conscience, no sting of compunction
An disappointing Harrison's eXpec3a-
ton of his conduct regarding a presi-
dental nomination. Whether or not
Blaine will be n Candidate will depend
upon the condition of his health or the
outlook as he may see it. The man who
made the canvass of 1854 and lost will
not lightly enter upon another trial
But it is not likely that Harrisons
hopes or fears will give him a mo-
IiI,ant'S unen -I,hicacrn Times