The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-05-05
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It is impossible Pet to fully measure
the extent to which Mr.. BlaiDe's with
drawal has disappointed and discour-
aged. the masses of his party.
r Only here and there a republican
leader is found fearless enough to ex-
| press in words the universal republic
an feeling. Congressman Henry Cabot
Lodge, however, is one who speaks out
| frankly and says: s'Of course Mr..
Blaire's withdrawal will be a great
disappointment to the masses Of the
republican party who have been look
ing for his nomination, and desiring 1t
with the most extraordinary unanim-
| ity.''
Mr.. Lodge is undoubtedly correct in
his statement OF the practically unani-
nous desire of his party for Mr.
Blaine's nomination. OF course the
| federal Office holders, nearly all OF
whom had up to this time been show
ing strong 81 mptUms d prevailing
Blaine fever, are suddenly enveloped
in silence. Collector Beard declines to
| be interviewed, even by the Journal
So does Postmaster Hart. Aspirants
| for office, no less than present occu-
| pants of office, have, in the same dis
Greet fashion, abruptly shut off their
Blaine enthusiasm, and left only few
incorrigible boomers, like Jesse Cove
| and Joseph A. Marley, to continue the
| vain and unprofita ble-decidedly un-
| rofitable-clamor for the great de-
clined.
All that sort OF gratitude which con-
sists Of lively sense of favors yet to
come turns at once from Blaine and
| gathers promptly around Harrison.
! Men will worship. the rising and not
the setting sun.The president s=new
plainly perceived to be the republican,
commissaryA general; the provision
train is in his charge. Hence a great
hush falls upon all the Blaine shouters
who expect to have or to hold anything
under the barely possible next repub-
lican administration All this follows
| in the old beaten track of human
nature as applied to politics. THE
king is dead! Long live the king!' And
the redeeming touch of humor, which a
kind providence always sends to re-
lieve the pathos of even the worst mis-
| fortunes, is found in the numerous and
nimble bobbing up of the far-sighted
republican patriot, who rushes into
print and says: Il have always be-
lieved that Mr.. Harrison's renomina-
ton would be the best thing for the
party" Inyshort, the republican place
holders and place-seekers fully recog-
nize that the enthusiasm of the hungry
and sagacious partisan belongs now to
| Harrison.
In spite of this transfer of the TOR
ganized appetite" of the party in a
| limp to the presidents following, the
declaration OF Congressman Lodge that
Blaine's declination is "a great disap-
pointment to the masses of the repub-
leah party" and that those masses de-
sired Blaine's nomination with the
most extraordinary unanimity" re-
mains true. The bread-and- butter
| brigade will turn in with lock-step
precision for Harrison's denomination,
and they will probably have their way.
But the masses of the party have lost
their idolized leader. and the republic
| an campaign will be the campaign of a
spiritless army fighting under an unbe-
loved commander with a settled antici-
patton of defeat.
Blaine has stepped out and taken
with him the heart and soul of his
party. The fighting courage of repub-
/ licanism was all focused on Blaine.
The only watchwords that gave it life
and hope were his, and the only name
that stirred its languid pulses with
the pugnacious instinct that leads men
| to combat and conquer was his also.
| The republican cause in 1892 was al
ready desperate one; the odds have
been heavily against it ever since Nc
| Kinley precipitated upon it the Water
! loo disaster of 1890. Blaine's was the
| one magic name that had in it the
seeming potency OF rallying the shat
tered republican columns for one more
! supreme and possibly successful effort
That name has disappeared and in its
place the name of Harrison falls-upon
the ears of the already half-vanqnished
party and chills it to the very marrow.
| Nothing now but great democratic
blunder can prevent the presidency
and the full control of the general gov
eminent from passing into democratic
hands on March 4, 1898. 1t becomes
more than ever necessary to emphasize
the reasonable demand of democrats
throughout the country that the New
York dissensions shall not be allowed
to bar the passage of the party TO ma
tional victory. New York democrats
must get together" in November next
tits now manifest that they cannot do
SO on any New York name. The can
didate to heartily unite them must come
from some other state, and an eastern
nominee is necessity of the occasion.
Boston Globe.