Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-06
Ir NOMINATED. CAN HR WIN ,

ton in Minneapolis the next few days.
The Blaine whoopers are very loud in
their asseverations that the plumed
knight will sweep the country like a
Kansas cyclone If placed at the head OF
the Republican ticket. The more sober
friends of Harrison ridicule the idea, and
point to his defeat in 1884 as an expert
ence which the party should not be
forced into the position of again in
viting.
There is no doubt that Blaine pos
sesses, in an eminent degree, those
qualities that electrify assemblages. His
magnetism is of piece with that which
rendered Henry Clay the idol of the old
Whig party. Warm-natured, emotional,
sympathetic, theatrical, they both be-
came the center of attraction OF that
great mass Of American people who are
moved by the dramatic impulse, and
have a worshiping admiration for men
of genius who are at the same time men
ofwarm and sympathetic temperaments.
No one, even in the widest fight OF
fancy, could imagine Harrison taking
popular body by storm. Yet Henry
Clay, on two occasions, captured his
party by the prestige OF his great name;
and Blaine has been compelled to hedge
himself twice against presidential nomi-
nations by declining the honor per.
emptorily in advance.
1t seems, however, to be the fate OF
men of this stamp to be unable to gather
the fruit of the seeds which they can go
successfully plant in nominating bodies.
Mr.. Clay could never reach the presi-
dency by the votes Of the people; and
Mr.. Blaine was defeated by man whose
name was new to the nation, and who
had never signalixed powers of states-
manship outside of his own state.
Perhaps we have not far to seek for
the reason why such men fail when they
come before the jury of the whole people
for favorable verdict. The fire and
enthusiasm that sway conventions are
supplanted by cool, deliberate cal
culation when the people come to
cast their votes at the polls. There is
an immense mass of conservatism away
down in the body OF the people that is
only influenced by cold calculation and
hard business facts. This element votes
as it thinks, regardless of parties. Its
first object is to have at the head of the
government man of well-poised and
stable iudgment-one whose acts are
the result OF logical calculation of the
facts. The eccentricities of genius it
correctly looks upon as serious ele-
ment OF danger in the presidential Office,
try would rather trust the direction of
its affairs to plain, blunt man, Of good
sense and sturdy honesty, than to risk
the experiment of an executive of
brilliancy and great in
tellectual parts, but of eccentric and
dramatic tendencies. ''-s-.'
The way matters now look at Mime
apolis, it is possible, nay, probable, that
Blaine will carry the convention. If he
do, it will be in spite of his deliberate
refusal two months ago to allow his
name to 20 before it. True there were
reasons of heath then that one conspic-
uous physician has been got to say do
not exist now. But outside of that there
are no reasons why Blaine should accept |
q nomination in June which he had
renounced III February, and |
then OF his own motion. |
1t is needless to say that if Blaine
should prove to be the successful man
at Minneapolis this letter will rise in
Judgment against him during the car. +
paign. The people will ask hc>c thew
are going to depend on the .,ncar;tv of .
man who solemnly s,eaues himself to
course one o~y which he deliberately
ignores the next And then comes the
other and blacker aspect of the affair,
the fact that he induced his chief to
enter the fie,ld for second term by de-
claring hi'neeh out of it, and then per-
mite his nanae to be used to destroy the
chances of that chiefs nomination.
There are people in the United States
who will not only denounce such con-
duct as dishonest, but perfidious. Such
q man may achieve the nomination, but
the election