The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-07-16
HELENA, Montana, June 18th 1892.

TlSOu anu ncIu. lHc COHtCoo 10 oNCAS
and it is to be hoped that the followers
of that great statesman James G. Blaine
will not let personal feelings over the
defeat of their Idol imbitter them against
the grand old party that he has SO glor-
iously served. 1t is best that we should
remember the great principals involved
in the coming contest and let personal
matters die a natural death. Nothing
can be made by voting forthe democratic
candidate, while all the great and grand
achievements of the grandest party that
ever existed, and all the noble works of
that matchless diplomatic can be lost.
That where he has SO faithfully worked
for twenty-five years can be overdone in
one false move. This is the year of all
years when every republican should reg
lister, and then come to the polls and
cast a straight republican ticket, always
bearing in mind that in doing so they
are voting for the noble principals that
has made this government the envy OF
all other nations. The contest that has
just closed at Minneapolis was carried
on honorably by the followers of the
President. Those followers being the
rank and file of the republican party and
not three political tricsters. By an over
whelming majoriety of men representing
the toiling masses of this great common
wealth, and not by a few insincere poll
ticians. A magnificent vindication of
justice. If our idolized statesman, James
G.. Blaine has any one to blame it is the
inglorious trio of political machine men,
Quay, Plat, Clarkson and not the Presi-
dent and his sincere adherents. To
let personal feelings or petty jclousies
overthrow in this coming election, this
great representative of republican doc
trine, Benjamin Harrison would be to
show to the world, an ignoble feeling, an
ungreatful people and IA greater weakness
than this great republic has ever exper-
fenced. Let common sense and reason
rule over this common wealth in the
coming contest for political supremacy.
And our President, Benjamin Harrison,
will be returned to the White House
with a larger majority than he had in
1888.
All lovers of good government must
admit that never in the history of our
country have we experienced a %grander,
stronger or cleaner administration than
we have under the guidance of this
great statesman, "Our President" Ben
iamin Harrison. The selection of his
cabinet alone showed to the entire world
that he is a c~lear-sighted, far-seeing
statesman. In every instance he select
ed a man eminently fitted for the posi-
ton and in so doing has challenged the
admiration of the entire world. But in
making those very nice and choice sell
~cctions is where he also made his enem-
ies.-Clarkson wanted to be secretary of
the Interior. Mr.. Harrison thought
John w. Noble better fitted for the posi-
ton and acted upon his honest %convic-
ton, and in so doing ~ingendered the
malignant hatred of the Iowa politician,
Mr.. Clarkson. Quay of PemO wanted
to own the President and carry him in
his watch fObb. He found him to big.
He could not get him in. SO he too got
mad and like a petulant school boy,
declared that the President could not
slide on his cellar door. The President, |
good naturally, informed him that he
did not wish to, that his time henceforth
would be taken up with affairs of state;
and looking after the welfare of the
great masses who SO generously extended
to him their right of suffrage and the
acts of his administration have bore con
evidence that he, more than any
one else, has recognized the great fact
that the wisher of the tOiling millions
must not be forgotten. Platt of New
York flOated on the same plank with
Quay and for similar reasons set up his
political pine to down Harrison. His
political cunning told him
that James G. Blaine was the man to do
it with. Hence he began to shout Blaine
with all the %insincerity of a Judas Is
CARROT. If Blaine was mislead or direct
ed it was by this trio of insincere poll
teal machine workers and not by the
or any of his host of followers.
Therefore there is no cause for any
feeling on the part of the Blaine
men against Mr.. Harrison. But history
will hand down to future generations
the names "Quay, Plat and Clarkson"
as the seducers of the greatest statesman
that America ever saw, James G. Blaine,
who through their lucid arguments
caused this glorious man, when at the
very summit of his grand monument of
to fall and with that fall tarnish
the great and noble mark of almost an
life. But history continuously
repeats itself. So few really great men
ever close their career with a grand
;rowning act. But the future must be
for; the past can not be undone.
So we leave it with the beautiful words
Of the poet:
"Shield them with charities hands,
Cover them over with leaves.
Their faults were faults of us all,
And for them some loved ones
grieve."