Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-10
eLArnE.s MAGIC NAME.
It Alone Had the Power to Enthu.e I,

BLAiNE'S MAGIC NAME.
It Alone Had the Power to Enthuse Re-.
public1Ds.
It is impossible yet to fully measure
the extent to which Mr.. Blaine's with
drawal has disappointed and discour-
aged the masses of his party.
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: ''Of course Mr.
Blaine's withdrawal will be a great
disappointment to the masses of the
republican party who have been look
ing for his nomination. and desiring il
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 symptoms of the 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 fe W
incorrigible boomers, like Jesse Cove
and Joseph A. Manley. to continue the
vain and unprofta ble-decidedly I'M
profitab le-clamor for the great de-
clined.
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sists of s'lively sense of favors yet to
gathers promptly around Harrison.
Men will worship the rising and not
the setting sun. The president is now
plainly perceived to be the republican
commissary 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. 1.-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-
heved that Mr.. Harrison's renomina-
ton would be the best thing for the
party" In short, 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 ''or-
ganized appetite" of the party in a
lump to the presidents following, the
declaration of Congressman Lodge that
Blaine's declination is "a great disap-
pointment to the masses of the repub-
icah 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 haye 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 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-
Iicanism 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 com bat and conquer was his also.
The republican cause in 1892 was al
ready a 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 il 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-vanouiShed
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 It 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
1t is 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 a necessity of the occasion.
Boston Globe.