Show UNGENEROUS AND UNJUST Well nominate no Jim Blaine next time is the threat from which the Republicans Re-publicans are trying to derive comfort and hope Somebody must be blamed for every failure that occurs and in this instance it is only natural that fault should be found with Mr Blaine As a matter of fact he is only one of those upon whom the responsibility for the defeat rests If we were to apportion the responsibilty it would fall upon Republicans i Re-publicans generally in proportion as each bas had a hand in shaping the policy of the party and in directing its operations It is true that on the 4th instant the people repudiated James G Blaine but they none the less declared against Republicanismagainst Republican Repub-lican methods and practices Blaine figured only as a unit and the war was made upon H horde the struggle was against principles more than men As regards Blaine personally he was unquetion ably the strongest man in the party His nomination demonstrated this and his campaign confirmed it There is no denying the fact thatheis a magnetic man however much the term may be played upon He wins men carrying l them against their own judgment There is no other man in the Republican Republi-can party who could have made the campaign that Blaine did there is no other man who could have electrified the people as he electrified them or who could have rallied them around a banner of which they had for years been growing sick and tired It was undignified and vulgar for the Presidential Presi-dential candidate to make a personal canvassand appeal directly to the people for their support but without that personal canvass Mr Blaine would have been snowed under He may be crit icised and condemned for going about fhe oimtry as a circus in spangles and tinsel but that hippodroming attracted the voters as nothing else would have done Democrats know and intelligent Republicans admit that if Blaine had not gone into Ohio and called the people around him the Buckeye State would have given a Democratic majority major-ity in October His visit to West Virginia Vir-ginia came near < dePriving the Democrats Dem-ocrats of that State and if he had kept outof New York the plurality against him there would have been ten times what it is It is nonsense non-sense besides being cruelly unkind un-kind to talk about the Republicans having to carry the load of Blaine for Blatn carried the Republican party and carried it farther and better than any other man in the party could have done It is true that he was weighted < down by a bad record but his drawing draw-ing and managing powers were so much better than those of pretty nearly any other man in the party that he was able to move under the burden and still help the cause along The defeat was of Republicanism more than of Blame for Blaine ran ahead of his ticket in the language of elections If Republicans were just not generous they would admit the truth of this and give their standardbearer credit for making the funeral of his party at least respectable in the matter of attendance |