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Show BLAINE'S BLISTERERS? now claim a clear majority for their man in the Chicago convention, and say with something like enthusiasm that this is all that will save the Republican party in the national election next fall. They claim that the nomination of Grant would split the party just as the nomination of Breckinridge split the Democracy in 1860, by means of which the Republicans came into power, and that the action of the third-termers could have but the effect, if successful, of restoring to authority the men who gave way then. They seem oblivious to the fact that Blaine is as objectionable to anti-corruptionist and anti-machine men as Grant himself because the Maine stalwart's record is not of the best, brightest or purest, and under the calcium light of a political canvas as many irregularities of person would be developed in him as in the case of the ex-President irregularities of principle could be discovered. |