| Show 1 = = MULLIGAN BLAINE Scathing Denunciation of the Plumed Knight THE CASE IN A NUTSHELL T ceto FacetVitli a Hevolutlon TThat the Ieoplo WantA Resolution I Resolu-tion The Sifting Going i On in Earnest I r i If Yr James G Elaine knew whom I I and what he is fighting he would probably proba-bly be very glad to withdraw from the contest He believes no doubt that he has io battle only with the Democratic Party and its Independent Republican allies He thinks that the object of the combat is the possession of the Presidency Presi-dency of the United States No man ever made n greater mistake The suppression sup-pression of Mr Blaine is but an incident ni the plan of campaign which began t1 June and which will be brought to a successful ending sooner or later as surely as the sun rises and sets as surely as truth is true The overconfident fatuity of the Republican leaders keeps them blind to the fact that they are now face to face with a Revolution They know indeed that there is a revolt within the party rmes against a personally objectionable candidate Further than this they cannot can-not or will not see Theirs is the his torv of all overfed powers When the people of Paris came down to Versailles and shouted for bread under the kings windows Louis XVI doubtless understood under-stood that they wanted bread and the only question to him was whether they should getit or not When a few years later he stood on the scaffold one winter win-ter morning the idea had probably made its way into his dull head that the people had all along wanted something more than mere bread They wanted he saw justice the right of selfgovern ment personal freedom and more than any one thing the recognition of a principle the principle of Equality When certain men arose in the country coun-try and said that slaves should not beheld be-held in the newlymade States the politicians poli-ticians of the day discussed the question ques-tion as it was given to them and when they made up their minds to side with the slaveholders they thought the question was settled When the Free coil agitation took the phase of lawless violence they thought only of putting if down When John Brown gave the < ignal for an uprising of the negroes they saw before them only the immediate immedi-ate duty of capturing and killing John Brown But after four years of a cruel and unnatural war they grasped the truth that the FreeSoilcrs and John Brown had been but factors in the great scheme of Emancipation and that the killing of such men in droves would not have quelled the spirit that made for thee the-e of true liberty in American Ameri-can Today Mr Blaine does not under itand that he is enlisted on the wrong side in a war which next Novembers election can not possibly end The system sys-tem of political laxity and corruption which he and men like him have fastened fasten-ed on the country is to him what the system of bLiteliolihiiK was to the Southe n srmnathizeriof a generation cone Their tormulas would fit the defense he has to make The system has evils which pre to l it deplored but iitdr all it is the roily practicable system Criticism whielicmtdenins it is hypercritical It is chimerical to look for a higher an lard of morals public pub-lic atl sirs JIullIlIImtl1rc is selfish and absolute onetr is a beautiful ideal im racijabliiU ISipcnence outvalues Theory lUidiiul change would only oven the way to oilier troubles of dLflor i ut kinds We exist we are pro peroup ndcv the present order of things yhy i should we risk n change Such sophi tries as thcc arc like straws in there ith of a whirlwind This 11 the idle chutti that was drow i in he roar of the Trench Involution These are tin t stall formulas that were abandoned for ever before our civil war wij closed Die toit of eUiiitcret and pohcyis loi 1 before l > the tnrm hut it w Client wlu i the storm breaks Thn wind has been lone KIIIK but now it has men and it will not fill untilit has lone its work windier that work be one next year or year after or ten Fears hence The evolution that has begun the revolution that will turn our world over I into the sunlight of honest government h not a struggle of blood It will know either I guillotine nor rifle It i5 a uvohiiioti of thought and feeling For the most part unorganized as yet the honest and thoughtful men of this country uregatIlering around one standard stand-ard for a common purpoe In one erse the omiiuton of Mr Blaine has > ° en a blessing to the country Now bat the very standardbearer of cor niptinn u put up for President of the I tilted States we have something concrete con-crete and tangible to tight against The issue is put squarely before IlS and we suns sift our friends from our enemies and know whom to trust in the coming straggle Vt Have no longer to seek an iiracknowledged enemy in the dark We may now divide the Jlelll of the country into to camjllu the one side tilt mere who are willing that we should hav a lorrupt poveminent on the other the men who ire determined that we shall not And uow the sifting fs goiae on and iiybydaj the ob ° rer men are stepping Sir of the rank of the theivdS and the hypocrites nnrt the featherbrained flOuters tor magnetism and smart ea and aggrc < iveneo Da by clay < ui spite of all the din and turmoil < ieir heads begin to think more clearly and to see the real nature and propor non of the contest And every clear head is u gain to the cause of right ineLorruptionibts strive still to confuse the Issues involved t they make desperate tn ggle to prove not their rof ttnide but their supremacv Veniio is with as they cry Maine is with Ub And theyrlisen louder noise trying to heck hat terrible prores of thinking which 0lllB on so steadily But the process will no bichec feed tnd thought makes dear to men ihc disgracp that must + I1De on a country which would set over leIf a corrupt ruler who glories in his nWn corruption who sees beautrJ all the e ncanUI md dl honor tllli stain him In the eye of honest men who grades i his callous bareness before the I I eonic i and eo put a fine naue npon it Woe unto them that call evil goods 1 I gOOdevilPu < o |
