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FW-CORREAPONDENTS WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT THEY exxp Maa to THis OFMICE AY THER OWS fink, WHERE eTaKTe ARE ESCLOMED WL ILL RETORY REJECTED MATTER 48 PAR a8 POs AIL, BCT WE DISTINCTLY REPCDLATE ALL RERPONSIMILITY Pow #CCH UW EVERY Cane WHERE 4 PRICR IM SOT AYVITED RY TICE WRITER, CONTRIACTIONS WILL RE REGARDED Af ORATCTTOCA, AND RO aC BAR QUEST CLAIM FOR REMUYERATION WILL BK ENTERTAINED. THE TATTOO OF HISTORY. Every man who ever amounted to any- thing at all had his enemies. Even George Washington, ‘‘the first, the last, the best; the Cincinnatus of the west,” had contem- poraries to envy and decry him, is ene- mies are dead, their calumnies are forgotten, but the Father of his Country lives on, im- mortal and imperishable, enshrined among the great names of the world. Abraham Lincoln was in his day the tar- get for unmeasured abuse; his very nomina- tion was regarded as an outrage and an insult by those who thought that Seward should have been the chosen of the Republican con- vention. At the recent convention which nominated James G, Blaine, there was a handful of so-called Independents who thought that Edmunds should have been the nominee, and, failing him, they desired nobody. The Edmunds following in 1884 was by no means as large or as respectable as was the Seward following in 1860, but in James G. Blaine the country has a man from whom it may expect as much in time of doubs or difficulty as ever it received from Lincoln. Seward is gone, Edmunds is buried out of sight beneath a mountain of Republi- can votes, but in Blaine we have a man in whom the glories of Lincoln will live again. The very spite and venom of the attacks made upon him show how formidable he is in the eyes of his enemies. With such weap- ons Washington was assailed nearly a century ago; they were turned against Lin- | coln; they were leveled at Garfield’s breast —but ask the conntry (as it will be asked in November) how much they regard them. No more and no less than Blaine regards them to-day. Party spite will have its fling; no quarry is too noble for the campaign mud slingers. But take the majority of the party; take the great consensus of public opinion, and see what it thinks of Blaine. Take the great political papers of the west and read of Blaine. He is no half-way politician—no shirker from his party’s ranks in the tents of Independence. He is a Republican of the Republicans, and represeats all that is no- blest in the grand old party. Ie was in it at its birth, and so fixed is he in his princi- ples that he will be in at its death if it dies within his time. Ile is hated by the oppo- sition more intensely than any other Repub- lican, because he is the most intense Repub- lican living. le is not only in accord with his party but is in the extreme advance. He hated slavery with a hatred that had no limits, and he hated all of its outgrowths, He is a believer in protection to American industry; he isa staunch upholder of national integrity; he is a champion of equal rights, and of honest money. No wonder his opponents are afraid of him. No wonder that weak-kneed Republi- cans shrink from the path that he treads so boldly. Le is the ablest statesman in Amer- ica, and the bravest. He never held a prin- ciple that he was afraid of; and he never shrank from its logical consequences. Of course, he has been maligned as few men have. He possesses a power that makes him dangerous to his enemies, His great- ness has invited attacks, and he has been the shining mark that scandal loves. Mali- cious slander has been ponred out upon him in torrents, but to no purpose, ILis integ- rity has made him proof against attacks. Tue people know him to be honest—know him to be great in his integrity as in his other magnificent qualities, and they have never lost confidence in him, Is it the slur of a partizan press that can injure such a man as this? Is it the anony- mous whispering of accusations that have never been proved that can shake the peo- ple’s contidence in him? Wait till next November, and the American nation will vindicate at the polls the justice of their choice and the character of their favorite leader. They will force the malicious slan- derers’ to swallow their own lics, as the slanderers of Washington, of Lincoln, of Garfield, have been forced to swallow theirs; and, if God spares James G. Blaine’s life, the United States will have one more presi- dent of whom we may be unqualifiedly, un- reservedly proud. Tur recent cold wave which was so se- verely felt over a great part of the continent is reasonably attributed to the frigid atmos- phere exhuled by the Edmunds delegates on their way home from Chicago. A SPECIMEN SOREHEAD. Mr. Georoe Wat. Curtis, who likes his friends to believe that he is a politician in the purest and highest sense of the word, and who doubtless believes that no one can give him half the admiration he is worthy of, is really endowed with ono political at- tribute—he is inconsistent. What Mr. Cur- tis causes Harper's Weekly to say at one time does not tally with what he causes /ar- per's Weekly to say at another time. years ago Harper's Weekly thought Bl was a very much abused man, and printed certain stupid slanders then associated with his name only to contradict them. ‘To-day the eame periodical, still under the guidance of Mr. Curtis, affects belief in these and similar slandere, and that in the face of proof even more irrefragable than served to con- vince Harper's Weekly and the press and the country at large of their falsity cight yeurs ago. Consistency, thou art a jewel, but a rare one with soreheatls. Is it not about time that these disappointed ones moved along and left deceut people in peace? If they have anything to say against Mr. Blaine, in heaven's name let them come out with it like men, and if they have nothing let them keep their heads shut. The country is tired of this perpetual chin- music. Mr, Blaine was nominated by the duly elected representatives of the Republi- can party, At the news of his nomination the country broke out into a shout of tri- umph that is ringing and echoing yet, and in its present humor the country has neither time to listen to Curtis’ doleful music, nor inclination to smile at the antics of his monkey, Nast. Blaine is for the people and the people for Blaine, and Curtis and the Weekly is, or soon will be, for—gotten. OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. Tne Toledo Blade, one of the staunchest and brightest of our Republican contempo- raries, in announcing itself as unreservedly for the ticket as nominated at Chicago, remarks that the nomination of Blaine and Logan has awakened an enthusiasm among Republicans, and a bitterness on the part of the opposition, unparalleled in the political history of the country. This is true. Mr. Blaine is a man whose force of character compels partisanship; those who admire him, worship him; those who hate him, fear him. ‘This is inevitable. ‘The man whom his party deems a hero will inspire just as strong feelings amongst his opponents in the other direction. The one phase of character which awakens no very powerful emotions one way or the other is the one which is of all others most fatal in a leader, and most absent from the character of James G. Blaine. It is called vacillation. ‘The readiest debater that ever graced the floor of Congress, a man of studious hubits, of broad comprehensive views, of consummate statesmanship, with a magnetism that few comicbooks.com