Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — JUDGE TOURGEE. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE TOURGEE.

Ho Comes Out Squarely for Blaine —His Reasons. In a lengthy letter to the New York Tribune, Judge Tourgee, who was vehemently opposed last spring to the nomination of Mr. Bldne, gives a cogent statement of his i easons for earnestly advocating Mr. Blaine’s election. He declares, first, that the Democratic party has demonstrated its unfitness, the Republican party its fitness to rule the country; second, that the party whose only possible chance for success is based on violence and fraud at Southern polls has no claim on a Northern man's vote; third, that a consideration of the personal character and qualifications of the candidates compels him to support Blaine: fourth, that the association of a silent spectator of the war for the Union with a zealous and active Copperhead makes it a patriotic duty to defeat them both, l.ast spring Judge Tourgee was disturbed by tire charges against Mr. Blaine, but a careful study of all the evidence, and especially the latest installment, has convinced him that those charges were false. In concluding his letter Judge Tourgee says: “I favor the election of Blaine and Logan, not for any party purpose or personal advantage, but because I deem it important that the spirit and punxjse which has hitherto animated the Republican party should continue in control of the nation, and especially because I should deem it a calamity well-nigh irremediable in its influence upon the public welfare and private ; morals should the Democratic partv, with its : controlling Intiuenc-s and chosen candidate, reI ceive the indorsement of public approval. The I same sense of duty which impelled me to opj pose the selection of Mr. Blaine as a candidate I of the Republican party, now that he is chosen i as the leader of that party and represents its I spirit and policy, comj>ela me to make choice ■ between him and his opponent—between that . party anrbth • Democracy -between a record of j patriotic-achievement and sullen obstruction—

I betweeft tie promise Of prosperity and the ! pres det of peril. As I decide for myself, so I I have not only the right but the duty to urge my feilow-citizfins to decide for themselves." ,;