Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-06-08
THE PRESS on Ma. BLAINE'S Ia
TEST TRIUNfH.
from the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
| Mr. Blaine has seized his opportunity, and is
| once more the man of the hour. The patriots who
have beer parting his garments among them may
as well abandon that cheerful task. lie Is not half
so near dead as his prosecutors. There can be no
installing the concurrent Judgment OF observers
of all parties as to the effect of the dramatic
| Monday in the House. The revulsion in Mr..
Baine's favor is instantaneous and overwhelming.
If he was the strongest candidate week ago, he
is stronger now.
What Mr.. Blaine has done is far more than
simply to disprove the allegations against him.
| That indeed he has done thoroughly. The letters
about which the confidence man Mulgan de-
clared that Blaine was ready to commit suicide,
are given to the world, and are seen to be harm
less The Boston witnesses have established moth
| ing whatever against him; and the fact that they
| ngeniously raised such storm over nothing,
serves at once to reveal their malicious purpose,
| and to make them ridiculous. There We're the
feeble tools of conspiracy which their failure ex-
poses and breaks down.
In war it has always been held a wise rule to do
what your enemy doesn't want. This conspiracy
shows Just what the democracy doesn't want. 1t
doesn't want Blaine to be the republican nominee.
All other republican candidates it has let alone.
Against Blaine it has evidently exhausted all its
resources. 1t was willing to let any other man
get the nomination. Blaine, it was resolved to
keep off the track The republicans will not be
slow to take the hint, and we count Mr. Blaine
to- day stronger candidate for the support Of the
republican party than he has been on any day
since his candidacy first mentioned.
For the rest, he has won the hearty admiration
of foes as well as friends, for the right manly way
in which he has borne himself through this most
trying ordeal. Our political history shows few
instances in which candidate BOT yet before the
people has been so venomously pursued, and none
in which the persecution has been better endured
or more successfully repealed. Mr.. Blaine may
not be the next President, and he may even fail
of the republican nomination; though certainly
for that his prospects were never fairer. But he
has made it tolerably certain that no confidential
clerk Selling harmless private letters to his en-
ployers on business will soon again figure as a 70
tent engine Of reform and the controlling power
in Presidential election!
From the Portland Pressl.
Again the foes Of Mr.. Blaine nave occasion to
hang their harps upon the weeping willow. The
Mulligsn guard is routed and the gentlemen who
seconded the late confidential clerk Of MIR. Fisher
are now called to attend the wake of the late Mr.
Mulligan, whose posthumous ceremonies do not
promise that "heeps of fun" which characterized
the exercises over the mortal remains of the his
toric Flanagan. The Boston Herald if it has any
sense of shame, has now found more disagree
able duty" to perform than on the occasion when
il announced the disgrace of Mr.. Blaine and sug-
gested that he should leave the country. The
Argus editor, who became SO pathetic and fearful
over the thought of the dishonor which Mr.. Blaine
had brought upon his family, is doubtless more
sorrowful to day because Mr.. Blaine has ruined
the Argus stock of campaign SANDERS Those
wise ones who were going about the streets say
ing 81 told you So" find it too damp to be out.
In Short whether Mr.. Blaine succeeds or not at
Cincinnati, he has brought dire confusion to his
foes by hurting at them the thunderbot which
they were confident they could use to destroy
him.
1t is very natural that the thousands of men in
this State and elsewhere, who have been led to
admire James e. Blaine for his mastery ability,
his many attachments and conspicuous party lead
ership, more than rejoice in the most brilliant
achievement Of his life last Monday. They hope
he will be their standard bearer in the pending
contest but whether he is or not, they know that
he has indicated himself and so unmasked his
foes that fair men will despise their cowardly and
assassin-lke assaults This is better than the
Presidency.
From the Portland Argus.
IF, when Blaine retires from the political arena,
he should adopt the stage as profession. In
mel odrama, with an occasional touch of low com
ejy, he would be sure success. His perform
ance in the House Monday was dramatic in the
highest degree. and only little red fire was need
ed TO make the effect perfect. If, when he had
got through he had come forward and bowed his
acknowledg ments in response to the plaudits CT
his friends there would have been nothing else
left to wish for. He has already gained the dis
tiuction Of star actor.
From the Lewiston Journal
Blaine in the remarkable crisis of Monday tow
ers above all his antagonists, aud carries their in
trenchments by storm. The vast crowd in the
House runs over with uncomfortable enthusiasm,
and Cox, in the CHAIR bites his lips i'll anger.
Blaine's Characterization of the course OF the dem
ocratic Blaine investigating committee is such
covers that committee with the contempt OF every
far minded man. The climax of his defense is his
whitening charge against the late rebel, Knott, of
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charges witn having suppressed cabegram from
Josiah III. Caldwell, entirely generating Blaine
from completely in the 1914 900 transaction.
Knott writhed under the charge but did not deny;
did not dare to do it. Thus,
not one iota of evidence appears to show that Mr..
Blaine since entering Congress has been connect
ed with any enterprise having at that time any
axes to grind in Congress. His private and writ
ten assurances through all the years Of his Con-
gressional life seem to have been that whate, er
interest wanted favors of Congress, he would n OF
touch. "A most lively corpse"
he Is Next week at Cincinnati we shall see how
lively. If any evidence were wanting to show
that the man whom the democrats most dread as
presidential candidate, is James G. Blaine, the
Developments of the past few days supply the de
fciency.
From the Boston Journal
There is nothing in the letters to support the
charge under which the whole examination before
the judiciary Committee proceeding namely
that involved in the S64 900 Scott bonds. This
omission, while it surely would not have occurred
if the charge had had any foundation, taken in
connection with the Caldwell telegram, would
seem to dispose Of this matter for good. As
to the letters themselves, they are such as any
business man interested legitimately in railroad
stocks might have written. la two particulars
they will attract public attention. they show that
Mr., Blaine dealt fairly and honorably with his
correspondents and customers, being solicitous at
all times to do the right thing; and secondly, that
instead of being the millionaire that he has been
charged with being, he WAS actually "hard up"
most of the time, like the great majority of the
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