The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-06-07
Mr.. Blaine's Affair.
Comments OF the Newspapers.

The New York Sun, Dana, political, prosti-
tute and social outcast editor, says: ''Blaine's
speech in the House yesterday was bypocriti-
cal and did not meet the charges against him.
He Is dodger and trickster as well as a cor
ruptionist and the demonstration was merely
cover to his operations"
The World. Democratic, says that "Mr.
Blaine cannot wisely be regarded as an abso-
lutely dead man. He was one of the liveliest
dead men seen or heard from 10 long time at
Washington yesterday. 1t will probably only
be at Cincinnati that we shall be able to asser-
tain exactly how much life is left in him and
what use he proposes to make of it"
The New York Herald, which has been hos
tile to MIR. Blaine, says ''Mr. Blaine did we'll to
read the letters to the House, for he thus re-
lieved the anxiety of his friends and created a
reaction in.his favor by disclosing the actual
nature of the correspondence which is not so
fatal to bis reputation as his extraordinary
conduct led the country to suspect it, 1t does
not think however, that it will aid his Presden.
tial prospects"
The New York Times, which has sharply
criticised Mr.. Blaine of late, says "Mr. Blaine
awakens general sentiment of admiration in
frankly submitting the letters to the Judgment
of the people, aud the possibility of having
them made public in a garbed or incomplete
form will be held to justify the means adopted
for their recovery, while the promptitude with
which Mr.. Blaine has waived his right to the
private possessi N of these letters will be held
rs another evidence of his innocence of the
Charges which have been made against him.
The New York Tribune, which has rather
favored Mr.. Blaine's candidacy, says that Mr..
Blaine is up again aud is once more the man of
the hour. The letters about which the conf
dence man Mulligan declared that Blaine was
ready to commit suicide are given to the world,
and are seen to be harmless. The Boston wit
nesses have established nothing whatever
against him, and the fact that they ingeniously
raised storm over nothing seems at once to
reveal their malicious purpose and to make
tnem RIDICULOUS. They were the feeble tools of
conspiracy which their failure exposes and
breaks down.
The Baltimore Gazette, bitter Democratic
journal, says: 'If he is not the nominee of the
Cincinnati Convention he will be the Warwick
of his party and make its leaders for the COM
ing contest. The sober second thought of the
country may find much Objectionable in his
letters to Warren Fisher, and it may pass them
heedlessly by, as it has done heretofore for
weighter evidence of the corruption of public
men. But be it,what it may, it is scarcely pos
sible that the judgment of the populace will be
reflected by the politicians who run the ma
chnery at Cincinnati. Blaine has made him.
self very dear to the extremists of the Northern
states by the part he played in the amnesty de-
bate, and he represents more fully than any
other candidate the anti.Catholic element of
the Republican party He has enlisted on bis
side the young and enthusiastic politicians and
the Oldest and shrewdest wire.pullers of the
House of Representatives, The sympathies of
the masses are with him.