The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-18
A Few Words Mors Concerning Fsr.
Blaine Of Maine.
The why aud Wherefore OF Simon Cam
er8n's Retirement.
Tho Don Measured.
Especial Correspondence II. Q. Democrat


which hs can possibly get even with Hsyes.
That is 10 say Blaine Ia getting ready TO damn
The administration with his adherence, and bring
1t into disrepube by his support. He bas evil
den ly aseertained THAI bin hold on the eoat tails
Of Kellogg IL not calculated b promote hi poiik4
ieR progress. lie seems TO have discovered that
bis ride upon the back Of the deeayiug carpet.
baggsr does not take him Ia the ditso5ion Of The
presidency in 1880 Hence he has let 20 Of
HHLboaas COAT FAILS,
aud has dsmonnted from the b Ack Of The deooul-
posing carpet hagger. But Dtns does not be-
| lieve Ia doing things by halves. H. is rather in
oiiued, when the let IL necessarily pork, 10 go
the wtole hog: or, perhaps | should say. when
| The dish is dirt, BIane believes In making a
square meal right out Of the middle Of tho road,
go to Fpeak. we ali remember how Jeems
pitched in that day In The Senate when he
faneied he had struck his opportunity how he
waltHed up aud down In ae frenzy, with his coat
buttonea up. his cheek dtsaaded, hs hand hold.
| ing alott that immortal telegram and the 10.
| famed seat Of hiH intellect nseillatinE between
John psttersoa aid Old Hamlin, suggesting CO.
| centric disturbances OF the atmosphere. He
| would stand there though he Ebeuld be the
Last on MS RACE
II hs ever deserted the Republican party OF the
| south, might his tongue eleave to the 'eof Of his
mouth and his right baud lose its cunning The
las proposition was atfhs misty. he cunning
| OF that right hand of Blaine has always been pee
culiar. Aad some OF its exploits have been OF
character TO suggest that the loss Of at least
portion OF itH cunning might not prove detrimsn.
| tal TO the reputation Of It's owner.
| But ht all events, II words mean anything, and
| II there is anch word as sincerity or any faint
| synonyme ihereofin Blaine's vsoabulary, he then
| and there declared war upon the policy OF the
| new administration touching the affairs OF the
| Southern States Huch Was the Interpretation
which all honest Een who heard him placed
| upon bis utterahees. Buch was the understand.
ing which the country derived when tho po.
| aition OF Blaine was made manifest I'm the
| columns OF the newspapers But In q day or swo
our shifty Jim discovered that hs had not struck
| 1t right. Tho very lirst echo that came back to
him from tho people told him thai tho Presidents
policy had reached the popular heart, aud that
his own cheap attempt TO palm off game OF
| thimbls.rig had evoked tho public txeerati1n.
Jeems had labored under q mistake. lie had
| erred as 10 time, place and circumstances. Moth.
ing was palmer than that he must "gst out o
| that" 90 an IrishR n w0sld cay, mighty quick.
| or he would get hurt. Accordingly hs got out.
| The next thing saw was D paragraph in the
Augu4ts Chronicle. or sotie other rural shift-,ail
up in Maine, TO the effect that MIR, Blaine wns
not at war with the President, but that his posi-
| tion had been falsely represented by the wicked
| newspaper correspond ntH at WRah tgton. Then
| | knew that Blaine had begun TO eat hia square
meal right out Of Tho middle OF the road. Next
| | saw IL announced in the Star that Bob Inssr.
soil had dined with Sehurs, aud this announce
nent was supplemented with the following com.
plaoent line
| "Tnis DOES NOT LOOK LIKE WAR;
| no we are to infer that when . Senator de-
nounoss . policy or an aot OF this Adminis.ra-
tion on the floor OF the Senate, and supplements
his denunoistton with q bnll-raggng Invitation
for some Senatorial supporter of the Administra-
tion TO "stand fornonst him." as IL we're, the
whole difficulty 10 TO be composed and peace
restored through u dinner, donbly vicarious.
where Bob Ingersoll's stomach represents the
political existence of Blaine. and tho epizss-
trum Of bohurz acts as proxy for the dignity Of
the Administration And finally, we are Told
that Blaine is TO
DINE wfTH THE PRESIDENT.
That 10 to say, l suppose that somo OF Blaine's
humorous strikers have gone TO the President
and invited bis Excoeney to invite Blaine to
dine and the Preeidont, being nm affable gentle.
man, accepts Blaines invitation 70 invite. ]
used TO know an old fellow who was little hard
Of hearing. Lie bad II fashion Of dropping in at
our house on cold winter mornings lust about
breakfast time. Mother would say to him on
those occasions, by way 'f being neighborly :
I" It's right cold ont this morning, isn't ii, Mr.
| --?"
| "Ihank you" said - "donL care IL /
dol"
How are you to get rid OF such a fellow would
like to know. H. 10 not always pleasant to con-
vey your meaning on the toe OF your boot, and
for that reason fellows like my old acquaintance.
or like Blaine, always got along in the world and
grow fst where peopls cursed with thin skins or
sensitive nerves would starye.
Then IL is telegraphed to the Associated Press
that Blaine Is to dine with the PRESIDENT Truly,
this Is great country. One can look up 10 tho
flag and hail 1t as en- emblem of human progr ess
in view OF the proud reflection that 1t floats over
q land where this sort of business 10 re eckoned
craftsmanship. OF course, everybody TO his
toat vcftw ho
of thing as degrading, dsgracetul and cur like I;
for every man VINO sees in this miserable business
abasement Of the national name and disrepute
upon the national character for every person
who views this wretched back-alley strategy as
bummerism in high places and as unfit to bs
practiced by a ring alderman in thifd-class
town. let alone by the highest dignitarics in the
land ten will be found to say, 81 tell you
BLAINE IS SMART"
There's nothing green about Blaine That is
to say, to be insnoere, TO be shffry, TO be art
full dodger, to be cheeky, to bring ignorance to
the reecue where impudence fails, and to supply
the lapses OF lgnor nee with the main strength
and awkwSrdness OF impu1ence-this, suppose,
is to be Bmsrti At all events, am told that
Blaine is smart, and this sort Of things Is
Blaine. There is one fact in this connection that
strikes me with amazement. That 10, the fact
that Bob lpgersoll-Who forgets more real sense
| and evaporates more actual mhnhood every day
than Blaine ever possessed or ever viii possess
| should follow the latter as he does can UNDER
stand Why Blaine fhould mantsin his hold upon
Maine, and why children like Hale should fancy
him a giant-why minions like Frye should mis-
take him for whale when he Is
NOTHING BUT 4 PoRPo1sE.
But how he m images to impose upon Bob In
gersoll, who is q man Of brains and who has lii
dividuaity enough of his own to furnish forth
ten Blaines, aud then not run short himself, is
utterly beyond my comprehension. L can only
presume that the inherent cussedness which ina
PEELED Bob to declare war on God Almighty sew
eral years ago led him naturally into his more
recent slliance with Blaine. This is queer
world. 1t ia conundrum. give 1t up.
To-day saw Blaine and Hale coming down the
walk from the portico OF the White House. They
were nudging each other in the ribs and pokng
| each other in the elbows. Subsequently went