Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-10
SENATOR BLAINE,S FIT.

Hard upon the heels of the exposure of
the Republican conspiracy to break quo
rum i'll the Maine legislature by means of
bribery comes the announcement that Sena-
tor Blaine has been attacked by severe fit,
which for time threatened to terminate his
earthly career. Providence seems to exer-
else special care over Mr.. Blaine. 1t will
be remembered that just after the publica-
ton of the Mulligan letters in 1876, he was
Frustrated by sun-stroke. and as result of
the public sympathy awakened for him on
that account he came within an ace of carry
ing off the Republican nomination for Presi-
dent. Again, when he was candidate for
the Senate, his horses very OPPORTUNITY took
fright while be was on his way to church,
threw him out and injured him, and at the
same time carried him into the Senate. Now,
when it is charged that the attempt to bride
the members Of the legislature can be traced
directly to his door, Providence has kindly
sent him fit upon which to bridge over the
disgrace. But it is questionable if this ruse
will succeed this trip. There is such thing
as running good thing into the ground, and
it is to be feared that Blaine will not make
his fit work this time If the fusion men,
bers have any such testimony as they profess
to have duplicating the Senator in this at
tempt ct corruption, they will be very apt to
give him fits of an entirely different sort.
We very much fear that Mr.. Blaine is too
liable to be overtaken with special dispen-
didate for the Presidency. If he is to be at
tackled with fits, suffer sunstroke, or have
his horses run away and batter ais physical,
frame every time an INN oral charge is laid
at his door, the chances a:e that before the
campaign is half over he will be q
nero wreck of humanity. Be-
sides, he has not yet rung half the changes.
If he and Notwithstanding pardon Of
the latter if he has no hand in the business
follow ont the programme already inaug-
urated the chances are ten to one that before
the ides of November, he will have passed
through all ths pains of sunstroke, epilepsy,
81. Yitus dal-ce, cholera .aorbus, small pox,
govt, rheum atism, typhoid and yellow fever,
tables mesenterica, lumbago, and score of
other ills that flesh is heir to, not to mention
the possibility of his falling from house
top, being burned up in railway accident,
wrecked on Lake Androscoggin, or foundered
on the raging Piscatequis. These possibili-
ties will 20 doubt be duly considered by the
ensuing nominating convention, and the
chance OF being left with candidate so
afflicted will be apt to weigh heavily in de-
Gliding the question.
We shall hope for speedy recovery of
Mr.. Blaine from his present attack, for if he
is to run the gamut of the entire list, he has
but short time to waste on each complaint
But his recovery will depend in large
measure upon the nature of the evidence to
be produced by the investigating committee
which has already commenced its work. If
it fails to implicate him in the disreputable
transactions, we may expect his GONZALES
cence to be rapid and complete, but if the
attempt to corrupt the legislators is traced
directly to him, he will no doubt sink rapid
ly, and when the climax arrives he will DO
lowering on the threshold of the other world
for days, and perhaps for weeks. In any
event MIR. Blaine has our profound sympathy
in his present affection.