Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-07
RULE Or RUIN.
BIaine's Tactics Explained.
VashfngtOn Correspondent Boston Post.

WASHINGTON COTrespoadent Boston Post
There are a good many Republicans here.
probably their like may be found elsewhere,
who win be glad to see the Republican party
beaten this fall. They are not the friends
of the administration, and, while they are
Republicans, they are more hostile to Mr.
Arthur and to the stalwarts than the Demo
Gratis are. They are the friends Of Mr..
Blaine, who call themselves the Garfield
Republicans. They are the meanest and
most corrupt element of the Republican
party, for they include its vast horde of hvpo-
critics, Of whom Massachusetts has eonsid
erably more than fits share. Mr.. Blaipeis
chief enmity is against Mr.. Arthur. he
feels that the President is responsible for
the sudden end that was put to his political
career. 1t may seem strange to men who
have always known Mr.. Blaine that be
should have anything TO complain of.
man who began life In Washington as a
lobbyist and ended It as a Secretary OF State
ought to be pretty well satisfied. A good
many Of his old companions OF war days
still linger around Washington. They
began life here as he did, but they have
ended as drunkards and hotel paupers. Sue
cess breeds desire, however, and Mr..
Blaine is not satisfied. He is taking
a desperate step preliminary to his
last fight for the Presidential nomination,
He and his friends decided last winter
that the first thing to do was to demonstrate
that the administration has made the Re
publican party unpopular, and that this
mpst be shown st any cost. There is a good
deal Of madness IN Blaine's method. No
man has struck him such a blow as Mr..
Arthur did when he refused to permit him
to stay In the Cabinet, and he IS doing all
he can to pay mp the President. But.
madness or no, Mr. Blaine long since
made up his mind to rule or ruin
the Republican party. Circumstances
have favored him. Mr.. Arthur beat
him last year by making an alliance with
Malone in Virginia. but Blaine proposes to
make up for that by comprising Mahone's
defeat at the coming election. His advice
to Republicans nos to vote with Malone Is
not distssteful to decent Republicans in the
North. A leading stalwart from New York,
who is also business man, said: "Blaine
hasn't made mistake there: Arthur has
certainly captured the Republican or
ganization of Virginia by his union
with Malone, and Blaine has
thereby lost what he had reason to suppose
was his own; but the capture OF the Vir-
0inia Republican organization will cost Mr.
Arthur something. / don't approve of AN
alliance with repudiator myself: and a
good many others Of Mr.. Arthur's friends
think as l do. Blaine's advocacy OF the
honest Republicans will greatly help him in
the North. He has already more than made
up for the loss of Virginia.
1t may be said here, parentheticslly. that
Mshone has been in town since Saturday.
He is calm and cool, for he plays politics as
an expert gambler plays poker He never
shows his hand, and he considers It the
thing to be what people of his kind of NOR
ality call ''gsme." He says that he will win,
and that he will get much larger vote from
the negroes than he had last wear. There
never was so autocratic ''boss" as this
man. He orders bis followers about like
sheep. He knows just what kind of people
they are; that when they were in the Demo
cratic party they could never receive nomi-
nations for anything, and that they Joined
him for office. Therefore he can kick them
to his hearts content. II they leave him
they have no political future whatever.
Mr.. Blaine will not only do all he can to
beat Malone and the administration in Vir-
ginia, but he and the Garfield Republicans
will be delighted II Chalmers is defeated.
Anybody who is receiving help from the
will have the hostility of Mr..
Blaine and his friends. Mr.. Blaine Is in a
splendid position himself because Maine
was carried by the Republicans. Perhaps
II the people OF Maine had known the ex-
tent to which Mr.. BlaIne's fortunes were In
volved the election would have gone the
other way. Having the apparent right
10 assert that he hes carried his own
State, Mr.. Blaine is quietly doing all IN his
power to secure the defeat of the admins
tration In New York. His first effort was to
secure the nomination of Mr. Cornell. he
was defeated here, but the circumstances Of
his defeat are again in HIS favor. The ad-
was obliged to cheat I'm order
to secure Mr. BOlger's nomination, and this
gives the Garfield (or Blaine) Republicans
OF New York an excuse for boiling
and staying at home. Mr. Blaine's efforts
will now be directed to the beating
OF Arthur In New York at the polls, and
1t is thought here by the few Blaine
men who are in town, and who are suffi-
ciently Informed to know what is going on,
that he has fair hopes of success. CuriouslY
enough, he has the active help of two
newspapers that dislike him most heartily,
the New York Times and Evening Post Il ia
to see the two shooting
through the same gun-barrel with the New
York Tribune. Why does Mr.. Blaine want
to beat the Republican partyf He reasons
in this way: 'If want the Republican
nomination, Mr.. Arthur must be believed
to be unpopular. In order to make him
appear unpopular, the first year OF his ad-
ministrstion must be followed by defeat Of
the Republican party, and the party must
be defeated So badly that the Democrats
shall have the next House OF Representa-
tives. Having carried Maine, It VIII be
Garfield element Of the party, the element
that is dissatisfied with Mr. Arthur and the
This will probably give me the
nomination in 1884. The victory of the
Democrats this year will not really hurt
The party. The Democrats will proba-
bly, not use their power wisely, and the
country will be tired Of them and ready to
return to the Republican fold I'm 1854.
Moreover, victory this year will not be so
much victory over the party as over the
This is the way Mr.. Blaine reasons. No
Democrat looks forward more hopefuIlv
han he to a Republican defeat this wear.
The Democrats, however, think that they
will remain strong enough to win in the
Presidential fight also. That remains with
hem. II they are wise they will stay ia
power; II they are guided by VIM. FL.
Barnum, and some others who might be
lamad- thau will aaair int. r.Ll-or,a-.-A