The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-01-26
Hon. James G. Blame.

WHAT HE PAPERS ARE SAYING Or THE tx SECRE
TAkY OF STATE.
The newspapers continue to be very much e4 er
cised about Mr. Baine's movements and future
and although be has retired tic private life be re
eeives more attention from the press than any
public man Of the day. As matter of curr ent
news and gossip we subioin what some OF the pa
pers are saying
The liberal and progressive Eicksburg (Miss
Herald rebukes a Bourbon contemporary which
speaks slightingly Of Mr. Blaine and declares that
the reports present him to the Southern people in
light hat should secure for him careful hearing
Tie Meridian Homestead has been pitching Into
Mr Blaine lately on his past record There are
lots OF Republicans worse than Blaine, friend
Homestead The fact that the stawarts are down
Oh INN Is proof positive that he is possessed of
some very excellent qualities. Mobile Register
We do not regard Blaine in the light of com
blnation candidate in 1894. or expect anything but
a straight Democratic nomination for Democrats to
support, but We do regard HIM as valuable states
man. powerful factor in politics, and the only
true liberal Republican among the old leaders of
the party Nashville American.
Mt Blame has dangerous amount of lesureIon
his hands Just now, after turning off those trenen
dous letters, and ii is not Improbable that Presi
dent Arthur may ask him, out of friendly regard
for MS health, to step over TO the Court of St.
James and carry on his discussion with Lord IRAN
vile himself and a. close quarters ISpringfield
Republican,
1t IS SAID there is no telling which wav a scared
buffalo will ran, and It may be that in the wreck
OF parties and the gathering up of the fragments
Mr. Blaine and some southern man. like Joe
Brown. OF Georgia. for instance, will take the lead
IN movement that can unite enough elements OF
the North and South to provoke an overwhelming
defeat by other elements who will be in the pa
lorlty at the outset Galveston News
HIS enemies insist that Mr. Rlaina is still din
triguing for the Presidency Whether he is or
not Il Is certain that those who do not wish him
to be candidate are doing more to keep him be-
fore the people than those who would have no
special objection to see him nominated The best
way to make him candidate IS to abuse him. and
the surest way to avert such result is to either
treat him fairly or let him alone No man in the
republic has warmer friends, but they are gener
ally men who are more anxious for the success of
Republican principles than for the election of any
particular individual to the Presidency ALBANY
journal.
The Lowell Courier is concerned lest there NAV
be some truth IN the rumors afloat linking Mr.
Bianes name with "a sort of Greeley movement
IN 1881 1t says truly: He may be Republi-
can President he never can be half breed
Democratic one. But the observation is unnedes-
sary. Mr. Baine's course while Secretary of State
Is open to criticism IN several particulars, but it
cannot be said that be has failed in his duty as
Republican of the Republicans at any time during
his long and brilliant career as a politician and
statesman. Blaine is not of the stuff out of which
apostates are made. concord, n H. Independ-
ent Statesman.