Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-05-04

| Ine destruction OF MIR. Blaine is a,
length promised under circumstances
which seem to leave no question as &c
his fate. The man who in long and
eventful political career has encountered
and overcome thousand perils of every
name and nature. at last looks his des-
tiny IN the face. In the near distance
Nemesis panor'ied as polo PLAYER on
a pony waits 10 ride back and forth
rough-shod all over him. Upan this
bank and shoal OF time few hours re-
main for Blaine. Short shrift gives
Perry Belmont when once his ire is
reused. Not that this avenging angel
swoops down, as one might say, like the
proud rooster of the dunghill upon the
June and jejune bug, without mercy
and without warning. Perry Belmont,
II we may indulge for moment in the
idiom of his own high-bred constituents.
is not that kind of hair-pin." AM
pie notice has been served on Blaine.
There can be no plea of want of notice
or lack of time for preparation; and we
are quite sure that to the most urgent
appeals for delay Perry Belmont's stern
sense of justice viii permit him to grant
no reprieve. So long ago as Monday
Blaine was warned what Fate had in
store for him. He could not fail to read
it in the fateful glitter in Perry Bel
mont's eye, or if not there, in almost in
telligible English in the next morning S
World newspaper. He knew as well as
if the warrant had been read to him in
the dock that his hours were numbered.
For when Perry Belmont once engages
his intellectual processes in his great
annihilating act there is no more chance
for his victim than for a poor debtor in
the clutch of usurer, or a Maltese cat
IN sausage machine. The Nation
trembles at the craunching of his jaws.
and ut the whetting of his sacriticial
knife witnesses flee away.
The prospective loss of Blaine though
we would not for an instant venture to
dispute the righteousness of Perry Bel
monts determination to mop the 1oor
with him, and walk on him, and ride
back and forth on him on a polo pony,
and in other ways annoy him-some-
what saddens us. Intrinsically, of course
Perry Belmont is right. Inheriting a
certain amiability of character which
cannot be mistaken. and which. when
combined with cannibalism, softens its.
victim for his fate by fair notice, from
motives of humanity and not Of epicure-
anism, he has done in this case all that
could reasonably be expected. He gave
Blaine forty-eight hours notice of his
fate An angel could not have done
more. Mr. Blaine knows-must know
from the manner in which Perry Bel
mont said on Monday that when ''cer-
tain questions come upn he would be
willing to enter into their discussion
that, in the language of Perry Bel
mont's constituents, .'his goose was
cooked" If he did not learn it from
Perry Belmont's own statement he must
have gathered it from the account in
The World newspaper. which wells its
prophecy of Biaine's final discontinue
under the careful statement that the
taste of what may be expected by what
has already occurred ''has aroused
lively anticipations. Blaine himself
must know by this time that there's no
use. Without knowing Perry Belmont
he blindly tackled him, and rushed up
on his fate. What the ides of March
were to Caesar, tits quite manifest Perry
Belmont is to Blaine. But there is no
denying that Blaine, like Cesar, rushed
upon his fate.
And still we say his fate somewhat
saddens us. He has survived so MANY
encounters, has been so often wiped out,
so many times been blessed with oDitu-
aries and enjoyed the rare felicity of
hearing his enemies say kindly truths
over his coffin, that we had almost come
to think he was immortal, and that so
long as we lasted we should continue to
see him killed two or three times year,
only to rise like the phoenix. Alas! we
did not take Perry Belmont into the ac-
count. Poor Blaine! Having survived
Conkling, Ben Hill, Eaton, Ben Butler
and whole RATS of statesmen of all par
ties who in the past dozen years have
given out confident predictions of his
disease only to find that he was alto
gethcr the most active person at the
funeral-he finds himself at this late day
perishing under the hand of Perry Bel
mont. And yet we can hardly murmer
We were fond of Blaine. But he should
not have been so rash He should not
have had the temerity to tempt the
wrath of Perry Belmont Perry reaches
out for him to-day. And we-ah, mourn
ing we've wait for his remains. To-
day Perry Belmont chews him up and
sends the fragments of him to his friends
Let us meet the pieces at Jersey City,
Ne,C York Tribune. s