The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-29
BLAINE AND BELMONT.

BLAINE AND BELMONT.
Our dispatches yesterday morning gave .
detailed account of the examination OF Mr.
BLAINE before the committe of foreign al
fairs. On that committee was Mr.. BEL
MONT, a young democratic member from
the first district of New York. The variou
questions put by Mr.. BELMONT we're oil
such character as to affect seriously MR.
BLAINE's equanimity, and the ex-secre'ary
became mad. 1t was intimated
in the dispatches that a per
sonal encounter was feared. Mr..
BELMONT is young and full of enthusi
asm and fire, and of course desired to make
something of a reputation in the questions
| p 1t to BLAINE. Mr.. BLAINE, on the other
hand, is an old politician, familiar with the
tricks that are vain and those that are not
in social and political life, and it is sur
prise to sec him under the circumstances
lose his temper and insist upon the young
mans being set down upon" Mr.. BEL
MONT seems determined to have the whole
and true story of the Chili-Peru-
Wan controversy, while Mr.. BLAINE
becomes indignant at apparently IN
important interrogatores, We can only
say from the circumstances surroundir &
the case that the whole investigation is
most discreditable to the United States.
II seems that we are never to hear the last
of this miserable affair. Thousands OF dol.
lars are being expended in the investiea-
ton, but the committee, as others before,
will fail to discover anything and will so
report to the house. II is shameful that oi
our multifarious Investigations none ever
discover what the committee was organized
to find out or what is recognized as fact by
the entire people. In this particular ill.,
stance Mr.. BLAINE and Mn. BELMONT have
forced personal issue into the affair that
neither adds to the dignity or opens up the
truth of the controversy. So far as the COM
mittee have gone nothing but jobbery and
seheming have been found out and the dis
tinguished ex.secretary Of state has beer
placed in no enviable position. If upor
taking the stand Mr.. BLAINE had Civ
en- his knowledge of the entir,
Chil-Pcruvian difficulty and the part tn,
United States had played in the matter il
n digniied and unimpassioned manner thu
country would not only have been proper!
educated upon matter of importance
but BLAINE stock would have gone to tn
highest possible point. As it is, however
the ex-cabinet officer engaging in u contro
vlrsy with young committeeman aud in
vJking the assistance of the chairman I,
protect him in his efforts to avoid tn,
his possession, is not only guilty
and objectionable, but an exceedingl,
disgraceful and suspicious species of con
duct. Mr.. BELMONT, so far "a we can see
showsup in the better light by far for his OBJ
ject was simply to get into the"truc inward
ness" of BLAINE's connection with CORES
pondence, and propo,, d policy that ha
given us so much trouble. But the witness
on the other hand, by growing irritable ant
Directing to the manner of investigating
the matter, adopted or assumed by the com
mittee, has placed himself in the light OF on
who does not want the whole truth diynlg
ed. Just what was behind in this Chill
Peruvian affair Of ours may never b,
known, but certain great men and proml
nent politicians are being placed in Il very
uncnviablc situation. The country is in
dcbttd to such men as Mn. BELMONT, who
is democrat and represents the first dis
trict of New York state, composed OF The
counties of Suffolk, Richmond and Queens
for that bodness and pardonable curioS
ity which leads to the close and crit
ical examination OF even Mn. BLAINE
The whole gist of the matter, tina
which is of especial interest to the citizcn
of America is the fact that, though Mr.
BLAINE, whom we have always admired
may answer satisfactorily the charges anI
innuendoes against him, he has been per
mancnlly removed from the field AS II can
didate for the presidency. And thel
again, the puerile and bloodless pass.at
arms between him and BELMONT day belor,
yesterday, is not only childish, but belittlc'
BLAINE and places us, in the eyes of Eu
rope, in most ridiculous position. In III,
interests OF our reputation and nationa
dignity, we trust that these various investi
cations will be discontinued.
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