National Republican., 1882-10-25
Blaine to HARRINGTON.

Blame TO harrington.
Your letter." wrote Coleridge to an
uncomfortable friend, "came to me in
my trouble like oil upon the troubled
waters, but it was the oil of vitriol" Re-
publioans will readily perceive the an
alogy between the letter so referred to
and the one addressed by Mr. Blaine to
Richard Harrington, esq, chairman of
the Republican State Committee of Della
ware, which we print in another column.
Whatever causes" says Mr.. Blaine,
" of Just discomfort may exist with State
nominations, unfairly and irJuriously
thrust upon the party, and whatever
means may be taken to resent such aUrongS
and repel such indignitieS, it is evidently
the duty of all true Republicans to use
every honorable effort to hold control of
the popular branch of Congress-"
What Mr.. Blaine means to say is, that
in those States where he has friends
"who have manifested on important oc-
casions their trust and confidence" in
him, for instance, at Cincinnati in 1876,
and at Chicago in 1880, he has no objection
to the present success of the Republican
cause. But in those States which refused
on those occasions to acknowledge him
as the National Boss, he hopes to see
disaster and defeat overtake the party.
The false, mean, and malicious cry
of unlairness and of Presidential in
reference in nominations started by
his retainers and echoed by every
venal scribbler over whom he is
known to have control, is now taken up
by Mr.. Blaine himself, and every Repub-
lican who has not yet been convinced of
his treachery is exhorted by him to deal
a stab at the cause. Iago could not
have selected words more cunningly.
He deals in cow ardly hypothesis in
stead of bold assertion. "Whatever
causes of just discomfort m ay exist with
State nominations, unfairly and injuri-
ously thrust upon the party" The nomi
nations have been made throughout the
country in the usual manner, and con-
formally to usage. There has been no
wrong, no irregularity Since the wolf,
drinking from the running stream at
point above where the lamb
was drinking, accused the latter
of muddying the waters above him,
there has never been as dishonest
quarrelsome, and vicious complaint as
that made by the residutm of Mr..
Blaine's Republican dregs in New York
and Pennsylvania, that the nominations
of Judge Folger and General Beaver have
been unfairly thrust upon the party"
Mr.. Blaine is chafed, sour, and dis
appointed Presidential aspirant. He has
no hope for the future except in the
overthrow of the party which has twice
so vigorously sat down upon him. He
has hope that the baffied Bourbons,
hungering and thirsting for Office, and
remembering how the Republicans pre-
vailed under terribly adverse circum-
stances in 1876 and 1880, may accept his
leadership He has made bid for the
Democratic support i'll 1854 by taking
sides with the Bourbons i'll the Virginia
campaign this year. His name is in the
mouths Of Democrats generally in the
South, and the word all along the Bour-
bon line is ,Jem Blaine is good enough
for me-" He must however have a
semblance of support as a Republican,
and in fulfillment of that part of the
Maine; and then, after a shout in favor
of Virginia Bourbonism, and six weeks
of silent and stealthy activity against
the Republican party North, he ex-
horts Republicans to wheel New York,
Pennsylvania, and other Northern
States into the Democratic column,
but to continue them Republican
80 far as Congressman are concerned.
Iago-like, he first seeks to iniame them
against their party, and then to beg them
to kill it but half way He urges them
on to resent and repel wrongs and
indignities which he knows have never
been put upon them, but begs them not
to shed blood with the knives which he
puts in their hands Honest 1ago He
seeks to insure Republican defeat at the
North and Bourbon victory at the South,
and then claims to be in favor Of Re-
publican Congress.
Mr.. Blaine is study. He is our national
Reynarl the Fox. He is always being
caught doing wrong, and always showing
the gulible how mistaken they are in
supposing that he did what they saw
him do. We see him at one time SEEM
ing to lie making savage attack on
Proctor Knott, when we know all the
time that he is really beating hasty re-
treat from his own reading of the Multi
gan letters. We see him at another time
go ill that good taste demands that his
shortcomings be not discussed at Cincin-
natl, and yet not i'll enough to be with
drawn as a candidate. We see him go
over to the Louisiana White Leaguers
in Is74J5, and we see him filed with