The daily gazette., 1882-04-28

| 1t Is especially bad for Mr.. Blaine
who, as an ex-SeCretary of State of th'
United States, shows up bad az .
diplomat, in allowing.himself to be puI
out Of good temper SO easily by sc
young man as Mr.. Belmont. Chill
and England will no doubt now fee
at full liberty to laugh at and ridicule
the figure the late administration
made in its proposed interference to
stop the war and preserve the inte-
gritty of Peru.
In referring to the examination the
N. Y. Sun says :--'It would not be
easy to approach an inquiry of this in-
tricate and unpleasant nature in "a
more straightforward and largeminded
way than that chosen by the exam.
iner. He p'ssed over as matter Of
quite secondary moment the relations
which Mr.. Blaine is alleged to have
sustained toward The Peruvian Com-
pany, although lawyer might have
discerned in the glib statement Of the
witness on that head material for
some CALLING catechizing. But the
examiner judiciously preferred to con-
fine himself exclusively to the two
main points at issue, viz, what led
Mr.. Blaine to press 80 vehemently and
persisiently the Landrsau claim upon
Peru, and, secondly, whether the truc-
ulent attitude assumed toward Chill
was not adopted solely on Mr.. Blaine's
personal responsibility. To these
points the examiner strove with an ex-
emplary patience and steadiness to
hold the witness, who on his part
lodged and squirmed and wriggled
with the slipperiness and agility of an
eel under the probe of Mr.. Belmont's
reiterated questions. In his effort to
elude the dull thud of a persistent
query which, as none knew better
than The witness, struck at the core of
his deceit, Mr.. Blaine mad recourse to
every trick and device which had serv
ed him at pinch in some awkward
coDjdnctures of his Congressional
care er. Now he wouli sneer, then
buster; now tAunt the examiner with
a inadvertence, and assume to en-
tighten him from the height of his
misspent years and undesirable ex
perience; now he would puff hims II
up with a pompous allusion to his
brief occupancy of the State Depart
ment, and anon he would fall back
on the more congenial role of bar
room politician, and attempt to raise
a laugh"
The Herald says: We confeEs that
until We carefully read tho report of
Mr.. Blain's examination on Wednes.
day we did not believe that he had any
pecuniary interests in these claims.
His curisus persistence in pressing the
Landreau claim upon Peru and Chile,
when, as he acknowledged, Peru was
in an utterly disorganizsd state, hav-
ing neither executive government nor
courts, We hoped, Tor the honor of the
country, he would make haste to ex-
plain to everybody's satisfaction. His
refusal TO do SO, and his embarrass-
ment and fury when pushed on this
head, have imp essed the public with
tho suspicion that there are pecuniaty
speculations here concealed in which
MIR. Blaine was concerned, as he has
bsen in 81 many others.
But, however that may be, great
part of the puolc believes, with good
reason, that there was something b.
sides mere unlawful money in M.
Blaine's policy toward Chile and Peru,
and that, while he undoubtedly ir.
tended to draw the country into a war
with Chile, this even was but one par+
OF a plot he had formed and was A.
cretl7 carrying Out during General
Garfisld's long disability. That plot,
as the published dispatches prove,
looked
First-ro war with Gill and protec.
torate over P-ru.
Second--Io o war with Mexico on the
question Of the Gua emalan boundary
dispute, abo' witch Mr.. Blaine wrote
with unjustifable rndeness to Mexico,
with the clear inteLtion OF providing a
breach of the peace.
Ihlrd---A war with Great Britain OF
The question of isthmus Transit.
Mr.. Blane's policy was an appeal to
all the adVenturers, speculators aud con
tractors in the country. 1t was a plot
from the success ct which no legitimate
American interest could have gained,
out he saw in 1t hopeful prospect OF
l!s own increasing prominence, hoisted
IN the shoulders of the least patriotic
and respectable Of his countrymen. For
unately fJr the future welfare of The
c'untry bis plot was discovered in tine
Congress has begun, very Ian y, an in
quiry into lis details, and Mr. Blaine
CAIRNS.