The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-05-06

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When NJ Biains appears Z a cen
! initsee room rs a witness tlaas couirni
lied room Is Transformed into ! circa
zhiie the ssasts, HOUSE, and oths
world woBdcrs shrink In comprise
to siae-showA HaPpy the youth VIA
examines sael, a witness. His fame
made. SIX Thousand newspapers re
irerbcr=as his unlue. Profound learn
ing and brilliant oratory. mature ex
EpeTience and eminent service ara a
nothing for notoriety when weigheC
tauainst the ID oosfazdzr Of szeh Al
encounter 81 wits and temper rs thai
dispensed by Mr. Belmont and Mr.
Blaine. The masses can, understand :
quarrel; every individual and bis wife
have had the experience IN their own
little pOlity, but questions Of import,
revenue, state, Observation-Disclosures, arc
/ too beyond pzaw the moral suf-
fFage-crewncd and parti-ha=disaPPei
soverefgn-citizoa; drxv lie norai, ard
apply 81 Toarself, or time and tide viii
apply 1t for Won ii the shape Of a
blister. The role Of witness Is not
familiar to Mr. BIaine, who has 50 long
posed and spoken only for political
effect that he becomes restless and
angry when this end is opposed, for
gets that he is not the idoIized leader
Of his party in the House, and gFasps
in the air for the vanished garel. The
only legitimate object for the inEesti-
cation that has been prosecuted in the
Of Foreign Afairs, was TO
leara the trath regarding the animus
Of the action Of the State Department
in relation to the South american bel
Iigerants, Chill, and Pera. Mr.. Blaine
felt that his political fame and for
tune were involved, and, accompanied
By host Of magnetized newspaper
correspondents, proceeded to the Capt. I
yal as a volunteer witness, not throw 1
ight on the question, bnt to yindieate /!
himself Whether he has succeeded /
IT NOT is an open question, but / am
disposed to think that he is not happy /
,Tcrthis business and It's disgEaeeful
iimax. ! have not space to narrate
he words Of the angry quarrel between /
ir. Blaine and his qnestioner, Mr.. /
Belmont. Ii ended in M-. Blaine
harging his QuestioRer with faIsehood /
nd b. Mr.. Belmont telling the distin-
uished witness that he WAS bully
nd coward. and that he wouId settle
it'll him in private.
The sole topic Of conversation last
ight was the tragic finale Of the close
{ Mr.. Biaine's testimony before the
oreign Affairs committee. Such
iVersity OF opinion has not been heard
Washington for long time. Mr.. b
laine's adherents were loud in their
raises Of Whist they termed /" Dir.
LANES magnificent victory over his
lemies," while those persons who do
ot view AIr. Blaine in the light of
cling a remarkably great n,an, thought
II. Belmont had put him in the cor
,et category. Many express the opin
N that Mr.. Blaine is crippled for
olitieal life.
The end of this matter is not yet.
here is talk of an affair of honor, and
Ir. Belmont is nown to have asked
enator Butler of South Carolina, to
It for him in this matter. Senator
utler, however, persuaded Mr.. Bel
iont TO withhold a challenge nrging
q reason that Mr. Blaine. would not
seept ii, and that, the prevailing SEN
ment Of the country being against
lis method Of settling disputes, it
ould be better 10 let the matter rest
) it is recorded and published.
SILK CuLruRE.-Mr u. Vellin, one
{ our most energetic, industrious and
citizens, has recently adj
ed another-and, IN this section, a
oFel--braneh Of industry TO those to
hich he dcYotes all Of his time and
ktention, He is managing q grocery