New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-03
THE RHINE "CONSPIRACY.D


The responses from the Democratic press to
the startling announcement recently made that
Blaine was travelling up and down Long
Island, loaded with money, looking for some
Democrat whom he could bride for fifty or
sixty thousand dollars and campaign expenses
to run as an independent candidate against
Perry Belmont, arc not in all respects what
were expected. For while no Democratic news
paper actually lifts its nose and says Faugh "
at it, nearly all of them go round it very care
fully or poke it up gingerly, while one or two
manifest in their behavior toward it q wel-de-
fined suspicion that the young statesman is
trying to teach his grandmother how to suck
eggs" Were it not that Perry, after declining
the nomination for Governor, persistently re-
fused to be n candidate for Congressman-at-
Large because, as he said, he could not think
for a moment OF deserving his island constit-
,uency were it not that his conduct under these
trying temptations showed that he had per-
fectly sure thing for a denomination, it might be
suspected by those who do not know his guile
less nature that he had been instrumental him
self in circulating through his district the It'd
ings of the conspiracy against him in the hope
of profting by it.
To analyze such a suspicion is to show its
utter groundlessness. In the first place Perry
knows that Long Island is so deeply saturated
with the conviction of its need Of him that it
cries aloud for him from every fathom of its
seagIrt shore. He knows that he need not
work Long Island into Juror of excitement
over report that he is pursued by Blaine in
order to secure a denomination. lie never
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it honestly, and because he really believes it,
If he says Blaine is after him with blood in his
eye and the mad passion for revenge in his
heart that he has approached the immaculate
Oakley with $4,000 i'll hand, campaign ex.
penses and contingent $4,000 additional,
and that he is still searching for corruptible
Democrat to put up as stump candidate, he
says so because he believes it. If he should
say he saw Blaine every time he looked over
his shoulder we should believe him, even
though we knew Blaine were "a thousand miles
away. For Perry never would lie about little
thing like that; and experiences such as he had
with Blaine last spring affect some people in
just that way. We say confidently, then, that
the idea, to which tae queer comments of some
Democratic papers give n sort of color that
L oiiy SOhVo "io S'o'J vi " Di"ihc conspiracy
to insure his own denomination must be dis
missed.
The comments of the Democratic press upon
the conspiracy and upon the revelations of
Oakley are, as we have said, rather disappolnt-
ing. The occasion at least furnished an oppor-
tunity for saying something about Perry and
about his great triumph over Blaine that
would do to copy" But, barring the
Rochester paper from which we copied day
or two ago powerful description of Pery's
turning Blaine inside out" they all treat the
affair in manner bordering on coldness. In
stead of taking up the theme on the conspiracy
text and telling how Perry snatched him
across the committee-room and stood him on
his head in the corner, then pulled him out in
| the middle of tho floor and jumped up and