Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-28

must De q IOOl VINO hereafter allows nlm-
self to have illegal fees imposed upon
him by any county official. Thisjournal
will he glad to expose and to press to
judgment any such attempt that is made.
Slain by STRIPPING.
His three days encounter with Mr..
Belmont leaves Mr.. Blaine a political
corpse. He has beeen turned out to grass
by the bullet of Guiteau and the revela-
tions made in the examination he has
just undergone will forever forbid him
from securing public confidence and re-
spect. His reputation, sadly tarnished
before, is damaged beyond all hope of
polishing. Even the class Of people who
have held him in high regard for his
dexterity and abundant resources have
need to give him up. He bore himself
before the committee without sense or
judgment, and has permitted all the
credit of three days contest with a
despised antagonist to be carried off
by the proud David who, alone of all the
committee. had the courage to 60 against
the mighty Goliah. 1t is discreditable
to the veteran members of this commit
tee that they permitted Mr.. Belmont, a
young man entirely without experience,
to bear the whole brunt of the examina-
tion of Mr.. Blaine into those acts of his
which the House of Representatives
commissioned them to inquire into. Not
one member came to Mr.. Belmont's as
sistance with one question while several
showed themselves ready to help Blaine
to sit down upon him. But Mr.. Bel
mont's little sling has done the work,
and Mr.. Blaine is slain. 1t was
with him as with his prototype !;
his arm was strengthened by the
truth and justice of his cause Blaine
was crushed by the weakness of his.
He could not answer questions that he
needed to answer fully and satisfactorily
to save himself. He was unable to ex-
plain what had prompted him to present
the Landreau claim to the Peruvian
government and why he selected time
for it when Peru was disorganized and
its courts in allegiance during state of
war. Admitting that he had not examined
the claim and denying that anyone had
brought it to his attention, he claimed
that he had from his own sense of justice
directed our minister to represent to
Peru that it should make no treaty of
peace involving a cession of territory
without providing for the payment of
Landreau.
Mr.. Blaine's protestation that his dis
patch did not in effect say that peace
should not be made without recognizing
this claim, and his accusation against
Mr.. Belmont of untruthfulness, in thus
constituting his language, will not be &C
cepted as truthful in view of the circum-
stances. 1t is becoming apparent that
his foreign policy was directed to en-
broiling the country in war for the bene-
fit of spectators and camp-followers,
and he is fairly subject to the suspicion
that he was providing for feathering his
own nest with transparency unjust
claims, such rs this one, about which 50
much is now said and known. Mr..
Blaine seeks to create the i'm
preston that it is " the dirty
Democratic press " and politicians
who are falsely pursuing him with these
accusations but the fact is that intelli-
gent journalists of all parties are of one
mind about his present exhibition. The
New York Herald, Sun, Times, Post,
Commercial and Graphic are among those
who see in it the uncovering of a dis
honest demagogue. He does not have the
public sympathy in his denunciation
of Mr.. Belmont as untruthful in his as
cription to him of dishonest purpose.
1t is beginning to be felt that the act of
Guiteau may have been a beneficent in
terposition of Providence to preserve
the peace and prosperity of the nation
against the rapacity and ambition of a
dishonest and foolhardy administration.
Mr.. Belmont denounced Blaine as a cow
ard and bully and who will gainsay
his estimate
MANIFEsTLY Johnny Lands should 80
right over to Washington and give Don
Cameron good talking to.
WHAT if the New Era party should
wake up and find they had been used by
Stehman & Co., to pull the Sensenig-
Longenecker chestnuts out of the fire
Somebody's to be cheated.
WHAT if the Examiner party should
wake up and find out they had been used
to help elect Myers and Shenck and got
"leit =" on Stehman Somebody's to be
cheated.
WHAT if the Mentzer- -McMellen party
should wake up and find that they had
been used to elect Stehman and their
blind soldier had been led into the ditch
Somebody's to be cheated.
WHAT if mr." Sensenig should sur
prise himself by using one ring to elect his
state senator asd the other to elect his