New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-26
poor HItTNEf

The destruction of Mr.. Blaine Is at length
promised under circumstances which seem to
leave no question as to his fate. The man who
in a long and eventlul political career has en-
counteIed and overcome n thousand perils OF
every name and nature, at last looks his
destiny i'm the face. In the near distance
Nemesis panopied as polo player On pony
waits to ride back and forth rougl-slloh all over
him. Upon this bank and shOal OF time Few
hours remain for Blaine. Short shutt gives
Perry Belmont when once his ire is reused.
Not that this avenging angel swOops down, as
one might say, like the proud rooster of the
dunghill upon the June and jejune bug, with
out mercy and without warning. Perry Bel
mont, if we may indulge for Il moment In the
idiom of his own high-brcd constituents, Is not
that kind of hair pin" Ample notice has
been served on Blaine. There can be no plea
of want of notice or lack Of time for prepare
ton and we are quite sure that to the most
urgent appeals for delay Perry Belmont stern
sense of justice will permit him to grant no re-
plieve. So long ago as MOndly Blame was
warned what Fate had in store for INN. lie
conld not fail to read 1t iii the iatcul Siltter IN
Perry BelnOnts eye, or if not there, III almost
ineligible English in the next mornings UoHd
newspaper. He knew as well rs II the warrant
had been read to him i'll the dock that his hours
were numbered For when Perry Belmont once
engages his intellectual processes III ms great
annhilaling act there Is no more chance Tor his
victim than for poor debtor in the clutch o.
a usurer, or q Maltese cat in sausage
machine. The Nation trembles at the ctalnch-
ing of his jaws, and at the whcttns OF his sac
liicial knife witnesses flee away
The prospective loss of Biaine-though we
would not for IN instant venture to dispute the
righteousness of Perry Belmonts determine
ton to mop the floor with him, and walk on
him. and ride back and forth on him on polo
pony, and in other ways annoy hlm-some"ha'
saddens us. IntrinSicaliy, OF course Perry
Belmont is right. lnheriting certain anna
bility of character which cannot be mistaken,
and which, when combined with canniballsm,
softens its victim for his fate 10y FAIR notice,
from motives Of humanity and not OF cpicure-
anisn. he mas done in this case all that could
reasonably he expected He gave Blaine forty
eight hours notice of his fate. An angel could
not have done mere. Mr. Blaine nows-must
know from the manner i'll which Perry Bci-
mont said on Monday that when certain
questions come mp" he would be "WllllnG To
enter into their discussion that, in the Ian
guage of Perry Bclmonts constituents, ms
goose was cooked" Ii nc did not learn 1t from
Perry Belmont's Cwn statement he must have
gathered it from the account i'll The Uorid
newspaper, which wells its prophecy of Blaine's
final discontinue under the careful statement
that the taste of what may be expected 10y
what has already occurred has aroused lively
I,;, hN
this time that there's no use. Will out knowing
Perry Belmont he blindy tackled him, Iand
rushed upon his fate. What the ides Of March
were to Caesar it Is quite manifest Perry Bel
mont is 70 Blaine. Bat there is no denying
that Blaine, like Cesar, rushed upon his fate.
And still we say his fate somewhat Saddens
us. lie has survived so many encounters, has
been SO often wiped ont, so many times been
blessed with obituaries and enjoyed the rare
felicity of hearing his enemies say kindly truths
over his coffin, that we had almost come to
think lie was immortal, and that so long as we
lasted we should continue to see him killed two
or three times IL year, only to rise like the
phmnix Alas Wethd not take Perry Belmont
into the account Poor Blaine Having sur
vived Conking, Ben Hill, Eaton, Ben Butler
and whole RATS Of statesmen of all parties who
in the past dozen years have given out conf
dent predictions of his docease only to find that
he was altogether the most active person ut the
funcral-he finds himself at this late day per
ishng under the heel of Perry Belmont. And
vet we can hardly murnur. We were fond OF
Blaine. But he should not have been 50 rash.
He should not have had the temersy to tempt
the wrath of Perry Belmont Perry reaches
out for him to-day. And we-ah, mourning we
we wait for hls remains To-day Perry Bet
mont chews him up and sends the fragments
of him to his friends Let us meet the pieces
at Jersey City.
III i'm, If onnther and nrcguuablv Li.