The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-06-05
MIR. BLA1NE's OPINION.

A Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald processes to give the
reasons for Blaiue's apparent Indifference
as to the Presidential nomination. He
says:
The Indifference of Mr.. Blaine con-
cerning his nomination at Chicago has
for some time been the cause of great
anxiety to his enthusiastic supporters.
He has been asked to take the field in
person and urged to do so because it was
believed his presence at Chicago would
make success more certain. To the sur
prise and disgust OF his ardent advocates
Mr.. Blaine has frankly declared on the
eve of the assembling of the Convention
that he has "no desire for an empty
honor" and be is reported as saying that
in his opinion 'the Republican nominee,
whoever he may be, cannot possibly be
elected this year"
He points to the uncertainty of our
financial market as certain to cause a
political revulsion, and whether from
apathy on the part of the mass of the
Republican voters or the phenomenal
popularity of the expected nominee of
the Democratic Convention, referring to
Mr.. Tilden, the result will, in his opin-
ion, be the same 10 the Republican nom.
inee.
While the judgment of Mr.. Blaine is
not questioned by some of his Republi-
can friends, others declare that it is the
old story Of the fox and sour grapes.
Mr.. Blaine is reported as not desirous Of
taking any risks.
The attacks already made upon him.
in his opinion, are but as the firing of
the picket guard of relentless enemies.
To further suffer attack without the hope
of yindication by election is, in bis opin-
ion, too great sacrifice, and hence what
has hitherto been called Indifference is
now called sel6shness by those who still
think his name would be power in the
coming Presidential campaign.
Blaine's Emphatic Denial.
WASHINGTON, May 30.-The publica-
ton in the New York Herald this morn.
ing of dispatch representing Mr.. Blaine
as saying that ''the Republican nominee,
whoever he may be, cannot possibly be
elected this year." is characteristic ex.
ample of the means resorted to by Mr..
Blaine's political opponents to ipjure his
stand before the Convention. Nothing
more ridiculous or absurd has been prin-.
ted in the course of the contest preceding
the meeting of the Convention. 1t
seemed almost waste of words to MIR.
Blaine's friends to deny the truth of the
story, and they would not have taken the
trouble to do 80 if the malicious intent
of its authors were not so apparent and
the falsehoods contained in the dispatch
had not been given such undue weight
and prominence in the columns of me-
tropolitap journal.
Mr.. Blaine, himself, when his atten.
ton had been drawn to the dispatch,
declared it to be an absolute lie from be-.
ginning to end. "You can make the
DENIAL" he said, "as strong as you choose.
It is absurd on the face of it. There is
not man in the United States who can
say, without perjuring himself, that :!
ever said such thing. On the contrary,
have not the slightest doubt that whoev.
er is nominated by the Republicans this
year will be elected. Who is the man to
whom I am represented as having aaid
so absurd thing? The Herald will
have some difficulty in finding him, l
. venture to say"