The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-20

or's mind. The burden was lifted,
every doubt dispelled and his honor's
countenauce reflected the joy and salts
faction reigning within.
An Interview with MIR. Blaine.
Boston, Nov. l6.-The Journals Au-
gusta correspondent sends the following
interview with Mr.. Blaine:
/ asked Mr.. Blaine what he thought
would be the result of the count in New
York and he replied that he had no
more means of knowing it than the UNI
born child. lie had, from the first,
had no other desire than that fair
count should be made, and so far as he
was personally concerned he would be
CONTENT WITH EITHER RESULT.
Success would not elate him and de-
feat would not depress. He was en-
gagged in congenial and profitable work,
which had been interrupted by the CAM
paign, and the deep regret that he would
feel at Democratic triumph would be
altogether for his party and the country;
not for himself. 81 lived too near the
presidency in 1885," Mr.. Blaine added,
after long pause, "and have too keen
sense of its burdens, the embarrass-
ments, and its perils, to be unduly anx-
ious for the Office"
THE CAUSE OF HIS DEFEAT.
To the inquiry how he accounted for
the closeness of the election in New
York, Mr.. Blaine said: "Well, consid-
ering the loss by the bolt of
the Independent Republicans and the
far larger loss from the action of the
Republican prohibitionists, the Won
der at first sight is, that
the Democrats did not carry
the state by larger majority,
as they confidentally expected they
would. This result was prevented
! by the great accessions to the
Republican ranks of Irish and
Irish-American voters and workingmen
of all classes, who sustained me because
of my advocacy of a protective tariff.
They believe, and believe wisely, that
free trade would reduce their wages"
BLAINE's IRISH VOTE.
"You really think them" queried the
reporter, "that you got considerable
Irish vote in New York;"
go, had thousands upon thousands"
replied Mr.. Blaine "and should have
had many more, but for the intolerant
and utterly
IMPROPER REMARK OF DIR. BURcHARD,
which was quoted everywhere to my
prejudice, and in many places
attributed to myself, though
it was in the highest degree
distasteful and offensive to me. But a
lie, you know, travels very fast and
there was no time before the election to
oyertake and correct that one, and so
suffered for it,"
1 asked Mr.. Blaine if he thought the
Irish-American vote was organized at
all, or had competent leader.
eyes," said he, 81 was deeply i'm
pressed by the ability, the earnestness
and the sincerity of those whom l met.
There, for instance, IS Patrick Ford, of
the Irish World. He is man OF
the most unselfish devotion to any cause
he espouses, possessing great
faculty for organization, with
marked ability and untiring
energy. Geo. Kerwin,yof the Tablet,
has in large degree the same charac-
istics and is far-sighted and able man,
with fine record as Union soldier. The
Irish Nation, edited by John Dewey,
also gave us strong and valuable
support. Alexander Sullivan and
John Finnerty were very powerful
on the stump, and did roy
al service. Both are natural
orators of the fervid Irish type. Sulli-
vans tariff speech in Toledo contributed
very largely to
THE DEFEAT OF FRANK HURD.
These men, with others whom I did
not personally meet, have made break
in the Irish Democratic vote,one think
will widen and increase in the future as
the full significance of the attitude of
the Democratic party on the tariff ques-
ton becomes understood and appre-
ciated.
MORE BLARNEY FOR THE IRISH.
"Our Irish and Irish-American citi-
zens will get tired in time Of voting in
accordance with the wishes of the En-
glish free-traders."
/ said to Mr.. Blaine that the Irish in
Boston thought he understood the char
acter of their people better than any
other Republican leader.
Mr.. Blaine replied that 1t would be
ego tistical for him to assume that, but
said there was perhaps strong leaning
of the Irish element towards him,
because of the fact that on his mothers
side he was of Irish descent. In Pen
sylvania, his native state, he had re-
ceived an enormous Irish vote, some
counties hitherto strongly Democratic,
having been completely reversed
in their popular majorities by
the change of the Irish in
his favor. This, however, was of course
due in part to the fact that he stood so
distinctively as the representatives. pro-
lection to American industries, an idea
which prevails with more force in Penn