Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-03
MR. JANfEs G. BLAINE


has practically finished the second vol
ume of his "TWenty Years of Congress-
1t is expected to be out in the fall. 1t will
not be equal, from literary point of view,
to his first volume. 1t is needless to say
that the whole work is a failure. 1t pre-
sents fairly good view of our history,
but it is not half as good as the views
taken by McMasters, of Princeton; and
as a literary performance it is but COM
monplace. Blaine had an idea that he
was second Macaulay-like him to be
famous as statesman, lawgiver, orator and
historian. Heis certainly Macaulay's infe-
riOr as statesman and an orator. He has
never framed any law of any consequence.
You have only to read a few chapters of
his history to see that it will be unreal.
if not forgotten, before the middle of the
twentieth century-perhaps before its
beginning. Blaine finds his English
parallel in either Brougham or Beacons-
ield-he has qualities of both and neither.
He can do some things that neither of
them could do. For example, to write the
Mulligan letters.
Col. John Hay, "Little Breeches," who
married million and the daughter of
Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, and Mr..
Henry Adams, a son of Charles Francis
Adams, who is an amateur historian, are
to reside permanently in Washington
next w. w. COrcoran's and opposite La
fayette square, which promise to be hand
somer than the majority of the new
houses in the West End. Hays house
will cost furnished about $200,000 and
that Of Adams about $150,000. They will
not try to run their establishments on the
earnings of their pens.
OF ALL THE CHEEKY WEsTERNERs,
the rum seller is the breeziest. He usu-
ally runs his town and helps to run the
State. A st. Louis liquor seller was re-
Gently possessed with the idea that he
ought to have a finger in the national Die.
so he wrote the Postmaster General that
he would like to open a barroom in the
basement of the st. Louis post office build
ing. When he had recovered from his
surprise, the Postmaster General sternIY
replied that government buildings were
not for rent for such purposes.
The chapter giving a history of tariff
legislation in Mr.. Blaine's book, which
Mr.. Blaine's friends consider so impartial,
is being distributed by the Republicans as
a campaign document to prove the ex-
ceeding desirability of that sea of fire,
which Henry G. Carey prayed might
seeth and boil between us and our neigh
bors of the Old World 80 as to afford ade-
quate protection to Our infant industries.
There has never been a national adj
ministration which took so little interest
in politics in Presidential campaign as
this administration does this year. The
fact is, every member of the administra-
ton believes that Blaine's nomination
was blunder, and would be glad to see
him beaten. No one of them will 90 be-
yond the limits of perfunctory political
duty to help him to the White House.
Richard I. Greener, the colored lawyer,
who is about to 60 on the Republican
stump in Ohio and Indiana, as usual in
the years of Presidential elections, IS
about to write a novel, which will proba-
bly, deal with some of the problems of the
race question. BROWN-FLoYD,