The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-11-19
oAUsB OF BLAINE's DEFHAT.

Now that the election Of MI. Cisve-
land Is an assured fact, oprRepubli-
can brethren are busily engaged in
a~scertainlng the causes which led to
the defeat of their chief. In their
endeavors IN this direction some of
them do not evince that sweetness of
temper Or charity which inclines ON
to overlook the shortcomings Of
members Of the anne household of
faith. but on the contrary show q
bitterness Of feeling which reveals
the depth of their disappointment.
81. John comes ia for q full share
OF their curses. He is charged with
drawing of q sufficient number of
Republican votes which, cast where
they properly belong, would have
made the election of MI. Blaine an
easy matter. They contend that st.
John should know that Prohibition
can never become q national issue,
and that it should be relegated to
state legislatures and not be intro
duced AZ y disturbing element In
national contests. A5f
Roscoe Conkling also receives
their attention In no complimentary
terms. They declare that; having it
in his power to add hundreds Ii not
thousands OF votes. to. Blaine's sup
portefs. he remained silent and per-
mitted his stalwart friends to wander
after strange gods or. to yield only q
passive support to Mr. Blaine. They
charge him with treason to the party
and bitterly comment upon the as-
sumed fact that one speech from him
In the interest of MIR. Blaine would
nave assured New York for their de-
feated champion.
The Rev, DR.. Burchard is also
treated with heroic doses of con-
tumely. Why he is so treated
we will explain. A few days
before the election afr. Blaine
was in New York City. His
managers raked the churches of the
city and vicinity. with a fioe-toOth
comb for preachers of the gospel of
Christ who would unite ia a body to
welcome Mr. Blaine to that modern
Gotham. DR.. BuIchard was made
the mouthpiece for the political pull
piteers, and like many ether
preachers who prostitute their holy
calling to advance the candidacy of
politicians he "pnt his foot in it,"
Among other very foolish utterances
he disgorged the following: I'VE
are Republicans, and don't propose
to leave our party and identify our-
selves with the party whose antece-
dents have been rum, Romanlsm ana
(Shouts Of 'tAmen."O 1t
ia said MI. Blaine lost many votes by
this remark of his clerical friend
sufficient, in fact, to have turned the
State in his favor. 3d.
It Ia Furthermore asserted that the
Delmonico dinner vas not a wise
thing, a fact which Mr.. Blaine knew
at the time. The ~caricature of that
dinner. which appeared in the New
York World had a prodigious effect.
Many of the men who figured IN it
were unpopular. For the most part
they were capitalists who had become
rich and were not regarded
on any side as the friends of the peo-
pie. It was largely a monopoly rep
resentation. There were only a very
few exceptions That dinner, it Is
said, lost Blaine owe a thousand
votes, and had he kept clear of it he
might have had a clear plurality in
his favor.
Again it is declared that the Typo
graphical Union in New York CITY
defeated him. That body numbers
5000 strong. They opposed Blaine
because the Tribune, his chief organ
III tue State, employed none but rat
printers"-not members Of the
Union. They msde Nj. Blaine
shoulder what they consicere a
grievous sin on the part Of tht ITib-
ssxe, and, almost to q man, cast their
votes for Clevelsnd.
To these fuses in the aggregate, or
to either separately, the defeat of Mr..
elaine is ascribed, and it is really
amusing to the victorious party to
see the amount of back-bitlng and
hair-pulling going On in the demon
allied ranks # the ono grand old
party over them. ST. John, COnk-
ling, DIR. Burchard, the originator of
the DelmOnicO dinner and the Typo
graphical Union, each is anathama-
tixed in turn and to each is ascribed
the defeat and downfall of the great
apostle of Republicapism,