St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-14
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Jim Dialue is nOlll19 II mol Always the
injured innocent Immediately after the
election two days consultation at his house
at Augusta followed, and then his son En-
mons was dispatched 10 New York with
vigorous instructions 70 Jones and Elkins
and the rest Of the gang. The Fraud hun
tiers began their music. Jones issued hts
proclamation, declaring there had
not been e fair election in New
York. Blaine himself kept the
telegraph wires hot with alternate shrieks Of
fraud and directions to see that he was
counted in, In New York. The Associated
Press iuggled the figures Of the returns TO
show that Blaine had won. The country be-
came excited, men OF business grew alarmed,
and turmoil and anarchy seemed inevitable.
In this grave hour Of crisis a series Of pub
lie meetings we're held throughout the length
and breadth Of the land, discountenaneing
in the most emphatic terms the
evident intention Of Blaine and those under
his direction 10 overthrow the decision Of
the people. Leading men Of the Republican
party aud papers that had opposed Cleveland
with a volume Of mendrcity before unparal-
elled in the political history OF the nation,
declared their full belief that Blaine had been
defeated. For days the effort was main
tanned 10 indame the public mind,
to excite prejudice, TO create false impress
sions, TO produce II possible q revolt from
the fairly expressed viii Of the people Of New
York and OF the whole country. The more
Blaine persisted in urging that overt acts be
committed, that every advantage be taken Of
mere technicalities and informalites, the
more firmly the public mind be-
came impressed that no desperate re-
sort should be permitted, and every
breath of heaven was laden with the public
determination that there should be no foul
play. 1t was in the afr and sunshine that
Cleveland had been fairly and honorably
elected. Nobody doubted it, nobody ques-
toned it, nobody could make IL appear other
wise. The fever Of doubt and apprehension
had given place TO the sturdy and
i'm purpose to have the honest
facts legally and authoritatively de-
clared. The New York Tribune
the last to dismount from the tall tower Of
false pretenses and fraud surrendered, be-
cause it was no longer possible 10 keep back
or resist the truth. Finally Mr.. Blaine de-
serted himself. As abjectly as when upon
his knees before Mulligsn, he put himself
on record with another letter which is
square back down from the attitude he had
hitherto occupied, but couched in terms
Characteristic of the man, deserving the tools
and puppets that had endeavored to do his
bidding and striven to stem the swift and
resistless torrent of public indignation and
condemnation that had overwhelmed the at
tempt TO seize the Presidency by
overt and criminal procedure. In this
juncture Blaine comes forward with q reply
TO the letter of a New York Democrat, who
in friendly moment had written his regrets
at the course pursued by the Republican
committee, and hoping that Blaine was not
at the bottom and behind their movements.
Grasping this opportunity to confess defeat,
Blaine makes the following reply as given by
a Boston paper:
''ln the whole controversy have had no de-
sire except for fair count and an honest decla-
ration OF the result. i have seen no other re
quest made by the Republican national commit
tee nor by any OF ITS members. They acted on
their judgment at every step, and need not ad-
vice from me. do not wish any political sup
porlers OF mine IN New York 10 take the slight
est advantage OF mere technical defects in the
returns where the honest intention OF the voter
is expressed. would far rather lose than gain
by the exclusion OF returns on technical grounds
The presidency Is not desirable IL il has the re-
hottest faint on the title. Promotion OF that kind
no more leads 10 honor than the possession Of
forged paper leads TO wealth."
These brief lines are Characteristic of the
whole career Of the man in whose defeat, the
whole country, outside of the ofiice-holders,
sincerely reioices. Whatever may be his
motive, one thing is certain, the Presidential
title will not pass to James G. Blaine, whose
whole career is a faint, blight and horror
to the conception Of every honest, patriotic
man.