St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-14
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Assuming current reports to be correct,
Blaine has lost his mental poise and is liv-
ing by the light of other days. His friends
complain that he is Indifferent, and where
they counted on brilliant suggestions and
some audacious and overwhelming line of
policy for carrying on the canvas, they are
seriously disappointed.
The statement is made that Blaine has
never recovered from the shock of the pistol
shot that murdered Garfield. The effect of
that shot, it is said, was to give him, in the
vernacular of Maine, ''the hypo.''
He is convinced that he has an organic disease,
and although the best physicians in the country
have assured him that he is wrong, he will not
believe them. Last summer he panied his friends
by asking constantly how they thought he looked.
Somebody told him that the little pools of water
left by the ebb tide on the rocks of the coast
were specific for the disease he thinks he has,
and he was often seen drinking from them and
bathing his face and arms in them. During the
past winter, when he was visited by prominent
politicians who wished to talk to him about his
nomination, he surprised and saddened them by
his Indifference, and he told one man that he
had rather live in peace and qnet that be elected
president and die in the Office For few days
before the convention he seemed to be like his
old self, and after the nomination displayed to
those nearest him some of the energy that was
characteristic of him in the days of his prime.
But that did not last long. After the Demo-
cratic convention the old conviction that he can
not be elected returned and with it his depression
of spirits. He is now said to be Respondent and
those who are nearest him believe that unless
this hypoehondria can be shaken off, all the work
of the canvass must be done without much help
from him.
Whether this is another public exhibit of
Mr.. Blaine's ''artistic acting" may interest
the country more or less. He recovered
from most opportuue sun-stroke, once
upon a time, and that artistic piece of acting
appeared to stand him in good stead How
his fit of sshypon will help his case now re-
mains to lie seen. There is no doubt, how
ever, that the outlook for Blaine is very
gloomy.
The news that has already come TO Augusta
| agrees in the main with that received by the
| National committee. 1t is far from cheering,
| though it is not thought by Mr.. Blaine's friends
TO Justify his own despair. The reports confirm
| the suspicion of some of the shrewd politicians
| who were at the Chicago convention that the
| Blaine enthusiasm was not genuine, but was
| manufactured to q great degree. If not to some
extent bought The reports that are trust
worthy already received. both by Mr. Blaine and
| exists throughout the great Republican states
| of the Northwest such fiery and over
whelming desire that Blaine shall 90 the White
House as they did in 1876.
Mr.. Blaine is said to realize that the ssMul-
| ligan POWDER has left q deep scar on the
| Republican party, and while it was supposed
this would be mainly confined to New York,
the reports received show that it exists
throughout the whole country. The Repub-
| lican managers of both the Congressional and
! National committees, protesting not to share
1 Mr.. Blaine's gloom, are openly said to be
very- anxious about some of the states that
have been surely counted Republican, and
unless there is change the party is in
serious danger of losing some of them and is
certain to lose others
The situation is entirely different from that
which followed Garield's nomination. Then 8
/ faction snlked and mufinied, but il was only
necessary TO conciIiate the leaders of that fac
/ sio1-Grant, Conkling, Don Cameron, T. c.
| Plat, as was done 81 Mentor and the Fifth Ave
| nue. hotel. When this was done the rank and
file were found with their leaders But now,
aside from the open and expressed opposition.
/ ike that Of the Germans, the Prohibitionists,
and organized boiling Republicans, there comes
| information Of quiet discomfort zll through the
| party everywhere, which is difficult 10 put the
finger on, hard to find because it is private and
| unorganized opposition. and therefore extremely
dangerous The Republican managers say that
/ these complications win make the canvass the