The Clifton clarion., 1885-04-29
Going Back on Blaine.

matters. Here is what he says of the results: I was chatting with him the other morning on politics, which he declares he has eschewed and looks on only with a critics eye. He said: ''The Republican party threw itself away. It de- clared it had nothing for which to live. When the Supreme Court decided the civil rights bill uncon- stitutional the Republican party tameiy submitted. When the sand-lotters and pock-marked pests of the Pacific coast howled against the Chinaman, because he was clean, honest and economical, the Republican party joined in the howl. Mir. Blaine went on to the stump and asserted the beau ties of protection. Every morn ing after he made speech there came the news of some big factory closing up and 2,0OO employees being thrown out of work. That sort of thing stalked after him like a ghost. Then he had to admit that such things as business de-
 pression come in spite of protec- ton, and so gave away his posi- tion. He should have declared
 himself in favor of reformation of the tariff on a basis of protect ing everything that would tend to build up manufactures in this country and of protecting nothing that would prevent manufactures here. The lawyer who has him self for a client is a - fool. That was the trouble with Mir. Blaine. If Mir. Smith or Mir. Brown had been the candidate, and Mir. Blame had managed his cause, he would have been elected. Mir. Blaine as the attorney for Mir. Blaine was afraid to strike out. He lost his election by refusing to vote in Maine. He had said that prohibition was a local ques- tion. It was being settled in Maine. It was his local duty to have helped to settle it. He should have gone to the polls and voted his convictions. If he had done so all the long-haired cranks of the country would have left St. John on the instant. Blaine would not have lost a Republican vote by it. He gave himself away in the Irish movement. The Roman church never came to Blaine be- cause of his desertlon of her. There was an ulterior purpose, and mighty one, that turned the entire Catholic clergy in his favor. The Republican party does not want the dynamite, Fenian, British-hating disturbers. The gang are naturally Democrats, not Republicans. The clergy busi
 ness was bad. If Blaine had not been managing his own case he would have sat down on Burchard so hard as to have left only grease-spot of him. But Blaine said worse things than Burchard. He said we had divorced Church and State in this country; that countries had existed without State, but no country could pros per without Church. Why, if I had been in politics I would have called a meeting that night to de- nounce him, though I had made fifty speeches in his favor before, unless he had preferred to retract and recant that utterance. That declaration lost him more votes than Burchard's, and his refusal to vote in Maine lost him his election. I predicted 1t at Chi cago. I told s. B. Elklns that Mir. Blaine had the most powerful friends and more of them in the Republican party than any other man, but likewise the most power ful and most numerous enemies, and that the latter would defeat him. I must say he ran away ahead of anything l expected"
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