The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-26
A LONG LOOK AHEAD
THAT A SPECULATIVE NEWSPAPER
CORRESPONDENT
ihinks James @. Blaine Is Taking-The
Maine Statesman to Help sherman
into the Presidency and Then
BE Premier.

CINCINNATI Ohio, June 26.-The Wash
lngton City correspondent of The Enquirer
telegraphs:
The announcement made bv way of Gin
einnati that Blaine is to stump Ohio this
fali IS iull or reflective meat Blaine cher
ishes' doubtless, for his allies in the
bucksye state the warmest feel
ing, and has not forgotten the
splendid majority given him last fall
Still, 1t Is not fair to assume that Mr.
Blaine contemplates the hustings merely to
AID candidate Foraker IN his race for Ohio's
executive office LIZ this were all the signifi.
canoe oil ms alleged stumping to so big a
man as Blaine, in national sense the
game would not be- worth the candle To
correctly get at the motive of the Maine
man, 1t Is we'll, as the old Irish Judge was
wont TO say, ITO put this and that together +"
MOI great while ago Mr. Blaine told a
friend who made him a visit that he was not
again anxious to figure as u presidential
candidate. Moreover he told him that for
many reasons hs would rather be secretary
OF state than president; that it was a posi-
tion man ia public life could enioy with
out being subjected to the criticism and en-
oarrasSmsnts which attach TO the presiden-
tial office
NOW, this gives point of ttianglia ton.
May not MIR. Blaine cherish the hope that
the vicissitudes Of politics will again install
him IN his old position as premier9 In this
view OF his future it is not at all improba-
bic that Blaine may seek To enter tue al
lance already believed to have been
made tetween Sherman and Foster and
mite IN the effort 10 make Sherman
the presidential candidate upon the
| condition precedent that the "Plumed
knight" Is to lie the secretary OF state in
the event of a successful canvass At first
blush such All arrangement would seem t.
| ba incredible. A little reflection, however
| brings to mind that had it not been for
Blaine, aided by Foster. who was his
ally, John Sherman would have had
the support OF the Ohio delegation
at the national conventions held in
| 1880 and in 1884 That he did not have its
support is now history. Fore warned with
ths lessons of the past nothing is more natn
| raj than that Senator Sherman should seek
| to enter any combination which will insure
him compactly the support of his own state
| the third III the Union Those who study the
| complications OF politics from this standpoint
| fully believe that Sherman has agreed tC
| get out of Fosters way for the United
| States senate. This paves the way for a re
union of the very elements which have been
barricaded for Sherman in his presidential
hopes. To adj to this alliance such potent
| power as James e. Blaine makes it one OF
| such invineibility that its grandeur is the
| more fully realized the more IL is studied
| The landmarks thus far add plausibility Il
the alliance, for the reason that the platform
Of the recent Springfield convention but re-
echoes the bloody shirt speech made by
Blaine in Augusta last fall when he conceded
reluctantly his defeat for the presidency. Il
| can he discounted In advance that if Blaine
Stumps Ohio it will not have for its prime
motive the mere election Of Foraker as gov
ernor, but rather fixed purpose which
though now occult, may reveal itself a,
| time dragS its slow lsng tn along