National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-01-03
who is TO Blame for Our Defeat,

1t Ia wise aud beneficial 10 discover and
publish any of these causes, it is surely
best to proclaim thnm all, and to set
thom down in order Of Importance. IL
amy persons are TO be charged with tho
responsibility ror defeat, all such should
DO named and condemned. No chief
sinners should be omitted while smaller
offenders are placed in the pillory.
Our catalogue of the various causes and
individuals each responsible for tho loss
Of LOO votes or more in New York will.
when published, be as full and complete
rs we can make 1t, and will neither con-
denim unJustly any person nor spare any
one deserving of mention. A doubt
whether on tho whole tho real interests
of the republican party will BIO promoted
by its publication leads us to withhold it
for the present.
We shall not however. adopt the opin-
ion Of Mr.. Chairman Jones, of the repub.
lican national committee, and include
among those to DO censured President
Arthur and the members of his cabinet,
all of whom, as we stated in n recent arti-
Gle, freely rendered all appropriate aid to
the republican cause during the whole
campaign.
Before tho nominating convention ad-
journed there was read to its members
from the defeated candidate to his sue
cesslul rival the following telegram:
"As the candidate of the republican party
you will have my earnest and cordial support"
Z. A. ARTHUR.
To this Mr.. Blaine made the following
reply:
Accept my sincere thanks for your cordial
assurance j. q. BLAINE.
From that hour to the day of election
President Arthur was never unfaithful
in thought or net to the promise made.
That he was so unfaithiul Mr.. Blaine has
not said or believed aud will never SO as
sert; and he has not engaged and can
not engage in the unjust warfare which
some of tho members Of his national
committee have commenced. He has suf-
fered too much from Misrepresentation
himself to mako or allow in his name
false charges against others.
The most prominent member of the
national comm ittee. who made oil the
committees important decisions, upon
whom all its movements waited, who
repeatedly visited Mr. Blaine in Augusta,
and was in daily communication with
him during tho campaign, was Mr..
Stephen b. Elkins, Of New Mexico. No
ono knows better than he that tho charge
against President Arthur Of indifference
or lukewarmhess made by Chairman
Jones is untrue. Mr.. Elkins, if just
and wise man, would have spoken long
ago in contradiction Of his chairman. He
will not speak in confirmation of him.
The active members Of the nation al
committee selected to do the work at the
extensive headquarters in Fifth avenue
had all been advocaves OF Nj. Blaine's
nomination. The principal officers Of tho
New York state committee, however,
James ID. Warren, tho chairman, aud
Andrew Draper. tho chairman of the oI-
ecutive committee, had opposed Mr..
Blsino's nomination, and advocated that
of the President. After their cleo
ton as chairmen they conferred
with the President, and by his
advice entered upon the work of
the campaign, and conducted 1t with tho
most jealous endeavOr to carry New York
for Blaine and Logan. No one disputes
their sincerity, zeal, and ability. Were
they true aud the administration I'M
faithfulP
Mr.. Chairman Jones has either for
gotten or willfully conceals other import.
ant facts.
During the last OF August or early
in September, at the request of Mr..
Jones, Senator Joseph Il. Hawley,
chairman of the republican congress
slonal committee, called on President
Arthur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for the
purpose of obtaining from him some adj
ditional public expression Of his interest
in the campaign which would tend to in
spirit mis- friends and the republicans gen.
orally aud strengthen the canvass for
Blaine and Logan. After full confer
ence with the President Senator Hawley
was authorized to make public the sub
stance Of the interview and to state in
such form a he chose and as forcibly as
he saw fit, the strong desire and zeal of
the President for success.
Gen. Hswley carefully prepared such a
statement, which was in the fullest do.
gree satisfactory to himself and Mr.. Jones,
and 1t was about TO be published. The
question, however, had naturally been
considered whether on the whole it would
he wise to make such publication, which
might imply that there had been a doubt
as to the Presidents earnestness in the
cause aud it was agreed that this
question should DO submitted Ia
Mr.. Chairman Jones and decided by him.
Ii was so submitted and Mr.. Jones con-
eIuded that 1t was not best that the pub.
LEGATION should BIZ made at that time but
that IL might BIO desirable to have 1t made
at u later period, and solely by reason of
Mr.. Jones's decision action was deferred.
1t continued, however, TO be distinctly
understood that Senator Hawley was at
hb0rty then, or az any later time, TO
make the publication whenever Mr.. Jones
and he thought it would be- advisable.
Here, then, we have the most complete
answer to the charge which Mr.. Jones
has since soou ht to mako, in his chagrin
ut his own want of success as political
chairman. The national and the congress
sional committees are the two national
organizations of the republican party.
Mr.. Jones was the chief Of tho first Sem
ator Hawley headed the second, and by
request of Mr.. Jones called on tho Presi
dent and obtained the fullest authority
TO speak in the lattors behalf, and omitted
to do SO only by Mr.. Jones's direction
Surely the latters mouth will DO stopped
when Senator Hawley speaks, as we call