Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-12
MR., BLAINE'S BOOK.
A Causric Review by Hon. George
c. Gorham.
The Features of 'sTWenty Years of
COneress'' Discussed-Mr.
BIaine's Treatment of
the War, and the
Grcal Political
Events Of the
Last De-
CadF.


| Events OF the
| Last De-
From the National Republican. Washington
| ID. c.. April 2i.I
| Continued from Lcringion TnteAigencer
Of Nay %.
DEMOCRATS NIBBLING THE BAIT.
From the dav of Gartield's death
until the democratic tidal wave OF 1882
the word had been passed through the
democratic ranks in the south: "Jim
Blaine is good enough for u.s." Old
democratic war horses there were
| aghast at his popularity among their
associates, but their representatives in
congress were not. They had summer
| ed and wintered with him, and had
seen him when off duty and behind the
scenes. lie had way, as Whitelaw
Reid said of him in the Tribune in
| 1873, when he was little too neutral
tor the Tribnne's purposes), of "mut-
tering under his breath the things he
dared not speak aloud" An ex-con-
federate general, then in congress, told
me that after the speech on the Ander-
SnuyilIa n,;so, b.f,r, ,.or,,,roI A., A.
Pra;no ,,n,,. 70 80 ,,,o ,,,',,,,;o .;4 ~ ;
s,;d to him and nthors. ~ 'nI ta,,"'na ,,"o
must not mind what say; | like to be
here. in congress with you; and have
TO make such speeches TO insure my re-
election"
There is no doubt that from Oct.
1881, to Nov, 1882, as had been the
case for corresponding time IN 1874
20, Mr.. Blaine had high hopes, which
were tolerably well founded, that the
southern leaders would not dare to
risk the election of 1884 on democrat,
aud might take him. They had failed
to elect Mcclellan, Seymour, Tilden.
and Hancock. IL had been twelve
years since the Greeley fiasco, and the
time seemed ripe tor new experiment.
Ii he were selected, the testimony oi
many of "the rebel bripadiers, conlJ
be had that he was a good fellow. and
that his republicanism had been mainly
conventional. These homes were dash
ed by the overwhelming disasters,
brought on the republican party in
1882 by Mr.. Blaine and his trained
troupe of journalistic rodents. They
overdid the business. The democracy
needed no republican renegade to lead
them against the shattered columns of
their foes AS recruiting officer for
the enemy in the republican lines on
joint account, Mr.. Blaine's occupation
was gone.
THE NORTHERN p,A,Np
Tbo ,.
the nomination of the demoralized and
' ,I.o Pal'y he na.i 50 lockeyed ana
~ I anu ot sNiiiu,iy pay Jug upon
,;n ,no evo',oil vi Catnohcs 10 the Catho-
H;s,o"oo5 M 1" :. say" I've himself s, rom Deing
f,,SaI ns h,,n,unS' ~ .nJ "to . 'nlo" 'iie re-
..n,; vi ""''iouS VI tno"sa"us vi re-
Puoioahs u Vo,e ior nun.
,.i"% IaIHs ;.so, ny defeat, ms wrath unken-
~ ;n Hnm"n,. i" onI spueci PEE az MS nome
,,h;ah :" n1 anu .ne soi'" SCUM,
..nnnt;"1 o ''i,. az "ooeu t, even III ms Ie!ter
=. ".s iIp""I'a. holi','ation'
,vI,;a,, ~ 10 ~, . .ne u'"ws VI souhu WIN
'on,n"r,bia n,on n so eHe evening a'r OH 'ha'
Uno aI n s,
Eabrmon, H"'" ,iSS Se'n ,h as Ina, run MN II,
Tho o',nai,t .' """," nav INSURED
tho o u;n,a,.4 u.'IIen, a,,, ~ law ,huer W1ich
,ho sl,,th "a - oot .,'n. nave nav, peeh cnecheo III
Iaos,t ~. ,,a,,.i',' Ia ' "I,o ~
G"na,,oss s" A.. . ''o i:p"onoa"S III
,,.,, n'"'"o anu HIS
~ i"". VI .wc"y Such sPeeG!i from
.i''' ~. III 1000 wo"iu nave sa'eu virginia
t.,,..t' p:o"" party, am hiaue
t;nohto ',o" n',.n,'' -, 'ne sonu ~ south Prac-
tr,, h,, ~ .ho. 1 'o""
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u,,;, I, Of c ,
cow, 70 ao.,,, a., 49,
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no inoo" ~ ".l'i WI nia.'ie mus,
nay P'ooecuo" W prepare HIS secohu
roiu'iio ,oi ,iic press. ne Is new
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= ~ ,.,. - s;..I' mn "as
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os ., .no "o''ionl n e"ppo,'e 'e's as h'uh-
,"s 'he p'oo"iy s'lrt- lie seems 10
south tor his defe.t ma =, tha go
time IN fira tha uor,born hoov, b.,
oonnna;,,n do,n,,, 81 y!
p r'hia" hon Toouno'i a,, 'he wti!lhS vi
", ,ha .s." n e =. 'Is n,n i'i MS elale
mences Win Tho ancoss;om ,f An6uo dU
Int,,s -. .no S:ia vi ahuIew
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f,S,n =, :; 'I';an,, a,n,, ' ~ tnI mani
of tba onyorn,noa, " I,.;.r,t :" 5.y his.o.y
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contr;hut;nn 70 An,or;,.a,. I;s,.'' I,"
nitasn,na orrnrs .,,d ;,n.,a.', u
sions What ha sars nr H,l, .an.
ve,rS from 1890 IN 1881 - -
cohoront il,.r,.o,oJ n
rnsnocis ;,ononra,n " many
aud innotont oaoi,,r;','. 80 '"iio
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