St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-22
The Kennebec Statesman Anxious to Place
Himself in Position to Be De-
feated Again,
But Mrs. Logan May Oircumvent Him by
Obtaining That Honor for the
Illinois Warrior.
The Plumed Knight Bent on Beating
His Party If His Party
Beats Him.
Mrs. Logan Adroitly Playing HeI
Cards From Columbia Heights,
Washington.
VIII be RIaine or Loganl

IN our American political code that no
sooner are elections determined for presI-
dent, vice president, senators, representa-
tlyes and governors of states than forth
with seed is sOwn for 4 new crop, and plot
tingS commence for the succession. The
lapse OF time intervening, from one to six
years, is not matter of moment. Time is
taken by the fOrelock, and the work
goes brayely one. Mr.. Hayes
stands as the example Of isolation
on the question of single presidential
term, but he came to regret that he had
thus irrevoeably committed himself, even
though he must have realized the futility of
attempting to secure denomination, much
less n reelection. The fact that he repudi-
ated at the outset all desire or claim for a
second term subjected him to the slings and
arrows OF the politicians who regarded him
as only
THE LOCUM TENENS
of the White house for four years, then to
be relegated to the extreme rear for all time
to come. Hence he was denied the ines
tlmable American privilege of intriguing
for the presidential succession, with its
myriad compromises and huckSterings.
When Mr.. Blaine, defeated for the presi-
oeney, pulled up stakes at Washington and
retreated to Augusta, Me-, every nerve
tingiing with modification and consumed
by bitter feelings against the Mugwumps,
Independents and Prohibitionists, who had
combined against him in the late preSiden-
tlal canvass, he resolved TO have ''horrible
revenge" From that hour to the present
he has devoted his existence to the fOrmu-
lation of plans and devices not so much to
reootaln the presidential nomination as to
THwARr THE AMBITIONS
OF other aspirantS, and, as is alleged by
those VINO claim to know, to place the Re-
publican party in the condition of absolute
submission to his leadership or the alterna-
tive OF irTemediable defeat by the Demo-
cratic party in 1888. The Republican man
ayers at Washington now comprehend that
Mr. Blaine is candidate fur the presiden-
tlal nomination under those auspices, and
the fact causes great uneasineSS in many
quarters. 1t is fully understood that Mr..
Blaine proposes to chaSten the Republican
party and subject it TO another period of
famine in the event that lie shall be denied
the supreme command, building upon the
hypothesis that the dispOSseSSed Repub-
lican eX-officialS from Maine to Alaska will
make any concessions to be returned to the
flesh pots, and, 10 that end, sacrifice CLIQUE
and faction upon the altar of possible Re-
publican success under his candidacy.
Naturally this condition
DESTROYS THE HOPES
so fondly indulged in by the anti-Blaine
sentiment within the Republican ranks.
that the result of the campaign of 1884 was
an etfectual riddanee of the Blaine old-man-
Of-the-Sea, and that, therefore. by pa
tently biding the ideS of November 1883,
the Republican party would regain pos
nf In
a compromise leadership, with the
old-time jealousies and animosities of the
Blaine. COnkling, Edmunds, Curtis and other
warning elements, thoroughly eliminated.
The theory was advanced with much en-
phasis that the Democratic party, unable to
cope with prosperity, and having so many
persons on its hands to claim rewards
would perpetrate so many political Offenses
and tall into such Superabundant error that
before four years of power should roll
away, II would stand upon its apex rather
than upon its base, and hence be easily
overtOppled. But at the very acme of self
cOngratulatiOn the Blaine ''banshee'' reap
pears and
STALKS THE REPUBLICAN LAND,
to the special annoyance and disapp0int-
ment OF those cOadjutatOrs of Mr.. Blaine.
ambitious TO be selected by him to succeed
TO WELD his sceptre and peTpetuate the
Blaine dynasty. This perturbation on the
part of the Blaine contingent affords con-
siderable satisfaction to the anti-Blaine
Republicans. who exhibit it as evidence
that the Blaine ghost ''will not down." and
insist that these gentlemen must continue
either to worship the idols of the Blaine
baal or join hands in revolt which shall
forever extinguish his political light.
1t is manifest in Washington that
Gen. Logan and his immediate
friends are working with more assiduity
and shrewdneSs at this juncture to dismem-
Der the Blaine corpus than any other. Gen.
LOgan's campaign for the presidential NOM
ination in 1884 was not made upon any
settled plan of political strategy, his hopes
of success being centered upon the belief
that
THE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT
between Blaine and Arthur would result in
drawn battle and, aided by the soldie
element Logan would come to tn e from
with wild Western hurrah. In this he
was disappointed, and much to the chagrin
of many of his admirers accepted the ''chil-
tern hundreds" of the vice presidential
nomination. These friends now assert
that, much as they were diSpleaSed by Gen.
LOgan's acceptance of the vice presidential
nomination, they now recognize it was for
the best, since it has operated to widen the
acquaintance of the country and give him
the benefit of national rather than local
political prominence. They also urge that
the events of the late presidential campaign
have largely subdued Logan's fiery tenn
perament, and made him broader and more
conservative in dealing with men and
things. That the Logan managers in
Washington realize the danger that LoganS
candidacy for the
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1883
is likely TO incur at the hands OF Mr.. Blaine,
is atteSted by the circumSpection with which
they are surveying the ground and fOrtify-
ing at all points. The ablest lieutenant
now marshaling his forces is Mrs. Logan,
and she has adroitly taken advantage of the
widespread social festivities of the capital
during the past season to ingratiate herself
and the general with every element calcIl-
lated TO render substantial return. Mrs.
Logan was wise enough to- see that the
cTamped quarters of Mrs. Rhine's pleasant
clearinghouse would no longer serve
her purposes, and hence the
purchase and occupancy OH Columbia
Heights of the old ''stone" mansion. with
its spacious halls and rooms, decorated i'm
the ancient style, which has been made the
modern Mecca since the assembly of con-
gress, to which a goOdly array of resident
and visiting politicians have made pilgrim
age and received welcome. While Mr..
Blaine has perched himself upon the
MT. OLYMPUS AT AUGUSTA,
there to forge and thence to hurl his
thunderbolts, Mrs. Logan has contented
herself to occupy the helicon overlooking
the city of Washington, and made itsacred.
so to speak, to the political masses. That
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