The Press., 1886-07-15
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
From The Worlds Washington correspondence.l REMARKABLY FRANK TALK IN A GREAT
 DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL.

REMARKABLY FRANK TALK IN GREAT
 DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL.
 If the situation does not change in very marked degree, MT. Blaine will be the candidate of the republican party in 1888. All the signs and all of the talk of the leading republicans point that way. The republicans who do not like him fear his nomination, and those who like him de- voutly hope as they have never hoped be- fore. There is absolutely no one in sight on the republican horizon but MT. Blaine. He has a prominence that 1t would b. foolish to deny or to attempt to ignore. As simple private citizen his utterances now attract more attention than would those of any official at Washington, except, perhaps, the president Certainly no member of the cabinet has anything like his command upon the popular attention. No member of the senate or house is so great an object of interest. If Mir. Blaine were to revisit Washington today I am certain that his every movement at the capital would be as carefully scrutinized and noted as are MT. Cleveland's acts. This enormous interest in MT. Blaine is fact carefully noted by the politicians. They see that he was never less out of politics than at the present time. They see every paragraph written about him copied from Maine to California, and have studied the effect of the Portland speech of Citizen Blaine, which was cabled to the London papers only to become a general
 topic of European discussion. They con- cede that Mr. Blaine to-day is the master
 of the republican situation. If he is not re-nominated in 1888 no one who is op- posed to him can be.
 One of the peculiar things to be noted
 ill this connection is the unceasing activi- ty of MT. Blaine's enemies. Now that he
 is in private life he is still as much of a
 target almost as if he were in public place.
 If the weather happens to be bad in Maine
 the condition of affairs is credited to the
 malign influence of MT. Blaine. An anti Blaine man never reasons He just hates
 and hates on with an energy and abandon
 that know no rest. The abuse of Mr.
 Blaine with the anti-Blaine people has de-
 scended to a rub-a-dub. It has gotten be- yond reason into the realm of mere un-
 reasoning noise. Those who do not ad-
 mire MT. Blaine's politics, and who do not
 think he would make a good president, need not feel obliged to continue to throw
 mud at one of the most interesting men in politics. There is so little in politics that Is of interest that every one should pray for long life to Citizen Blaine, whose
 mere presence among the living gives a
 fllip to the consideration of every possible political speculation.
 A veteran democrat said to me yester- day: ''The day of the talking scandal about Blaine is in the past Everything that can be said about him has been said, } while today he has greater individual hold upon the people than any man ill the country. There is no use in taking about the dead matters of the last campaign. : The Pan-Electric statesmen have supplied 1 new issues. The party that supports an administration that carries Attorney Gen. eral Garland and his staff of pan-electriC associates need to ask the people to helI } it rebuke Blaine's candidacy" This talk is common among the better class of dem, ocrats. They say that they honestly ad
 vocated reform during the campaign, and
 made themselves almost ill in their en.
 thusiastic description of the reforms to be
 brought out by democratic administra-
 ton of the affairs of the government.
 They see now no real change in the ad F ministration of affairs at Washington l. They see the corporation powers which 2 have so long controlled Washington laying it's plans to have and to hold the new ad : ministration. They see democratic com
 mittee in the house unanimously report ( : stock jobbing extension bill in the interest 8 of the Pacific railroad gang of plunderers @ without a word of protest from the admin : istration officials charged with the super vision of these roads. They see this swin
 dle of the governments interest stopped
 in the house only through newspaper pub
 licity, and wonder if the president could k not take his mind from the consideration ' of few petty pension papers to see if h,
 could not do something to secure the gov e ernment's interest in the enormous debt O e e the Pacific railroads, now reaching thu
 colossal height of one hundred odd mil
 lions of dollars. Good work in this direc
 tion would incline the people to look right l. ly upon the awful crime of signing uncon e sidered few doubtful pension cases.
 e A number of discouraged democrats wht
 have been carefully studying the situation
 Washington are beginning to ask them
 selves how much worse off would the,
 have been had MT. Blaine been elected
 president. They see the departments stil . under the control of the very elements 8, 70 denounced by them during the last cam n paign. They see an administration ab '9 sorbed in petty details, having no broad 5 general policy. They see the corporation s more triumphant than ever. They see n, 2 prospect of any change or any outlining o 70 70 any new general policy.
 B The presidents course is the very one t z help MT. Blame s prospects as republican 'S candidate. The negative course of the ad 70 ministration leaves the opposition part D nothing to do. There are no aggression '5S to resist. The record of republican misdo
 ing is left undisturbed. On account o this lack of active discussion there is n % chance for the development of new reput F lican leaders. Mir. Blaine to-day is tn ,o chief of his party, and will undoubtedly s T remain until the next republican campaign 9 It is on account of his prominence and hi 5 leadership that the canvass in Maine thu go summer promises to be so interesting 177 is not because there will be any real COT IF test. The interest will arise wholly fror Ia the fact that all of the prominent republ 20 can leaders have been invited to speal 45 the understanding that the issues mad 90 ,oro to ho tho.o oe tlo ,,,o; 5s4:l -
 paign of 1888.