Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-02-17
NR. BhAINE IvITHDRA VS.
sis letter 10 Chairmns Jones Of the
Republicans National Committee.

His letter 20 Chairmna Jones Of the
Republican National Committee.
The following letter from Hon James
G.. Blaine was given to the public last Mon
day 10y b. f. Jones Of Pittsburg, Pa, chair
man Of the National Republican committee
FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 2j, 1888
To y. =. Jo1es Esq. ChdimUt of the Re-
publican National Committee;
Sir wish through you to state to the
members of the Republican party that my
name will not he presented TO the national
convention called to assemble in Chicago in
June next for the nomination of candidates
for President and Vice President of the
United States. | am constrained to this
decision by considerations entirely personal
to myself, of which you were advised more
than year ago But | cannot make the
announcement without giving expression
to my deep sense of gratitude TO the many
thousands of my countrymen who have
sustained me SO long and so cordially that
their feeling has seemed to 20 beyond the
ordinary political adherence of fellow par
tsans and to partake somewhat of the ma
ture of personal attachment For this
most generous loyalty of friendship, | can
make no adequate return, but shall carry
the memory of it while life lasts.
Nor can | refrain from congratulating
the Republican party upon the cheering
prospects which distinguish the opening of
the national contest of 1888 as compared
with that of 1884. In 1882 the republican
party throughout the Union met with a dis
astrous defeat. Ten states that had sup
ported Garfield and Arthur in the election
Of 1880 were carried by the Democrats
either by maiorites or pluralities The Re
publican loss in the northern elections COM
pared with the preceding national election,
exceeded half a million votes, and the cleo
| toral votes of the Union, divided on the
basis of the result of 1889, gave to the
| Democrats over 300 electors out of total
of 4Ol. There was partial reaction in fla
vor of the Republicans in the elections of
| 1888 but the Democrats still held posses
sion of seven northern states, and on the
| basis of the years contest could show more
than 100 majority in the electoral colleges
of the whole country But against the dis
enlargement naturally following the ad
verse elections of these two years the spirit
Of the Republican party in the national
contest of 1894 rose high, and the Republi-
can masses entered into the campaign with
such energy that the final result depended
on the vote of single state, and that state
,l,rolit, 90 s,,,au Not IL ,.a,,r,sIa',tSl -
than one-eleventh of | per cent of the en-
tire vote The change of a single vote in
every 1000 Of the total poll would have
given the state to the Republicans, though
only two years before the Democratic plu
ralty exceeded 1872, 600.
The elections Of 1886 and 1887 have dem
onstrated growing strength in the Republi-
can ranks. Seldom in our political history
raliiaj ,,;,L ~ w.
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noIg;II, Lat,,aa,, tho s,irit 81 e., :.
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siastic r.,,ivai SbouiJ Tho ,ort,. -; :;
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tion y1as elartad With if not mon tba 20
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hro,,,Lt fnr,yord hy, tba Renocrat;,, p;
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