Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-15
BLAINE w|THDRAws.
His Name Not to Be Presented to the
National Republican Convention.
He Is Careful to Omit Any Reference
to Refusing the Nomination.
Another Of the Magnetic Statesman's
D0dges TO Posture In Public.
WhistliDg to Keep Up His Own Cour-
age and That Of His Henchmen.

Whistling to Keep Up His Own Coul
! age and That of His Henchmen.
PrrsBURG, February 12.-The CONNER
cial Gazette will publish the following te
morrow: Mr.. B. Jones, Chairman OF th
National Republican Committee, has n
ceived q letter from Mr.. Blaine declinin
to allow his name to be presented to tn
National Republican Convention as can
didate for the Presidency. Mr.. Jones whel
asked whether Mr.. Biaine's declinatiol
would prevent his friends from nominatin
him anyhow, said: 'As am Chairman o
the National Committee, I do not think i
would be proper for me to have anything
to say on that subject"
"Do you think Mr.. Blaine would accept
the nomination il tendered?"
II have no authority to speak for Mr.
Blaine. and have no conjectures to offer OF
the subject. The letter speaks for itself
and must decline to be interviewed OF
the question"
The following is Mr.. Blaine's letter ir
full:
BLAINE's LETTER.
FLORENCE, Italy, January 25, 1885,
B. F. JONES, Esq, Chairman OF the Repub-
lican National Committee-SIR: I wish
through you to state to the members of the
Republican party that my name will not
be presented to the National Convention
ll>rJ %1 So -
for the nomination of candidates for
President and Vice-President of the United
States.
am constrained to this decision by con-
siderations entirely personal to myself of
which you were advised more than year
ago. But cannot make the announce
msnt 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 90 beyond the ordinary
political adherence OF fellow partisans and
to partake somewhat of the nature of
personal attachment. For this most gen.
erous loyalty of friendship, I can make no
memory OF it while life lasts. Nor can I
refrain from congratulating the Republi-
can party upon the
CHEERING PROSFECT6
which distinguish ths opening of the Ma
tional contest of 1888, as compared with
that of 1884. In 1882, the Republican
party throughout the Union met with
defeat. Ten. states that had
Garfield and Arthur in the elec-
tion of 1880, were carried by the Demo-
Gratis either by majorities or pluralities.
Tho Ram h1ina 1ooo in tho n0rtharn o1oo.
tions, compared with the preceding elec-
tions exceeded half million votes, and the
basis of the results OF 1884, gave the
over three hundred electors out
of total of four hundred and one. There
was partial reaction in favor OF the Re-
publicans in the elections of 1883, but the
Democrats still held possession of seven
Northern states and on the basis Of the
years contest could show more than
ONE HUNDRED MAJORITY
in the electoral College OF the whole coun-
try. But against the encouragement
following the adverse elections OF
these two years, the spirit of the Republi'
can masses entered into the campaign with
su ch energy that the final result depended
on the vote Of a single State, and that
State was carried by the Democratic party
by II plurality so small that it represented
the entire vote. The change OF a single
vote in every two thousand Of the to al
poll would have given the State to the
though only two years before.
the Democratic plurality exceeded one
hundred and nipety-twO thousand. The
elections of 1886 and 1887 have demon
strated
THE GROWING STRENGTH
in the Republican ranks. Seldom i'll our
political history has party, defeated in a
national election, raj led Immediately with
such vigor as have the Republicans since
1884. No comparison is possible between
the spirit of the party in 1929, and its
spirit in 1857. The two periods present
singly contrast-the one OF general DE-
the other of enthusiastic revival.
Should the party e .n in the result OF
1888, over those OF 1857, ia anything
like the proportion OF the gain of 1884
over 1923, it would secure one of the
most remarkable victories OF it's entire ex-
istence. But victory does not depend on
80 large a ratio of increase. The party has
only to maintain relatively it's prestige OF
l8S6-S7 to give to It's natinnal candidate
eyery Northern State but one, with Tar
better prospect of carrying that one than
it has bad for the past six years.
ANOTHER FEATURE
Of the political situation should inspire Re-
publicans with irresistible strength. The
present National Administration was
elected with-if not upon-the repeated as
sertions of it's leading supporters in every
protection State that no issue on the
tariff was involved. However urgently
Republicans urged that question as the
one of controlling Importance in the cam
paign, they were met by the Democratic
leaders and journals with persistent eva
sion, concealment and denial. That re-
source the President has fortunately re.
moved. The issee which the Republicans
maintained, and the Democrats avoided in
1884, has been prominently and speciil-
cally brought forward by the Democratic
Prssident and cannot be hidden out of
sight in 1888. The country is now in the
enjoyment OF an industrial system which
in quarter of q century has assured
larger NatioDalgrowth,a a more rapid &C
emulation and broader distribution
of wealth than were ever before known to
history.
will now be openly and formally asked to
decide whether this system shall be reck'
lessly abandoned and a new trial be made
of an old experiment which has uniformly
led to national embarrassment and wide
spread individual distress. On the result
OF such an issue fairly presented to popu
lar judgment, there is no room for doubt
One thing only is necessary to insure sue
cess. Complete harmony and cordial Co
operation on the part OF all Republicans
on the part both OF those who aspire tc
lead and of those who are eager to follow
The duty is not merely of honorable devo
ton to the party whose record and whose
aims are alike great, but it is one demanded
by the instinct of seli-interest, and by tn.
still higher promptings OF patriotism:
closer observation Of tho conditions OF lii
among the older nations gives one NOR
intense desire that the American people
shall
MAKE NO MISTAKE
in choosinp the policy which inspires labor