San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-20
MR.. BLAINE DON'T WORRY.

me one prominent republican in
the United States who seems to worry
less than any other over the cabinet
position is James G. Blaine. He has
been written i'm and out of the secre-
taryship of state at least half dozen
times since Mr.. Harrison's election:
he has been damned by the mug
wumps as unfit to hold office, and ex-
allied by the anti-mugs as he upon
whom the pillars of government rest;
he has been praised by democratic
journals as the only republican fit to
hold the portfolio of state secretary,
and denounced by others as the one
man of all others most supremely un-
worthy of place in an honest admin
istration. Mr.. Harrison has been no.
titled on the one hand that he must
have nothing to do with Mr.. Blaine if
he would make his administration
popular, and he has also been warned
that if he leaves Mr.. Blaine without
the tender of an important cabinet
position he will forfeit the confidence
and support of thousands of ardent
republicans. To all of these sug-
gestions Mr.. Harrison makes no
response, and the party and the coun-
try may rest assured that when the |
president-elect determines to take |
action he will do so for the best inter-
ests of the administration as he views
those interests, unmoved by threats
and unipf1uenced by cajoleries. In
the mean time Mr.. Blaine moves OH
calmly and undisturbed, giving no
sign, save when directly appealed to.
that he has even heard of the matter
which seems in the minds of so many
to so nearly concern himself. Mr..
Blaine's attitude is as straight-for-
ward and dignified now as it was dur
ing that uncertain period pending the
Chicago nomination. There is no
manner of doubt that Mr.. Harrison
the ingram manhood of
MIR. Blaine in his attitude before the
Chicago convent on, and there is
equally good reason to believe that he
now and appreciates the
Independent broad gauge character of
Mr.. Blaine's republicanism i'm the
present condition of affairs. There is
very little doubt that these two repre-
sentative men have full understand {
ng of the situation, and that the pet !
" spite and malice which would pur-
sue Mr.. Blaine to the death finds only
unqualified condemnation in the
mind of the president-elect. 1t is
rue that the republican party is larg- {
'r, much larger, than any member of {
t, but it is also true that Mr.. Blaine
has played very important and a
yery honorable part on the stage of
hat party and that it's history would
De very imperfectly written with the
lame of the "Plumed Knight" left
'ut. 1t is true, also. that Mr. Blaine
las fully earned all the hOnors he |
las received at the hands of his party,
md that all he has received has t,
ome spontaneously from the people
Who delighted to do him honor.
should Mr.. Harrison not desire Mr.. ,
assistance and acknowledged
abilities in his cabinet, that gentle
nan will be the last man to take Of
ense at the appointment of another.
lie will be, as heretofore, the man q
Who IS too much AN American to re-
use his service stO his country in any =
position In which he can better serve
Ter than another, too much a repub- c
lean to refuse his services to his party '
because he finds others preferred be-
ore him. Mr.. Blaine is not only a ,
tatesman in the true acceptation of
hat term, he is large minded man
md does not descend to the little
less of the ordinary political parti-
an. He has too broad grasp of af- :
airs to be a pessimist and is too
randy proportioned to be measured
n the minims of the mugwump
mind. In Harrison's cabinet or out
4 it, at the head of affairs or i'm re- .
irement, James G. Blaine will stand a
ut upon the page of American his /
Dry as it will be written in the future {
far grander character than his enc
MES, or even many of his friends, !
Inspect.