The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-02-17
BLAINE NOT 4 CANDIDATE.

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His Name Win Not Be Presented Before the
Republican National Convention.
An Able Review Of the Situation.
P1rTsBURa, Feb. 12.-The Commercial
Gazette will publish the following to-mor'
row: Mr.. j. B. Jones, Chairman of the Ma
tional Republican Committee, has received
. letter from Mr.. Blaine declining to allow
his name to be presented to the National
Republican Convention ~ Z candidate for
the Presidency. Mr.. Jones, when asked
prevent his friends from nominating him
anyhow, said: Gas | am chairman of tie
National Committee, l do not think it would
be proper for me to have anything to say on
that subject"
"Do you think Mr.. Blaine would accept
the nomination if tendered?"
81 have no authority to speak for Mr..
Blaine, and have no conjectures to offer on
the subject. The letter speaks for itself, and
I must decline to be interviewed on the
question:"
The following is Mr.. Blaine's letter in full:
FLORENCE, Italy, Jan. 25, 16ss.-B. F.
Jones, Esq, Chairman of the Republican
| National Committee-SIR: I wish through
you to state to members of the Republican
party that my name will not be presented to
the National Convention called to assemble
IN Chicago in June next for the nomination
Of candidates for President aud Vice Presi-
dent of the United States.
I am constrained to this decision by con-
siderations entirely personal to myself, of
| which you were advised more than . year
ago. But I cannot make the announcement
| without giving expression to ..@.MM=M.
NY DEEP SENSE OF GRATITUDE
To the many thousands of my countrymen,
who have sustained me so long and so cor
daily that their feeling has seemed to 60
beyond the ordinary political adherence Of
fellow partisans and to partake somewhat Of
the nature of personal attachment. For this
most generous loyalty of friendship I can
make no adequate return, but I shall carry
the memory of it while life lasts. Nor can
I refrain from
CONTEMPLATING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Upon the cheering prospects which distin.
guish the opening of the national contest Of
1888 Is compared with that of 1884. In
1882 the Republican party throughout the
Union met with 4 disastrous defeat. Ten
states that had supported Garfield and Ar
thur in the election of 1880 were carried by
the Democrats, either by majorities or plu.
%rslities. The Republican loss in the north
ern elections, compared with the preceding
elections, exceeded . half million votes, and
electoral votes of the Union, divided on the
basis Of the results Of 1884, gave the Demo.
Gratis over three hundred electors out of .
total of four hundred and one. There was .
partial reaction In favor of the Republicans
in the election 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 col
lege of the whole country. But against the
discouragenent naturally following the i'd
verse elections of these two years, the spirit
of the Republican masses entered into the
campaign with such energy that the final
result depended upon the vote of a single
State, and that State was carried by the
Democratic party by = plurality SO small
that it represented less than one eleventh of
one per cent. of the entire vote. The change
of = single vote in every two thousand Of the
total poll would have given the State to the
Republicans, though only wi years before
the Democratic plurality exceeded one hun
dred and ninety-two thousand. The elections
Of 1886 and 1887 have demonstrated the
growing strength in the Republican party.
SELDOM IN OUR POLITICAL HISTORY
Has = party, defeated in q national election,
rallied Immediately with such vigor as have