The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-16
George O. Gorham's Merciless Ex-
posture of His Pretensions.
His Selflshness and His Treacheries
to His Party.
The Political Rascalities OF q Posi-
BILE Secretary Of State.
His Scandalous Peruvian Policy-A
Shameless Political Corruptionist--
His Cowardice and His Gall-Re-
publican Disaster Attribut-
able to Him.

From Beliord's Magazine.
The evidence accumulates that should
Mr. Harrison be made President, Mr..
Blaine will be his Secretary OF State.
Chauncey Depew, OF the New York Gem
trail, and Creed Raymond, of the Central
Pacific OF California, have said it; and Sen.
ator Staniord's personal California organ,
the Sacramento Record. Union, states edi.
torially that gentleman at San Francisco
has in his possession q letter, signed by
MIR. Harrison, giving the assurance that it
will be So Tho ECGaiHg Posi-, in quoting
this unreserved statement OF the Record.
Union, mentioned William II. Mills as the
editor OF that paper. The New York
Tribune, which is the only original Court
journal OF the Uncrowned King, quotes
the entire story as told by the Post, and
theoretically denies-that Mr. Mills is
now the editor OF the Record Union, and
denies nothing else. What is thus con.
spicuously lett undenied is as good Us in
dorsed, and who will doubt that the 7ri-
bme editor knows what part Mr.. Blaine is
TO play2
II is therefore toleraby safe TO assume
that the present national political contest
is TO determine whether Mr. Cleveland
shall be President, or Mr.. Harrison the
titular President, with Mr.. Blaine as Re.
gent This is all in strict harmony with
the immense preparations made for Mr..
Baine's reception on his arrival from.
Scotland, and the easy assurance with
which he has mounted the box OF the
Republican tally-ho and taken the reins
into his own hands.
The Republican National Committee and
the Senate are evidently alarmed at times
with Mr.. Blaine's driving around the
curves, but It is safer for them TO keep
their seats than TO get out, and Mr.. Harri-
son has the right by courtesy TO say who
shall drive.
In this view Of the situation n brief re-
view OF Mr.. Blaine's antccedents NJ q leg.
islalor, premier aud a party leader would
seem TO be in order.
His humble beginning in the service Of
his country in the national field, as the
agent and lobbyist OF the Spencer Rifle
Company ut Washington, during the first
year OF the war, * already familiar to most
people, and shines out ~ a striking eN-
ample Of the smallncss OF the acorns from
which, under our liberal institutions, the
tallcst oaks may grow.
From the lobby to the floor was but a
step. and from 1868 TO 1876 he repre-
sented one OF the Name districts In the
lower House Of Congress. lie voted with
his party during the war, and attracted no
attention. In 1866 hc made himself the
champion OF the bounty Jumpers, whose
criminal practices, ON gigantic scale, led
10 the abolition OF the Provost. Marshal
Generals Bureau Of the War Department
During the johnson inlerregnum he
was credited with efforts 10 secure enough
Republicans Of easy political virtue, like
himself when joined with the Democrats,
10 stall his party in the work Of recon.
slTuctiun.
In 1867 Ne offered m amendment TO the
military RECONSTRUCTION bill reported from
the joint Committee on Reconstruction,
the adoption u which Thaddeus Stevens
said "would be an entire surrender Of
those States into the hands OF the rcbcls."
In 1871, when, according TO Blaine the
historian, there were vicious organza-
uUns In the South, with the leaders Of
which murder was an occupation, and
perjury pasiimo" (sce Blaine's Twenty
Years Of Congress-" vol. Ii. p. 1851, Blaine
the Representative lent himself To the
opposition In an effort 10 defeat tho meas.
urc for the protection Of citizens agreed
on In party caucus Of which he was q
member. This fact appears IN the record
OF the proceedings OF the House OF Repre-
sentaliyes Of March 10, 1871, In the
Coagr siOndi Gi0be.
Ia 1870 he did precisely the same thing
again, and aided the Democratic side II
the House by arbitrary and unfair rulings,
as Speaker, In their favor, TO defeat the
will Uf the majority and delay the passage
Of the caucus measure for the protection OF
citizens until II WIS too late 10 be consid-
cred In the Senate. This will appear by
reference 10 iho debates In the House Of
Representatives Of February 2i.27, iS1j,in
the Congregational RECORD.
AZ the same session he appointed COM
miiicc Of Cong css 10 Whi,ewash the White
Lcagucrs OF Louisiana, aud fratcnized po-
liically With the New York Tribune editor
Immediately after the latter had published
In his paper JANUARY q, 1870 a letter say.
ing 1T would be blessing 10 the country
II some one would play Brutus TO his
president Gmnt'sl Cesar"
It's known that Mr.. Blaine was think
ing all that winter OF the possibility OF his
nomination for the Presidency by the
Democratic party Ia return for his services
20 the South, and that his supporters had
assurances from him that he would take
the floor on the Force bill and openly de.
clare against his party. His courage failed
bin at the supreme moment. and lac con.
tnued TO DRIFT along nominally Us n Re-
publican.
When the House became Democratic he
sought 20 rcinstalc himself with the party
he had deserted aud betrayed. To that
end lac made narrowing speech on the
subject Of the treatment Of fcdcial prison.
cB during the war, twelve years before
That was the most recent issue on which
he had been In accord with the party. At
every stage Of affairs aficrward lac had done
his best to trip IL, while keeping along
with II lest Il might continue In power,
and he had thus sought and earned the
political friendship OF "thc Conf, dcrato
Brigadicrs" When chidden by some Of
them for this fierce philippe on the south,
he explained 10 them the necessity he WIS
under 10 say something that would sm)o,h