Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-02
BLAINE VERIFIES IT..
He Says EmphaticaIIY He viii Not
Permit His Name TO be Used Be-
fore the Chicago Convention.
He Retires in Favor of No Particular
Candidate-WilI Remain Abroad
Until After the Nomination.
BE lie Convinced of a Republican Victory if
the Isaue is Made on tho Tariff.
Reasons for Withdrawing.
BLAINE INTERVIEWED.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The World this
morning publishes s three-column inter
view with Mr.. Blaine, which was c.bled
from France by T. C. Crawford, the
Washington correspondent for the World,
who Is now In Europe. Mr. Blaine in
the course of g long conversation distinct
" asserted that under no circumstances
whatever would he slow his name to be
used in the connection with the mex
Presidential nomination. BE insists Cd
the sincerity OF his withdrawal ard as
serts that he had made up his mind ihere
10 long ago. he considers first that any
man whose name has been associsted
with q defeat In q Presidential campaign
OWES IT TO HIS PARTY
not to allow himself to be r~e-nomlnsted,
and, secondly, ne is unequal to facing the
fstigues, worry and excitement Of another
CANVASS. Mrs. Blaine and the other
members Of his family are most emphatic
in their approval of his withdrawal which
Is definite ana neither hasty nor recent in
his decision.
MI. Blaine declines to express himself
on the subject of Republican Candidates
now in the field, but asserts that he did
not retire in favor of any particular one
Of them. He is convinced of Republi-
can victory, b8siDg his conviction ia par
Ncular
ON THK Ri QUESTION.
When Mr.. Blsine was ASKED the direct
question whether he would under eny
circumstances permit his name to be used
again as q candidate, he replied in q most
emphatic negative, but then added: 81
do not wish to Z AXE any new sttifmations
on the subject l Ave said all that l wish
to say upon this subject in that l5tter.
That letter, Is you must know, Was not
sn CT hand sfair. II was the result OF
much elaboration and careful thought.
You will remember that ] told you Ia
Paris last DCcGmbsr that l mad no tnten-
tons OF being s candidate again, and that
l had practically made up my mind at that
time to forbid the use Of my name in the
approaching convention"
Isl hold" he said later In the CONVEX
sstion, "thst L nave TO right TO be a Can
didate again. A man who has NICE been
the Candidate Of his party and been de-
teated owes II to nis party to withdraw
and not be a candidate
A sEeoND TINE.
More than this, there is another plain
reason for my withdrawal, l could not go
kuiOAEh elAE q oah ~ 80 ~ HAOhAN4
such presidential CANVASS il l accepted
the nomination, and TO do less than be-
fore would be impossible"
Mr.. Crawford mus concludes: Toward
the close OF my lssu call l asked Nj.
Blaine when re expected to return 70
America lie ssid that be expected to
reach New York ABOUT the last Of June.
He expects TO spdud the late spring In
Loadon. He has not yet determined
upon his movements after leaving Flor
ence. He will PROBABLY go straight to
Englsnd from I.al5. He said with IN = T
Of frarSness not to be mistaken, ''you
have no idea what relief Is Is to me
to think L an now out of
the csnVAss, aud that when 1 go back to
New York in the summer l shall not be
going back there TO face reception after
reception, and 10 enter into the turmoil
and excitement Of s political CANVASS. 1
can now go hack quietly after the con-
Tention has once decided the result and
enjoy my own life in my " way, free, l
hope, from farther critIciEm or comment"