New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-07
rDr CABLE TO THE rRlBUyE-l


Blaine by exposing SANDER is a somewhat hope
less task Still he thinks a has occurred
in which the attempt ought to be made What
he calls, and what call, the incredibly shameless
course of the Ncw-Yorl< correspondent OF Inc
Daily News of London toward Mr. Blaine during
the sitting Of the Chicago Convention ought ne
thinks 20 be fully exposed. Some part OF IL mas
been exposed in previous dispatches but MI Blaine
promised, as i tclcgraphcd you some tiihc slnce'
that these pcrfidics should be fully set Iof'h III
due season. lie could not fulfil his promise
sooner for he only reached Cluny castle la'c
Saturday evening, and rested on Sunuay' Inc
letter in which he deals with the matter Is datcd
Monday, and arrived in London "Wednesday. Two
or three Of The Daily Newss' correspondents S
false statements must even now serve as samples
for all the rest. Their name is legion.
lie tclcgraphed to London after General llarrl-
,on had been nominated that scarcely news
Gamer in the United States, except THE TRIBUNE
acnics the existence of Mr. Blaines plot to Sc
eurc the nomination for himself" This state
ment is made in the face of Mr.. Blalnes TWO
letters declining to be candidate, and OF his TWO
,cleqrams TO the Convention earnestly requesting
all friends to refrain from voting for him. For
nv part should say that this statement might
be taken as a measure OF its authors accuracy
Is The TRIBUNE the only Republican paper IN
the county? That is what he apparently means
the English public to understand and that all
other Blaine papers denounced Mr. Blaine as
plotting for q nomination which he four times
refused. If they did, then let this News cor
rcsnondcnt be deemed an honest witness.
lie further stated that while on the coaching
tour in Scotland Mr. Blame was known TO be IN
constant communication by cable with the man
ayers in Chicago. That interesting dispatch WAS
dated Sunday, during the session OF the Convcn-
tion Even if the statement had been true. ITS
author could not have known it, The assertion
was perfectly reckless, but it was not true Inc
plain truth is that Mr.. Blaine sent no telegram
whatever to any member Of the Convention or TO
ANYBODY else In America while the Convention was
in session. except the two which he directed to be
made public and which were read TO the C0nven-
tion He received but one telegram during the
sitting Of the Convention and that was in answer
to his own, notifying 10 him compliance with his
request.
During tie first four days of the Convention
Tueslay Wednesday, Thursday and Frday-Mr
Blaine was coaching with MIR. Carnegie through
The hills of Durham and Northumberland and the
adjacent border district of Scotland. On Wednes-
day he drove thrty-fvc miles over the Cheviot
nils without once seeing railway station or
telegraph Office II was simply a physical impossi
bjlity that he should keep in touch With the Con-
yentl.n at Chica;o. lie fully comprchcnded the
real drift of affairs only when he reached Edln-
burch late Saturday evening. Then he sent the
two tclcgrams which promptly stopped all posi-
bility Of his nomination These were the two
telccrams which " The Ncwss' correspondent de
scribcd as having been laughed at. with Sill
ness quite equal to his malice. he cablcd to his
paper that Mr. Blainc's tccgrams were inter
prctcd to mean that he expected his friends to go
ahead ard nominate him. provided they could do
so without causing q rupture in the party.
1t may be further stated, without the possibility
of denial. that after Mr.. Blaincs Paris letter of
MAY IL giving his reasons why he could rot
accept nomination at all, he wrote political
letter of any kind TO anybody in America, directly
or indirectly, and sent no kilograms, except the
two above mentioned from Edinburgh. Still
further from the time Mr.. Blaine sailed for Eu-
ropc in june 1887, to this hour, he has sent no
word to- and had communication from any
gentleman named for the Republican nomination
except his telegram Of cOngratulation to General
Harrison.
These facts I repeat, all given on the
direct personal authority of Mr. Blaine himself.
What then, becomes Of the tricks and plots when
IL is seen and proved that he who is accused Oh
connecting them had no communication with those
who were accused of carrying them out? BY what
The Daily News palliatc the persistent false
hoods now exposed What will Mr. Godkn say !?
II was made known here that he sought to escape
responsibility for these iniquities. " The News
correspondent has done his best to conceal In
London the fact Of his connection with :" The
Evening Post" His employers in "Ihe Daily
News" may know il or may not; the EngIsh
public is kept in ignorance. His constant quota
tions from The Evening POST would lose their
effect Gt is not great if his readers knew that he
was quoting himself or his editor in support Of
himself as correspondent.
But none the less is it true that he learned his
peculiar style from his present distinguished chief
Mr. Blaine thinks il ought further to be stated that
on various occasions since he has been in Europe
this News" correspondent has sought TO impress
on the English public that the Blaine Repub-
cans" as he calls them are in league with the
dynamite Irish in America. As the Blaine Re
publicans' are understood TO include a large ma
jorty Of the party in many States it follows that
this pupil Of Mr.. Godkin has wantonly libelled in
England some millions Of his countrymen in Amer
ica 1t is but fair says Mr. Blaine, that
Irish-Amcrcan voters should comprehend this ac-
cusation and its source"
"The London Daily News" as the organ of Mr..
Gladstone's Home Rule policy, has never seemed
aware Of the irlmcnse injury it has done Mr.
Gladstones own in suffering its correspondent
10 identity its Lost influential sympathizcrs in
America with dynamite cOnspiracics against Eng
land lie talks Of the Blainc-lrish dynamite
alliance: what would be said Of anybody who
should talk Of the Gladstone-Irsh dynamite al
lance ? There is precisely as much justification
for the one as for the other. and precisely as little
Nor ha, the English public been permitted TO know
that the open and avowcd dynamite Irishmcn OF
a.. ..io tl,a lao1c ~
bitterly hostile to Mr. Blaine and warmly sup
ported Mr.. Cleveland four years ago, as they are
confidently expected to do again.
AS / close this Dispatch | find in " The
Pail Mall Gazette an article headed The
Truth About Mr.. Blaine" by An Indignant
American" / am not the writer OF il, nor have
--.t--- l. IL l.. H.. Grni ton