Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-21
His Mind Unchanged.
MT. Blaine Still,Averse to Again
 Entering Politics.
WILL MAKE NO NEW STATEMENT
The Reports of III Health arc etStupid Conceptions of Malice"-Another Coach ing Trip this summer-Home Again Early In July.

Early in July.
 NEW YORK, May 21.-The World prints the following special cable dispatch sent by Mir. T. 0. Crawford from Paris:
 There are two questions concerning Mr. Blaine which are of particular interest just at the present moment. The first is, Whether he would accept the nomination after his letter of withdrawal written from Florence; and, second, As to the exact condition of his health, about which there have been many alarming reports.
 II have seen MT. Blaine several times with in the last three days, generally surrounded by his family. As regards the first question, it can be said that MT. Blaine adheres to his Florence letter, and does not withdraw one word of his interview in Florence. I have no authority to say more than that, as Mir. Blaine does not wish to be interviewed again on this subject. His Florence interview was so ex- plicit that the fact that he has now nothing to add to it by way of qualification should be enough to satisfy the most doubtful of MT. Blaine's enemies as to his future intentions His declarations at Florence correctly repre- sent his present state of mind.
 Although he has declined here to be inter- viewed, I have had the pleasure of spending an hour or two at his apartments His family were all present, and perhaps half a dozen other callers. The conversation was general. There were two or three attempts made by the different guests to draw out MT. Blaine on the subject of the presidential cleo tion, but he would not talk about the matter, either with regard to himself or to the other gentlemen named as candidates The only remark he made was that all of the gentle men named for Republican nomination were personally his friends. Those who associate osva hox I1,,h <,fh ic h solute good faith in withdrawing
 "Some one present chaffed him on the sup posed fact that he, as Presbyterian, had been presented to the pope and had been un- der the necessity consequent upon formal presentation to his holiness of kneeling and kissing the pontiff's hand. Mir. Blaine replied that the report of his personal presentation to the pope was erroneous He had merely been present as spectator at the Vatican when tLe French pilgrims and also when the Austian pilgrims were being presented.
 "Mr. Blaine, however, remarked, and the ladies of his family heartily corroborated the fact, that they had all received the most cordial attention in Rome, not only from those connected with the Vatican, but also from the members of the kings government. The queen, indeed, gave a special private audience to Mrs. Blaine and to the members of her family, including Miss Dodge. Alto gether MT. Blaine had very agreeable time in Italy, although he has very poor opinion of the winter in southern attitudes He de clares that he would much prefer day of the bracing cold winter in Augusta to the deceptive brightness of the treacherous win ters along the Arno, where the ice never forIIIs, but wfIeIv tue piercing cold W1nu IS far more penetrating than in New England.
 "Mr. Blaine's friends need not be at all disturbed about the reports of his ill health. These reports are stupid connections of malice, disproved to the most prejudiced by mere glance at MT. Blaine. He is looking to-day as we'll as he did in London last summer He is even more alert and vigorous in his walk, as his year of rest in Europe has done him 8 great deal of good. Although he does not see newspaper representatives at his hotel, yet he is continually coming in and going out during the day in sight of every one He drives nearly every day in the Bois de Boulogne.
 "He leaves for England in few days, and expects to reach London in the neighorhood of June 1. He goes there to meet MT. Andrew Carnegie, who has made up coach ing party to leave London about June for a straight drive to the north of 600 or TOO miles. The trip is arranged so to travel about thirty miles each day. It will take a trihe over three weeks, as the party will rest Sundays. The terminus of the drive is the Scottish place taken by Mir. Carnegie, and which is some sixty miles further north than the castle rented by him last year.
 ''This coaching trip will delay MT. Blaine's return to the United States for few weeks. He will probably sail for home early in July. He will be back long before any campaign begins, ready to take hold and assist the nominee of the Chicago convention. At the time of the Chicago convention, however, he will be on MT. Carnege's coach approaching the extreme north of Scotland, beyond the range of ordinary telegraphic communica- tion think that few of the originators of the stories of MT. Blaine's feeble health would care to take seat with him on the outside of a coach for three wee-s' steady driving. But the mere sight of the man is enough to dem- | onstrate Mir. Blaine's condition. It needs no medical expert to pass upon the bright, clear | look of his eyes, his good color and the vigor shown in every one of his movements He has to-day the health that comes to a man | as a reward for life of simple habits and ftastesn