Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-27
BLAINE'S WITHDRAWAL.
A Correspondent GETS A FoRcIRLE
ADDITION THERETO.

The Maine Statesman Puts His Purpose
PLAIN Enough for Every body to Under.
stand-Wouldn't Accept u Nomination II
1t Was offered, aud Ills Reasons There
for--uis Future Movements.
NEW YoRK, Feb. % The Sunday World
| contained three column interview With Mr.
| Blaine, which had boon cabsd from Florence
| by I. C. Crawford, for some time The
Worlds correspondent in Washington and
now in Europe Mr.. Blaine, in the course
Of long conversation, distinctly asseated
that under no circumstances whatever,
| would he allow his name to be ussd in con-
| hection with the nexC presidential nomina-
| ton. Ii inSlstel on Cho sincerity OF MS with
| lra"al aud asserted that lie made up his
mind thereto long ago, He considers, first,
| that any man whose name has been ascot
at, with defeat IN a presidential cam
pagn owes iC To his party not to allow hun
self to b. reno nliutei; and, secondly, he Is
unequal to facing tao fatlgusj, worry, and
excite niOnt of another canvas, ali the more
as he would feel himself bound TO work Us
hard as on previous occasions
Mis-. Blaine and tho other members o. bis
hfumny are most eiupnatlc in their approval
Of Ia withdrawal, which is dehnltiYe and
neither hasty nor rocent IN its decision. Mr.,
B,atuo will not return from Europe until
Juue, and not until after tho Republican
convention. He declines to express himself
on the sal ject of the Republican candidates
i'll the Ii I'd, DuG asserts tuat ne did not retire
IA fLv,r Of aHy particular one OF thom. He
Is convinced OF Republican yciory basing
hi, conviction III particular vi Lne tariff
question.
Wren Mr. Blaine was asked the direct
gu ,stiun whether he would, under any cir
cumstlncus, permit his name to De used
again As II candidate he replied in the most
emphatic negative, but then added: 81 do
not " ISL TO maze amy new aitirmatlous upon
the suffice. | have said all that l wish TO
say ulon this subj sct in that letter That
letter, you must know, was not a hsphHz-
ard, Cif-Aand affair IL was the result OF
much dollDerution and careful Thought You
vii remember that l told you IN Paris last
December that | had no intention OF being
canuidate again, aud that had practically
made up my mind at that time ~ forbid The
use Of my name in the approaching conven'
ton.
# hold, he said later in the converse ton,
THAT | have no right to be a candidate again"
a man who has once been the candidate Of
nis party and defeated owes it to his party t.
withdraw and not be candidate second
time. More than this, tuere is another PLAIN
reason Tor my Withdrawing. coulu not go
TIN ough the burden AMI fatigue OF another
presidential canvass-such Il one as the can
vass Of the last campaign. To accept q nomi-
nation and to do less than before would be
impossible"
Mi. Crawford thus concludes his dispatch
Steward the close of my last call / asked Mr..
Blaine when he intended to return to Amer
lea. He said that lie expected TO reach New
York lbOut the last OF June. He expected
to spend the late spring in London. He has
not yet determined upon hiss movements.
Alter leaving florence he will probably 10
straight TO Eus and from Italy. He SAID, with
all of traukness not to DO mistaken:
You have ITO idea what a relief il is to me
10 think | am now out of the canvass, and
that wien | come back to New York in the
summer that | shall not be gong back there
to face reception at er reception, and to en-
ter into the turmoil aud excitement OF po-
Htical canvass. l can now come back quiet
Iy, alter the convention has once decided the
result, aud enjoy my. own life in my own
way, free, hope, from further criticism or
commeut.'"