The evening world., 1888-08-29
Bl.A INE'S HOT shot.
His Onset on Cleveland in the
American Magazine.
1.-THE Presidents Error" Is the
Title Of His Attack.
Tariff ana American Industries His
Ammunition.

Tn IMAM from Maine has loaded his
gun for bear md means to keep tho barrel
hot this campaign by repeated shots into the
enemy's ranks. One heavy load will be dis
charged ~throughthe columns of the American
Magazine for September. In this article Mr..
Blaine does a bit of sharp-shooting. He
draws q bead on no smaller game than the
President of the United States. and to his
own mind and satisfaction bowls Grover
Cleveland completely over.
The article has been kept sacredly invisible
as the mystic symbols in the Egyptian Tenn
pie. Only the President of the American
Magazine Publication Company, the editor,
Mr.. Brown, and the manager, Mr.. Davis,
have read the screed in which Blaine excori-
ates the head of the Government.
The existence of the drastic paper and it's
forthcoming publication have been widely
enough known for some time. and kilograms
from all over the country have been received
importuning the editor for a synopsis Of the
manuscript. Several of the leading papers
in Philadelphia and other large neighboring
cities sent OIL men to negotiate for q view of
the Blaine article. But each and all have
been steadily refused.
Even the directors of the magazine have
only the vagueEt idea of what the character
of the contribution il.
The EVENING WoRLD. however. through
means of information which it is not neees-
sary to disclose, had learned both the title
of Mr.. Blaine's paper and the nature of his
attack upon Cleveland. IL will bear the
somewhat oppressive heading of The Presi-
The position assumed by Blaine in the
article is that Of ensor of the President.
| He will review Uevelnd's message of De-
cember. and statistics will be the wadding
for the blaine cartridge:
He Will GO over the figures and assertions
of Cleveland and will show to his own satis-
faction and possibly TO that of many of his
Republican readers that the figures are incor-
rect and the conclusions unwarranted and
false.
To do this Mr.. Blaine will have recourse to
arithmetic himself, and will try to show that
| figures do not lie, when the figures are right.
Among other things Mr.. Blaine says:
Strangely enough me President negiect., either
serious reduction Of fne tarir would have ON the
], 80, 256 men employed IN transportation, viz. on
barges,. canal, wagon and stage lines. These varied
ways OF transportation represent an Investment Of
thousands OF millions Of dollars OF American
tons OF men, whose earnings support 1900, 900
of people. Whatever impairs American man
. nlaesn''n INTEREST," ssaiAeS lrUn ere ere, ss Sain,,. sr1n' Fee
from SPAN, coal admitted free from Nova Scotia,
ish ships at the expense Of American railroads.
The further the President goes IN the direction of
the doctrine laid down In his message, the more
direct and the more deadly IN the assault upon the
whole organization Of American industries.
The American Magazine has exhibited q
good deal of enterprise in getting from one
Of the most prominent men in the country
and the most active and aggressive of the
Republican campaign orators u oaustic ag-
g~ressiye article dealing with the most inn
portant point in the issue between the
two parties.
The keenest interest will certainly be felt
to fully See how Mr.. Blaine will deal with
such a point, and whether his words, de.
spoiled of the p~eIsonal magnetism which is
such a potent force in his oral utterance.
will exercise unusual force or fall rather
fatty on expectant ears