Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-26
GORHAM ON BLAINE.
The Maine Leader False to Party.
Country and President.

Country and President.
His leadership during the administra-
ton of Garfield is history. He was false
to country, to party and to the President.
He bartered with Southern Democratic
Senators for their votes in the Senate to
secure the political destruction of Roscoe
Conkling, and delivered Republican Vir-
ginia back to Democracy as tho consider
alton, thus making the South again solid.
He bred the disturbances which unset
tied the weak head of the half breed
Guiteau, who assassinated the President
after praising him in writing for his treat
ment of Conkling. After he was dis
missed from Office by President Arthur,
he became the pet of a large element
among the Southern Democrats, and dur
ing tie summer of 1882 the word was
passed among them that he would do for
them. None knew better than they and
"Jim Blaine was good enough for me-
was familiar form OF greeting among
them.
In 1884 he and lis crew in New York
broke down the Republican party and
gave the State to Cleveland. The party
never rallied from this, and never will
under the lead of those who then struck
it down. The Democratic party had
then no further Use for Mr.. Blaine's SER
vices, for they could win without his
assistance.
In 1884, after he had destroyed the
party and made the election of any can
didate impossible, he sought and OBJ
tanned the privilege of going down with
a captains uniform on his back on the
quarterback of the ship he had scuttled.
He then gave hoarse howl at Augusta
against the South, whose instrument he
had 80 often been and subsided.
Painful and laborious efforts were made
during the last year by all who wanted
him in Office for their own purposes to
make him appear a popular candidate.
But, like Alfred Jingle's "Brummagem
buttons" they were emo CO." He wanted
nomination, yet he feared it. He de-
clined it in advance, and then intrigued
for it. Timid, weak and vacillating, his
ambition unslaked, but the road to its
qualification beset with horrid Gorgons
his record had evoked, ne had drifted in
and out of the political current as caprice
and the condition of his health and
spirits have dictated. The real Blaine
shouters having held him up at Chicago
and had him slaughtered, now with
equal want of sense haul him about the
country as a rare show, reminding one
of nothing so much as the crier outside
the door Of show in the play o1
"Belphegor, the Mounte bank" who
monotously shouts into the ears of pass.
ers.by, with deafening base-drum
accompaniment by himself: "Come and
see Belshazzar Belphegor, the greatest
necromancer alive! alive! alive!!!"
The idea of advertising him all sum-
mer as the guest and chum of Mr.. Carne.
gle, the head of the offensive iron and
steel trust. riding through Scotland on
his tallyho, and being entertained by
him at Cluny Castle, and then attempt
ing to make him the trust-defending
hero OF campaign in which Carnegie!
workingmen are asked to vote for Blain'
for Secretary of State and high wages fol
themselves, just after they have beer
locked out by their greedy employers ir
an effort to make them submit to a re
duction of ten per cent. on their misera
BILE starvation wages-is it not tb,
ecstacy of folly?
That the manufactured but sadly limp
ing enthusiasm for Mr.. Blaine should de
ceive good many is not strange. Tha
it wearies the great body of sensible peo
pie is most certain, that, in the face O.
the whole absurd performance, the Re
publican Presidential nominee should re-
main silent while Mr.. Blaine's leaders
publicly boast that he is to be made Sec.
retary Of State and egain turned loose ir
the Repub blican china shop in the even
of Republican success, is beyond belief.
A plumed knight who kneels and begs
great commander who never won vic
tory, great statesman who never franco
measure, great statesman whom tn,
people have in four presidential cam
paigns, stesdily refused to follow-wha
hope Of victory can the Republican part.
entertain, ii nobody will give bonds tina
he shall be sent to the ear?-[Belford'
Magazine
RegistratiOn Tells The Tale.
The signs are thatthe voting populs
tion of this city will make a tremendou
showing on election day. The figure
OF yesterdays registration confirm th
theory indicated by the first days e1