The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-03-03
SATURDAY, MARCH 3. 1888.
Is More Positive.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-To-day'S
World prints three-column inter-
view with Mr.. Blaine, which has
been cabled from Florence by Mr.. T.
G.. Crawford, for some time the
Worlds correspondent at Washing
ton, now in Europe. Mr.. Blaine, in
the course of a long conversation,
distinctly asserted that under no cir
cumstances would he allow his name
to be used in connection with the
next Presidential nomination. He
insists on the sincerity of his with
drawal, and asserts that he had made
up his mind thereto long ago. He
considers, first, that any Inan whose
name has been associated with de-
feat in Presidential campaign owes
1t to his party not to allow himself
to be renominated, and. secondly, he
is unequal to facing the fatigues,
worry and excitement of another
canvass, all the more as he would
feel himself bound to work as hard
as on previous occasions.
Mrs. Blaine and the other MEM
bers of his family are most emphatic
in their approval of his withdrawal.
which is neither hasty nor recent in
its decision. Mr.. Blaine will not re-
turn from Europe until June, and
not until after the Republican Con-
vention. He declines to express him
self on the subject of the Republican
candidates now in the field, but as
serts that he did not retire in favor
OF any particular one of them. He
Is convinced of Republican victory,
bsslng his conviction in particular on
the tariff question. When Mr.. Blaine
was asked the direct question,
whether he would, under any cir
cumstances, permit his name to be
used again as candidate, he replied
in the most emphatic negative, but
then added:
81 do not wish to make any new
af1rmations upon the subject. 1 have
said all that / wish to say on the SUBJ
ject in that letter, That letter. as you
must know, was not haphazard,
off.hand affair. 1t was the result
of much deliberation and careful
thought. You will remember that
/ told you in Paris last December
that I had no intention of being a
candidate again, and that had prac-
tically made up my mind at that
time to forbid the use of my name in
the approaching convention"
81 hold" he said later in the con-
Yersation. "that have no right to
be a candidate again. A man who
has once been the candidate of his
party and defeated owes it to his
party to withdraw and not be cam
didate a second time. More than
this, there is another plain reason for
my withdrawal. / could not go
through the burden and fatigue of
another Presidential canvass-such a
one as the canvass of the last CAM
paign. To accept a nomination, and
to do less than before, would be i'm
possible"
Mr.. Crawford thus concludes his
dispatch: "Toward the close of my
last call asked Mr.. Blaine when he
expected to return to America. He
said that he expected to reach New
York about the last of June. He ex-
poets to spend the late spring in Lon
don. He has not yet determined
upon his movements. After leaving
Florence he will probably go straight
to England from Italy. He said,
with an air of frankness not to be
mistaken:
"'You have no idea what a relief
it is to me to think that 1 am now
out of the canvass, and that when l
come back to New York in the sum-
mer that / shall not be going back
there to face reception after reception
and to enter into the turmoil and ex-
element of a political canvass. 1
can now come back quietly, after the
convention has once decided its re-
suit, and enjoy my own life in my
own way, free. hope, from further
criticism or comment"